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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14-year-old steals Tenn. fire truck, strikes patrol car during police pursuit

The teen struck multiple vehicles before officers used spike strips to disable the stolen Nashville Fire Department brush truck

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Bipartisan ‘Flock-Off Act’ would block federal funding for ALPR systems

The bill would require federally funded cameras to be removed or shut down within 180 days, with exceptions for border security and toll collection

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Rescue satellite gets close to NASA’s doomed telescope, even if it can’t save it

A private spacecraft that was supposed to supply a lifeline to NASA’s Swift Observatory managed to get close to the sinking telescope and even snap photos more than a week after the rescue was abandoned.

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Knife-wielding man fatally shot after charging NYPD officers on Brooklyn Bridge

Emergency Services Unit officers responded after the man was reported climbing the bridge’s cables

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Ex-Mo. officer gets 15 days in jail in K-9’s death

K-9 Apollo weighed 41.6 pounds when he died, while a second retired police K-9 was found in poor condition at the former Dexter Police Department officer’s home

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Soft nanoscale confinement prevents ice, exposing water’s liquid-to-glass transition

An international collaboration of researchers has used ANSTO’s facilities to uncover new properties of one of the most fundamental everyday materials, water, and answer an important scientific question. The findings, published in Nature Communications, have practical implications for understanding water at very low temperatures. The findings are relevant to cryopreservation of biological materials, food-freezing technologies […]

‘First amendment auditor’ convicted of trespassing at Conn. officer’s home

The trial has centered on whether the YouTube creator had the right to walk up and knock on former state police sergeant Bryan Fahey’s door

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Ex-Ohio officer enters plea deal in 2022 fatal OIS

Former Columbus officer Ricky Anderson entered an Alford plea to the charge of reckless homicide in the shooting death of Donovan Lewis

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Hot subdwarfs come into focus as AI scans thousands of stars in Gaia data

There are myriad ways of “being a star,” and scientists spend years trying to uncover and understand them. One unusual type is the so-called hot subdwarf—small stars that burn mysteriously hot for their size. Scientists from the Faculty of Physics and the Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics at Vilnius University (VU) are working to explain […]

Perseverance rover watches Earth vanish behind Martian moon

Earth and the Martian moon Phobos dance together in a series of images recently acquired by NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover. Earth appears as a point of light in the Martian sky, disappearing behind the crescent of Phobos, the larger of Mars’ two moons.

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Photo: NASA’s Hubble spies superbubble scene

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features a sprawling cosmic vista in the Large Magellanic Cloud, or LMC, the largest of the small galaxies that orbit our Milky Way galaxy. At just 160,000 light-years away, the LMC offers a close look at highly active star-forming sites like the one in this image. This photogenic nebula, […]

Newly discovered 1666 manuscript may trace four-lens telescope experiments to Galileo

A potentially history-altering finding by a University of Limerick researcher may provide the most detailed technical analysis of a telescope demonstrably made by the famous astronomer and scientist Galileo Galilei.

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Why doesn’t Venus have a moon? A new study may have the answer

Venus is one of the solar system’s most unusual planets. It may sometimes be called “Earth’s twin” because of its similar size and density, but it rotates on its axis in the opposite direction of most planets, has surface temperatures hot enough to melt lead and lacks a moon.

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BESIII sets world’s most stringent direct limit on Lambda hyperon electric dipole moment

The BESIII Collaboration, led by the Institute of High Energy Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, has achieved the world’s most precise measurement of the electric dipole moment (EDM) of the Lambda (Λ) hyperon using quantum-entangled Λ–anti-Λ pairs produced in J/ψ decays. The result improves the experimental sensitivity by about three orders of magnitude […]