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Saturday Citations: Intermittent fasting and chronic stress; macroscopic entanglement; gamma-ray bursts
Phys.org • • general
Key Points:
- Researchers detected high multipartite quantum entanglement in a centimeter-sized crystal of a strange metal, challenging conventional views of electron behavior in condensed matter physics.
- A Japanese study found that intermittent fasting in mice reduces chronic stress-induced myelin damage in the brain and mitigates depression-like behaviors, highlighting potential neuroprotective benefits.
- Astronomers studying two long-duration gamma-ray bursts from 2021 propose these events originated from collapsars—massive, fast-spinning stars collapsing into black holes—rather than neutron star mergers, suggesting more diversity in kilonovae sources.
- These findings revise previous assumptions about heavy element synthesis in gamma-ray bursts, indicating that not all such bursts produce elements like gold or uranium as once thought.
