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Researchers from Tsinghua University and Nanyang Technological University have achieved a major breakthrough in optical skyrmions — tiny topological “knots” of light that are highly promising for future high-capacity and secure data transmission.

Light Conversion, a laser company based in Vilnius, Lithuania, has acquired Class 5 Photonics GmbH, a spin-off from DESY and GSI. Both companies are ultrafast laser system manufacturers, bringing together decades of expertise in femtosecond lasers, optical parametric chirped-pulse amplification (OPCPA), and advanced nonlinear technologies for the scientific as well as the R&D market.

Researchers at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) have turned a long-standing problem in superconductivity into a promising new resource for quantum computing. Magnetic vortices — tiny whirlpools of magnetic field that usually disrupt superconducting materials — have been shown to behave as controllable quantum states.

Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University, in collaboration with Stanford and Purdue, have demonstrated a powerful new way to control heat at the nanoscale. Using carefully engineered metamaterials — microscopic gold patterns on thin membranes — they achieved up to four times more heat transfer across a tiny gap compared to conventional setups.

By adapting an algorithm from the 1980s to mathematical objects called tensor networks, researchers at the Flatiron Institute show that classical computers can tackle a class of problems previously claimed to be solvable only by quantum computers

A team of researchers from the Max Born Institute, the Ferdinand Braun Institute, the University of Augsburg, and the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin has succeeded in directly imaging the effect of short current pulses on a skyrmion.

Rice University researchers have developed a simple new technique to create nanoscale patterns on hard chip materials at room temperature. By layering anisotropic alpha-molybdenum trioxide crystals on silica and exposing them to an electron beam, the team induced controlled stress that forms highly ordered nanoscale wrinkles or ripples.

Quantum mechanics’ famous measurement problem — illustrated by Schrödinger’s cat — may be one step closer to an experimental answer. Using the ultra-sensitive XENONnT dark matter detector deep underground in Italy, an international team has placed the strongest constraints yet on “collapse models,” theories proposing that quantum superpositions spontaneously collapse due to interactions with a noise field or gravity.

A sheet of twisted carbon nanotubes has revealed a hidden talent scientists suspected for decades but had never managed to measure.

Controlling heat flow is a major challenge for next-generation electronics and photonic devices. Now, an international team led by ICN2, UAB, TU/e, and McGill has discovered a completely new heat transport regime in ultrathin 2D semiconductors.

Penn physicists led by Bo Zhen have created hybrid light-matter particles that interact strongly enough to compute, pointing toward ultrafast, low-energy optical AI hardware.

Scientists have developed “glycan atlassing,” a breakthrough super-resolution technique that maps the precise nanoscale architecture of sugars on cell surfaces. Published in Nature Nanotechnology, the method reveals that the spatial organization of glycans encodes critical information about cell state — opening powerful new possibilities for cancer diagnostics, stem cell research, and precision nanomedicine.