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1 in 6 people globally affected by infertility: WHO
4 April 2023 
News release
 
Geneva, Switzerland
 
Reading time: 2 min (617 words)

Large numbers of people are affected by infertility in their lifetime, according to a new report published today by WHO. Around 17.5% of the adult population – roughly 1 in 6 worldwide – experience infertility, showing the urgent need to increase access to affordable, high-quality fertility care for those in need.

The new estimates show limited variation in the prevalence of infertility between regions. The rates are comparable for high-, middle- and low-income countries, indicating that this is a major health challenge globally. Lifetime prevalence was 17.8% in high-income countries and 16.5% in low- and middle-income countries.

“The report reveals an important truth: infertility does not discriminate,” said Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General at WHO. “The sheer proportion of people affected show the need to widen access to fertility care and ensure this issue is no longer sidelined in health research and policy, so that safe, effective, and affordable ways to attain parenthood are available for those who seek it.”

Infertility is a disease of the male or female reproductive system, defined by the failure to achieve a pregnancy after 12 months or more of regular unprotected sexual intercourse. It can cause significant distress, stigma, and financial hardship, affecting people’s mental and psychosocial well-being./.../


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World's heaviest Schrödinger's cat made in quantum crystal visible to the naked eye

An artist's illustration of three Schrödinger's cats.
An artist's illustration of three Schrödinger's cats. (Image credit: Yiwen Chu/ETH Zurich)

Physicists have created the world's heaviest Schrödinger's cat, bringing the bizarre behavior of the quantum world to larger scales than ever before.

The trick, performed by vibrating 100 million billion atoms inside a sand-grain-sized sapphire crystal, created the world's heaviest quantum superposition as the crystal simultaneously oscillated in two different directions. Despite weighing just 16 micrograms (16 millionths of a gram), the crystal is trillions of times heftier than the molecules put into previous large-scale quantum states, and is visible to the naked eye. 

Taking its name from Erwin Schrödinger's famous thought experiment, the new Schrödinger's cat crystal could be used to design more robust quantum computers and reveal clues behind why quantum effects are not seen in the real world, according to the researchers. Their findings were published April 20 in the journal Science(opens in new tab)

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A new, deeper understanding of how the breeding structure of species affects their genetic diversity is giving conservationists better tools for saving animals.

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The Computer Scientist Peering Inside AI’s Black Boxes

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Schrödinger’s Sapphire
Researchers have put a piece of sapphire about half as massive as an eyelash into a quantum “Schrödinger’s cat” state. It’s more than 100 trillion times as massive as any test object in previous experiments, reports Emily Conover for Science News. Physicists want to push at the boundaries of the quantum regime to understand the transition between the microscopic world of quantum mechanics and the macroscopic world of everyday experience. Phil Ball wrote about their efforts for Quanta in 2021.


Free-Floating
New research reveals that fish and mammals navigate the world in different ways, reports Kate Golembiewski for The New York Times. Monitored brain activity in goldfish showed that they only keep track of their proximity to boundaries. The navigational systems of humans and other mammals, on the other hand, take on the more sophisticated and comprehensive challenge of building a mental map of their 3D environment. In 2021, Jordana Cepelewicz wrote for Quanta about a new study that showed how rats do it.
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Ashley Ward Profile (2023)

Aristotle is credited with the ‘discovery’, in the fourth century bc, that humans have five senses: vision, hearing, taste, smell and touch. But animal behaviourist Ashley Ward says the true number might be more than 50, including “a host of underappreciated but crucial senses”, such as those of balance and of time. To explore the science behind them, and how they work together to create our perception as a whole, he engagingly interweaves diverse evidence from biology, psychology, ecology, medicine, economics and even engineering.


Design for a Better World

Don Norman MIT Press (2023)

Don Norman has worked in electrical engineering, cognitive psychology, computer science and design, in academia and industry. Now in his eighties, he draws on this experience to explain how designers, governments and industry must “broaden the notion of design from human centred to humanity centred”. In other words, they must emphasize quality of life, not monetary rewards, and reject harmful economic metrics. Only thus, he argues, will we survive the current environmental and economic crises.

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Who Invented the Measurement of Time?

The first timekeeping devices were probably natural materials lost to the ages, but the ancient Egyptians were the first to leave records of their timekeeping methods

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