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Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Political polarization can be reduced when people are told to think about the personal relevance of issues they might not care about at first glance. We, a social psychologist and an evolutionary psychologist, decided to investigate this issue with two of our undergraduate students, and recently published our results in the
Graphical representation of the stacked, twisted cuprate superconductor, with accompanying data in the background. Credit: Lucy Yip, Yoshi Saito, Alex Cui, Frank Zhao Superconductors have intrigued physicists for decades. But these materials, which allow the perfect, lossless flow of electrons, usually only exhibit this quantum-mechanical peculiarity at temperatures so low—a few degrees above absolute zero—as
Credit: Shutterstock A honey bee’s life depends on it successfully harvesting nectar from flowers to make honey. Deciding which flower is most likely to offer nectar is incredibly difficult. Getting it right demands correctly weighing up subtle cues on flower type, age and history—the best indicators a flower might contain a tiny drop of nectar.