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Moons orbiting wandering exoplanets could be habitable—with one catch

Provided they host thick, hydrogen-dominated atmospheres, moons orbiting free-floating exoplanets could retain much of the heat generated deep within their interiors by tidal forces. Led by David Dahlbüdding at the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics and Giulia Roccetti at the European Space Agency, a new study predicts that hydrogen could act as a potent […]

Tunnels to Towers Foundation pays mortgage for family of fallen Conn. trooper

Trooper Aaron Pelletier was struck and killed while conducting a traffic stop on May 30, 2024; the Tunnels to Towers Foundation paid for the home of his wife and two sons

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BWC: Horse wandering in snowstorm gets ‘police escort’ to Mich. barn

Michigan State Police troopers and a U.S. Border Patrol agent guided the horse to a nearby barn, which turned out to be on the farm neighboring its home

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Physicists find electronic agents that govern flat band quantum materials

Physicists have directly visualized the fundamental electronic building blocks of flat-band quantum materials, a class of systems in which electron motion is effectively quenched and strong interactions give rise to emergent phases of matter. In a study published in Nature Physics, Qimiao Si’s group at Rice University, in collaboration with researchers at the Weizmann Institute […]

Nighttime sighting of a possible bigfoot by motorists just outside Smackover (Report 78093)

Class B; September 2024; Arkansas, Union County

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Opening a new window into superconductivity by reimagining a classic tool

For more than a century, condensed matter physics has grappled with one of its greatest unsolved challenges: how to build superconductors that operate at room temperature and transmit electricity with no loss. Now, in a paper published in Nature, a team of Harvard physicists has reported new insights into why one promising superconductor has yielded […]

Handcuffed suspect fatally shoots himself in back of patrol car, San Antonio PD says

San Antonio officers had placed the suspect in a patrol car following a pursuit when he accessed his own firearm and died at the scene

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Road crossing sightings of a bigfoot on different days 35 miles NW of Myrtle Beach (Report 79819)

Class A; January 2026; South Carolina, Florence County

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DOJ moves to dismiss charges against officers accused of falsifying warrant in Breonna Taylor raid

Prosecutors said their review of the case showed the charges against former Detective Joshua Jaynes and former Sgt. Kyle Meany should be “dismissed in the interest of justice”

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A self-sufficient Mars garden? How cyanobacteria-based fertilizer could grow edible biomass

A research team from the Center for Applied Space Technology and Microgravity (ZARM), the Department of Environmental Process Engineering (UVT) at the University of Bremen and the German Aerospace Center (DLR) has made significant progress toward a self-sufficient Mars mission: a fertilizer, which can be produced solely with Martian resources, has been successfully used to […]

ShadowCam search casts doubt on abundant lunar ice

New observations by a team of US astronomers have cast fresh doubt on whether the lunar surface could host abundant water ice. Publishing their results in Science Advances, a team led by Shuai Li at the University of Hawaii at Manoa has shown that relatively pure ice (making up more than about 20–30% of the […]

What ‘Project Hail Mary’ gets right—and wrong—about astrophysics

“Project Hail Mary,” the Ryan Gosling-led adaptation of the best-selling sci-fi novel from Andy Weir, is being praised for putting the science in science fiction. Although aliens, sun-draining microorganisms and galaxy-spanning spaceflight are all a part of the story of a scientist sent on a suicide mission to save Earth, the film and its source […]

Compact terahertz imaging system brings real-time, non-invasive clinical diagnostics closer

Scientists at the University of Warwick and University of Exeter have developed a fully fiber-coupled terahertz (THz) imaging system that significantly improves the speed, resolution, and clinical practicality of terahertz imaging. The study, published in Nature Communications, demonstrates a high-throughput, compact platform that overcomes key barriers limiting current THz systems—bringing real-time, non-invasive tissue imaging closer […]

Late night sighting of a sasquatch on Fort Stewart Army Base (Report 79000)

Class A; June 2025; Georgia, Bryan County

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Possible Sasquatch vocals at Fraser Lake, 80 miles west of Prince George (Report 79929)

Class B; May 2025; British Columbia

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