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Physicists at a particle accelerator have done something that sounds almost impossible — they split a single photon and watched it dissolve into an unexpected swarm of particles. The result challenges tidy assumptions about light and quantum behavior, reminding us that the deeper we look into matter, the stranger and more humbling the universe becomes.
Shifting from the subatomic to the financial, the bond market is sending a signal that crypto investors may not want to ignore. Rising yields typically pull capital toward safer, interest-bearing assets and away from speculative ones like bitcoin. For anyone expecting a near-term bull run, the fixed income market is essentially asking them to slow down and reconsider.
And on a quieter note from the developer community, a proposal called MBook is making the case for a simpler e-book format built on Markdown. The idea is straightforward — strip away the complexity of existing formats and give writers and readers something lightweight and human-readable. Whether it gains traction depends on whether the tools ecosystem decides to follow.
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