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Deep-Sea Pressure Squeezes a Hidden Meal Out of Sinking Ocean Particles
Here’s something nobody quite expected: the sheer weight of the ocean itself might be cooking up food for the creatures living in its depths.
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Oxford Physicists Achieve First-Ever Quantum “Quadsqueezing” in a Trapped Ion
Quantum harmonic oscillators show up everywhere in physics, from electromagnetic fields to the vibrations of molecules.
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Antimatter ‘Atom’ Caught Behaving Like a Wave for the First Time
Diffraction is one of those textbook proofs that particles can act like waves. Electrons do it, neutrons do it, even whole helium atoms and…
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Rock-Dwelling Life Found Thriving at 10,898 Meters in the Deepest Ocean Trenches
Nine thousand meters down, in total darkness and crushing pressure, there’s rock.
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Physicists Find Hidden Quantum Entanglement Inside a “Strange Metal”
Strange metals are a genuinely puzzling class of correlated quantum matter, and researchers have spent years trying to pin down what actually drives their…
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24 New Amphipod Species Found in Pacific Zone Eyed for Deep-Sea Mining
The Clarion-Clipperton Zone, a stretch of the central east Pacific abyss, holds significant abundances of manganese nodules – the kind of mineral deposits that…
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Not All Humans Scare Wildlife the Same Way, Meta-Analysis Finds
For decades, ecologists have leaned on the idea that humans act as “super-predators”, triggering fear responses in wildlife just by showing up.
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JWST Finds Methane on a Rare, Temperate Exo-Saturn
Most gas giants studied so far run hot. Temperate ones, with equilibrium temperatures under 400 K, are basically an unexplored frontier for atmospheric…
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Oxford Physicists Achieve First-Ever Quantum “Quadsqueezing” in a Trapped Ion
Quantum harmonic oscillators show up everywhere in physics, from electromagnetic fields to the vibrations of molecules.
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Antimatter ‘Atom’ Caught Behaving Like a Wave for the First Time
Diffraction is one of those textbook proofs that particles can act like waves. Electrons do it, neutrons do it, even whole helium atoms and…