Y. Y. Huang

Two charged atoms held in vacuum traps 1.2 km apart now become entangled almost five times faster by sending ten light pulses simultaneously — as if the post office dispatched ten delivery vans instead of one. This first-of-its-kind experiment with ion traps opens the door to a quantum internet.

The LHAASO observatory studied gamma-ray emission from supernova remnant IC 443 and found that particles there are accelerated to record energies with no signs of slowing down. This is direct confirmation: it's star explosions that produce the most energetic cosmic rays bombarding Earth.

Usually, cosmic rays arrive evenly from all directions, but when the Sun ejects a magnetic cloud, their paths bend. On November 4, 2021, the LHAASO observatory caught a temporary lopsidedness, offering the first-ever glimpse of invisible magnetic structures in interplanetary space.