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…
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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…
US firm targets Moon landing with drill, rovers, hopping drone
Intuitive Machines’ Athena lander in circular orbit around the moon. A drill to search for ice. A 4G network test. Three rovers and a first-of-its-kind hopping drone. After becoming the…
COP30 chief calls for global unity on climate action as cooperation falters
Amid tensions in the West over cuts to development funding and souring US relationships with its allies, Brazil’s COP30 president, André Aranha Corrêa do Lago, defended multilateralism and the legacy…
SLAC scientists created the most powerful ultrashort electron beam in the world
BYLINE: Chris Patrick Scientists have created an ultrashort electron beam with five times more peak current than any other similar beam on Earth. Described in a paper published in Physical Review Letters, this…
Cases of Parkinson’s disease set to reach 25 million worldwide by 2050, study suggests
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain By 2050, there will be 25.2 million people living with Parkinson’s disease worldwide (a 112% increase from 2021), largely due to population aging, suggests a modeling…
