Researchers at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln and Washington University in St. Louis have shown that hafnium oxide remains intrinsically antiferroelectric down to a single-atom monolayer, with the effect growing stronger rather than weaker as the material thins.
Tags: Hafnia · Semiconductors · Materials Science · Antiferroelectricity
Engineers at UC San Diego's Jacobs School of Engineering developed an ultrafast laser beam-shaping technique that switches magnetic states in a 9-layer platinum-cobalt stack without relying on light polarization or an external magnetic field.
Tags: Optical Computing · Spintronics · Data Storage · Nanophotonics
Worcester Polytechnic Institute has secured a $3.3 million NSF award to recover an estimated 11 million tons of rare earth elements from US coal ash landfills using AI-designed, bio-inspired biomolecules under mild processing conditions.
Tags: Rare Earth Elements · Critical Minerals · Circular Economy · Biomimicry
Researchers at Harbin Institute of Technology have developed a dipole glass thin film that sustains over 88% energy storage efficiency from 4 kelvins to 300 kelvins, offering a reliable dielectric storage option for environments where conventional materials fail.
Tags: Energy Storage · Cryogenic Electronics · Materials Science · Quantum Computing
DFKI and Mila have formalized a strategic partnership in trustworthy AI, AI safety, and agentic AI, naming industrial energy efficiency, renewable energy forecasting, and smart grid optimization as applied focus areas before publishing any benchmark results.
Tags: Agentic AI · AISafety · Energy Transition · Smart Grids
An international trial led by UKSH found that substituting chemotherapy blocks with the immunotherapy blinatumomab in high-risk childhood leukemia nearly halved relapse rates while significantly reducing severe, life-threatening side effects.
Tags: Pediatric Oncology · Immunotherapy · Leukemia · Cancer Research
UC San Diego's unsupervised 4D microscopy models grouped drugs by mechanism from mitochondrial shape and movement alone, generalising to unseen drugs and cell types without retraining or human labeling.
Tags: Drug Discovery · Virtual Cells · AIin Biology · Digital Twin
Researchers at HZDR and the University of Rostock have developed a laser shock compression method that converts plastic film into high-purity, uniform nanodiamonds, potentially displacing explosive detonation as the standard synthesis route for quantum sensing and medical imaging.
Tags: Nanotechnology · Nanodiamonds · Advanced Materials · Quantum Sensing
A virtual biotech company powered by 37,000 AI scientist agents at Stanford Medicine analyzed 50,000 clinical trials in under a week to identify predictive markers linked to a 40% higher probability of clinical trial advancement.
Tags: Drug Discovery · AIin Biotech · Oncology · Artificial Intelligence
A microscopic mechanical resonator coupled non-destructively to a superconducting qubit has enabled the first direct, real-time observation of individual phonon transitions, establishing mechanical sound as a viable third quantum computing substrate alongside photons and trapped ions.
Tags: Quantum Computing · Quantum Sensing · Phonons · Nanomechanics