NASA systems engineering team details Habitable Worlds Observatory mission architecture

Finding an Earth-like world beyond the solar system is the holy grail of exoplanet research, and the field has seen remarkable technological advances in detecting and studying exoplanets since the first confirmed exoplanet around a sun-like star was discovered in 1995. These advances include ground- and space-based telescopes, notably the James Webb Space Telescope. Although […]

2024 solar storm triggered ultrarelativistic electrons inside Earth’s ‘impenetrable barrier’

The Earth is surrounded by an invisible barrier that was thought to prevent highly energetic electrons from reaching closer to our planet. But in 2024, Japan’s Arase space probe detected these electrons well inside the barrier. Now, research led by Nagoya University has found evidence that the electrons were accelerated locally rather than infiltrating from […]

Slow-motion electron camera reveals light-driven quantum jumps in graphene

Using a new slow-motion electron camera, physicists from Regensburg, Marburg and Jülich revealed how intense electric fields drive electrons in graphene, causing them to jump across energy gaps in a seemingly paradoxical manner. This was made possible by a novel combination of laser technology and electron microscopy.

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Calif. sheriff’s office to stop deputy response for DUIs, theft for town under contract negotiation

The city of Live Oak opted to end its contract with the Sutter County Sheriff’s office over high costs; a reduced deputy staff will patrol the town, but will limit call responses

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Ala. football player charged with threatening, doxing police officer involved in his prior arrest

Alabama defensive back Dre Kirkpatrick Jr. is charged with harassing communications and doxing for Facebook posts and messages to and about a University of Alabama Police officer

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Can gravitational fields break and reconnect? Einstein’s equations suggest they can

More than a century after Einstein first devised the equations that describe gravity, physicists are still finding new ways of interpreting them. Luca Comisso, an associate research scientist in Columbia University’s departments of Astronomy and Physics and the Columbia Astrophysics Laboratory, and Felipe A. Asenjo of Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez in Chile, recently found a new […]

Against all expectations, researchers control the magnetic core of a single atom

Researchers at Delft University of Technology (the Netherlands) have succeeded in controlling the magnetism in the nucleus of a single atom with radio waves. This came as a surprise: until now, physicists believed that this nuclear spin could not be manipulated directly. The discovery could open up new possibilities for storing and reading quantum information. […]

Oct 28, 2026 – Part 2- America’s Minuteman Nuclear Missile Program Has Been Haunted by UFOs.

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Sound-levitated particles reveal how static charge builds up

When two objects touch and then separate, they can swap tiny amounts of electric charge, even if they are made from exactly the same material. This ‘triboelectric effect’ is the source of everyday static electricity, but it is still poorly understood in large samples of powder, where vast numbers of particles are constantly colliding with […]

Comets probably didn’t seed life on Earth after all, new study suggests

The theory that comets delivered the molecular building blocks for life on Earth is a long-standing one, since comets are known to carry many of these molecules. However, a new study challenges this idea.

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The Roswell UFOs and Wright-Patterson Connection

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Decoding the loopy physics of hula hooping with high-tech earthquake sensors

Hula hooping may be literal child’s play, but as it turns out, the physics behind the gym-class staple is so complicated that scientists have spent decades trying to understand how the hula hoop defies gravity.

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Rubin Observatory reveals its first dwarf planet candidate in our solar system

Scientists may add a new dwarf planet to the official roster of our solar system. The distant, icy body, provisionally dubbed 2026 ED138, orbits our system beyond Pluto. It was spotted earlier this month by a scientist combing through data from the Simonyi Survey Telescope at the NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory.

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Identical vesicles, different behaviors: Model reveals how spontaneous asymmetry gives rise to lifelike behavior

In nonreciprocal active matter, agents act differently on each other, seemingly in violation of Newton’s third law. This principle can result in various active matter traits, such as self-propulsion, molecular regulation and collective motion.

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Video: Calif. deputies don traffic cone suit, bust drivers who fail to stop for pedestrians

The Stanislaus County Sheriffs Office operation was funded by a grant from the California Office of Traffic Safety, through the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, supporting pedestrian safety enforcement and education

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