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Time-varying magnetic fields can engineer exotic quantum matter

Quantum technology has promising potential to revolutionize how large and complex amounts of information are processed. While already in use primarily in laboratory and research settings globally, quantum technologies are in a transition phase for broader industry applications across many economic sectors.

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Watch: Police captain lowered into croc-infested river to retrieve animal with human remains

A daring recovery operation in South Africa’s Komati River saw a police captain lowered into dangerous waters to retrieve a massive 1,100 lb crocodile linked to a missing businessman

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A tiny world beyond Neptune has an atmosphere that shouldn’t exist

A team of professional and amateur Japanese astronomers have found evidence for a thin atmosphere around a small body in the outer solar system. The object is so small that it should not have a sustainable atmosphere, raising questions about when and how the atmosphere formed. Future observations to better characterize the atmosphere will help solve these mysteries.

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Astronomers uncover over 1,000 radio galaxies with ‘wings,’ expanding a rare cosmic class

Astronomers recently carried out a comprehensive search for strange “winged” radio galaxies using data from the LOFAR Two-meter Sky Survey Data Release 2 (LoTSS DR2) and discovered over 1,000 new systems. The paper outlining these results was submitted to the arXiv preprint server on April 24, 2026.

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Is the Large Magellanic Cloud a first-time visitor?

Our most massive satellite galaxy, the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), has been the center of a heated debate in the astrophysics community over the last few years. That debate centers on whether this is the LMC’s first or second “pass” by the Milky Way itself—and it has huge implications for the evolution of our galaxy given the disruption such a large grouping of stars has. A new paper from Scott Lucchini, Jiwon Jesse Han, Sapna Mishra, and Andrew J. Fox and his co-authors, currently available on the arXiv preprint server, provides what they claim to be definitive evidence that this is, in fact, the first time LMC has encountered the Milky Way.

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BWC: Machete-wielding man who slashed 3 people at subway station fatally shot by NYPD

NYPD officers fired shots after the suspect ignored at least 20 commands to drop the weapon and advanced with a raised blade

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Ky. deputy dies weeks after shooting during call

Crittenden County Deputy Rick Coyle, a veteran officer and school resource officer, was wounded while serving guardianship paperwork

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Close-in planets act as ‘bouncers’ to create rogue worlds

Rogue planets sound like rare travelers among the stars, freed from the gravitational constraints of a host system, left to forever wander the interstellar void. But modern models suggest these free floating planets (FFPs) as they are technically known, are actually very common—19 times more common than planets beyond the “snow line,” which is the distance from the central star where it becomes cold enough that hydrogen compounds like water, ammonia, and methane can condense into ice.

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Astronomers explore the surface composition of a nearby super-Earth

Using MIRI (Mid-Infrared Instrument) on board the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), a team of researchers led by former MPIA (Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, Heidelberg, Germany) Ph.D. student Sebastian Zieba (Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian, Cambridge, U.S.) and Laura Kreidberg, MPIA Director and study PI (principal investigator), analyzed the surface composition of the rocky exoplanet LHS 3844 b.

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Police officer ‘saved life’ of former NFL player, current Fla. officer as he suffered abuse as a child

“I still see his face,” former N.Y. Jets player and current Jacksonville Sheriff’s Officer Laveranues Coles said when he was in Charlotte to share his story with PAL youth

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Staten Island officials call for more NYPD cops, harsher penalties amid theft spike

So far in 2026, thieves have snatched 71 vehicles compared to 58 in the same period in 2025, a 22% uptick in the grand larceny auto category

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A bright moon may dim the Eta Aquarid meteor shower made up of Halley’s comet debris

The Eta Aquarid meteor shower soon will light the sky with debris from Halley’s comet. But a bright moon will spoil the fun this year, making the display harder to glimpse.

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Solar radio bursts reveal hidden magnetic switchbacks near the sun, Parker Solar Probe data suggest

Solar radio bursts are intrinsically linked to the motion of their emitting source through the coronal and heliospheric plasma. Electron transport is mostly confined to magnetic field lines. These electrons move at a substantial fraction of the speed of light and often generate radio emission via the plasma emission process.

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Canada proposes POET mission to hunt Earth-sized planets

Exoplanet science and the search for life beyond Earth continue to advance at break-neck speeds, with the number of confirmed exoplanets by NASA rapidly approaching 6,300, with 223 of those exoplanets being designated as terrestrial (rocky) exoplanets. With the promise of discovering an increasing number of Earth-sized exoplanets increasing every day, new telescopes from across the world have the opportunity to contribute to this incredible field.

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Ky. officers, federal agents arrest suspect in bank robbery that killed 2 after high-speed pursuit

The suspect entered a branch of U.S. Bank in Berea and “immediately shot and killed a male victim” and then fatally shot a teller, according to an FBI affidavit

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