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Webb telescope captures deep view of ancient galaxies

The James Webb Space Telescope’s deepest view of a single target yet depicts spinning arcs of light that are galaxies from the universe’s distant past, the European Space Agency said Tuesday.

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Ohio deputy fatally shot while responding to domestic violence call

Morrow County Deputy Daniel Sherrer, 31, was killed shortly after arriving at the scene; he joined the department in 2021

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3D velocity analysis of wide binaries supports modified gravity at low acceleration

Wide binary stars with separation greater than about 2000 astronomical units are interesting natural laboratories that allow a direct probe of gravity at low acceleration weaker than about 1 nanometer per second squared. Astrophysicist Kyu-Hyun Chae at Sejong University (Seoul, South Korea) has developed a new method of measuring gravity with all three components of […]

‘Today’s the day’: Video shows suspect shoot 2 Va. officers during traffic stop before fatal OIS

Moments before the shootout, the suspect shouted he “should have served with the f—ing Taliban,” expressing anger at the U.S. before opening fire on Fairfax County officers

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Fla. man bitten by alligator climbs into cruiser, reaches for gun before fatal OIS

After being bitten by an alligator, a Florida man armed with garden shears attempted to enter a patrol car and grab a firearm, leading to a fatal deputy-involved shooting.

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Wis. city turns to sheriff’s office after entire PD resigns

To handle the extra work, the Trempealeau County Sheriff’s Office plans to put its off-duty employees to work in Arcadia on overtime, which would be paid by the city

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Record-breaking performance in data security achieved with quantum mechanics

A joint team of researchers led by scientists at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) and King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology (KACST) has reported the fastest quantum random number generator (QRNG) to date based on international benchmarks. The QRNG, which passed the required randomness tests of the National Institute of Standards […]

Study reinvestigates the properties of globular cluster NGC 1754

Using the Hubble Space Telescope (HST), astronomers have observed a globular cluster known as NGC 1754 as part of a systematic study of the most massive and compact clusters in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). Results of the observational campaign, published May 15 on the arXiv pre-print server, shed more light on the properties of […]

‘Raindrops in the sun’s corona’: New adaptive optics shows stunning details of our star’s atmosphere

The sun’s corona—the outermost layer of its atmosphere, visible only during a total solar eclipse—has long intrigued scientists due to its extreme temperatures, violent eruptions, and large prominences. However, turbulence in Earth’s atmosphere has caused image blur and hindered observations of the corona. A recent development by scientists from the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) […]

New high-resolution laser device reads millimeter-scale text from a mile away

You are the protagonist in a thriller. One morning, an unknown caller with a distorted voice says, “To save your city, solve the puzzle. Go to the coordinates. X marks the clue.” You rush to the spot and see an X on a distant billboard, too far to read. Your vision is sharp, but not […]

A new method to control the rovibrational ground state of a single molecular hydrogen ion

The precise measurement of states in atomic and molecular systems can help to validate fundamental physics theories and their predictions. Among the various platforms that can help to validate theoretical predictions are so-called diatomic molecular hydrogen ions (MHI), molecular ions that consist of two hydrogen nuclei (i.e., protons or their isotopes) and a single electron. […]

Trump pardons ex-Va. sheriff convicted in ‘cash-for-badges’ bribery scheme

Scott Jenkins was sentenced to 10 years for appointing unqualified auxiliary deputies in exchange for cash bribes.

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SpaceX set for next Starship launch after fiery failures

SpaceX is set Tuesday for the next test flight of its Starship megarocket—the linchpin of founder Elon Musk’s Mars ambitions—after the vessel’s last two outings ended in fiery explosions.

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Is Venus hiding dangerous asteroids?

Twenty years ago, the U.S. Congress instructed NASA to find 90% of near-Earth asteroids threatening Earth. They’ve made progress finding these asteroids that orbit the sun and come to within 1.3 astronomical units of Earth. However, they may have to expand their search since astronomers are now finding asteroids co-orbiting Venus that could pose a […]

How to resolve conflicts over lunar resources

Sometimes, space enthusiasts blind themselves with techno-optimism about all the potential cool technological things we can do and the benefits they can offer humanity. We conveniently ignore that there are trade-offs: If one group gets to utilize the water available on the lunar surface, that means another group doesn’t get to.

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