A multi-institutional research team led by Osaka University has introduced a piezoelectric device that can measure acceleration and pressure simultaneously. The device can be manufactured at room temperature and is made from inexpensive materials, which makes it a promising candidate for a wide range of applications, including the maintenance of industrial machinery and disaster mitigation.

Researchers at Sichuan University have developed a new epoxy resin that is fire-retardant, recyclable, and degradable. This innovative material addresses the market gap for sustainable thermosetting polymers, offering high strength and safety for industrial adhesives.

In a paper published earlier this month in Physical Review Letters, a team of physicists led by Jonathan Richardson of the University of California, Riverside, showcases how new optical technology can extend the detection range of gravitational-wave observatories such as the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory, or LIGO, and pave the way for future observatories. 

A new test developed at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign can predict the performance of a new type of cementitious construction material in five minutes — a significant improvement over the current industry standard method, which takes seven or more days to complete. This development is poised to advance the use of next-generation resources called supplementary cementitious materials — or SCMs — by speeding up the quality-check process before leaving the production floor.

A unique dataset of Type Ia Supernovae being released today could change how cosmologists measure the expansion history of the Universe.

Recently, a research team led by Prof. Chen Zhou from Peking University, Prof. Dong E. Liu from Tsinghua University, and Prof. Manqi Ruan from the Institute of High Energy Physics made a significant breakthrough. Published in Science Bulletin, their study, for the first time, applies QAOA to jet clustering.

Hybrid entanglement is an essential quantum resource of hybrid quantum information processing, which combines the advantages of discrete-variable (DV) and continuous-variable (CV) quantum information processing and overcomes their disadvantages. In quantum information processing, a feasible approach for enhancing the ability of quantum information processing is increasing the degree of freedom carried by the entangled state. Recently, hybrid CV-DV entanglement carrying orbital angular momentum (OAM), which involves three degrees of freedom, including polarization, cat states, and OAM, is presented. This work extends the degree of freedom for hybrid entanglement, which provides a new quantum resource for hybrid quantum information processing.