Professor Yong Yang, together with collaborators (Professor Jiang Ma's group at Shenzhen University and Professor Weihua Wang's group at the Songshan Lake Materials Laboratory) has been awarded the Second Prize of the 2025 Higher Education Outstanding Achievement Award for Scientific Research (Natural Science Award) by China's Ministry of Education. The team's award-winning research addresses a fundamental challenge in materials science: the inherent room-temperature brittleness of bulk metallic glasses (BMGs). Through innovative use of ultrasound, the researchers discovered a novel softening effect that enables these high-strength materials to be shaped and processed at room temperature. Their work uncovered the atomic-scale mechanisms behind this phenomenon and led to the development of new multifunctional processing technologies with strong practical applications. Key findings underpinning these breakthroughs have been published in leading international journals such as Nature Materials, Science Advances, and Acta Materialia. This groundbreaking work not only advances fundamental understanding of metallic glasses but also opens new pathways for their use in high-performance industrial manufacturing and advanced materials applications.