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Vera C. Rubin Observatory spots record-breaking asteroid in pre-survey observations

Astronomers analyzing data from Vera C. Rubin Observatory have discovered the fastest-ever spinning asteroid with a diameter over half a kilometer—a feat uniquely enabled by Rubin. The study provides crucial information about asteroid composition and evolution, and demonstrates how Rubin is pushing the boundaries of what we can discover within our own solar system.

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Sandblasting on Mars: Camera reveals how prevailing winds shape elongated landforms in volcanic zone

Martian winds can have quite an impact. ESA’s Mars Express has spotted them whipping up sand grains and acting as a cosmic sandblaster, carving out intriguing grooves near Mars’s equator.

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THz spectroscopy system bypasses long-standing tradeoff between spectral and spatial resolution

Terahertz (THz) radiation, which occupies the frequency band between microwaves and infrared light, is essential in many next-generation applications, including high-speed wireless communications, chemical sensing, and advanced material analysis.

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Optics research uses dim light to produce bright LEDs

Researchers at Princeton and North Carolina State University have developed a technique that substantially improves the ability to convert low-energy light into a high-energy version. The method has immediate applications in lighting and displays.

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Synchronizing ultrashort X-ray pulses for attosecond precision

Scientists at the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI have, for the first time, demonstrated a technique that synchronizes ultrashort X-ray pulses at the X-ray free-electron laser SwissFEL. This achievement opens new possibilities for observing ultrafast atomic and molecular processes with attosecond precision.

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New evidence for a particle system that ‘remembers’ its previous quantum states

In the future, quantum computers are anticipated to solve problems once thought unsolvable, from predicting the course of chemical reactions to producing highly reliable weather forecasts. For now, however, they remain extremely sensitive to environmental disturbances and prone to information loss.

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Making the invisible visible: Space particles become observable through handheld invention

You can’t see, feel, hear, taste or smell them, but tiny particles from space are constantly raining down on us.

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7 Secrets Of Ancient Egypt You Probably Didn’t Know

The vast majority of us learned about ancient Egypt in elementary and high school, and it’s likely that we all have the same basic set of references and images that come to mind when someone mentions the subject. Those are likely to be:

Pyramids The Great Sphinx King Tut Cleopatra

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Jan 7, 2025 – Are Advanced UFOs and Non-Human Intelligences Based Beneath Earth’s Oceans?

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Mass. officer struck, killed by vehicle while helping motorist

Uxbridge Police Department Officer Stephen Laporta was fatally struck while helping a driver in a broken-down vehicle

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Driver fatally shot after trying to ram ICE officers in Minneapolis, DHS says

Federal authorities say the woman tried to strike officers with her vehicle during a DHS immigration sweep targeting suspected fraud

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DHS plans 2,000-officer deployment in Minnesota, ‘largest immigration operation ever’

Sources told the AP that HSI agents were going door-to-door investigating allegations of fraud, human smuggling and unlawful employment practices

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Conn. PD chief resigns after being accused of stealing from fund used to pay confidential informants

New Haven Mayor Justin Elicker stated that three assistant police chiefs confronted Chief Karl Jacobson, at which point he admitted to stealing the money for personal use

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Stars that die off the beaten path

Astronomers have created a detailed forecast of where they expect to observe future stellar explosions in a nearby galaxy, opening a new window into how exploding stars shape the cosmos. Focusing on M33, a spiral galaxy about 2.7 million light‑years away, this research combined new maps of cold atomic hydrogen gas from the U.S. National […]

Four baby planets show how super-Earths and sub-Neptunes form

Thanks to the discovery of thousands of exoplanets to date, we know that planets bigger than Earth but smaller than Neptune orbit most stars. Oddly, our sun lacks such a planet. That’s been a source of frustration for planetary scientists, who can’t study them in as much detail as they’d like, leaving one big question: […]