Tsinghua University is a leading Chinese research university in Beijing, known for strength in engineering, computer science, and AI research.
Chinese researchers fused small groups of entangled microwave photons into a 13-qubit network using a measurement that leaves the photons intact. Building photonic quantum machines from prepared modules now looks more practical, though the demonstration is still small.
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Researchers at Tsinghua University and Hefei National Laboratory used a superconducting circuit to fuse small photon clusters into a 13-qubit entangled state. According to co-senior author Hongyi Zhang, the joining step is deterministic, where optical fusion schemes often fail and must be retried.
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Physicists at Tsinghua University and Boston College found charge stripes that strengthen around vortex cores in an iron superconductor doped with 6% cobalt. The result links a form of charge order to the vortex states that quantum-computing proposals rely on, though so far the evidence is a spatial correlation.
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Teams at PTB-TU Wien and Tsinghua report the first working nuclear clocks, locking UV lasers to thorium-229 nuclei after more than 20 years of effort. With two labs running one crystal design, results can now be reproduced and checked against atomic clocks.
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Tsinghua's Matteo Convertino and colleagues value fully restored oyster reefs in 10 hotspot countries at $12 trillion a year. The figure counts gross benefit only, so whether restoration pays back depends on a cost side still to be worked out.
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Nikon is re-reviewing its Small World in Motion winner after scientists said the microscope video shows structures that do not occur in biology. Its ruling on whether neural-network coloring counts as banned generative AI rests on documents the entrant supplied after he won.
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Researchers from five institutions lifted a student model 5.34 points over a control on HumanEval+ using 5,664 one-word answers from a code-tuned teacher. None of those answers contained code, so a filter that screens outputs for task content would have passed every one.
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Quanta's physics writer calls holography the most profound idea in theoretical physics in 30 years, built on three papers cited tens of thousands of times. The citations measure how many theorists took it up, and whether holography describes our own universe is the open question the essay sets out to answer.
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The rally count, the autonomy claim and the model's identity all come from one press release. The machine that fell over and got up cannot be the legless robot Galbot actually sells.
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The Sequence puts the figure at $12.9 billion. No model pull changes on day one, which is why the neutrality assumption buried in most build pipelines is worth writing down while testing it is still cheap.
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In a 2025 survey by the American Association of Colleges and Universities, nine in ten of more than 1,000 US faculty forecast a decline in a skill that cognition researchers do not agree how to define or measure.
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The Beijing lab is seven months old and valued at $1.42 billion on one unnamed source's account, and its first model modifies someone else's open weights while the lab Dai Jifeng left says it licensed nothing.
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The preliminary numbers from an 18-day cruise inside China's exclusive economic zone are peak grades off three sulfide mounds. No tonnage was published, so a metals buyer has nothing to put in a cost model.
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Coverage is the achievement in this Nature paper: cardiovascular, digestive and nervous activity recorded on one clock, in an animal chosen because you can see through it, which is also why the result is about a fish larva.
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IEEE Spectrum reports the ALOHAnet codeveloper died on 14 April at 91. The 1971 network let computers on separate Hawaiian islands transmit on one shared UHF channel with no central coordinator.
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A Tsinghua-led study handed model training to coding agents and got real gains out of them, then found the agents almost never revised the method they chose in the first few minutes, which is the exact part that successor-building roadmaps assume.
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UC Santa Barbara and Tsinghua authors argue in Science that the first plastics treaty text needs standardized labeling, measurement practices and national data repositories. Their paper feeds a workshop in Geneva on Sept. 16-17.
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DataEye counts 89 of the top 100 animated dramas on Douyin as AI productions, and one animation studio published thousands of episodes in May at roughly a tenth of human cost. Those are supply numbers.
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Tianmushan Lab and Tsinghua reported 602.5 Wh/kg from a lithium-rich manganese cathode, while the 180-cycle durability figure came from a lower-energy build. The second number is the one a fleet has to spec against.
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The 5 trillion token ceiling only binds if every allocation is claimed and then spent. Until it is, this is a short window to test a rival coding agent on someone else's inference bill.
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