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2 NYPD officers following in fallen fathers’ footsteps promoted

The son of an NYPD detective who died years after he was shot on duty was promoted to captain, while the daughter of an officer killed in the line of duty was promoted to detective

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Clouds blanket the night side of the hot exoplanet WASP-43b

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), a team of astronomers, including scientists from MPIA, constructed a global temperature map of the hot, gas giant exoplanet WASP-43b. The nearby parent star perpetually illuminates one hemisphere, raising temperatures to a blistering 1250°C. Meanwhile, eternal night shrouds the opposite side.

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Enceladus spills its guts through strike–slip motion

Over the course of its elliptical orbit, the moon Enceladus is squeezed unevenly by Saturn’s gravitational pull and deforms from a spherical shape into a football shape and back again. This cyclic stress causes a phenomenon called “tidal heating” within Enceladus and dissipates enough energy to maintain what is believed to be a global ocean […]

New instrument could help scientists tailor plasma to produce more fusion heat

Creating heat from fusion reactions requires carefully manipulating the properties of plasma, the electrically charged fourth state of matter that makes up 99% of the visible universe.

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Researchers explore an old galactic open cluster

Using data from ESA’s Gaia satellite, astronomers from Turkey and India have investigated NGC 188—an old open cluster in the Milky Way. Results of the study, published April 19 on the pre-print server arXiv, deliver important insights into the parameters and properties of this cluster.

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Astronomers’ simulations support dark matter theory

Computer simulations by astronomers support the idea that dark matter—matter that no one has yet directly detected but which many physicists think must be there to explain several aspects of the observable universe—exists, according to the researchers, who include those at the University of California, Irvine.

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Russian Scientists create breakthrough technology that can transmute any element into another

Russian Scientists have created a BREAKTHROUGH Technology that can transmute any element into another. During a press conference held in Geneva, Switzerland, Russian scientists have announced a technology that would make it possible to transmute any element into another element in the periodic table.

The discovery was produced by two Russian theoretical […]

Robots can’t outrun animals. A new study explores why

The question may be the 21st century’s version of the fable of the tortoise and the hare: Who would win in a foot race between a robot and an animal?

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Scientists have found a second pyramid hidden within the Pyramid of Chichen Itza

New analysis of the Pyramid of Kukulkan has allowed experts to make a fascinating discovery: There is another Pyramid located withing the Pyramid of Kukulakn at Chichen Itza. Experts say that the structure appeared to have a staircase and perhaps an altar at the top.

Mexican Archaeologists have discovered a second mysterious sub-structure […]

Study finds CsPbBr₃ out-of-phase perovskite helps highly sensitive X-ray detection

A recent study conducted by the research team at Hefei Institutes of Physical Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, has introduced a new method for enhancing X-ray detection by incorporating out-of-phase CsPb2Br5 perovskite into CsPbBr3 bulk material.

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Pump-probe high-harmonic spectroscopy could catch geometric phase effect around conical intersection in molecule: Study

A collaborative research team from Nanjing University of Science and Technology (NJUST) and East China Normal University (ECNU) has theoretically proposed that a pump-probe high-harmonic spectroscopy (HHS) driven by VUV-IR pulses can catch the geometric phase (GP) effect around the conical intersection (CI) and distinguish its quantitative behavior from the case of avoided crossing (AC). […]

Multiple N.C. officers shot while carrying out task force operation

Charlotte Mecklenburg PD said a U.S. Marshals Task Force was conducting an investigation when a subject began firing at them

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NASA scientists gear up for solar storms at Mars

In the months ahead, two of NASA’s Mars spacecraft will have an unprecedented opportunity to study how solar flares—giant explosions on the sun’s surface—could affect robots and future astronauts on the Red Planet.

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Q&A: How to catch a glimpse of a new star about to appear in the night sky

If you peer up at the constellation Corona Borealis—the Northern Crown—over the next several months, you may catch a glimpse: Astronomers predict that sometime this year, a new star will appear in the night sky, growing as bright as the North Star, then vanishing in a matter of days.

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Laser imaging could offer early detection for at-risk artwork

Look closely at Impressionist paintings in museums compared with photos of them taken 50 years ago, and you might notice something odd: Some are losing their bright yellow hues.

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