Engineering the first reusable launchpads on the moon

Engineers need good data to build lasting things. Even the designers of the Great Pyramids knew the limestone they used to build these massive structures would be steady when stacked on top of one another, even if they didn’t have tables of the compressive strength of those stones.

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Supermassive black holes show selective feeding habits during galaxy mergers

Black holes are notorious for gobbling up everything that comes their way, but astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have discovered that even supermassive black holes can be picky eaters, and this can have a significant impact on their growth.

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ALMA observations reveal multiscale fragmentation in massive star formation

Researchers from Yunnan University, the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory (SHAO) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan have unveiled new insights into the fragmentation mechanisms of high-mass star-forming regions.

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The dual impact of stellar bars on star formation in galaxy pairs

Professor Woong-bae Zee of the College of Liberal Studies at Sejong University has revealed that a galaxy does not possess only a single evolutionary pathway; instead, depending on the nature of its neighboring galaxy, it can exhibit two entirely different “faces of evolution.” The work is published in The Astrophysical Journal.

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How does Santa do it all? Quantum physics, that’s how, says scientist

Every year, Santa Claus races around the globe in a matter of hours to bring presents to children all over the world.

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Kolmogorov-Arnold networks bridge AI and scientific discovery by increasing interpretability

AI has successfully been applied in many areas of science, advancing technologies like weather prediction and protein folding. However, there have been limitations for the world of scientific discovery involving more curiosity-driven research. But that may soon change, thanks to Kolmogorov-Arnold networks (KANs).

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Anything-goes ‘anyons’ may be at the root of surprising quantum experiments

In the past year, two separate experiments in two different materials captured the same confounding scenario: the coexistence of superconductivity and magnetism. Scientists had assumed that these two quantum states are mutually exclusive; the presence of one should inherently destroy the other.

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Controlling exciton flow in moiré superlattices: New method leverages correlated electrons

Excitons are pairs of bound negatively charged electrons and positively charged holes that form in semiconductors, enabling the transport of energy in electronic devices. These pairs of charge carriers also emerge in transition metal dichalcogenides, thin semiconducting materials comprised of a transition metal and two chalcogen atoms.

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AI uncovers double-strangeness: A new double-Lambda hypernucleus

Researchers from the High Energy Nuclear Physics Laboratory at the RIKEN Pioneering Research Institute (PRI) in Japan and their international collaborators have made a discovery that bridges artificial intelligence and nuclear physics. By applying deep learning techniques to a vast amount of unexamined nuclear emulsion data from the J-PARC E07 experiment, the team identified, for […]

Who was Amelia Frank? The life of a forgotten physicist

In 1977, an American physicist named John H. Van Vleck won the Nobel Prize for his work on magnetism. In his Nobel lecture, amid a discussion of rare earth elements, one sentence leaps out:

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BWC: Houston officer shoots man holding store employee hostage at gunpoint

Video shows the suspect following closely behind a woman and pressing a gun to her back, apparently attempting to use her as a shield to flee from the officer

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Highest ranking female officer in Mass. State Police wins $11M in discrimination suit

Major Kathryn Downey alleged that after she reported misconduct by another officer, that officer retaliated by accusing her of misconduct and spreading false rumors

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Gun jams after man points it at Ohio officer, pulls trigger at point-blank range

“He pulled it out, pointed it right at my face and pulled it. The trigger just didn’t go off,” the Canton Police officer can be heard saying in body camera video

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Wash. State Police trooper struck, killed during crash investigation

Trooper Tara-Marysa Guting, 29, was struck and killed in Tacoma while she was investigating a two-vehicle collision; one of two drivers who struck her fled the scene

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Sharp Video Of UFO Shot By Vacationers At Lake Tahoe, Nevada

YouTube Video Here: https://www.youtube.com/embed/IAICD-t_V60?feature=oembed&enablejsapi=1

A vacationer taking a boat ride on Lake Tahoe, Nevada shot a video on October 20. The video shows sightseers listening to a tour guide tell them about the Sierra Nevada mountains surrounding the lake. Even as they all focus on the mountain range, they are unaware that something very […]