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Optoelectronics research could bring holograms to your smartphone and closer to everyday use

New research from the University of St Andrews paves the way for holographic technology, with the potential to transform smart devices, communication, gaming and entertainment.

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Toward new physics: First-ever double crystal channeling observed

Might two bent crystals pave the way to finding new physics? The Standard Model of particle physics describes our world at its smallest scales exceptionally well. However, it leaves some important questions unanswered, such as the imbalance between matter and antimatter, the existence of dark matter and other mysteries.

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Bon voyage: General Atomics set to ship final piece of giant battery to nuclear fusion project in France

The final section of what scientists and engineers say will be the largest and most powerful pulsed, superconducting magnet in the world has been completed at the Poway campus of San Diego-based General Atomics.

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Video: Theft suspect tells Colo. officers he’ll surrender after finishing cigarette

Following a chaotic pursuit, the Aurora officers deployed pepper balls into the suspect vehicle to coax the man out

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‘Human life was paramount’: New Orleans officers recall Katrina response 20 years later

Twenty years after the devestating storm, law enforcement leaders recall the chaos, compassion and courage that defined their response

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Is there life on Saturn’s moon? Where there’s water, there’s a chance

At first glance, Saturn’s moon Enceladus seems rather unremarkable: it is much smaller than the Earth’s moon and is far away and completely covered in ice.

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International collaboration doubles detection of cosmic collisions

An international team of researchers has announced a significant advancement in gravitational-wave astronomy, with the detection of 128 new cosmic collisions involving black holes and neutron stars.

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Unusual CO₂-rich disk detected around young star challenges planet formation models

A study led by Jenny Frediani at Stockholm University has revealed a planet-forming disk with a strikingly unusual chemical composition: an unexpectedly high abundance of carbon dioxide (CO2) in regions where Earth-like planets may one day form.

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Earth-size stars and alien oceans: An astronomer explains the case for life around white dwarfs

The sun will someday die. This will happen when it runs out of hydrogen fuel in its core and can no longer produce energy through nuclear fusion as it does now. The death of the sun is often thought of as the end of the solar system. But in reality, it may be the beginning […]

Sun dogs, rainbows and glories are celestial wonders, and they may appear in alien skies too

Every once in a while, you may look up toward the sun and see strange bright lights on either side of it. Or perhaps you’ll be sitting in an aircraft, looking out the window at its shadow, and see a circle of light, like a halo below (known as glories). Or, if you’re really adventurous, […]

Antiferromagnets outperform ferromagnets in ultrafast, energy-efficient memory operations

Advances in spintronics have led to the practical use of magnetoresistive random-access memory (MRAM), a non-volatile memory technology that supports energy-efficient semiconductor integrated circuits.

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Probability theorem gets quantum makeover after 250 years

How likely you think something is to happen depends on what you already believe about the circumstances. That is the simple concept behind Bayes’ rule, an approach to calculating probabilities, first proposed in 1763. Now, an international team of researchers has shown how Bayes’ rule operates in the quantum world.

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Uncovering the mysteries of high-temperature cuprate superconductors

In their quest to explore and characterize high-temperature superconductors, physicists have mostly focused on a material that is not the absolute highest. That’s because that crystal is much easier to split into uniform, easily measurable samples. But in 2024, researchers found a way to grow good crystals that are very similar to the highest temperature […]

MARATHON experiment offers most precise measurement of nucleon structure yet

Nucleons, which include protons and neutrons, are the composite particles that make up atomic nuclei. While these particles have been widely studied in the past, their internal structure has not yet been fully elucidated.

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Minneapolis school shooter hated many groups and admired mass killers

FBI Director Kash Patel said the attack was motivated by hate, citing the shooter’s statements against multiple religions and calls for violence against President Donald Trump

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