UTe₂ reveals two flavors of superconductivity under extreme pressure

Quantum researchers are searching for a topological superconductor—a material that, if discovered, would allow major advances in quantum computing by combining two distinct “flavors” of superconductivity.

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A gamma-ray powerhouse’s smoking gun? Gas trail points to microquasar jets

In 2016, a binary star system emitting unusually strong gamma rays was discovered in our galactic neighborhood. Now, astronomers have found the smoking gun, or rather, a smoking trail of cool molecular gas that suggests jets emanating from a microquasar—one of the few known outside the Milky Way—are responsible.

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Calif. county awards family $51 million in fatal OIS

A federal jury this week unanimously found the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department liable for the actions of two deputies, who were accused of using excessive force, violating civil rights and wrongful death in the incident

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BWC: Ore. officer shoots suspect actively stabbing man

Portland Police officers approached the man as he repeatedly attacked and wounded restaurant and hotel employees

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Video: Man opens fire at Ky. officers from inside motel room

Footage shows a man opening fire on Louisville Metro Police officers after a 35-minute standoff, striking a cruiser; police say he was found deceased

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Quantum skyrmions outlast entanglement, hinting at more resilient networks

Quantum networks could one day connect quantum computers into more powerful systems and enable new forms of secure communication. But a fundamental obstacle stands in the way: Quantum information is extraordinarily fragile, and the entanglement between particles of light on which such networks would depend is easily disrupted.

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NASA’s Voyager 1 conserves power, resolves brief communications pause

NASA’s Voyager team is celebrating two recent developments with the Voyager 1 spacecraft: In September, they successfully completed a months-long effort to stretch the spacecraft’s diminishing power supply. Then, on Oct. 20, an unexpected loss of communication with the spacecraft resolved itself after 48 hours, before the team sent commands to the spacecraft to troubleshoot […]

JWST reveals a distant galaxy that may let most of its ionizing radiation escape

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have found evidence that a distant, exceptionally blue galaxy may allow most of its ionizing radiation to escape into space. Known as EBG-1, the gravitationally lensed galaxy is seen at a redshift of 9.244, about 530 million years after the Big Bang. The paper was posted to […]

NASA’s TRACERS first results offer peek into violent magnetic process

NASA’s TRACERS (Tandem Reconnection and Cusp Electrodynamics Reconnaissance Satellites) mission has gathered its first clues to how space weather affects Earth’s magnetic field. In a new paper published in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, researchers break down how these interactions work after analyzing initial observations from the first year of the mission.

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Extraterrestrial detection inspired by firefly communications could distinguish alien signals from pulsars

When we think of extraterrestrial intelligence that might be out there among the stars, we tend to think of creatures not too unlike us, though maybe with gray skin, probably bald and with big black eyes. We focus on the familiar, humanoids. But there are many intelligent species on Earth that are nonhumanoid: dolphins, crows, […]

Confirming altermagnetism: A geometric twist offers experimental proof

For decades, physicists recognized only two types of magnetism that occur in materials without external influence: ferromagnetism and antiferromagnetism. In findings published in Science, a team led by the U.S. Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory has delivered conclusive experimental proof of a third magnetic phase called altermagnetism.

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Unusual quantum states in six-layer graphene offer clues to superconductivity

Graphene, a material consisting of a sheet of carbon atoms arranged in a honeycomb pattern, has proved promising for various technological applications. Materials in which several layers of graphene are stacked together can exhibit different advantageous properties.

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Ga. city aims to hire 70 officers ahead of 2027 police department launch

Mableton is now working to identify a location where it will house its police department headquarters as the city looks to hire officers

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Small molecular twists may strengthen nature’s magnetic compass

A collaborative research team led by Yasuhiro Kobori at Kobe University, together with researchers from Toho University, Saitama University, Nagoya Institute of Technology and the University of Freiburg, has identified a potential molecular mechanism that could enhance magnetic compass responses in cryptochrome, a blue-light-sensitive protein implicated in magnetoreception.

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Space station experiment to probe plant disease risks for future moon and Mars missions

As NASA and its partners prepare for longer human missions beyond Earth, University of Florida researchers are investigating a challenge that could affect astronauts’ ability to grow fresh food in space: plant disease.

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