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Artemis II’s moonbound astronauts capture Earth’s brilliant blue beauty as they leave it behind

The Artemis II astronauts have captured our blue planet’s brilliant beauty as they zoom ever closer to the moon.

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‘I didn’t want to see him go’: Ohio police officer donates kidney to state trooper

Fourteen first responders tested to see if they matched to donate to OSHP Commander Matt Geer; Rossford Police Officer Michael Shaffer was a near-perfect match

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The depths of Neptune and Uranus may be ‘superionic’

The interiors of ice giant planets like Uranus and Neptune could be home to a previously unknown state of matter, according to new computational simulations by Carnegie’s Cong Liu and Ronald Cohen. Their work, published in Nature Communications, predicts that a quasi-one-dimensional superionic state of carbon hydride exists under the extreme pressures and temperatures found […]

The Habitable Worlds Observatory will need astrometry to find life

We’re getting closer and closer to finding a real Earth-like exoplanet. But finding one is only half the battle. To truly know if we’re looking at an Earth analog somewhere else in the galaxy, we have to directly image it too. That’s a job for the Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO), a planned space-based telescope whose […]

A tiny detector for microwave photons could advance quantum tech

Detecting a single particle of light is hard; detecting a single microwave photon is even harder. Microwave photons, the tiny packets of electromagnetic radiation used in current technologies like Wi-Fi and radar, carry far less energy than visible light. They are about 100,000 times weaker than optical photons.

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3 Mass. state troopers plead not guilty in death of recruit during defensive tactics training

Enrique Delgado-Garcia, 25, died at a hospital a day after undergoing a medical crisis and becoming unresponsive during an allegedly “unapproved and unsafe” boxing match

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Woman who exposed Denver cop’s address over livestream convicted under Colo. anti-doxing law

Regan Benson was convicted following an incident where she read a Denver Police commander’s address during a livestream and suggested having a “pig roast” at his home

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Man convicted of killing Chicago officer sentenced to 55 years

Officer Aréanah Preston was shot and killed by a member of a group committing a string of robberies in order to get money for a barbecue

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The most pristine star yet found in the known universe

An unusual team of astronomers used Sloan Digital Sky Survey-V (SDSS-V) data and observations on the Magellan telescopes at Carnegie Science’s Las Campanas Observatory in Chile to discover the most pristine star in the known universe, called SDSS J0715-7334. Their work is published in Nature Astronomy.

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Artemis II’s moon-bound astronauts capture Earth’s brilliant blue beauty as they leave it behind

The Artemis II astronauts have captured our blue planet’s brilliant beauty as they zoom ever closer to the moon.

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Earth from space: Eyes on our moon

In an unusual perspective for an Earth-observing satellite, the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission captured this image of the moon, Earth’s only natural satellite. The Sentinel-2 mission acquired this lunar image by rolling one of its satellites sideways to view the moon instead of Earth. This is part of a regular calibration process, whereby the stable intensity […]

Webb eyes a pair of planet-forming disks

This month’s NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope Picture of the Month offers us a two-for-one on brand new stars—with some potential planets thrown in as well. This visual highlights Webb’s views of the protoplanetary disks Tau 042021 (left) and Oph 163131 (right), otherwise known by the catalog numbers 2MASS J04202144+2813491 and 2MASS J16313124-2426281, respectively. Tau […]

Small quantum system outperforms large classical networks in real-world forecasting

Can a handful of atoms outperform a much larger digital neural network on a real-world task? The answer may be yes. In a study published in Physical Review Letters, a team led by Prof. Peng Xinhua and Assoc. Prof. Li Zhaokai from the University of Science and Technology of China of the Chinese Academy of […]

The secrets of black holes and the Higgs mass could be hidden in a 7-dimensional geometry

One of the greatest mysteries of modern physics, the “black hole information paradox,” might have finally found an elegant solution, and the answer could also reveal the origins of the mass of fundamental particles.

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Quantum coherence could be preserved at large scales in realistic environments

Quantum states are notoriously fragile, and can be destroyed simply through interactions, measurements, and exposure to their surrounding environments. In a new theoretical study published in Physical Review X, Rohan Mittal and colleagues at the University of Cologne have discovered a new way to protect quantum behavior on large scales within systems driven far from […]