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Even the heaviest particles experience the usual quantum weirdness, new experiment shows

One of the most surprising predictions of physics is entanglement, a phenomenon where objects can be some distance apart but still linked together. The best-known examples of entanglement involve tiny chunks of light (photons), and low energies.

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Before Noah’s Great Flood: Here Are 3 Flood Stories That Predate The Bible

Evidence has been brought forward by a number of archaeologists who argue that a massive deluge swept across the Earth between 5,000 and 7,000 years ago.

Some argue that the historic flood may have happened, but not on a global scale, as there are those who argue that a flooding occurred in the area […]

U.S. senator’s son pleads guilty in death of deputy during pursuit

Ian Cramer changed his plea in the death of Mercer County Sheriff’s Deputy Paul Martin; the charges included fleeing from an officer, preventing arrest and drug possession

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Mo. police to fine parents for school shooting threats, fights

“This strict approach does not come without much thought and previous attempts to control the situation by lesser means,” St. John Police Chief Paul Anderson said

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LAPD probing allegation that officer cheated on exam with camera-equipped glasses

An LAPD officer is under investigation for allegedly recording the questions to an exam on a pair of camera-equipped smart glasses, “Mission Impossible”-style

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The US Government On The Verge Of Confiscating Supposed Debris Of The Roswell UFO Crash

In 2011, a man discovered a number of artifacts in Roswell, New Mexico, where an alien spacecraft had supposedly crashed in 1947.

He took the mysterious metallic pieces to a number of labs for testing. Results came back showing that the mysterious artifacts were not from Earth.

“…either the lab made an analytical […]

Secret Service report details communication failures preceding July assassination attempt on Trump

Among the problems: Some local police were unaware of two communications centers on site, so officers didn’t know the Secret Service wasn’t receiving their radio transmissions

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Citizen science collaboration yields precise data on exoplanet WASP-77 A b

A planet swings in front of its star, dimming the starlight we see. Events like these, called transits, provide us with bounties of information about exoplanets—planets around stars other than the sun. But predicting when these special events occur can be challenging…unless you have help from volunteers.

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Exoplanets could be hiding their atmospheres

Most of the exoplanets we’ve discovered orbit red dwarf stars. This isn’t because red dwarfs are somehow special, simply that they are common. About 75% of the stars in the Milky Way are red dwarfs, so you would expect red dwarf planets to be the most abundant. This also means that most habitable worlds are […]

Hubble lights the way with new multiwavelength view of galaxy NGC 1559

The magnificent galaxy featured in this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image is NGC 1559. It is a barred spiral galaxy located in the constellation Reticulum, approximately 35 million light-years from Earth. The brilliant light captured in the current image offers a wealth of information.

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Life might thrive on the surface of Earth for an extra billion years

The sun is midway through its life of fusion. It’s about 5 billion years old, and though its life is far from over, it will undergo some pronounced changes as it ages. Over the next billion years, the sun will continue to brighten.

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Plants could still grow well under alien skies

Photosynthesis changed Earth in powerful ways. When photosynthetic organisms appeared, it led to the Great Oxygenation Event. That allowed multicellular life to evolve and resulted in the ozone layer. Life could venture onto land, protected from the sun’s intense ultraviolet radiation.

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Preparing the LHC and its injector complex for the 2024 lead-ion run

In the early morning of 13 September, the LHC reached a significant milestone, surpassing 100 fb-1 of integrated luminosity delivered to ATLAS and CMS in a single year—a record—and the figure is still rising. Then, LHCb’s integrated luminosity target of 8.5 fb-1 was reached one day later.

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Physicist reveals tailwind has negligible effect on cycling speed

Within the cycling realm, “to Everest” involves riding up and down the same mountain until your ascents total the elevation of Mt. Everest—8,848 meters.

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Scientists propose a new method to search for dark matter using LIGO

A new study published in Physical Review Letters (PRL) proposes using gravitational wave detectors like LIGO to search for scalar field dark matter.

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