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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.
The UK's spherical tokamak MAST Upgrade has simultaneously suppressed ELM instabilities—which damage fusion reactor walls—using four independent methods, while recording its highest-ever plasma pressure. The results feed directly into the design of STEP, the UK's prototype fusion reactor targeted for operation in 2040, though extrapolation to ITER scale remains unverified.
An MIT research team has developed "encapsulation epitaxy," a technique for growing a monolayer superconductor within the sub-1-nm gap between graphene and a substrate, achieving an air-stable $\text{NbSe}_2$ thin film over one inch in size. This offers an atomic-scale solution to the area problem that has hindered miniaturization of superconducting quantum circuits.
AWS's Daniel R. Simon has proposed a quantum polynomial-time solution to DCP in a preprint. Any spillover to lattice problems depends on proof verification and resource estimates for standard parameters.
Stanford researchers used the AI model Evo 2 to design bacteriophage genomes, producing 16 functional viruses. Some surpassed the killing power of natural strains and overcame bacterial resistance, demonstrating in a study published in Science that the era of genome design has opened beyond protein design.
TAE has signed a future helium-3 supply agreement with Black Moon Energy. However, lunar exploration and mass production remain unproven, leaving a gap in both timing and technical verification with the 2031 plan for 50 MWe power generation.
