BWC: Man pulls gun from vehicle, points it at Mass. officer before fatal OIS

As Cambridge Police officers instructed a man to exit his vehicle, he reached under his seat, pulled out a handgun and pointed it at an officer

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CHP officer visits TV, radio stations to share a public safety message — in the form of rap lyrics

“Serve the people of this state. That’s the ultimate goal. Truly yours, the California Highway Patrol!” Officer Anthony Talavera rapped during a TV news appearance

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Largest 2D map of the universe helps scientists discover new gravitational lenses

Using data from the DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys, with help from artificial intelligence, an international team of scientists has discovered 70 new gravitational lenses—rare cosmic alignments that act as natural magnifying glasses. The new lenses further expand one of the largest collections of confirmed lenses to date and will allow scientists to study dark matter, galaxy evolution and the structure of the universe.

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Mission success: Australian cancer research returns from space

Human stem cells from Adelaide University’s Center for Cancer Biology have successfully traveled to the edge of space and back as part of a landmark mission for Australian cancer research.

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Electronic stripes linked to unusual vortex states in a superconductor

Superconductors, materials that can carry electric current with an electrical resistance of zero, have proved to be promising for the development of various technologies, including medical devices, particle accelerators and quantum computers. Studying these materials could help researchers uncover new physical states that could be useful for specific applications.

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What pig hearts and a little noise can teach us about designing better soft valves

Some of the best engineers and inventors are copycats. They look at how the natural world solves complex problems and use those mechanisms as the basis for innovations. But Mother Nature doesn’t always give up her secrets easily.

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Solar Orbiter tracks origin of mysterious magnetic switchbacks

The European Space Agency–led Solar Orbiter spacecraft has flown through an S-shaped kink known as a “switchback” in the solar wind’s magnetic field. By fingerprinting the elusive particles within the switchback, Solar Orbiter has traced its origin back to the sun’s surface and revealed more about solar magnetism—the unruly instigator of dangerous solar storms.

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Margaret Hamilton, scientist who worked on NASA’s Apollo program, dead at 90

American scientist Margaret Hamilton, who led development of the computer system used by NASA’s Apollo lunar program, has died at 90, her former employer said Wednesday.

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Artemis II crew moon photo annotations

A visualization of a dark moon eclipsing the sun is marked with handwritten notes in this April 6, 2026, screenshot from an Artemis II crew member’s tablet.

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Federal authorities arrest man accused of plotting attack on Mall of America

Federal authorities on Tuesday arrested Sheikhdoon Abdullahi Mohamud, 18, on one count of obtaining a firearm to carry out an act of terrorism

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Nobel physics winner’s pride at pioneering AI role

Francis Halzen, winner of the Nobel Prize in physics, spoke with pride on Wednesday about his early promotion of artificial intelligence in his research on neutrinos.

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Oct 7, 2026 – Earth E.T.s — Friendly? Foe? Neutral?

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Undergraduate student may have solved puzzle regarding isolated galaxies that have stopped producing stars

An undergraduate astrophysics student at UC Berkeley has found three unusual galaxies—cataloged as Shapiro Dwarf Galaxies I, II and III. Each galaxy is far from other galaxies and has stopped making stars, a combination that is extremely rare. The discovery, published in The Astrophysical Journal, provides compelling observational evidence of a long-held astronomical theory.

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Ultrashort laser pulses let new microscope map electron interactions across thin materials

A new type of advanced microscope (wide-field coherent multidimensional microscopy) has been developed. It uses a carefully designed sequence of ultrashort light pulses to study the behavior of high-tech materials, with potential practical applications in the study of innovative materials such as those used to build solar panels. This is the result of work by a research group of physicists from the Faculty of Sciences, Mathematics, Physics, and Natural Sciences at Università Cattolica’s Brescia campus who, for the first time, have developed a “multidimensional microscope” that, in a sense, records the behavior of materials.

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Acoustic experiments confirm topology can persist at gapless critical points

Two studies on critical topology have recently been published in the journal Nature. These studies were led by the teams of Prof. Baile Zhang at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, and Prof. Jianhua Jiang at the University of Science and Technology of China, respectively. Prof. Xue-Jia Yu from the School of Physics at the Eastern Institute of Technology, Ningbo (EIT), served as a co-corresponding author on both papers and provided key theoretical guidance in the related experimental collaborations.

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