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Half-naked man steals ambulance while medics were responding to fatal stabbing

Downey Police Department officers pursued the ambulance and took the suspect into custody

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ICE recruitment ad targets Chicago Police officers

“Attention Chicago [LE],” the commercial said. “You took an oath to [keep] your city safe. But in sanctuary cities, you’re ordered to stand down. Join ICE, and help us catch the worst of the worst”

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Report: In-flight fire led to Fla. sheriff’s office helicopter crash that killed 2

The fiery helicopter fell out of the sky on Aug. 28, 2023, killing Battalion Chief Terryson Jackson, 50, and Lurean Wheaton, 65

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Calif. bans law enforcement officers from wearing masks on duty

The law bans officers, including immigration agents, from wearing ski masks, neck gaiters or other facial coverings, with exceptions for undercover or medical purposes

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Itá Letra: the ancient indecipherable petroglyphs of South America

Located deep within the depths of the Ybytyruzú mountain range, in Paraguay, stands the imposing enigma of Itá Letra (‘Piedra con Letra’), a place that is home to a set of indescribable petroglyphs, which for a long time were presumed to have been Viking in nature. The enigmatic set of petroglyphs date back to […]

Webb discovers ‘The Cliff’ object that could solve red dot mystery

A new class of supermassive black holes embedded in a thick gas shell could explain small red dots in images from the James Webb Space Telescope.

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Make like a spacecraft and fly through Gaia’s 3D map of stellar nurseries

When the ESA launched the Gaia spacecraft in 2013, it didn’t generate the same fanfare as the launch of other missions like the JWST, or first light from telescopes like the Vera Rubin Observatory. That’s largely because Gaia doesn’t capture gorgeous images of celestial objects like other telescopes. Instead, Gaia was an astrometry mission.

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Hybridization of interlayer excitons in bilayer semiconductor hints at many-body state

Excitons, bound states between an electron (i.e., a negatively charged particle) and a hole (i.e., the absence of an electron) in materials, are a key focus of condensed matter physics studies. These bound states can give rise to interesting and uncommon quantum physical effects, which could be leveraged to develop optoelectronic and quantum technologies.

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Vikings influenced by Islam: Experts find Arabic script invoking ‘Allah’ on 10th century Norse clothing

Researchers have discovered similar Kufic characters in Central Asian tomb mosaic dating back to the same period of history. Kufic, which is the oldest form of Arabic calligraphic script dates back to the seventh century.

Scientists concluded that this could be an important piece of evidence that the ancient Vikings of the ninth […]

Allegedly intoxicated Canadian man arrested while driving Barbie Jeep to get a Slurpee

The man said he was going to walk to a gas station, but got “lazy” and decided to borrow his roommate’s daughter’s toy car instead

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Waves of fake threats to colleges put students on edge, test 911 dispatchers

Purgatory, a group affiliated with The Com, which is a loose network of online threat actors, has been linked to some of the recent swats

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New NASA mission to reveal Earth’s invisible ‘halo’

A new NASA mission will capture images of Earth’s invisible “halo,” the faint light given off by our planet’s outermost atmospheric layer, the exosphere, as it morphs and changes in response to the sun. Understanding the physics of the exosphere is a key step toward forecasting dangerous conditions in near-Earth space, a requirement for protecting […]

Themis stands on the launch pad, fully assembled

The first model of the European Space Agency’s (ESA) reusable rocket demonstrator Themis is standing at its launch pad in Kiruna, Sweden.

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Scientists reveal process of gas accretion in massive star formation

Researchers from the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory (SHAO) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences have revealed for the first time how gas flows from vast distances toward the disk surrounding a nascent massive star in the process of star formation.

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Neutron detector mobilizes muons for nuclear, quantum material

In a collaboration showing the power of innovation and teamwork, physicists and engineers at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory developed a mobile muon detector that promises to enhance monitoring for spent nuclear fuel and help address a critical challenge for quantum computing.

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