Consciousness has long resisted neat explanations, but a growing body of research suggests the problem may lie in how we picture the brain’s information processing. Instead of behaving like a tidy ...

From left) Yuetsu Komada, Mitsuhisa Sato and Tamiya Onodera. © 2026 RIKEN A pioneering project led by RIKEN is underway to ...

Semiconductors and data centers are emerging as the critical leverage points of the physical backbone of the AI economy.