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Mo. deputies arrest 13-year-old suspected car thief

‘If people didn’t want their cars stolen, they should not leave them unlocked with the keys inside,” the young theft suspect reportedly told Clay County deputies

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Manslaughter charges dropped against Calif. cops in 2018 OIS

Torrance PD officers instructed Christopher De’Andre Mitchell to get out of a suspected stolen vehicle when he reached for what appeared to be a gun

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A student-led experiment sets new limits in the search for axions

In the era of precision cosmology, research often means big science: large observatories, highly complex instruments, international collaborations and substantial funding. Yet even in such an advanced field, progress is still possible—including in the search for elusive dark matter—through more agile approaches, driven by small teams and young researchers, supported by institutions and a good […]

New methods can help study the phenomenon of turbulence

In his doctoral thesis, Michael Roop develops numerical methods that allow finding physically reliable approximate solutions to nonlinear differential equations used to model turbulence.

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New open-source Python-based software boosts space-weather modeling

University of Birmingham experts have created open-source computer software that helps scientists understand how fast-moving particles behave when they interact with electromagnetic waves in space. Understanding how these particles behave in Earth’s radiation belts is crucial because high-energy electrons can damage satellites, while radiation belt dynamics affect space weather forecasts. Better models help protect astronauts, […]

Methane emerges from interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS as it exits the solar system

Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS is now on its way out of our solar system, never to return. The comet was only the third-ever detected object to originate from outside our solar system. Traveling at high speeds, it looped around the sun within 1.5 AU (one AU, or astronomical unit, is the distance between Earth and the […]

Webb’s Little Red Dots may reveal how giant black holes formed soon after the Big Bang

The launch of NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) in 2021 pushed the horizon of seeing the early universe, unveiling cosmic events just a few hundred million years after the Big Bang. Among the most striking discoveries are supermassive black holes—some reaching 100 million times the mass of our sun.

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Weighing in on the mystery of the gravitational constant

The time had come to open the envelope, but Stephan Schlamminger, a physicist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), wasn’t sure he wanted to know the secret number that lay inside. For the past 10 years, Schlamminger had spent most of his working hours trying to measure a single quantity, known as […]

Quantum bottleneck breaks wide open as one light beam carries 23 secure channels at the same time

A new Bar-Ilan University study points to a major advance in quantum information processing, demonstrating a way to send, manipulate, and measure quantum information across many frequency channels simultaneously, rather than one at a time. The study was recently published in the journal Science Advances.

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New laser method gives insight into radioactive atomic nuclei

By directing pulses of laser light at atoms, researchers can study how radioactive elements decay in a matter of seconds. The method is described in a new thesis from the University of Gothenburg, which shows that the atomic nuclei of the elements neptunium and fermium are shaped like rugby balls.

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Are aliens real? Scientists have been hunting for extraterrestrial life since the time of Aristotle

Do aliens exist? Could Earth really be the only planet hosting intelligent life?

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From sunsets to the night sky: How technology can help you to notice nature in new ways

On a chilly yet beautifully clear evening last November, I sat on a video call with colleagues and happened to mention the live feed from the International Space Station—a real-time broadcast from onboard cameras as the station orbits Earth.

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Automated AI system flags qubit drift and instability, speeding quantum calibration

NPL, the UK’s National Metrology Institute (NMI), plays a central role in providing accurate and trusted measurement across emerging technology. Within its Institute for Quantum Standards and Technology (IQST), the team is developing methods to characterize and calibrate quantum devices, particularly quantum computing.

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Confirming altermagnetism in an abundant mineral

Also known as magnetoelectronics, spintronics rely on electron spin rather than electron charge, as found in traditional electronics. Although spintronics is still an emerging field, spintronic technologies are already found in hard disk drives and giant magnetoresistance sensors used in industrial and automotive applications. Once the right foundational materials are discovered and verified, including economical […]

BWC: NYPD mounted unit officer, bystander nab purse-snatcher

As the officer and Kelly the horse galloped in pursuit, a bystander grabbed the fleeing suspect so the officer could make an arrest

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