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What happens to a moon when its planet is stolen?

We have known for a while that the Milky Way is full of homeless worlds. Rogue planets, free-floating planets—call them what you like—but they are planets formed in orderly systems around ordinary stars and then thrown out, either by a gravitational shove from a sibling planet or by a star that strayed too close. What […]

August’s total solar eclipse will sweep over Spain, Iceland and Greenland

For the first time in more than a century, a total solar eclipse is coming to mainland Spain with an even longer encore next summer.

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Webb reveals warped structure in nearby TW Hydrae’s protoplanetary disk

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers obtained high-contrast coronagraphic images of the protoplanetary disk around the young, nearby star TW Hydrae. Results of the observational campaign, published July 27 on the preprint server arXiv, shed more light on the nature of this disk.

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DESI side project reveals the spectra of disintegrated exoplanets

Using spectral data from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI), astronomers have gained some of the clearest evidence yet that white dwarf stars are accreting debris from disintegrating exoplanets. Captured while DESI was unable to study its primary targets: distant galaxies, the results provide unprecedented insights into the chemical makeup of rocky exoplanets, revealing compositions […]

BWC shows Conn. officers pull 2 unconscious people from river in water rescue

“I commend the quick response and decisive actions of our officers … in providing immediate assistance during a critical and life-threatening situation,” said New London PD Chief Brian M. Wright

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Before his retirement walkout, this Staten Island NYPD veteran had one last arrest to make

“I did have to make an arrest yesterday off duty. Somebody broke into my neighbor’s house,” Lt. Joseph Bell told the crowd gathered to honor his retirement

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Electron cooling tames highly charged ions in Penning trap for first time

Researchers at Technical University of Darmstadt and the GSI Helmholtz Center for Heavy Ion Research have succeeded for the first time in decelerating highly charged ions from the GSI accelerator to low energies and subsequently storing them in a Penning trap. They were also successful in performing the first electron cooling of highly charged ions […]

Unusual metal oxide shows signs of magnetism under lattice strain in ultrathin layers

Ruthenium dioxide (RuO2) is a metal oxide that commonly serves as an important metallic conductor, quantum material and industrial electrocatalyst. While there have been debates surrounding the magnetic properties of RuO2, it is generally thought to be nonmagnetic in its bulk form. But now, a new study, published in Science Advances, has found that very […]

Mass. law sets aside state funding to cover medical, trauma care for retired K-9s

Dakota’s law creates the Retired Police and Military K9 Care Fund, shifting the financial burden of post-service veterinary care away from individual handlers and police departments

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Quantum computer completes verified task beyond practical reach of classical simulations

IBM and researchers from the University of Chicago announced a demonstration in quantum computing that meets the fundamental criteria for “quantum advantage”—the point where quantum computers can be confirmed to have outperformed classical computers on trusted computations.

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Police K-9 finds cellphone of man who sent explicit photos to 7-year-old girl

New Jersey police searched the suspect’s home and a K-9 trained in electronic detection located a cell phone which had allegedly been used to message the girl

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Solar wind stirs Mars’ upper atmosphere, boosting ion loss to space

Our sun constantly releases a stream of high-speed charged particles, known as the solar wind. Unlike Earth, Mars does not have a strong global magnetic field to shield its atmosphere from this flow. As a result, the solar wind can interact directly with Mars’ upper atmosphere and gradually strip atmospheric particles into space.

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