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“Free Timmy!”: A beached whale seizes control of Germany and divides it in two.

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Environmental groups, maritime police, excavator workers and billionaire sponsors are all taking part in the rescue.

Germans have followed the plight of the sea monster, dubbed Timmy by newspapers, on live news tickers, TV screens and influencers’ YouTube and TikTok channels, but some are worried about what its epic struggle says about the nation’s collective psyche. Sociologist Christian Stegbauer said whales are highly intelligent and social animals that are subject to … Read more

Symmetry shortcuts free up maximum work from unknown quantum states

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The Blueprint

For many years, physicists have treated knowledge as a kind of fuel in the quantum world, allowing us to know systems more precisely. You can squeeze more work out of it. But this well-valued assumption is now under attack. Researchers have shown in a new study that even a quantum state’s complete uncertainty does not … Read more