On September 11, the 2026 Pujiang Innovation Forum selected 10 representative basic science questions and published “Pujiang Science Questions” for the first time. The top ten basic scientific issues released this time are: mathematical foundations of artificial intelligence, fusion plasma with high gain and continuous combustion, quantum error correction exponential suppression that breaks through classical physical limits, constructing basic models of chemical reactions across scales and modes, using AI to achieve atomic-level material synthesis control and performance prediction, the rapid formation mechanism of supermassive black holes in the early universe, and the development mechanism and prediction of extreme weather and climate in global monsoon regions under the coupling of multiple layers of sea, land and ice, and the spatial and temporal heterogeneity of aging The mechanism of sexual regulation, and how proteins determine life function, disease occurrence, and drug effects in “dynamic changes.”

On September 11, the 2026 Pujiang Innovation Forum selected 10 representative basic science questions and published “Pujiang Science Questions” for the first time. The top ten basic scientific issues released this time are: mathematical foundations of artificial intelligence, fusion plasma with high gain and continuous combustion, quantum error correction exponential suppression that breaks through classical physical limits, constructing basic models of chemical reactions across scales and modes, using AI to achieve atomic-level material synthesis control and performance prediction, the rapid formation mechanism of supermassive black holes in the early universe, and the development mechanism and prediction of extreme weather and climate in global monsoon regions under the coupling of multiple layers of sea, land and ice, and the spatial and temporal heterogeneity of aging The mechanism of sexual regulation, and how proteins determine life function, disease occurrence, and drug effects in “dynamic changes.”