Bright blazar reveals 433-day optical quasi-periodic oscillation across nine years

by quasarn01 | May 12, 2026 | Astronomy

By analyzing the data from the Whole Earth Blazar Telescope (WEBT), an international team of astronomers has discovered optical quasi-periodic oscillation (QPO) in a bright quasar known as 3C 454.3. It is so far one of the most persistent QPOs detected in the optical...

New quantum protocol breaks distance and speed barriers in fiber networks

by quasarn01 | May 12, 2026 | Latest in Physics

Scientists at the University of Science and Technology of China have successfully deployed a multi-mode quantum relay network, achieving matter–matter entanglement over 14.5 kilometers, according to media reports. Go to Source

Armed Marine vet helps Mass. officers take down gunman firing rounds erratically

by quasarn01 | May 12, 2026 | Police Lives Matter

The Marine veteran and a Massachusetts State Police Trooper shot the suspect in the extremities, stopping him from firing shots in the middle of Cambridge’s Memorial Drive Go to Source

JWST maps cosmic web in record detail back to universe’s first billion years

by quasarn01 | May 12, 2026 | Astronomy

Using data from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers led by researchers at the University of California, Riverside have produced the most detailed map of the cosmic web ever made, tracing the network of galaxies all the way back to when the...

Atoms vibrate on circular paths—with an unexpected twist

by quasarn01 | May 12, 2026 | Latest in Physics

An international team of researchers, including scientists from HZDR and Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society, for the first time directly observed how angular momentum is transferred and conserved within a crystal lattice. Using intense terahertz laser...