Researchers at the University of Oxford have demonstrated a new family of Schrödinger’s cat-like quantum states, opening a stranger corner of quantum physics where superpositions are built from components that are already deeply quantum. The work, published in Physical Review X, shows how the motion of a single trapped ion can be shaped into exotic…
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NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory has announced a possible supernova remnant buried in Sagittarius C, a turbulent region near the center of the Milky Way. The finding, described in a paper published in The Astrophysical Journal, points to the possible remains of a massive star that exploded in one of the galaxy’s most crowded and extreme…
A study in Nature has revealed a vast whale graveyard deep in the southeastern Indian Ocean. Researchers led by Xiaotong Peng of the Institute of Deep-sea Science and Engineering at the Chinese Academy of Sciences documented hundreds of fossil whale remains and several modern carcasses across the Diamantina Zone, a remote region of ridges and…
A study in Nature found that climate-driven iceberg traffic is carrying the effects of warming glaciers into deep Arctic ecosystems. The work links glacier change near the surface to new hard-bottom habitat on the seafloor, where life can take hold nearly 2,500 meters below the ocean surface. Researchers led by the Alfred Wegener Institute and…
