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Flipped quantum interference unlocks clearer gluon maps from near-miss nuclear encounters

Scientists studying particle collisions at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) usually capture what happens when atomic nuclei smash into one another at nearly the speed of light. But even when the nuclei don’t collide, interesting things can happen. In a new paper just published in Physical Review Letters, members of RHIC’s STAR collaboration describe […]

BWC: Woman approaches Ill. officers with knife before fatal OIS

Mundelein PD officers responded to reports of a woman in mental health crisis; as they attempted to remove the woman’s mother from the home, the woman approached with a knife

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Former Fla. sergeant who grabbed officer by neck enters Veterans Court program

Video showed the sergeant threatening a suspect before a female officer pulled the sergeant away; he was then seen turning around, grabbing her by the throat and pushing her into another cruiser

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Mars mission simulations reveal key to teamwork under pressure

Whether it’s to the moon or Mars, a NASA mission requires some essential preparations: designing and developing the spacecraft, astronaut training and safety checks, clear goals, and strategies and procedures for maintaining communication between crews on Earth and in space.

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Supernova origins explored through primordial black holes

Dr. Shing-Chi Leung, assistant professor of physics at SUNY Polytechnic Institute, has published the article “Primordial Black Hole Triggered Type Ia Supernovae II: Comparison with Supernova Remnants and Galactic Chemical Evolution” in The Astrophysical Journal. The paper was co-authored by SUNY Poly student Seth Walther, a senior majoring in electrical and computer engineering and applied […]

Superconducting TES array X-ray spectrometer goes into operation at BESSY II

Europe’s first and only TES spectrometer at a synchrotron source is now in operation at BESSY II, developed within a collaboration between the HZB, the MPI-CEC (Mühlheim-an-der-Ruhr, Germany) and the NIST (Boulder, Colorado, U.S.). The photon detection efficiency of the new instrument exceeds that of wavelength-dispersive X-ray emission spectrometers by a factor of 100 to […]

LOFAR reveals spike-like repeating radio burst pairs in the solar corona

The solar atmosphere is a turbulent and magnetized environment, with the release of magnetic energy readily manifesting as emission across the electromagnetic spectrum. Solar radio emission dominates the radio sky, with the brightest solar radio bursts generated via the plasma emission process. The emission has a complex frequency-time structure with many features that are yet […]

Dozens of active dust devils caught swirling across Mars canyon system

The European Space Agency’s Mars Express has captured part of Mars’s Mamers Valles, a fascinating valley system speckled with brief, tornado-like whirlwinds known as dust devils.

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‘High-res’ is the secret to finding alien life with the next great space telescope

We’re still in the definition phase of the Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO), but it seems like every week a new research group comes out with a paper helping to shape what is becoming one of the most important space telescopes of the 2040s. A new paper posted to the arXiv preprint server from a team […]

Groundbreaking US astronaut Christina Koch wins top Spanish award

US astronaut Christina Koch, the first woman to take part in a lunar mission, was named Wednesday the winner of a top Spanish prize for having “helped extend the frontiers of humanity.”

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Reversible chirality switching in MoS₂ generates spin currents without magnets

A newly developed method allows researchers to dynamically switch chirality—a particular lack of mirror symmetry—to generate spin currents in semiconductors, researchers from Science Tokyo report. Their approach relies on the reversible insertion and removal of small chiral molecules from the interlayer gaps of a layered, nonchiral semiconductor material using electrochemistry.

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N.Y. bill would require 3-D printers to be sold with tech to prevent them from printing guns

The new requirement, also under consideration in California, attempts to thwart the production of untraceable “ghost guns” that have turned up in crime

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BWC: Man shoots at Ohio deputy during traffic stop, flees in vehicle before continuing to shoot at cops

As officers pursued a man who shot at a Harrison County deputy, the suspect shot at officers again before fleeing into woods; he was later found and fatally shot when he refused to drop his gun

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Video: Suspect pins Nev. trooper to firetruck before OIS

The Nevada Highway Patrol trooper fired shots at the suspect as he turned away from a lane of traffic to pin a trooper to a firetruck; a passenger in the vehicle was fatally struck

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Payload electronics and flight software being developed for NASA’s Landsat 10 spacecraft

Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) is developing electronics and flight software for the NASA/U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Landsat 10 satellite, which is set to launch in 2031 to collect new and improved Earth observation data. The mission continues NASA’s and USGS’s partnership on the ongoing Landsat program, which has launched nine satellites since 1972 and provided […]