A study by Professor Miki Shibata at Hiroshima University, published in the International Journal of Multilingualism, examines how multilingual international students in English-taught programs in Japan navigate language use and develop a sense of belonging in the academic community. The findings offer insights into the challenges of multilingual communication and the development of more inclusive learning environments.

Insilico Medicine ("Insilico"), a clinical-stage generative artificial intelligence (AI)-driven drug discovery company, today announced the launch of inClinico Agent, an advanced agentic AI workspace engineered to automate, optimize, and elevate clinical trial intelligence. Powered by a curated proprietary database of over 100,000 trials, endpoint-specific machine learning models, and specialized clinical analysis capabilities, inClinico Agent compresses months of complex clinical landscape analysis into minutes.

The NSF grant will support the development of an integrated research and training framework for AI-enabled robotics and cyber-physical systems. Over four years, the project will combine artificial intelligence, advanced computing, digital twins and hands-on robotics experimentation to prepare students and researchers to develop and test intelligent systems in virtual and real-world environments.

Fabian Coscia and his team have published in Nature Methods an open-source workflow that makes Deep Visual Proteomics easier to use, adapt and scale. OpenDVP enables scientists to spatially map thousands of proteins inside cells and their cellular environments, while preserving their tissue context.

Rocks from a South China section record an extreme burst of geomagnetic polarity reversals−about 11 per million years−across the end-Guadalupian mass extinction roughly 261 million years ago. The rate is among the highest known in Earth’s history. Researchers speculate the instability may reflect deep-mantle changes that briefly weakened magnetic shielding, adding stress to an already troubled biosphere, though a direct causal role remains unproven.