BWC: Conn. police, firefighters rescue distressed man from bridge

New Haven police said a firefighter was able to secure the individual and safely bring him back over the ledge after officer spent several minutes negotiating with him

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Calif. drug, firearms trafficking enforcement operation yields 140+ arrests

The illegal drugs seized in “Operation Central Valley Blues” included 16,136 fentanyl pills, more than 90 pounds of meth, more than 3,100 pounds of marijuana and 7 pounds of cocaine

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NASA adopting Apollo’s urgency to build a moon base and land astronauts within 2 years

NASA is moving fast on its plans to build a moon base and return astronauts to the lunar surface in as little as two years.

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Counting magnetic flux quanta offers new way to measure photon numbers

Researchers at AIST have directly observed magnetic flux quanta generated in a superconductor by photon absorption and demonstrated a new principle of photon detection that identifies the number of photons based on the number of these flux quanta.

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Plain silicon grating reveals a hidden ‘twist’ in light from electron beams

In 1953, two physicists showed that an electron beam skimming past a grating emits light whose color depends only on the electron’s speed and the grating’s spacing. Known as Smith-Purcell radiation, this phenomenon has become a useful tool for building compact, tunable light sources and tracking particle beams without touching them.

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Everyday Mylar turned into a promising insulator for lunar habitats

Establishing a long-term presence on the moon will require solving challenges that are easy to overlook on Earth. Lunar temperatures, for instance, can vary from hundreds of degrees below zero to boiling, making effective insulation essential for lunar habitats.

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Stellar collision may explain why Orion Nebula’s planet-forming disks appear younger than its stars

The Orion Nebula is a large star-forming region visible to the naked eye. Some of the young stars in the nebula are surrounded by disks of gas and dust in which planets form. Radiation from the massive central star, 1 Ori C1 (Theta-1 Orionis C1), gradually strips material from these disks, giving them shapes that […]

Black holes spinning near maximum rate could split in two, calculations suggest

Two black holes can collide and merge into one. But could the opposite happen: could a single black hole split into two smaller ones? That question is explored in a new theoretical study: “When Black Holes Admit Pair-of-pants Topologies,” published in the journal Physical Review D.

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BWC: Fla. man bursts through window trying to flee officers, ends up in hospital

Sanford Police officers took a suspect with an active warrant into custody after he crashed through a window in an effort to flee officers

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BWC: Fla. man bursts through window trying to flee officers, ends up in hospital

Sanford Police officers took a suspect with an active warrant into custody after he crashed through a window in an effort to flee officers

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BWC: Fla. man in overturned vehicle asks deputies for cigarette following pursuit

A PIT maneuver by Lee County Sheriff’s Office deputies stopped the fleeing suspect and left his truck on its side; they later found “trafficking amounts” of cocaine inside

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Mass. State Police drop drill instructor title, add medical training in reforms to academy following recruit death

Massachusetts State Police announced a slate of reforms following internal and external reviews of training and criminal charging of several instructors in the 2024 death of Enrique Delgado Garcia

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ALMA spots ‘dragon egg’ that may represent the earliest stages of massive star formation

Astronomers identified an exceptionally tiny core that may represent an early stage in the formation of a massive star. Located in an infrared-dark area called Dragon Cloud, the core is nicknamed the “dragon egg.” The paper, accepted for publication in Astronomy & Astrophysics, was posted to the arXiv preprint server on Oct. 5.

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Artemis I: Crystals of experimental detectors record radiation doses near the moon

Do cosmic radiation doses near the moon differ significantly from those received by astronauts in low Earth orbit? Experimental lithium fluoride detectors, installed aboard the Orion spacecraft during the Artemis I mission, have now made it possible to obtain preliminary estimates.

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Pedal to the metal: NASA’s Psyche heads toward asteroid belt

With a successful Mars gravity assist in its rearview mirror, NASA’s Psyche spacecraft has fired up its thrusters and is accelerating toward the metal-rich asteroid of the same name. During the first leg of its journey, following an October 2023 launch, the mission used its electric propulsion system intermittently to maneuver into the right position […]