Florida bans ALPRs installed by local law enforcement from all state roads

by quasarn01 | Sep 1, 2026 | Police Lives Matter

The Florida Department of Transportation is giving law enforcement agencies 30 days to remove license plate readers from all of the state roads it maintains Go to Source

A supermassive black hole erupted in X-rays, and its radio jets followed 300 days later

by quasarn01 | Sep 1, 2026 | Astronomy

By combining roughly two decades of observations from NASA’s Swift X-ray Telescope with radio monitoring, astronomers have caught a supermassive black hole at the heart of the Perseus Cluster suddenly flaring in X-rays, and about 300 days later, its powerful...

Declining star formation not caused by simple ‘fuel crisis,’ new measurements suggest

by quasarn01 | Sep 1, 2026 | Astronomy

The universe has been having fewer and fewer stellar “babies.” Over the past 4.5 billion years, the rate of star birth has crashed to less than half of what it once was. But here’s the twist: the most essential “fuel” for making stars has...

Faint far-infrared radiation drives a correlated insulator-to-metal transition in magic-angle graphene

by quasarn01 | Aug 31, 2026 | Latest in Physics

One of the central ideas in modern physics is the phase transition—a sudden transformation of the state of a material. We encounter phase transitions throughout everyday life: water freezes into ice, wax melts in the warmth of a flame, and water vapor condenses into...

ESA JUICE probe targets dark Jovian moon Kallichore in 2031

by quasarn01 | Aug 31, 2026 | Astronomy

Jupiter hosts more than 100 moons, with most attention focused on the four Galilean moons: Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto. This is primarily due to their active geology, including Io being the most volcanically active planetary body in the solar system and Europa...