Jun 2, 2026 2:56 PM
This week at The Debrief, new clues to gravity mysteries, a fireball explosion captured in satellite imagery, and "Schrödinger’s Cat States" are all in the news.
hypergravityThis 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.
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