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Former New York state trooper pleads guilty to faking his own shooting

Thomas Mascia claimed he was shot in the leg by a driver; instead, prosecutors say, he staged the scene of the incident by scattering shell casings, then shot himself at a park

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Faster, more stable plasma simulations help advance chip manufacturing

Plasma—the electrically charged fourth state of matter—is at the heart of many important industrial processes, including those used to make computer chips and coat materials.

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Building a giant catcher’s mitt on the moon

Members of the space exploration community are always coming up with novel ideas to solve problems that they view as holding back humanity’s expansion into the cosmos. One such problem that has become more noticeable of late, due to the failure of several powered lunar landers, is the difficulty of landing on the moon.

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Novel equation predicts how crystals and bubbles in magma alter seismic waves

A recent study has mathematically clarified how the presence of crystals and gas bubbles in magma affects the propagation of seismic P-waves. The researchers derived a new equation that characterizes the travel of these waves through magma, revealing how the relative proportions of crystals and bubbles influence wave velocity and waveform properties.

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Ready for space travel? GENESTAR can track how space affects your health

As the number of space travelers is increasing through commercial missions, it becomes more important to understand how space affects the human body.

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NASA’s Mars Perseverance snaps a selfie as a Martian dust devil blows by

The latest selfie by NASA’s Perseverance rover at Mars has captured an unexpected guest: a Martian dust devil.

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Chip-scale soliton microcombs reach femtosecond precision

Laser frequency combs are light sources that produce evenly spaced, sharp lines across the spectrum, resembling the teeth of a comb. They serve as precise rulers for measuring time and frequency, and have become essential tools in applications such as lidar, high-speed optical communications, and space navigation. Traditional frequency combs rely on large, lab-based lasers. […]

Scientists discover how solar events affect the velocity of helium pickup ions

Southwest Research Institute scientists have discovered how solar activity affects the velocity distribution and evolution of helium pickup ions.

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35% efficiency boost seen in spin-torque heat-assisted magnetic recording

In conventional heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR), a laser is used to locally heat the recording medium to facilitate data writing. However, the thermal energy applied is largely dissipated within the medium and does not contribute directly to the recording efficiency. Moreover, this high-temperature process consumes substantial energy and raises concerns regarding the magnetic and physical […]

Structure of liquid carbon measured for the first time

With the declared aim of measuring matter under extreme pressure, an international research collaboration headed by the University of Rostock and the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR) used the high-performance laser DIPOLE 100-X at the European XFEL for the first time in 2023. With spectacular results: In this initial experiment they managed to study liquid carbon—an unprecedented […]

Researchers simulate tens of thousands of electrons in real time

A research team from the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, in collaboration with North Carolina State University, has developed a simulation capable of predicting how tens of thousands of electrons move in materials in real time, or natural time rather than compute time.

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Video: Officers take down suspect who fired 24 rounds in Las Vegas gym, killing 1

As LVMPD officers arrived at the scene, one saw the shooter inside and fired one round through a window; the man then ran out of the business past the officers, who fatally shot him

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From way back to the future: Space-time ripples modeled in new study

Te Whare Wānanga o Waitaha | University of Canterbury (UC) second year Ph.D. scholarship student Sebenele (Sebe) Thwala, working with supervisors Dr. Chris Stevens and Prof Jörg Frauendiener, has been modeling how gravitational waves interact across the universe from the distant past to the far future.

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Study finds quantum computing in health care faces significant challenges, but there is promise

A broad systematic review has revealed that quantum computing applications in health care remain more theoretical than practical, despite growing excitement in the field.

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Record-high Curie temperature achieved in ferromagnetic semiconductor

Ferromagnetic semiconductors (FMSs) combine the unique properties of semiconductors and magnetism, making them ideal candidates for developing spintronic devices that integrate both semiconductor and magnetic functionalities. However, one of the key challenges in FMSs has been achieving high Curie temperatures (TC) that enable their stable operation at room temperature.

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