Thermal Transport Properties of Ultra-High-Temperature Ceramic Superlattices

Academic Background In the design of high-temperature thermal insulation and thermoelectric materials, reducing thermal conductivity is a critical goal. The superlattice (SL) structure, formed by alternating layers of different materials, can effectively suppress phonon thermal transport, thereby significantly reducing the thermal conductivity of m...

Using Physics Simulations to Find Targeting Strategies in Competitive Tenpin Bowling

Academic Background Bowling is one of the most popular sports in the United States, with over 45 million people regularly participating as of 2017. With millions of dollars at stake in national competitions each year, improving player scores has become a research focus. However, due to the complexity of calculations and the numerous variables affec...

Femtosecond Temperature Measurements of Laser-Shocked Copper Deduced from the Intensity of the X-ray Thermal Diffuse Scattering

Academic Background Studying the behavior of materials under extreme conditions (such as high pressure and high temperature) is an important topic in condensed matter physics and materials science. Laser shock technology can apply extremely high pressure to materials on a nanosecond timescale, while X-ray diffraction technology can capture structur...

Single-Point In Situ Measurements of Thermal Ions During the Kinet-X Ionospheric Sounding Rocket Mission

Academic Background The Earth’s magnetosphere and ionosphere are crucial areas of study in space physics, particularly the processes of energy and momentum transport within the ionosphere. The behavior of ions and electrons in the ionosphere is influenced by the Earth’s magnetic field and the solar wind, which are significant for understanding spac...

A New Chapter for RCSB Protein Data Bank Molecule of the Month in 2025

Academic Background The Protein Data Bank (PDB) is the most important global resource for three-dimensional structural data of biological molecules. Since its establishment in 1971, the PDB has become a vital tool in fields such as structural biology, biomedicine, bioenergy, and biotechnology. The PDB not only provides researchers with a vast amoun...

ShockFluidX: A Novel OpenFOAM-Based Modular Solver for High-Speed Flows

Academic Background Hypersonic technology is a critical research direction in the aerospace field, with applications spanning national defense, space launch, and ultra-high-speed commercial aviation. With the rapid development of Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) technology, high-fidelity CFD simulations play an increasingly important role in the ...

Scaling of Hardware-Compatible Perturbative Training Algorithms

With the rapid development of artificial intelligence (AI) technology, artificial neural networks (ANNs) have achieved significant success in multiple fields. However, traditional neural network training methods—especially the backpropagation algorithm—face numerous challenges in hardware implementation. Although the backpropagation algorithm is ef...

Few-Cycle Yb-Doped Laser Sources for Attosecond Science and Strong-Field Physics

Background Attosecond science is a cutting-edge field that studies the ultrafast dynamics of electrons in atoms, molecules, and solids. Since the discovery of High-Order Harmonic Generation (HHG) and the experimental realization of attosecond pulses, attosecond science has rapidly advanced, becoming a powerful tool for investigating electron dynami...

2D Material Integrated Photonics: Toward Industrial Manufacturing and Commercialization

Academic Background With the advent of the information age, integrated circuits (ICs) have become the driving force behind technological advancements. However, traditional integrated photonics platforms, such as silicon and silicon nitride, face numerous limitations in material properties. For instance, silicon’s indirect bandgap restricts its use ...

Topological Optical Skyrmion Transfer to Matter

Academic Background In recent years, structured light has demonstrated great potential in simulating topological skyrmion textures encountered in high-energy physics, cosmology, magnetic materials, and superfluids. Skyrmions are non-singular, localized topological structures initially proposed in nuclear physics and later extensively studied in sup...