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Pressure-responsive, layered semiconductor shows potential for next-gen data storage

A squishy, layered material that dramatically transforms under pressure could someday help computers store more data with less energy.

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Video: Woman fires shot toward LAPD, CHP officers before OIS

The woman, who is married to a Weezer band member, has been charged with attempted murder after shooting toward officers who were searching for a hit-and-run suspect

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New Horizons observations lead to first Lyman-alpha map from the galaxy

The NASA New Horizons spacecraft’s extensive observations of Lyman-alpha emissions have resulted in the first-ever map from the galaxy at this important ultraviolet wavelength, providing a new look at the galactic region surrounding our solar system. The findings are described in a new study authored by the SwRI-led New Horizons team.

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Sun’s explosions echo in Earth’s skies: How the atmosphere synchronizes with solar flare pulsations

Earth’s atmosphere is much more sensitive to ripples of radiation from the sun than scientists previously believed, new research by Queen’s University Belfast has found.

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Scientists release underground dark matter experiment design

Researchers, students and science-lovers across the world now have access to the design of the globally significant SABRE South dark matter experiment in the lead up to its installation in the Stawell Underground Physics Laboratory.

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SWAT arrests hit-and-run suspect after slow pursuit

Video shows LAPD officers attempting PIT maneuvers and successfully deploying spike strips, ultimately bringing the suspect to a stop in front of a home

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An astronomer explains the extraordinary evidence scientists need to claim discoveries like extraterrestrial life

The detection of life beyond Earth would be one of the most profound discoveries in the history of science. The Milky Way galaxy alone hosts hundreds of millions of potentially habitable planets. Astronomers are using powerful space telescopes to look for molecular indicators of biology in the atmospheres of the most Earth-like of these planets. […]

FAST reveals new millisecond pulsar missed by earlier surveys due to signal overlap

Using the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope (FAST), Chinese astronomers have discovered a new millisecond pulsar. The newfound pulsar, designated PSR J2129-1210O, was missed by previous searches as its spin period is close to the harmonics of the known pulsar PSR J2129+1210A.

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Physicists test quantum theory with atomic nuclei from a nuclear reaction

Many atomic nuclei have a magnetic field similar to that of Earth. However, directly at the surface of a heavy nucleus such as lead or bismuth, it is trillions of times stronger than Earth’s field and more comparable to that of a neutron star. Whether we understand the behavior of an electron in such strong […]

30-year mystery of dissonance in the ‘ringing’ of black holes explained

A scientist from Tokyo Metropolitan University has solved the longstanding problem of a “dissonance” in gravitational waves emitted by a black hole.

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Ga. deputy shot, killed during traffic stop

A second Columbia County deputy was shot in the face and severely wounded; at least one deputy was able to return fire during the incident

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A vast molecular cloud, long invisible, is discovered near our solar system

An international team of scientists led by a Rutgers University–New Brunswick astrophysicist has discovered a potentially star-forming cloud that is one of the largest single structures in the sky and among the closest to the sun and Earth ever to be detected.

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The first experimental observation of Dirac exceptional points

Exceptional points (EPs) are unique types of energy-level degeneracies that occur in non-Hermitian systems. Since their existence was first proposed more than a century ago, physicists have only been able to experimentally observe two types of EPs, both of which were found to give rise to exotic phases of matter in various materials, including Dirac […]

LAPD arrest a suspect in the ‘chainsaw massacre’ of city trees

The LAPD said “numerous” trees were felled at city-owned property on at least four blocks, and detectives were investigating other possible locations

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Bill introduced to repeal cap on state police hires in Pa.

S.B. 641 will “repeal the statutory limit on the number of police,” allowing the Pennsylvania State Police to “hire the number of troopers that they see fit,” State Sen. Marty Flynn said

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