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A Cornell University team has shown that download counts within the first 30 days after publication can predict citation counts five years later with an AUC of 0.80, based on an analysis of 2.3 million papers on arXiv. A new problem formulation called "lead-lag forecasting" and a large-scale benchmark dataset open the door to compressing the timeline of scientific evaluation.
Two UCLA-led studies show that high charge-discharge efficiency alone cannot predict rest-induced degradation in metal anodes, reporting suppression strategies through Mg's reversible interface and Zn's multi-component electrolyte.
Cornell University's IonNet screened roughly 5 million candidates using only chemical composition—no crystal structure data required—and identified approximately 63,000 candidates for fast ion conductors used in solid-state batteries. This approach, which cuts search costs by orders of magnitude, could accelerate materials development for solid-state batteries, though experimental verification has only just begun.
Thomas Burger of Grenoble Alpes University has systematically classified, in the journal Patterns, ten pathways through which generative AI can produce "nonexistent biological discoveries" in omics research. He clarifies the difference in risk between hypothesis generation and data generation, and proposes mechanisms and countermeasures for how hallucinations become mixed into scientific evidence.
When titanium dioxide—used in sunscreen and pigments—is thinned to 3 nm or less, a ferroelectric phase emerges. This discovery, which exploits an 'inverse size effect' in which polarization strengthens as the film gets thinner, is highly compatible with semiconductor manufacturing and could open a path toward low-power memory.
A team led by Peking University has grown ABC-stacked rhombohedral graphene with over 99% phase purity, reaching up to 160×80µm. Practical use in quantum chips still requires larger-area growth and independent replication.
KAIST has developed a memtransistor whose response speed can be non-volatilely programmed, reducing the prediction error for signals containing multiple mixed frequencies by a factor of 40. This achievement overcomes the long-standing constraint of physical reservoir computing—the inability to change the time response after fabrication—through a dual-layer gate structure.
NYCU and TSMC inserted a 0.42nm epitaxial Al₂O₃ layer at the interface of monolayer MoS₂ transistors, simultaneously achieving an EOT of about 1nm and a transconductance of 0.45 mS/μm. This Nature Electronics-published result eases a decade-old trade-off not through material substitution but through interface engineering.
Eaton has secured $7 million from the US Air Force to develop a tool using Infleqtion's quantum computer to analyze simultaneous multi-failure scenarios on the power grid. The project tackles a combinatorial explosion of over 300 million possibilities through quantum computation.
The BESIII Collaboration analyzed 10 billion J/ψ decays and identified that the dominant constituent of X(2370) is a glueball. This result, confirming for the first time in half a century the existence of a particle composed solely of force-carrying particles, provides a direct low-energy test of the non-Abelian structure of QCD.
