Donuts of dust: An artist’s impression of the PDS 70 system with protoplanets, each surrounded by dust rings illuminated by starlight. The planets themselves (not to scale) have thin rings…
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Psychological “Noise” May Reveal More About Human Thought Than Expected
Summary: New studies challenge the idea that variability in human behavior, often seen as “noise,” is simply an error to be minimized. Researchers argue that noise provides valuable insights into…
Anxiety and Apathy Affect Decision-Making in Opposite Ways
Summary: A new study reveals that anxiety and apathy lead to fundamentally different patterns in decision-making under uncertainty. Anxious individuals perceive their environment as highly volatile, leading them to explore…
Opening the doors to accessible quantum research
Daniel Blumenthal. Credit: Matt Perko, UC Santa Barbara UC Santa Barbara researchers are working to move cold atom quantum experiments and applications from the laboratory tabletop to chip-based systems, opening…
COVID-19 is the latest epidemic to show biomedical breakthroughs aren’t enough to eliminate a disease
The COVID-19 pandemic transformed over the past five years from a catastrophic threat that has killed over 7 million people to what most people regard today as a tolerable annoyance…
International Women’s Day 2025 – Katie Field – Functional Ecologists
To celebrate International Women’s Day 2025, we are excited to share a collection of blog posts showcasing the work of some of the BES community. In each post, they discuss…
‘Once-in-a-lifetime’ planetary parade photo captures 10 celestial bodies in a single shot
A rare grouping of 10 celestial bodies is captured in a stunning new photo taken during last weekend’s great planetary parade. Astrophotographer Josh Dury took the photo you see above…
Computing’s next frontier takes form
Credit: AI-generated image After several dashed predictions, quantum computing is accelerating rapidly with actual use cases and scientific breakthroughs expected within years, not decades. US tech giants, startups, banks and…
Tech giants object as YouTube set to dodge Australian social media ban
Australia’s plan to exempt YouTube from a world-leading teen social media ban is ‘illogical’ and a ‘mockery’, rival tech giants Meta and TikTok say. Australia’s plan to exempt YouTube from…
Lead and toxic chemicals found in synthetic braiding hair
by I. Edwards Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Some popular synthetic hair products used for braids, twists and extensions may contain cancer-causing chemicals and high levels of lead, according to a…
