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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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Video: K-9 aids in arrest of suspected drug dealer who crashed limo, fled into woods

After fleeing into a wooded area, the suspect was found by a K-9 officer and allegedly engaged in a physical altercation before being apprehended

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BWC: Texas trooper finds 16 migrants behind false wall in trailer during traffic stop

After using drills to remove a false wall, the trooper discovered 16 people “crammed inside a small compartment with no air ventilation”

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Calif. Sheriff’s Office plane makes ‘emergency landing’ in field

“[The pilot is] OK. The plane is a total loss,” Sacramento County Sheriff Jim Cooper said. “We can buy a new plane, but you can’t replace a great pilot”

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Who was Noah—The Last Super-Longevous Antediluvian Patriarch Who Lived For 950 Years?

It is said that in ancient times, certain people enjoyed incredibly longevous lives.

Today when talking about people who loved for more than 200 years, let alone 900 years, we immediately put on our skeptic hats and say that such longevous lifespans are not possible.

Despite this, ancient texts suggest otherwise.

In the distant […]

Astronomers just detected the biggest black hole jets ever seen—and named them Porphyrion

The largest known black hole jets, 23 million light years across, have been discovered in the distant universe. This pair of particle beams launched by a supermassive black hole is over a hundred times larger than our galaxy, the Milky Way.

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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. […]