The High Intensity heavy-ion Accelerator Facility (HIAF), which is located in Huizhou, Guangdong Province and began trial operations on July 21, has enabled Chinese scientists to observe an extremely rare isotope, hafnium-153. The observation marks the first physics result achieved during HIAF's commissioning phase, highlighting the facility's capability to explore the boundaries of the nuclear landscape.

Scientists using China's Large High Altitude Air Shower Observatory recently found that a remarkable binary system in the constellation Cygnus, Cygnus X-3, is the most powerful particle accelerator discovered to date, according to the Institute of High Energy Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

The BESIII Collaboration confirmed the existence of the long-sought glueball at the International Conference on High Energy Physics in Brazil on August 5. After 15 years of research, they identified X(2370) as a pseudoscalar glueball with quantum numbers 0⁻⁺, verifying QCD predictions and marking a crucial breakthrough in strong interaction studies.

Researchers achieved a certified steady-state power conversion efficiency of 28.04 percent using a perovskite-organic tandem solar cell. This tandem architecture integrates two complementary light-absorbing subcells to harvest a broader range of the solar spectrum than traditional single-layer devices.

A team led by Assoc. Prof. CAO Liang from the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the collaborators developed a new approach based on controlled interlayer sliding to regulate quantum states in layered materials. This approach enables the design of superlattices and the regulation of electronic properties through structural engineering.

A research team led by Prof. ZHANG Na from the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences determined the first atomic-resolution structure of an RNA–DNA hybrid G-quadruplex (RDQ) formed between human telomeric DNA and a TERRA RNA fragment.

Researchers from the Shanghai Advanced Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY reported that a continuous-wave (CW) X-ray free-electron lasers (XFELs) could generate terawatt-class attosecond X-ray pulses at megahertz repetition rates, based on comprehensive simulations of Shanghai HIgh repetitioN rate XFEL and Extreme light facility (SHINE).

A group of researchers have found super-Earths (SEs) and mini-Neptunes (MNs) planets followed distinct evolutionary paths, after conducting an in-depth study based on large-sample observational data, according to the National Astronomical Observatories of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

The supergiant bathynomid is a deep-sea isopod famous for surviving more than five years without food. A research team from the Institute of Oceanology has uncovered the mechanisms enabling these deep-sea supergiants to thrive under extreme nutritional constraints.

A research team led by Prof. SUN Chaomin from the Institute of Oceanology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (IOCAS) has revealed that deep-sea methanogenic archaea efficiently utilize phosphorus and store energy through polyphosphate (polyP) metabolism.