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Ky. sheriff charged in fatal shooting of judge at courthouse

Preliminary investigation indicates the Letcher County sheriff shot District Judge Kevin Mullins following an argument, Kentucky State Police said

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The Curse Of Jacques de Molay—The Last Grand Master of the Templars

After being tortured and humiliated, along with other Knights of the Order of the Temple, on March 18, 1314, Jacques de Molay, the last Grand Master of the Templars, was burned upon a scaffold.

Jacques de Molay successfully organized between 1293 and 1305 a number of expeditions against the Muslims and managed to enter […]

‘A force multiplier’: How 2 Maine PD officers became ‘subject matter experts’ in crash reconstruction

“I like the scene work very much,” Windham Police Detective Gene Gallant Gallant said. “It’s like putting a puzzle together”

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Dallas police chief to retire from LE, take city manager position in Austin

Chief Eddie Garcia will oversee Austin’s fire, police, EMS and homeland security departments in the new position

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NASA’s Chandra finds galaxy cluster that crosses the streams

Astronomers using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory have found a galaxy cluster has two streams of superheated gas crossing one another. This result shows that crossing the streams may lead to the creation of new structure.

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New material with wavy layers of atoms exhibits unusual superconducting properties

MIT physicists and colleagues have created a new material with unusual superconducting and metallic properties, thanks to wavy layers of atoms only billionths of a meter thick that repeat themselves over and over to create a macroscopic sample that can be manipulated by hand. The large size of the sample makes it much easier to […]

Researchers build AI model database to find new alloys for nuclear fusion facilities

A study led by the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory details how artificial intelligence researchers have created an AI model to help identify new alloys used as shielding for housing fusion applications components in a nuclear fusion reactor. The findings mark a major step towards improving nuclear fusion facilities.

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Scientists scan TRAPPIST-1 for technosignatures

If you are going to look for intelligent life beyond Earth, there are few better candidates than the TRAPPIST-1 star system. It isn’t a perfect choice. Red dwarf stars like TRAPPIST-1 are notorious for emitting flares and hard X-rays in their youth, but the system is just 40 light-years away and has seven Earth-sized worlds. […]

NASA develops process to create very accurate eclipse maps

New NASA research reveals a process to generate extremely accurate eclipse maps, which plot the predicted path of the moon’s shadow as it crosses the face of Earth. Traditionally, eclipse calculations assume that all observers are at sea level on Earth and that the moon is a smooth sphere that is perfectly symmetrical around its […]

Volcanoes may help reveal interior heat on Jupiter moon

By staring into the hellish landscape of Jupiter’s moon Io—the most volcanically active location in the solar system—Cornell astronomers have been able to study a fundamental process in planetary formation and evolution: tidal heating.

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New study uncovers unexpected interaction between Mars and the solar wind

Scientists of the Swedish Institute of Space Physics (IRF) in Kiruna and Umeå University find that under certain conditions the induced magnetosphere of Mars can degenerate. The findings are presented in a new study published in Nature.

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Astronomers can’t agree on how fast the universe is expanding. New approaches aim to break the impasse

It is almost 100 years since scientists discovered the universe is expanding. In the decades that followed, the accuracy of the measurements, and interpretations and implications of this discovery, were a source of fierce debate. We now know the universe emerged dramatically from a highly compressed state in an event known as the Big Bang. […]

Astronomers’ new technique measures temperature of a star with high precision

Astronomers study stars by looking at the different colors of light they emit—colors they capture and analyze using spectroscopy. Now a team led by Université de Montréal’s Étienne Artigau has developed a technique that uses a star’s spectrum to chart variations in its temperature to the nearest tenth of a degree Celsius, over a range […]

Mysteries of the bizarre ‘pseudogap’ in quantum physics finally untangled

By cleverly applying a computational technique, scientists have made a breakthrough in understanding the “pseudogap,” a long-standing puzzle in quantum physics with close ties to superconductivity. The discovery, presented in Science, will help scientists in their quest for room-temperature superconductivity, a holy grail of condensed matter physics that would enable lossless power transmission, faster MRI […]

Topological quantum computers a step closer with new method to ‘split’ electrons

The topological quantum computer still exists only in theory but, if possible, would be the most stable and powerful computing machine in the world. However, it requires a special type of qubit (quantum bit) that has yet to be realized and manipulated.

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