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Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Chip giant Micron Technology on Thursday said it was expanding its domestic investment plan to $200 billion as it seeks to boost US semiconductor manufacturing, with the backing of the Trump administration. The move, aimed at strengthening America's domestic chip supply chain, represents an additional $30 billion beyond Micron's previous investment commitments and includes plans to build a second leading-edge memory fabri

Jun.-Prof. Edoardo Milana, Junior Professor for Soft Machines at the University of Freiburg. Credit: Lucia Brunold Thanks to artificial intelligence, robots can already perform many tasks that would otherwise require humans. In this interview, Edoardo Milana, a junior professor of soft machines in the Department of Microsystems Engineering at the University of Freiburg, explains how improved design and innovative mechanics are broadening the range of appli

On the left, the simulated environment containing a cuboid placed on a plane and observed by a camera, placed directly above the object at varying distances. On the right, an example of the dataset elements used to train the model: an image and textual prompt as input, with the spatial relationship between the cuboid and camera represented as a transformation matrix as the desired output. Credit: Gioele Migno. Vision-language models (VLMs) are advanced com

Fe-based amorphous alloys with high saturated magnetization developed via artificial intelligence. Credit: NIMTE Researchers from the Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology and Engineering of the Chinese Academy of Sciences have leveraged artificial intelligence (AI) to design a novel series of Fe-based amorphous alloys. These materials exhibit both ultra-high saturation magnetization (Bs) and ultra-low coercivity (Hc), offering the potential to improve

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A study led by the University of Portsmouth has achieved unprecedented precision in detecting tiny shifts in light displacements at the nanoscale. This is relevant in the characterization of birefringent materials and in high-precision measurements of rotations. The quantum sensing breakthrough is published in the journal Physical Review A, and has the potential to revolutionize many aspects of daily life, industry, and sc

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly being used in many countries worldwide to provide public social services, assisting in entitlement decisions to state-paid pensions and unemployment benefits, assessments of asylum applications, and assignments of places at kindergartens. AI technology is intended to help apply fairness criteria in the allocation of this kind of support to individuals and to assess potential ben

Strong gravitational lenses captured by Euclid. Credit: ESA/Euclid/Euclid Consortium/NASA, image processing by M. Walmsley, M. Huertas-Company, J.-C. Cuillandre On 19 March 2025, the European Space Agency's Euclid mission releases its first batch of survey data, including a preview of its deep fields. Here, hundreds of thousands of galaxies in different shapes and sizes take center stage and show a glimpse of their large-scale organization in the cosmic we

3D photonic chip module. Credit: Keren Bergman Artificial intelligence (AI) systems promise transformative advancements, yet their growth has been limited by energy inefficiencies and bottlenecks in data transfer. Researchers at Columbia Engineering have unveiled a groundbreaking solution: a 3D photonic-electronic platform that achieves unprecedented energy efficiency and bandwidth density, paving the way for next-generation AI hardware. The study, "3D Pho

Credit: Tyler Rohr Ecosystems in the Southern Ocean, the body of water surrounding Antarctica, are under threat from climate change. The area's inhabitants, from whales to krill to phytoplankton, face changes such as a loss in sea ice and rising ocean temperatures. If species that are unique to the area, such as the Antarctic toothfish, dwindle in population as a result, this decrease could affect fishery operations and lead to cascading socioeconomic and

Credit: cottonbro studio from Pexels It is expected that in 2025, approximately three million articles will be indexed in Scopus and the Web of Science. If each undergoes peer review by two experts, and an additional 2 million articles undergo peer review, but are rejected—approximately 10 million peer reviews will be conducted this year—a staggering number that is likely to grow as the biomedical enterprise, and the number of peer-review journals increase

Schematic and details of experiment. Credit: Nature Physics (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41567-025-02825-9 Living cells are bustling with molecular machines that constantly process energy, matter, and information. Among these machines, proteins stand out, with enzymes being the most notable. These catalytic entities dramatically accelerate essential metabolic reactions by many orders of magnitude, facilitating the very processes that sustain life. While it has lo

Figure 1. The schematic diagram of miniaturized snapshot polarimetric stereoscopic imaging with an individual metalens. (a) The light scattered from the plaster David is decoupled by the metalens into six images carrying distinct typical polarization states and focused onto the focal plane. (b) The complete SPSIM system captures FSP, AOP and DOP through imaging with the polarimetric metalens. These parameters are then fed into a neural network-based recons

“We have been investing in developing more agentic models, meaning they can understand more about the world around you, think multiple steps ahead, and take action on your behalf, with your supervision,” Pichai explained.Gemini 2.0: Core features and availabilityAt the heart of today’s announcement is the experimental release of Gemini 2.0 Flash, the flagship model of Gemini’s second generation. It builds upon the foundations laid by its predecessors while