1.1K views · 23 reactions | To kick off Season 2 of #BasicallyScience, we are going back to basics! Dr. Kaitlyn Casimo explains what basic science is and why we do it! | Allen Institute | Facebook

The 2025 International Congress of Basic Science (ICBS 2025) opened in Beijing on July 13. During the press briefing, Turing Award winner and 2025 Basic Science Lifetime Award winner Robert Tarjan shared his thoughts on "information cocoon" that people should read skeptically and always treat everything as contingent. He also thinks that people have to use own human brains to resolve questions. #ICBS2025 2025年国际基础科学大会于7月13日在北京开幕。在新闻发布会上，图灵奖得主、2025年基础科学终身成就奖得主罗伯特·塔扬分享了他对“信息茧房”的看法，认为人们应以怀疑态度阅读信息，并

Ilana Wisby, CEO at Oxford Quantum Circuits outlines how classical computers struggle with certain chemistry and optimisation problems that we might ask today, and uses the example of modelling the caffeine molecule, or optimising for the travelling salesman problem. Watch the full documentary here: https://okt.to/jFZo8p The Quantum Daily | Oxford Instruments | Facebook