China scores a big win in race with US for influence on the moon

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain China notched a diplomatic victory in its race against the U.S. for influence in space, with Egypt agreeing to support Beijing’s plan for a proposed project…

Artificial intelligence for aging research in cancer drug development

Artificial intelligence for aging research in cancer drug development. Credit: 2023 Shirini et al. A new editorial paper was published in Aging, entitled, “Artificial intelligence for aging research in cancer…

Interoperability is the name of the game in the future of traffic, says researcher

Credit: CC0 Public Domain An F-35 fighter plane has 8 million lines of code. A modern car, by comparison, has hundreds of millions of lines of code. The car is…

Physicists ‘entangle’ individual molecules for the first time, hastening possibilities for quantum computing

Laser setup for cooling, controlling, and entangling individual molecules. Credit: Richard Soden, Department of Physics, Princeton University For the first time, a team of Princeton physicists have been able to…

Polaritons open up a new lane on the semiconductor highway

On the highway of heat transfer, thermal energy is moved by way of quantum particles called phonons. But those phonons don’t remove enough heat at the nanoscale of today’s most…

Fractal photonic anomalous Floquet topological insulators to generate multiple quantum chiral edge states

Using logical qubits to make a quantum computer that can correct its errors

Balancing Act: The Mixed Blessings of Solitude on Mental Health

Summary: A new study examines the nuanced impact of solitude on mental health among adults aged 35 and older in the UK and US. Tracking 178 participants over 21 days,…

Landscape ecology and macroecology  – Functional Ecologists

This blog post on ‘Landscape ecology and macroecology’ is part of the BES ‘Key Concepts in Ecology’ series, designed to help ecologists in learning the key topics in ecology! Take…

Breakthrough in coherent two-photon LIDAR overcomes range limitations