Random deformation lets glassy materials store precise mechanical memories, simulations reveal

Amorphous materials such as glass are solids whose internal structure lacks a repeating pattern. Their molecules are arranged in a random and irregular way. Surprisingly, these disordered materials can “remember” past mechanical experiences; that is, the...

Asteroid or comet? Meteor or meteorite? How to identify and classify the rocks you see streaking through the sky

Have you ever been out at night and seen a streak of light blast across the sky and disappear? Ever wonder where that shooting star came from, or how it got to be in your sky? Go to Source

BWC: Wash. man approaches neighbor with knife before OIS

Vancouver Police officers fired shots at the man after he ignored instructions to drop the knives he was holding Go to Source

Third time’s the charm for a row of faint galaxies without dark matter

A Yale-led team of astronomers has found a third galaxy devoid of dark matter—located alongside the other two in a formation that has never been seen before. Astronomers have followed a faint, cosmic trail of gas to a third galaxy that has no dark matter. Go to...

High degree of quantum entanglement detected for first time in centimeter-sized crystal of strange metal

Many quantum effects can be observed only when a small number of particles is studied—individual atoms, molecules or photons, for example, carefully shielded from the rest of the world. But what about macroscopic objects, consisting of an unimaginably large number of...