Looking for new ways to tap into cleaner energy sources? Researchers have come up with a clever method to extract natural gas from underwater hydrate reservoirs by using geothermal energy. Could this be the key to more efficient and affordable energy production? Dive into the full story to find out!

Introducing Genos, an open genomic foundation model for high-quality human genomes across global populations, built to advance understanding of the genome and its diversity. Genos achieves single-nucleotide precision over a context of 1 million bases and uses a Mixture of Experts (MoE) architecture that is practical to deploy and economical to run. We provide two variants, 10B and 1.2B, so teams can match compute and latency needs. Trained on 636 high-quality assemblies representing diverse ancestries, with ~1.6T training tokens for the 1.2B model and ~2.2T for the 10B model, Genos learns the genome itself and generalizes to population-scale analyses. With efficient routing and scalable inference, Genos connects sequence to function and powers tools for discovery and diagnostics, and a complementary 4B multimodal language model pairs genomic signals with text to enable omics-aware reasoning in those tools. Explore code, weights, and docs on GitHub, Hugging Face, ModelScope, and zero2x.

How can traditional coal-fired power plants adapt to the fluctuating nature of renewable energy? A new pre-gasification burner technology offers a solution, enhancing flexibility and stability even at ultra-low loads. Learn how this innovative approach could transform power plant operations and support a more sustainable energy future.

As the demand for high-quality, healthy solid-state lighting (SSL) grows, violet-light-excited full-spectrum lighting has emerged as a promising solution—it avoids blue light hazards and mimics natural sunlight. However, the critical yellow luminescent materials for this scheme are extremely scarce, plagued by low violet-light absorption and poor photoluminescent quantum yield (PLQY). To address this gap, a research team developed glass network engineering for the B₂O₃-BaO-Sc₂O₃ system, successfully fabricating violet-light-excitable yellow-emitting Ba₂Sc₂B₄O₁₁ (BSB):Ce³⁺ glass ceramics (GCs) with a record PLQY of 95.0% and superior thermal, moisture, and irradiation stability. By optimizing the [BO₃]/[BO₄] ratio, the team promoted heterogeneous nucleation during in-situ crystallization, forming well-crystallized BSB nanocrystals (NCs) in the glass matrix. This advancement enabled the construction of LED/LD-driven full-spectrum light sources with a color rendering index (CRI) exceeding 93, accelerating the development of sun-like lighting technology.