BWC: Suspect who attacked woman with blowtorch shoots Las Vegas officer through door before OIS

by quasarn01 | Aug 13, 2026 | Police Lives Matter

The suspect and a bystander were killed in the shooting, and an LVMPD officer was wounded when a shot fired through the doorway pierced her ballistic vest Go to Source

BWC: Man points homemade ‘spears’ at Calif. officers before fatal OIS

by quasarn01 | Aug 13, 2026 | Police Lives Matter

Oakland officers attempted to tase the man before he raised pipes with knives taped to the ends and stepped toward them Go to Source

Active supermassive black holes may help form massive planets

by quasarn01 | Aug 13, 2026 | Astronomy

A popular myth about black holes is that they act like giant cosmic vacuum cleaners, sucking in everything around them. But Wladimir Lyra’s research found a new mechanism around supermassive black holes that is more like a cosmic nursery, giving birth to planets...

Muon g-2 experiment places new constraints on a forbidden property of muons

by quasarn01 | Aug 13, 2026 | Latest in Physics

A year after its final muon magnetic anomaly announcement, the Muon g-2 collaboration reports a new measurement of a different property of the muon: its electric dipole moment. The work is published on the arXiv preprint server. Go to Source

Uniaxial strain reveals new way to tune electron flow in altermagnet material

by quasarn01 | Aug 13, 2026 | Latest in Physics

Altermagnetism is a new, third type of magnetism of great interest for spin-transport applications like computer memory. If properly harnessed, it could combine the benefits of the two existing types of magnetism, ferromagnetism and antiferromagnetism, ultimately...