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Webb reveals Apep’s four ‘spiraling’ dust shells shaped by Wolf-Rayet stars

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has delivered a first of its kind: a crisp mid-infrared image of a system of four serpentine spirals of dust, one expanding beyond the next in precisely the same pattern. (The fourth is almost transparent, at the edges of Webb’s image.)

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Key driver of extreme winds on Venus identified

Imagine the catastrophic winds of a category 5 hurricane. Now, imagine even faster winds of more than 100 meters per second, encircling the planet and whipping clouds across the sky, with no end in sight. This scenario would be astonishing on Earth, but it’s business as usual on Venus, where the atmosphere at cloud level […]

Lost signal: How solar activity silenced Earth’s radiation

Researchers from HSE University and the Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences analyzed seven years of data from the ERG (Arase) satellite and, for the first time, provided a detailed description of a new type of radio emission from near-Earth space—the hectometric continuum, first discovered in 2017.

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Could a kid have painted that? Jackson Pollock’s famous pour-painting has child-like characteristics, study shows

What makes art art? Is it the method or the creator? Does it need a color palette and oil paints, or a canvas laid flat on the floor and paint splattered across it? Does it require a critically acclaimed painter, or a toddler with crayons? And when it comes to the artist, can we even […]

Scientist captures tiny particles for clues on what sparks lightning

Using lasers as tweezers to understand cloud electrification might sound like science fiction, but at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA) it is a reality. By trapping and charging micron-sized particles with lasers, researchers can now observe their charging and discharging dynamics over time.

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Physicists demonstrate the constancy of the speed of light with unprecedented accuracy

In 1887, one of the most important experiments in the history of physics took place. American scientists Michelson and Morley failed to measure the speed of Earth by comparing the speed of light in the direction of Earth’s motion with that perpendicular to it. That arguably most important zero measurement in the history of science […]

When superfluids collide, physicists find a mix of old and new behavior

Physics is often about recognizing patterns, sometimes repeated across vastly different scales. For instance, moons orbit planets in the same way planets orbit stars, which in turn orbit the center of a galaxy.

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Surface-only superconductor is the strangest of its kind

Something strange goes on inside the material platinum-bismuth-two (PtBi₂). A new study by researchers at IFW Dresden and the Cluster of Excellence ct.qmat demonstrates that while PtBi₂ may look like a typical shiny gray crystal, electrons moving through it do some things never seen before.

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12 Of The Most Powerful Ancient Gods Of Mesopotamia

Sumer, known as the “land of the kings”, was founded in southern Mesopotamia (modern day Iraq) between 4500 and 4000 BCE. It became one of the first civilizations ever established in history, where its people drained the marshes for agriculture, developed trade, and established industries such as weaving, metallurgy, and pottery.

Each city was […]

Federal judge ends NOPD consent decree after 12 years

“Everyone in this room should be rightly proud about what NOPD accomplished here,” U.S. District Judge Susie Morgan said while announcing the end of the decree

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Murder charge dropped as man pleads guilty to hitting, killing Ind. trooper with vehicle

Eddie Pernell Jones pleaded guilty to resisting law enforcement causing death and other charges in the 2023 death of Trooper Aaron Smith as he was deploying spike strips

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BWC: 3 Colo. officers shot in separate ambushes during search for rifle-wielding suspect before fatal OIS

One Pueblo officer was shot in the head through his cruiser windshield as he arrived at the scene; two others were shot as they searched for the suspect through a darkened neighborhood

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Wife of trucker reports his daylight sighting in Green Valley — 20 miles NW of Tyler (Report 79470)

Class B; November 2025; Texas, Smith County

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NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch will continue to lead department under new mayoral administration

“You can trust that I will be a fierce advocate for you and for this department,” Tisch said in an email to NYPD officers

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Texas college students’ lead in 1991 cold case murder leads to arrest

A group of students enrolled in a criminology class launched at the University of Texas at Arlington raised questions about a suspect that led to her arrest

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