This week, scientists with Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute reported that a key current, the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, has not declined over the last 60 years. An international team of geneticists found evidence of Iron Age social and political empowerment of women. And quantum engineers demonstrated a famous cat-related thought experiment in a silicon chip. Additionally, astronomers speculated on neutron star land forms, paleontologists reported a previously unknown Cretaceous-era predator and a tech start-up is building a living seawall in Florida:
Saturday citations: New cretaceous predator just dropped; neutron star mountains; a cool ‘living seawall’
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