Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain There are more than 1 million people on NHS waiting lists for mental health care in the UK. Many of them have to wait weeks or…
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Brazil drops support for plastic products ban in new global pact
COP30 host Brazil has distanced itself from the most ambitious proposals at UN talks on ending plastic pollution held in Geneva this week, including a ban on some plastic products,…
Using sound to remember quantum information 30 times longer
A scanning electron microscope image highlighting a single mechanical oscillator, “tuning fork,” from the new work. The false-colored golden lines in the image indicate the location of electrodes that transfer…
Scientists use Earth’s shadow to hunt for alien probes
333 seconds-exposure containing 19 or more streaks due to Starlink satellites. Credit: CTIO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/DECam DELVE Survey For decades, astronomers have searched for signs of extraterrestrial intelligence using radio telescopes and optical…
Red supergiant star expels mysteriously large cloud of gas
A red supergiant star has expelled the largest cloud of gas and dust ever seen in the process of being blown off one of these stellar behemoths. The vast size…
COVID-19 vaccines for kids are mired in uncertainty amid conflicting federal guidance
It’s August, and parents and caregivers are frantically preparing their kids for a new school year by buying supplies, filling out forms and meeting teachers. This year, many parents also…
Grief feels unbearable, disorienting and chaotic – a grief researcher and widow shares evidence-based ways to face the early days of loss
The July 4 floods in Kerr County, Texas, sent shockwaves across the country. Now that most of the victims’ burials are over, the weight of grief is just beginning for…
The first experimental realization of quantum optical skyrmions in a semiconductor QED system
Polarization profiles of the cavity-enhanced single-photon skyrmions. Credit: Nature Physics (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41567-025-02973-y “These modes are carefully engineered superpositions of Laguerre-Gaussian states that carry orbital angular momentum, which is essential…
Ji Liu – Functional Ecologists
In this blog post, we hear from Associate Editor Ji Liu, Associate Professor at the Institute of Earth Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences and a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Spanish…
