Schrödinger’s cat now dead and alive in two boxes at once
Feline-mimicking microwaves offer benefits for quantum computing

CAT CLUES Schrödinger’s mythical cat is alive and dead at the same time. Scientists have wrangled microwaves into similarly bizarre quantum states, and now they are taking the experiment a step further, splitting one catlike state into two boxes.
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