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Oldest quasars ever discovered add to ‘perplexing’ space mystery

The Euclid space telescope has spotted the oldest quasars—the brightest objects in the universe—ever discovered, deepening a cosmic mystery that has been puzzling scientists.

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‘Expanding our capabilities’: S.C. PD offers inside look into Real Time Crime Center

“We know that when the Real-Time Crime Center helps a detective out with a case that they have a 180% higher likelihood of making arrests in that case,” Columbia PD crime analyst Cannon Fulmer

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Secure glass containers for storing chemical waste through laser welding

As the adoption of electric vehicles continues to grow, so does the need for the safe and permanent storage of battery materials and industrial chemical waste. Certain waste streams require disposal in what are known as Category IV landfills, which impose particularly stringent requirements on storage containers. These must simultaneously ensure environmental protection, safe handling and long-term structural integrity.

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Synthetic rotation brings black hole energy theory into lab, amplifying waves

More than half a century ago, Sir Roger Penrose envisioned a scenario in which energy could be extracted from a black hole spinning at extreme speeds. He proposed that a particle entering its ergosphere—a region of space dragged around by a rotating black hole—could split into two. One part could fall into the black hole while the other escaped carrying more energy than the original particle. Building on this theory, physicist Yakov Zel’dovich later predicted that a wave interacting with a sufficiently fast, rotating object could extract energy from it and become amplified.

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Reimagining the furnace: How a new magnetic design could supercharge industrial plasma

Imagine trying to trap a miniature star inside a machine without letting it touch the walls or burn itself out. This is the central, high-stakes challenge of high-temperature plasma engineering.

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Could permanent magnets protect astronauts from solar storms?

Shielding astronauts from the deadly radiation they face is a central challenge for any designer of a deep-space crewed mission. Even relatively low levels of exposure over long periods can lead to everything from central nervous system damage to cancer. But current solutions, such as passive water shells or active superconducting magnets, have their own limitations. To get around those, a new paper, available in preprint on arXiv by Valerio Parisi and a team of researchers from Italy and Germany, looks at the feasibility of using a permanent magnet (and its associated permanent magnetic field) to potentially block some of that radiation without the costs of competing technologies.

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X-ray tracking reveals uneven expansion in young supernova remnant G292.0+1.8

By analyzing data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, Dutch astronomers have investigated a young, oxygen-rich supernova remnant known as G292.0+1.8. Results of the new study, published June 29 on the arXiv preprint server, yield important insights into the expansion of this remnant.

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Trooper’s use of deadly force in PIT maneuver was unjustified, Conn. inspector general rules

The inspector general determined the fleeing vehicle did not pose an imminent threat warranting deadly force at the time of the collisions

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Japan’s space agency conducts first test flight for experimental reusable rocket

Japan’s experimental reusable rocket took off and safely landed in a first test flight Saturday as the country seeks to achieve the technology key to cut launch costs and compete in the global space market dominated by SpaceX.

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To ancient astronomers, Theta Eridani was brighter for 1,000 years—now we know why

There’s a bit of a historical mystery surrounding the star Theta Eridani. Ptolemy in the second century A.D. and al-Sufi in A.D. 964 both recorded Theta Eridani as one of the 13 brightest stars in the sky. Hipparchus may have said the same. But there’s a problem. For it to be one of the 13 brightest, it had to be much more luminous than it is today.

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Close range road crossing sighting of a sasquatch by motorist at 1:45am July 5 next to Pachaug River 14 crow miles east of Norwich (Report 81329)

Class A; July 2026; Connecticut, New London County

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Dark energy flips its sign, but the Hubble tension refuses to budge

For nearly a century, astronomers have known that the universe is expanding. In the late 1990s, two independent teams, the Supernova Cosmology Project, led by Saul Perlmutter, and the High-Z Supernova Search Team, led by Brian Schmidt and Adam Riess, discovered something strange: The expansion is speeding up. The finding earned them the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics. The leading explanation for this acceleration is “dark energy,” a mysterious force usually modeled as a constant called Lambda, pushing space apart. Combined with cold dark matter, this gives us the LCDM model, the standard picture of the cosmos for the past 25 years.

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Video: Teen tries to bait Calif. officers into pursuit, gets tracked by drone instead

“Instead of giving the suspect the pursuit he seemed to be looking for, officers used drone technology and coordinated tactics to safely monitor his movements,” the Palm Springs PD stated

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BWC shows Ill. 3-year-old hostage fatally wounded in OIS

A man was holding a mother and two children at knifepoint when a Princeton Police sergeant fired shots; the suspect then grabbed the wounded child and fought against officers trying to save him

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China takes a page from SpaceX and recaptures the first stage of a rocket to reuse it

China successfully recaptured the first stage of a rocket after a launch on Friday in a breakthrough for the country’s space program, state media said.

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