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The Korea Railroad Research Institute has completed core technologies for the EMU-370 high-speed train, targeting 370 kph operation. With a $15.23 million R&D investment, South Korea aims to launch the world’s second-fastest commercial train after 2031.
The Nanjing Satellite Application Industry Association reported a six-hour satellite navigation blackout affecting nearly 10 million people. Targeted jamming of civilian GPS and BeiDou signals paralyzed food delivery and ride-hailing, causing order drops of 60 percent and revealing strategic vulnerabilities in global positioning infrastructure.
NASA has launched its DiskSat technology demonstrator: four flat, circular spacecraft the size of a coffee table. The mission with The Aerospace Corporation could revolutionize small satellite design, enabling new capabilities in Very Low Earth Orbit and beyond.
UC Berkeley astronomers have directly imaged the aftermath of two giant collisions around the star Fomalhaut, 25 light-years away. The Hubble data shows dust clouds from impacts between objects 60 km wide—the first such fireworks ever seen in another solar system.
Scientists at the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics have created a bromine-based flow battery with a novel two-electron transfer system. The design slashes corrosion, enabling a 5 kW system to run for over 700 cycles, paving the way for affordable, long-duration grid storage.
University of Cincinnati physicist Professor Jure Zupan and colleagues have solved a real particle physics puzzle featured on The Big Bang Theory. Their study proposes using future fusion reactors to hunt for axions, the hypothetical particles that may constitute dark matter.
Researchers from Shanghai Jiao Tong University and Tsinghua University have developed the LightGen optical AI chip. Led by Professor Chen Yitong, it performs generative tasks over a hundred times faster and with far greater energy efficiency than Nvidia’s A100, using over 2 million photonic neurons to create images and video.
A team at ICFO in Barcelona, led by ICREA Prof. Jens Biegert, has generated a 19.2-attosecond soft X-ray pulse—the shortest light flash ever measured. This record-breaking pulse creates an unparalleled tool for filming electron dynamics in real time.
An international team led by UCLA, LMU Munich, and JGU Mainz has achieved a first: laser excitation of the thorium-229 atomic nucleus in a non-transparent material. Published in Nature, this breakthrough overcomes a major hurdle on the path to building an optical nuclear clock, a future timepiece of unmatched precision.
CERN engineers have installed the first giant refrigerators for the High-Luminosity LHC, a major upgrade launching in 2030. The 16-meter-long cold boxes, built by Linde, will help chill the accelerator to 1.9 kelvin (-271°C), enabling a massive increase in particle collisions for groundbreaking physics research.
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