Nigeria wants to host the COP32 United Nations climate summit in Lagos in 2027, its government announced today as the chief of the UN’s climate arm, Simon Stiell, visited the…
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Uncovering Einstein’s relativity in an interacting atomic playground
An optical lattice clock embedded in the curved spacetime formed by the earth’s gravity. Dynamical interplay between photon-mediated interactions and gravitational redshift can lead to entanglement generation and frequency synchronization…
As tuberculosis cases rise in the US and worldwide, health officials puzzle over the resurgence of a disease once in decline
An outbreak of tuberculosis, or TB – a lung disease that is often accompanied by a hacking cough – began in January 2024 in Kansas City, Kansas, and two nearby…
Philly’s street fentanyl contains an industrial chemical called BTMPS that’s an ingredient in plastic
As much as half of the fentanyl sold on Philly’s streets contains an industrial chemical used in plastics manufacturing. That’s according to our November 2024 testing of fentanyl samples collected…
Quantum algorithm excels at finding local minima of many-body systems
Illustration of energy landscape. Credit: Chen et al. Many physicists and engineers have recently been trying to demonstrate the potential of quantum computers for tackling some problems that are particularly…
International Women’s Day 2025 – Arianne Harris – 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…
Breast cancer death rates have stopped going down, study reveals
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A paper in the Journal of Breast Imaging indicates that breast cancer mortality rates have stopped declining in women older than age 74, and reconfirms that…
Christie’s first AI art auction sees hits… and plenty of misses
A person looks at AI artwork created by Pindar Van Arman’s Emerging Faces at a preview for ‘Augmented Intelligence’ at Christie’s on February 20, 2025 in New York City. Christie’s…
Total lunar eclipse is just one week away: When and where to see the Blood Moon
This will be the first total lunar eclipse since November 2022 and the first of three set to occur between 2025 and 2026. With just one week to go, now…
