Gravity Mysteries Sealed in an Envelope, an Odd Schrödinger’s Cat State, and a Massive Discovery Under an NY Cemetery

This week in stories we’re covering from The Debrief , a new twist on gravity measurement, hidden in a mysterious envelope, may point to a subtle flaw in our understanding of the universe . Elsewhere, researchers are breaking the tiny bounds of Quantum mechanics by creating a massive Schrödinger cat particle under ultracold conditions . And finally, NASA officials just confirmed a rare event captured in satellite images that caused loud booms heard throughout New England . Meanwhile, here’s a look at other stories we’re covering right now in our reporting at The Debrief: Scientists Just Revealed Something Massive Has Been Hiding Beneath This New York Cemetery for More Than a Century Cornell University researchers have confirmed a massive, century-old underground discovery hidden below a New York cemetery. Exoplanet Magnetism Revealed in New Study Researchers Call a “Key Step” in Decoding the Survival of Planets The best evidence for exoplanet magnetic fields ever discovered has emerged from new research that measures wind speeds on ultra-hot Jupiters. “Explore a Scene from Any Vantage Point You Want”: 3D Volumetric Video Breakthrough Means Streaming in 3D May Soon Be a Reality A 3D volumetric video breakthrough, overcoming previous technological limitations, could finally enable true 3D streaming on everyday devices. “How in the World Can These Things Happen?”: After a Series of ‘Mystery’ Quakes Shook Utah, Scientists Finally Think They Know Why Nearly five decades after the first in a series of mystery quakes rocked the Utah-Wyoming region, scientists think they’ve figured it out. Astronomers Discover New Way to Weigh Planets Hidden Inside Dusty Disks Newborn planets’ dusty rings hold the secret to uncovering their mass, say researchers who have now characterized these once-obscured celestial objects. A Single Jawbone From Egypt Is Changing How Scientists Think About Ape Origins For much of the past century, fossils from East Africa have shaped our understanding of ape evolution. Now, a jawbone found in the Egyptian desert adds a new dimension to that story. Pavlov’s Mosquito: Pests Can Be Conditioned to See DEET as a Meal Ticket Instead of a Deterrent Mosquitoes may have surprisingly overcome one of humanity’s best defenses against them, associating the smell of DEET with a nearby meal. Einstein-Rosen Bridges May Not Be Wormholes After All, Physicists Reveal Recent research suggests that the original bridge theory was not a wormhole but a mathematical feature of how time is structured. Newly Discovered “Witch Croc” Reveals Dinosaur-Like Evolution in the Triassic A newly described fossil from Ghost Ranch, New Mexico, belongs to the crocodile family tree, but unlike most crocodile-line archosaurs, it walked on two legs, had small arms, and a toothless beak. Something Revealed Itself by Bending the Light of a Distant Star in 2019—Now Astronomers Are Racing to Find Out What It Was For just an hour in late 2019, a cosmic mystery revealed itself to astronomers in an unprecedented way: by bending the light of a star. “The Sun May be Entering a Different Mode of Behavior”: Scientists Say Something is Happening Beneath the Solar Surface The Sun is experiencing long-term changes, producing a major squeeze in the four most recent solar activity cycles. Asteroid Impact Craters May Have Helped Create Early Habitats for Oxygen-Producing Life Scientists studying an ancient asteroid crater on the Korean Peninsula have uncovered rock formations that may offer clues to the rise of atmospheric oxygen on Earth. Scientists Locked ‘Virtual’ Astronauts in a Moon Base with Equipment Failures, Moonquakes and Extreme Radiation. Here’s What Happened. Scientists locked virtual astronauts in a simulated Lunar Base with system failures and natural disasters and watched how they’d respond.