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If the recent news of a new mathematics and statistics curriculum for years 0–10 felt familiar, that’s because it was.

The optical links that help connect the computers densely packed inside data centers may soon experience pivotal upgrades. At least two companies, Imec and NLM Photonics, now say they have either achieved 400-gigabit-per-second per-lane data…

These tropical forest CO₂ emissions may warn of similar shifts in other regions, a key topic for COP30 climate talks in Brazil.

Wolves roaming the Mongolian steppes cover more than 7,000 kilometers a year. The Arctic tern flies from pole to pole in its annual migration. Compared to these long-distance travelers of land, sea and sky, humans might seem like…

Crowdsourcing has become a go-to for independent and open-source hardware creators hoping to turn a cool prototype into a polished product. But many projects fail along the way, often for nontechnical reasons.
Helen Leigh is the director of…

The 2025 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2025) took place from October 19 to 25, 2025 in Hangzhou, China. The programme included plenary and keynote…

In August 2025, the Geneva Summit on plastic pollution once again failed to reach agreement on an international treaty, due in particular to a lack of consensus over recycling and its limits. This issue was the subject of a recent…
Author(s): Deli Shi and Yanbo Xie
Experiments with membranes offer a path toward scalable neuromorphic computing.
[Physics 18, 172] Published Mon Oct 27, 2025