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Phone tutorials boost learning during school closures across five countries

Hosts the research team and scale-up analysis

More than 200 million children each year lose school time to disease, conflict and climate shocks. A five-country study in Nature shows a weekly phone call from a tutor kept primary students learning through COVID closures. Cost: about $11 per child.

Updated 2 days ago

Oxford physicists demonstrate first quadsqueezing quantum interaction

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Source of the demonstration; published the result in Nature Physics

Physicists at the University of Oxford have generated a quantum interaction that existed only on paper until now. Using a single trapped ion and two carefully tuned forces, the team produced 'quadsqueezing'—a fourth-order quantum-squeezing effect—more than 100 times faster than conventional methods predicted should be possible.

Updated May 31