Beta is a measure of an investment stock's volatility in relation to the overall market. Betting against beta (BAB) strategies have been performing incredibly well for investors, but economists have been unsure why. By drawing on more than 30 years of data, researcher Thorsten Lehnert has uncovered that flow-induced price noise has an important role to play.

Physicists have discovered that electrons in a crystal form counter-intuitive quantum links that are knotted. In explaining these phenomena, researchers turned to knot theory, a branch of mathematics that studies the complex world of knots and loops. This is the first time that knot theory has been used to understand materials called topological magnets, and the application of this theory promises to expand our knowledge of the quantum mechanics of materials.

Researchers of Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin receive the 2022 Schmidt-Hunter Meta-Analysis Award for their meta-analysis on the relationship between job stressors and burnout published in "Psychological Bulletin"

A computer-guided approach to design can propose more solutions and balance out human inexperience and design fixation.