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Apr 2, 2025 – What Is Hidden Deep Beneath Egypt’s Khafre Pyramid?

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BWC: Man, 79, threatens NYPD cop with gun outside precinct before fatal OIS

After being confronted with the gun, the officer called for backup and ordered the man several times to drop the gun; four officers opened fire after he did not comply

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BWC: Carjacking suspect struck, killed after ignoring cops’ instructions, fleeing onto highway

The video shows officers pursuing the woman through a brush and over a fence, instructing her to stop and to get on the ground before she tried to cross the highway

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‘Broken system’: Calif. PD chief says man who killed SWAT officer had multiple convictions

“In my professional opinion, the gentleman should never have been out of jail,” Marysville Police Chief Christian Sachs said. “And yet here we are”

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KiDS dataset doesn’t shake up cold dark matter model after all, say researchers

Data from 41 million galaxies does not shake up the standard cosmological model after all. To that conclusion, to their own surprise, comes an international team of researchers including Koen Kuijken, professor at the Leiden Observatory.

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Lunar polar regions could have microbes, modeling study suggests

Could microbes survive in the permanently shadowed regions (PSRs) of the moon? This is what a recent study presented at the 56th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (LPSC 2025) hopes to address as a team of researchers from the United States and Canada investigated the likelihood of long-term survival for microbes in the PSR areas of the moon, which are craters located at the poles that don’t see sunlight due to the moon’s small axial tilt.

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Sampling the plumes of Jupiter’s volcano moon, Io

What can a sample return mission from Jupiter’s volcanic moon, Io, teach scientists about planetary and satellite (moon) formation and evolution? This is what a recent study presented at the 56th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (LPSC 2025) hopes to address as an international team of more than two dozen scientists discussed the benefits and challenges of a mission to Io with the goal of sampling its volcanic plumes that eject from its surface on a regular basis.

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How can we find cryovolcanoes on Europa?

In the 1970s, NASA’s Voyager probes passed through Jupiter’s system and snapped pictures of its largest moons, also known as the Galilean moons. These pictures and the data they gathered offered the first hints that a global ocean may be beneath Europa’s icy crust. Moreover, planetary models indicated that Europa’s interactions with Jupiter’s powerful gravity could lead to tidal flexing in the moon’s interior. In short, scientists learned that Europa could have all the necessary ingredients for life in its interior.

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A dramatic Einstein ring seen by Webb

One of the first verified predictions of general relativity is the gravitational deflection of starlight. The effect was first observed in 1919 during a total solar eclipse. Since stars appear as points of light, the effect is seen as an apparent shift in the position of stars near the eclipse. But the effect happens more generally.

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Hidden side channels in quantum sources could compromise secure communication

A team of researchers from University of Toronto Engineering has discovered hidden multi-dimensional side channels in existing quantum communication protocols.

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Cop killer on S.C. death row chooses firing squad for execution

Mikal Mahdi was sentenced to death for the 2004 killing of Orangeburg Officer James Myers, whom he ambushed and shot at least eight times

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BWC: Pa. officers force entry into burning home, rescue woman unable to walk

“These two officers didn’t even think twice about going into that house and pulling that woman out,” Johnstown Deputy Chief Mark Britton said

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How to engineer microbes to enable us to live on Mars

A field known as synthetic biology has become one of the most highly anticipated in science. Its outputs range from golden rice, which is genetically engineered to provide vitamin A, to advances stemming from the Human Genome Project, which successfully mapped the entire human genome. Prominent voices in biotechnology have heralded it as the next wave of the future of innovation.

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A step towards life on Mars? Lichens survive Martian simulation in new study

For the first time, researchers have demonstrated that certain lichen species can survive Mars-like conditions, including exposure to ionizing radiation, while maintaining a metabolically active state.

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Fixing cracks in space bricks with bacteria

Researchers at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) have developed a bacteria-based technique to repair bricks that can be used to build lunar habitats if they get damaged in the moon’s harsh environment.

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