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Suppressing starlight: How to find other Earths

One underappreciated aspect of the current flood of exoplanet discoveries is the technical marvels that enable it. Scientists and engineers must capture and detect minute signals from stars and planets light years away. With the technologies of even a few decades ago, that would have been impossible—now it seems commonplace. However, there are still some […]

What impact does ozone have on an exoplanet?

As we discover more and more exoplanets—and the current total is in excess of 5,200—we continue to try to learn more about them. Astrobiologists busy themselves analyzing their atmospheres searching for anything that provides a sign of life.

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Maine company plans to launch small satellites starting in 2025

Representatives for a Maine company that plans to send small satellites into space from the Northeast’s most rural state said they will start launches next year.

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Video: Colo. officers shoot man who pointed gun at own head, shot bystander

The suspect had initially fled in a vehicle after shooting the victim, but returned to the scene with a handgun modified to fire automatically

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NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope temporarily pauses observations after malfunction

The Hubble Space Telescope has temporarily stopped observing the cosmos.

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Physicists decode mechanics of knitted materials for engineering applications

Knitting, the age-old craft of looping and stitching natural fibers into fabrics, has received renewed attention for its potential applications in advanced manufacturing. Far beyond their use for garments, knitted textiles are ideal for designing and fabricating emerging technologies like wearable electronics or soft robotics—structures that need to move and bend.

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BWC: Suspect grabs N.M. officer’s rifle, fires shots before fatal OIS

When Albuquerque Police Department officers tried to bring a robbery suspect into custody, he grabbed an officer’s rifle, released the safety and fired shots to the ground

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Texas officer dies after being struck, thrown from motorcycle during funeral procession escort

Senior Officer Vicente Ortiz had served the Corpus Christi Police Department for fifteen years and was described as a “great husband, father, son, brother, friend and co-worker”

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Swarm satellites help aurora chasers discover Steve’s long-lost twin

Ever since aurora chasers discovered Steve, a mysterious ribbon of purple light in the night sky, scientists have wondered whether it might have a secret twin. Now, thanks to a photographer’s keen eye, and data from ESA’s Swarm satellites, we may have found it.

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Simulation of factors that led to Arrokoth’s red color suggest its surface is rich in sugars

A team of space scientists and chemists at the University of Hawaii at Mānoa, Université Côte d’Azur and the Southwest Research Institute has found the planetesimal Arrokoth likely gets its red color from a surface rich in sugars.

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Eight new millisecond pulsars discovered with FAST

Using the Five-Hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST), astronomers from the Guizhou University in China and elsewhere have discovered eight new millisecond pulsars in the globular cluster NGC 6517. The finding was reported in a research paper published May 28 on the pre-print server arXiv.

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New model suggests partner anti-universe could explain accelerated expansion without the need for dark energy

The accelerated expansion of the present universe, believed to be driven by a mysterious dark energy, is one of the greatest puzzles in our understanding of the cosmos. The standard model of cosmology called Lambda-CDM, explains this expansion as a cosmological constant in Einstein’s field equations. However, the cosmological constant itself lacks a complete theoretical […]

Study uncovers a quantum acoustical Drude peak shift in strange metals

Researchers at Harvard University, Sabanci University, and Peking University recently gathered findings that could shed light on the origin of the high-temperature absorption peaks observed in strange metals, a class of materials exhibiting unusual electronic properties that do not conform to the conventional theory of metals.

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The story of Paul Dienach, a man who fell into a coma and woke up in the year 3,906

The story is beyond fascinating, and hard to believe according to many. Paul Dienach spent a year in a comatose state, victim of a strange disease. Upon awakening, he assured that his conscience had traveled to the body of a man in the year 3906.

Everything that he saw, felt and heard was […]

Craft unfurls China’s flag on the far side of the moon and lifts off with lunar rocks to bring home

China said its lunar spacecraft unfurled the country’s red and gold flag for the first time on the far side of the moon before part of the vehicle blasted off early Tuesday with rock and soil samples to bring back to Earth.

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