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BWC: Man points replica gun at bystanders before OIS

Dallas Police officers opened fire at the man after he ignored instructions to get on the ground and continued to point the replica gun at a bystander

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N.M. deputy charged with murder in fatal shooting of man wandering on road carrying air soft gun

Otero County Sheriff’s Office Deputy Jacob Diaz-Austin fired 19 shots at a man who presented “what appeared to be a firearm,” according to New Mexico State Police

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Up to 60 suspected looters arrested in fire-ravaged L.A., LASD announces 9 charged

The charges involved three alleged looting incidents in the Pacific Palisades and Altadena, where fires have burned 35,000 acres and destroyed more than 12,000 structures

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Gravitational waves could give us insights into fast radio bursts

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are mysterious pulses of energy that can last from a fraction of a millisecond to about three seconds. Most of them come from outside the galaxy, although one has been detected coming from a source inside the Milky Way. Some of them also repeat, which only adds to their mystery.

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NASA and Italian Space Agency test future lunar navigation technology

As the Artemis campaign leads humanity to the moon and eventually Mars, NASA is refining its state-of-the-art navigation and positioning technologies to guide a new era of lunar exploration.

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Astronomers discover a new dense sub-Saturn exoplanet

An international team of astronomers has reported the detection of a new exoplanet orbiting a bright late F-type star. The newfound alien world, designated TOI-6038 A b, is about six times larger and nearly 80 times more massive than Earth. The finding is detailed in a paper published Jan. 4 on the arXiv preprint server […]

Engineering quantum entanglement at the nanoscale

Physicists have spent more than a century measuring and making sense of the strange ways that photons, electrons, and other subatomic particles interact at extremely small scales. Engineers have spent decades figuring out how to take advantage of these phenomena to create new technologies.

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Quantum experiment generates long-range entanglement in 54-qubit system

The operation and performance of quantum computers relies on the ability to realize and control entanglement between multiple qubits. Yet entanglement between many qubits is inherently susceptible to noise and imperfections in quantum gates.

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Quantum engineers create a ‘Schrödinger’s cat’ inside a silicon chip

UNSW engineers have demonstrated a well-known quantum thought experiment in the real world. Their findings deliver a new and more robust way to perform quantum computations—and they have important implications for error correction, one of the biggest obstacles standing between them and a working quantum computer.

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25 Facts About Cleopatra, Last Active Pharaoh Of Ancient Egypt

Antony and Cleopatra, by Lawrence Alma-Tadema. Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons

Perhaps best known simply as “Cleopatra”, the official name of the Ancient Egyptian Queen was Cleopatra VII Philopator; she was the last active Pharaoh of ancient Egypt and was of Macedonian-Greek origin, member of the Ptolemaic dynasty.

Cleopatra by Eslam17 via Wikimedia Commons

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SpaceX sends up 5th Space Coast launch of the year

SpaceX knocked out another launch on Monday sending up the fifth Space Coast mission of the year.

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Neutron star cooling simulations set new constraints on light QCD axions

Neutron stars, the remnants of massive stars after a supernova explosion, have often been the focus of studies aimed at testing and unveiling exotic physics. This is because these stars are among the densest objects in the universe, so they host extremely high temperatures and pressures.

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Blue Origin scrubs key test launch again, eyes Thursday

Blue Origin, the space company founded by billionaire Jeff Bezos, called off the inaugural launch of its huge new rocket again on Monday evening after facing weather issues.

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Diamond continues to shine: New properties discovered in diamond semiconductors

Diamond, often celebrated for its unmatched hardness and transparency, has emerged as an exceptional material for high-power electronics and next-generation quantum optics. Diamond can be engineered to be as electrically conductive as a metal, by introducing impurities such as the element boron.

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Neutron star ‘mountains’ would cause ripples in space-time

Collapsed dead stars, known as neutron stars, are a trillion times denser than lead, and their surface features are largely unknown. Nuclear theorists have explored mountain building mechanisms active on the moons and planets in our solar system. Some of these mechanisms suggest that neutron stars are likely to have mountains.

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