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BWC: Kan. officer, fire rescue save toddler trapped in PVC pipe

The 14-month-old child fallen about ten feet deep into a pipe around 12 inches in diameter; a Moundridge Police officer’s creative approach was instrumental in his rescue

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BWC: Man says he will kill cops before pointing Airsoft gun at Iowa officer, leading to fatal OIS

The man called 911 requesting Cedar Rapids Police officers to come to his home, telling dispatchers that he wanted to fight an officer

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Off-duty Ill. deputy killed in shootout during attempted armed burglary, preliminary investigation finds

Cook County Sheriff’s Office Deputy Rafael D. Wordlaw was approached by a man at a gas station; the two argued before the man drew a gun and shot Wordlaw in the chest

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‘The clock’s already started’: NASA counting down to most powerful human spaceflight ever

The launch clock isn’t set yet, but the hardware is lined up for what would become the most powerful rocket to ever send humans into space during a moonbound trip the likes of which has not happened in more than 50 years.

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Discovery of ancient stars on the stellar thin disk of the Milky Way

A surprising discovery about the evolution of our galaxy using data from the Gaia mission found a large number of ancient stars on orbits similar to that of our sun. They formed the Milky Way’s thin disk less than 1 billion years after the Big Bang, several billion years earlier than previously believed.

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How to SUPPPPRESS light from a star that is ten billion times brighter than its habitable exoplanet

Searching for Earth 2.0 has been an obsession of almost all exoplanet hunters since the discipline’s dawn a few decades ago. Since then, they’ve had plenty of technological breakthroughs help them in their quest, but so far, none of them have been capable of providing the clear-cut image needed to prove the existence of an […]

Astrophysicists build model to explain to rapid planet formation

Our solar system is our immediate cosmic neighborhood. We know it well: the sun at the center; then the rocky planets Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars; and then the asteroid belt; followed by the gas giants Jupiter and Saturn; then the ice giants Uranus and Neptune; and finally the Kuiper belt with its comets.

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Astronomers find anomalies in star V889 Herculis’s rotation

The sun rotates the fastest at the equator, whereas the rotation rate slows down at higher latitudes and is the slowest at the polar regions. But a nearby sun-like star—V889 Herculis, some 115 light years away in the constellation of Hercules—rotates the fastest at a latitude of about 40 degrees, while both the equator and […]

Nuclear physicists question origin of radioactive beryllium in the solar system

Scientists have determined that a rare element found in some of the oldest solids in the solar system, such as meteorites, and previously thought to have been forged in supernova explosions, actually predate such cosmic events, challenging long-held theories about its origin.

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New technique measures superconductivity at very high pressures

In 1911, Heike Kamerlingh Onnes discovered the first superconductor, metallic mercury when cooled to a critical temperature of 4.2 Kelvin, where it conducts electricity without resistance. Ever since materials scientists have been on a quest to better understand the phenomenon and whether other elements and materials have higher critical temperatures that could make them useful […]

Additional planet orbiting the star TOI-1408 discovered

Using NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, an international team of astronomers has detected a second planet orbiting a distant main sequence star known as TOI-1408. The newfound alien world, designated TOI-1408 c, is about two times larger and nearly eight times more massive than the Earth. The finding was reported in a research paper published […]

A new technique to calculate the physical running of couplings in quadratic gravity

Researchers at the International School for Advanced Studies in Trieste, University of Massachusetts, and Instituto de Física Teórica at Universidade Estadual Paulista in Brazil recently introduced an alternative approach to derive the correct physical beta functions of couplings in quadratic gravity. Their paper, published in Physical Review Letters, could contribute to the use of the […]

Cryomodule assembly technicians rev up Jefferson Lab’s electron-beam racetrack

At the U.S. Department of Energy’s Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility, the underground Continuous Electron Beam Accelerator Facility (CEBAF) more closely resembles a racetrack than it does a racecar. As a DOE Office of Science user facility, CEBAF includes a particle accelerator that enables the research of more than 1,900 nuclear physicists worldwide.

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Bright prospects for engineering quantum light

Computers benefit greatly from being connected to the internet, so we might ask: What good is a quantum computer without a quantum internet?

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One year on ‘Mars’: Inside NASA’s ultra-realistic isolation study

Sealed inside a habitat in Texas and cut off from the outside world for over a year, Kelly Haston was the commander of a first-of-its-kind simulation for NASA to prepare for a future mission to Mars.

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