Jie Zhang

A spinning top that whirls so fast it completes 220 rotations in a single second: that's exactly what China's FAST radio telescope has caught. This is the pulsar PSR J1810-0623, a neutron star the size of a city but with more mass than the Sun.

A blood clot in a vessel is like a cork stuck in a narrow pipe. Standard drugs dissolve it slowly, like hot water melting a sugar cube. But while the drug works, the cork can shift and block blood flow entirely. The new approach works differently. Instead of slow dissolution, the clot is attacked with micro-explosions.

A huge pool of clear liquid is hidden deep underground. Inside, there is nothing but a pristine 'broth' that flashes with faint light when an invisible particle flies through. This is the JUNO detector—20,000 tons of liquid scintillator built to hunt for neutrinos. The main enemy of such a hunt is not darkness but its own noise.

By 2025, large language models like GPT are no longer just chatting: they're helping scientists run experiments. But the same tool could fall into the wrong hands. A team of researchers built a digital proving ground to find out.