Roaming black holes may tell the hidden history of galaxies

If you want to understand the origins of black holes, Yale astronomers say, you need to look beyond the centers of galaxies and start searching in the nooks and crannies. That’s where you’ll find the “wanderers”—black holes whose journeys may tell the story of how the first black holes formed.

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SKA may detect magnetic fields on distant exoplanets

Studying exoplanets has given astronomers insights into the characteristics that could help them find life beyond Earth. For years, astronomers thought an exoplanet’s location in a star’s habitable zone was enough to make it an Earth-like world. But some stars are more active than our sun, exposing planets in their habitable zones to far more […]

Former Wash. deputy awarded $30M in suit over firearms training incident that caused him to lose his leg

A three-point sling on the AR-15 that the deputy was using to drill a support-side shoulder transition became caught on his ear muffs, causing him to lose control of the rifle, the suit claimed

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LAPD to pilot ALPR camera program amid equipment contract negotiations

The L.A. Board of Police Commissioners approved a three-month pilot program with Axon Enterprise that will outfit some city-owned street lights with ALPR cameras at no cost to the city

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How diffractive solar sails could stop a killer asteroid at 100 km/s

Asteroids don’t come with a warning label that they might one day hit Earth. While we don’t know of any currently on course to do so, we are finding thousands of new ones each year, and there’s always a chance that one could.

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Earth may have gained optimal conditions for life’s chemistry 4.33 billion years ago

Conditions on early Earth may have become stable enough to sustain the chemistry associated with the origins of life around 4.33 billion years ago, according to new research co-led by Planetary Science Institute senior scientist Oleg Abramov.

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Fla. county votes to take fire department back from sheriff’s office

Broward County commissioners voted unanimously not to renew the Sheriff’s Office fire-rescue agreement after 2028, returning roughly 900 employees and oversight of the department to the county

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Silicon solar cells could cut satellite power costs by up to 90%

Switching to modern silicon solar cells could cut the cost of powering satellites by as much as 90% based on beginning-of-life (BOL) performance, according to a review led by the University of Surrey. The switch to silicon cells could also halve the weight of the solar cells needed on a spacecraft, freeing mass for fuel […]

Quantum device simulates matter popping into existence

A research team led by faculty at the Duke Quantum Center (DQC) has observed string-breaking dynamics related to particle-antiparticle formation on a quantum simulator, among the first such observations in quantum physics.

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Could negative mass exist and be observed?

Unlike electric charge, as far as we know all mass is positive, and positive masses attract one another. Could negative mass exist, and if so, what would be the ramifications?

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Sept 23, 2026 – Are UFO glowing orbs NOT benevolent?

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UK to launch new military space squadron to protect satellites

Britain announced Wednesday that it will launch a new military space squadron to defend the country’s satellites, the latest move as countries race to develop military space capabilities.

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Pigeons’ proposed inner-ear compass runs into a noise problem

A pigeon turning its head might seem an unlikely electricity generator. Yet one proposed explanation for the bird’s magnetic sense depends on exactly that: Turning through Earth’s magnetic field would produce tiny electrical signals inside its ears. However, a theoretical study suggests that this miniature generator cannot supply directional information fast enough to work as […]

The secret to a perfect crystal may be a precisely calibrated extra turn

Creating a perfect crystal sounds straightforward: Arrange identical building blocks into a repeating, orderly structure. At the microscopic scale, though, even subtle biases in how particles interact can push them in preferred directions, making it harder to form uniform crystalline materials.

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Physicists crack the math connecting ultraslow quantum magnetism to ultrafast black-hole physics

A team led by University at Buffalo physicists has found a mathematical solution that shows how a frustrated quantum magnet can transition from ultraslow behavior to ultrafast, highly entangled behavior resembling that of a black hole.

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