Brightness ‘gap’ in ancient star cluster reveals missing red dwarfs

by quasarn01 | Jun 3, 2026 | Astronomy

Scientists from the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) in Baltimore, Maryland, sought to study one stellar subject and ended up finding something even more exciting. The team’s results published today in Astronomy & Astrophysics. Go to...

Sunrise III data release opens rare high-altitude solar views that could sharpen space weather forecasts

by quasarn01 | Jun 3, 2026 | Astronomy

Close to 100 scientists from all over Europe, the United States, and Japan are gathering this week at the Institute for Solar Physics (KIS) in Freiburg to present and discuss the first scientific results from the successful third flight of the balloon-borne solar...

Nanomagnets control diamond qubits, pointing to more scalable quantum hardware

by quasarn01 | Jun 3, 2026 | Latest in Physics

Quantum computing, once only a theoretical possibility, promises to deliver faster, more energy-efficient computers—but only if scientists can build and scale the hardware needed to run the machines. New research from Virginia Commonwealth University brings scientists...

BWC: Man throws lit Molotov cocktail on cruiser, stabs K-9 in head before fatal OIS

by quasarn01 | Jun 3, 2026 | Police Lives Matter

Grand Rapids PD officers responded to the scene after the man threatened to kill his family; he tried to set a cruiser ablaze, carjacked a woman and attacked a K-9 before the shooting Go to Source

Out-of-plane ice bridges reveal new way to suppress frost spreading

by quasarn01 | Jun 3, 2026 | Latest in Physics

A research team led by Professor Nenad Miljkovic in The Grainger College of Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign has published a breakthrough study in Nature Physics. The work reports the first experimental discovery of a previously unknown frost...