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We are in the middle of a huge boom in artificial intelligence (AI), with unprecedented investment in research, a supercharged pace of innovation and sky-high expectations. But what is driving this boom? Kalluri et al.1 provide an answer, at least for the sector of computer vision, in which machines automatically glean information from static and Continue Reading
An increasing number of Chinese companies are grabbing the headlines with new technologies rolled out at scale. The most prominent example in 2025 has been DeepSeek and its low-cost large language models, but others include electric-vehicle (EV) maker BYD — which this year launched its ‘God’s Eye’ intelligent driving system as a standard feature on Continue Reading
Insects Gregarious and solitary locusts (L. migratoria) used in the experiments were maintained at the Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China. In brief, gregarious locusts were reared in cages (30 cm × 30 cm × 30 cm) with 800 to 1,000 first-instar insects per cage in a well-ventilated room. Solitary locusts were raised in another room, each in a Continue Reading
Researchers feed vast quantities of genomic data into machine-learning systems to train them to predict the role of non-coding sequences.Credit: JuSun/iStock via Getty Nearly 25 years after scientists completed a draft human genome sequence, many of its 3.1 billion letters remain a puzzle. The 98% of the genome that is not made of protein-coding genes Continue Reading
Advances in computer-vision AI have led to more advanced facial-recognition tools that can be used to identify and track people. Credit: John Keeble/Getty Imaging research in the popular field of computer vision almost always involves ***ysing humans and their environments, and most of the subsequent patents can be used in surveillance technologies, a study has Continue Reading
Cancer cells turbocharge themselves by stealing the energy-producing units from neurons in tumours, scientists report today in Nature1. This act of thievery seems to give cancer cells a boost to help them survive when they metastasize, or spread to distant organs. The findings show that cancer cells siphon off neurons’ mitochondria — organelles that generate Continue Reading
Electroencephalography can be used to study brain activity while people are completing tasks with and without the help of chatbots such as ChatGPT.Credit: Leah Nash/Washington Post/Getty The brains of people writing an essay with ChatGPT are less engaged than those of people blocked from using any online tools for the task, a study finds1. The Continue Reading
General synthetic procedures All manipulations were conducted under argon with the strict exclusion of oxygen and water using standard Schlenk and glove box techniques. Glblockware was flame-dried under vacuum before use. Argon was pblocked through a column of activated 3-Å molecular sieves and copper catalyst before use. C6D6 was purchased anhydrous, degblocked and stored under Continue Reading
Brinkmann, K. O. et al. Perovskite–organic tandem solar cells. Nat. Rev. Mater. 9, 202–217 (2024). Article ADS CAS Google Scholar Brinkmann, K. O. et al. Perovskite–organic tandem solar cells with indium oxide interconnect. Nature 604, 280–286 (2022). Article ADS CAS PubMed Google Scholar Chen, W. et al. Monolithic perovskite/organic tandem solar cells with 23.6% efficiency Continue Reading
Separation of polarization components of sample luminescence A schematic of the setup with specifications and part numbers of the main components are provided in Supplementary Fig. 1 and Supplementary Information section 1.1. Sample luminescence is collected by a lens and p***ed through a set of polarization optics consisting of a superachromatic HWP, a superachromatic QWP and Continue Reading
