Ohio law establishes 15-foot buffer zone around law enforcement

House Bill 20 forbids people from remaining within a 15-foot zone around officers after receiving a warning or if their presence interferes with police actions Go to Source

Newborn stars preserve organic-rich gas within ancient supernova debris

For the first time, astronomers have discovered stellar cocoons rich in complex organic molecules within a supernova remnant. A research team from Niigata University, Gifu University, RIKEN and Kyoto University in Japan used the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter...

N.J. sheriff’s office sergeant charged in heat deaths of 2 K-9s

Salem County Sheriff’s Office K-9 Rip and K-9 Boomer were left in a cruiser unattended for about seven hours with the heat alarm system turned off Go to Source

Using mechanical vibrations instead of magnetic memory for quantum computing

Quantum computers still face limits when it comes to storing information. Researchers at ETH Zurich are now turning to mechanical vibrations rather than electromagnetic memory. Their new vibrating memory can store significantly more information in a smaller volume....

‘Check your ingredients’: A new blueprint for using Fermi’s ‘Golden Rule’

Underpinning much of modern technology, from smartphones to scanning tunneling microscopes to particle colliders, is Fermi’s Golden Rule. Named for 20th-century Italian American physicist Enrico Fermi (but actually discovered by British physicist Paul Dirac),...