In a study published in Nature Photonics,the Free-electron Laser Team of the Shanghai Advanced Research Institute (SARI),Chinese Academy of Sciences developed an innovative approach by employing beating-frequency laser modulation of electron beams to precisely tailor the beam structure and produce continuously tunable THz radiation.

At the Shenguang-II Facility, researchers have innovatively developed an arbitrary temporal pulse shaping technique utilizing optical waveguide four-wave mixing for high-resolution laser pulse control.

Recently, the research group led by Dr. WANG Junfeng at the High Magnetic Field Laboratory, the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, revealed significant physiological and molecular effects of a 7 T strong magnetic field on magnetotactic bacteria, based on experiments conducted with the laboratory' s superconducting magnet platform.

Recently, a research team led by KUANG Guangli and JIANG Donghui from the High Magnetic Field Laboratory of the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CHMFL), successfully developed a “pocket-type” high-temperature superconducting (HTS) coil. The coil, wound with domestically produced REBa₂Cu₃O₇₋ₓ (REBCO) tapes, generated 28.20 T at zero field in a liquid helium bath and produced an additional 10.36 T inside the 34.5 T steady-state magnetic field of the WM5 water-cooled magnet. Together, the system achieved a record combined magnetic field of 44.86 T.

A collaborated research team led by Prof. MA Yanwei from the Institute of Electrical Engineering (IEE) of Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), has shattered records in the current-carrying performance of iron-based superconducting wires.

The South Asian Summer Monsoon (SASM) is the world’s most significant monsoon system, providing approximately 80% of the region's annual rainfall—influencing agriculture, water security, and the livelihoods of over a billion people across the Indian Peninsula, the western Indochina Peninsula, and the southern Qinghai-，a recent study published in Nature seeks to address this contradiction by exploring how the SASM responds to warming under six climate scenarios, spanning from the past to the future. Led by researchers from the Institute of Atmospheric Physics at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the study develops a unified framework based on thermodynamic (moisture-driven) and dynamic (wind-driven) processes that govern changes in the SASM, suggesting that insights from past warm climates can inform our understanding of the future SASM.

A deep sea worm that inhabits hydrothermal vents survives the high levels of toxic arsenic and sulfide in its environment by combining them in its cells to form a less hazardous mineral.

A research team led by Prof. LI Chao from East China Normal University has uncovered the origin of voltage decay in P2-type layered oxide cathodes recently. Using electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) spectroscopy at the Steady-State Strong Magnetic Field Facility (SHMFF), the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science of the Chinese Academy of Science, the team tracked the dynamic evolution of oxygen species and clarified their direct role in structural degradation.

Recently, a joint research team from the High Power Laser Physics Joint Laboratory at the Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, collaborating with a team from Harbin Institute of Technology, has achieved anisotropic three-dimensional array beam splitting control at extremely short wavelengths.

The research team innovatively proposed and experimentally validated a nanosecond-scale pulse contrast measurement method based on laser filamentation in water. This technique utilizes nonlinear optical attenuation generated by the laser-matter interaction to effectively protect the photodiode, achieving up to 40-fold attenuation of the main pulse without affecting low-intensity prepulses.