China cannot merely chase the technological frontier – it must seize ownership of it, a prominent economist has warned, urging Beijing to accelerate basic research and master core technologies to gain ...

From left: UC Davis Professors Keith Baar, of the Department of Neurobiology, Physiology and Behavior; and Abhaya M. Dandekar, of the Department of Plant Sciences and director of the Plant ...

Japanese artificial intelligence startup Sakana AI Co. Ltd. revealed early today that it has raised 20 billion yen ($135 million) in new funding on a 400 billion yen ($2.635 billion) valuation to ...

The Center for Nano-Micro Manufacturing at UC Davis supports leading-edge scalable research and development in electronics, materials and life sciences. (Karin Higgins / UC Davis) America’s lucrative, ...

Reinforcement learning (RL) is machine learning (ML) in which the learning system adjusts its behavior to maximize the amount of reward and minimize the amount of punishment it receives over time ...

Applied Materials and Lam Research are top players in semiconductor deposition and etch equipment, with AMAT leading in deposition and LRCX in etch. AMAT holds a broader product portfolio and stronger ...

When the Trump administration froze $2.2 billion in research funding for Harvard in April, you could sense the schadenfreude: “Harvard had it coming.” Well, that is until people realized what ...

A collage with photos of Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar M. Yaghi in front of the Nobel prize medal. The Nobel prize in chemistry went to Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar M. Yaghi for ...

Arizona State University has opened a new semiconductor research hub in partnership with Applied Materials. The center aims to accelerate technology transfer from labs to factories and develop the ...

Ryan Summers receives funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH). He is affiliated with the Association for Science Teacher Education (ASTE), NARST, ...

As the federal administration has moved to slash public funding for research and education at all levels, and as the government now enters into what could be a prolonged shutdown, many researchers are ...

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