FAST finds two mysterious hydrogen clouds with no visible stars

Astronomers have found two clouds of hydrogen near the Whirlpool galaxy that appear to contain almost no stars. The clouds, discovered with China’s FAST radio telescope, each contain roughly 3 million times the mass of the sun in hydrogen but have no detectable optical counterpart. Their properties are outlined in a new paper published in […]

A black hole as light as 40 tons can exist inside a star if dark matter helps

In 1974, Stephen Hawking made a prediction that transformed our understanding of black holes. Black holes, he showed, are not truly black: They slowly lose energy through a quantum process now known as Hawking radiation. The lighter the black hole, the faster it evaporates.

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NYPD honors fallen Emergency Service Unit members at Memorial Wall rededication

Commissioner Jessica Tisch noted that more than half of the 23 NYPD officers killed in the World Trade Center attack were with the ESU, calling the unit “the tip of the NYPD’s spear” on Sept. 11

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Law enforcement from across Md. meet Baltimore youth on the basketball court

“We have to find other ways to connect with our young people, and this is a perfect example,” Baltimore Police Commissioner Richard Worley said

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Spacecraft bound for Mercury begins ‘tricky’ arrival

After an eight-year journey, a spacecraft carrying European and Japanese probes began the monthslong, high-risk approach to Mercury on Thursday to study the sun-scorched planet.

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Levitated magnet opens new frontier in search for ultraheavy dark matter

Rice University researchers have used a magnetically levitated particle to search for ultraheavy dark matter, extending the hunt for some of the heaviest possible forms of the invisible matter thought to hold galaxies together. Led by Christopher Tunnell, associate professor of physics and astronomy, the researchers used a tiny floating magnet as a highly sensitive […]

A new type of LED light could bring significant efficiency gains

Researchers at Lund University have developed a new type of light-emitting diode based on thin, branched nanowires that could offer significantly higher efficiency and lower production costs than current technology. By controlling where in the structure the light is generated, the researchers have reduced the losses that would otherwise limit the amount of light that […]

Magic-angle graphene provides evidence for unconventional superconductivity

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Researchers have completely suppressed superconductivity in magic-angle graphene by screening interactions between electrons, helping resolve a long-running debate about the origin of the phenomenon.

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How Mercury formed its graphite crust and core

As the BepiColombo mission prepares to enter the final phase of its journey to Mercury, a series of studies conducted by researchers at the University of Liège and KU Leuven sheds new light on the early stages of the evolution of the planet closest to the sun. Using experimental petrology, the researchers are reconstructing in […]

Embedded platinum channels bring nanoscale spin-based thermoelectric conversion to bulk materials

A joint research team from NIMS and the University of Tokyo has developed a new composite in which three-dimensional nano-interfaces are distributed throughout the material by coating the surfaces of magnetic-insulator powders with a metal and sintering them. Using this structure, the team succeeded in observing thermoelectric conversion driven by spins in an insulator, a […]

Particle shape and size predict asteroid strength, revealing Bennu’s surface is 50 times weaker than ground coffee

In a new Nature Communications study, researchers developed a universal scaling framework for the strength of granular asteroids, showing that their tensile strength can be predicted from the size and shape of their constituent particles.

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Turbulent times for star formation in Stephan’s Quintet

Star formation in galaxies is closely linked to molecular gas. In the distant past, when galaxy interactions were more common, these encounters compressed molecular gas, causing dense clouds to collapse under their own gravity and form new stars.

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Betelgeuse’s atmosphere is becoming spotty and asymmetric—and a nearby companion could be shaping the pattern

For the first time since its dramatic dimming in 2020, a team of astronomers has observed the inner atmosphere of Betelgeuse using the Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA). Led by Bill Dent at the University of Manchester, the team found that the giant star’s inner atmosphere has become increasingly uneven and asymmetric, in a way […]

Ultrafast electrons and lasers reveal unexpectedly strong radiation signals in common semiconductors

Detecting radiation is key to technologies ranging from particle accelerators and scientific instruments to medical imaging and security screening. But current detectors must often make trade-offs, providing signals that are strong but slow or fast but weak. The trade-off between signal strength and speed can limit precision detection.

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Man shows up at N.M. sheriff’s office with truck full of dismantled ALPR cameras

The suspect told deputies he was returning the devices following the cancellation of Flock contracts, but Bernalillo County Sheriff John Allen said ending a contract was “not permission to take property”

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