Video-call glitches might seem harmless, but they can reduce people’s chances of getting hired, closing a business deal or following a doctor’s recommendation. Human brains expect video calls to feel like in-person conversations. When glitches break that illusion, it feels unsettling and strange, harming judgements of trustworthiness, likeability and credibility.

Experiments have revealed that the interaction between a hydrogen-rich atmosphere and a molten planet leads to high levels of water production. Through this process, planets could be enriched with water during their formation, altering their chemistry, evolution and, possibly, habitability.

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A high-performance silicon-based quantum processor has been developed in which the spins of nine phosphorus nuclei — divided into two groups, or registers — and two shared electrons act as quantum bits (qubits). The modular design of this 11-qubit processor opens the door to a scalable approach to building large, reliable quantum-computing processors.