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‘Give me your f***ing gun’: Man waves knife in D.C. PD cruiser window, climbs into another cruiser before OIS

The man crashed his car into a D.C. cruiser and threatened an officer through the window before being wounded; he then stabbed himself and threatened others before being fatally shot

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Polymer microdomes reveal tunable chiral structural colors with significant implications for optical applications

Chiral-structural-color materials produce color through microscopic structures that interact with light rather than through pigmentation or dyes. Some beetle exoskeletons, avian feathers, butterfly wings, and marine organisms feature these structures naturally, producing iridescent or polarization-dependent colors. Over the last 10–15 years, scientists have made progress in developing artificial chiral-structural-color materials.

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BWC: Man whacks empty cruiser at LASD substation with machete, approaches deputy before fatal OIS

The man repeatedly struck a cruiser parked outside a sheriff’s department substation with a 16-inch machete before being confronted by a deputy

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Unraveling the origin of extremely bright quantum emitters

Many next-generation quantum devices rely on single-photon emitters based on optically active defects in solids, known as color centers. Understanding their properties is fundamental to developing novel quantum technologies.

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New study sets tighter constraints on elusive sterile neutrinos

Neutrinos have always been difficult to study because their small mass and neutral charge make them especially elusive. Scientists have made a lot of headway in the field and can now detect three flavors, or oscillation states, of neutrinos. Other flavors continue to be elusive—though that could be because they don’t even exist.

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‘One, two three, pull!’: N.Y. officers, good samaritans win tug-of-war to rescue horse from frozen pond

Saratoga Springs police and neighbors strained to pull a 1,300 pound horse named Sly from a hole in the icy pond

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The ISS is overly sterile: Making it ‘dirtier’ could improve astronaut health

Astronauts often experience immune dysfunction, skin rashes, and other inflammatory conditions while traveling in space. A new study published in the journal Cell suggests that these issues could be due to the excessively sterile nature of spacecraft.

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Hydrogen cyanide and acetylene detected in a brown dwarf atmosphere for the first time

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), an international team of astronomers has explored the atmosphere of a nearby brown dwarf binary designated WISE J045853.90+643451.9. As a result, they detected hydrogen cyanide and acetylene in the atmosphere of this binary, marking the first time these two species have been identified in the atmosphere of a […]

Metal made in space lands on Earth

The first metal 3D part ever created in orbit has landed on Earth.

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Most powerful gamma ray observatory gets green light

At the start of the year, the European Commission established the Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory (CTAO) as a European Research Infrastructure Consortium (ERIC), furthering its mission to become the world’s largest and most powerful observatory for gamma-ray astronomy.

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Most powerful gamma ray observatory gets green light

At the start of the year, the European Commission established the Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory (CTAO) as a European Research Infrastructure Consortium (ERIC), furthering its mission to become the world’s largest and most powerful observatory for gamma-ray astronomy.

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Engineers create first flat telescope lens that can capture color while detecting light from faraway stars

For centuries, lenses have worked the same way: curved glass or plastic bending light to bring images into focus. But traditional lenses have a major drawback—the more powerful they need to be, the bulkier and heavier they become.

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An equation of state for dense nuclear matter such as neutron stars

Neutron stars are some of the densest objects in the universe. They are the core of a collapsed megastar that went supernova, have a typical radius of 10 km—just slightly more than the altitude of Mt. Everest—and their density can be several times that of atomic nuclei.

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Unraveling how a ‘magnetic twist’ induces one-way electric flow

Researchers at Tohoku University, the University of Manchester, and Osaka University have made a breakthrough that has the potential to ignite the development of next-gen chiral information technology.

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Popol Vuh – The sacred book of the Ancient Maya: Other Beings Created Mankind

These beings who created mankind are referred to in the Popol Vuh as “the Creator, the Former, the Dominator, the Feathered-Serpent, they-who-engender, they-who-give-being, hovered over the water as a dawning light.”

What does this mean? When you think about it, the ancients were telling how “they” possibly referred to as the gods, the heavenly […]