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DOJ moves to dismiss charges against officers accused of falsifying warrant in Breonna Taylor raid

Prosecutors said their review of the case showed the charges against former Detective Joshua Jaynes and former Sgt. Kyle Meany should be “dismissed in the interest of justice”

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A self-sufficient Mars garden? How cyanobacteria-based fertilizer could grow edible biomass

A research team from the Center for Applied Space Technology and Microgravity (ZARM), the Department of Environmental Process Engineering (UVT) at the University of Bremen and the German Aerospace Center (DLR) has made significant progress toward a self-sufficient Mars mission: a fertilizer, which can be produced solely with Martian resources, has been successfully used to grow edible biomass.

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ShadowCam search casts doubt on abundant lunar ice

New observations by a team of US astronomers have cast fresh doubt on whether the lunar surface could host abundant water ice. Publishing their results in Science Advances, a team led by Shuai Li at the University of Hawaii at Manoa has shown that relatively pure ice (making up more than about 20–30% of the surface material) is likely absent from the moon’s permanently shadowed regions.

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What ‘Project Hail Mary’ gets right—and wrong—about astrophysics

“Project Hail Mary,” the Ryan Gosling-led adaptation of the best-selling sci-fi novel from Andy Weir, is being praised for putting the science in science fiction. Although aliens, sun-draining microorganisms and galaxy-spanning spaceflight are all a part of the story of a scientist sent on a suicide mission to save Earth, the film and its source material are not afraid to delve into the kind of astrophysics that would make most people’s heads spin.

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Compact terahertz imaging system brings real-time, non-invasive clinical diagnostics closer

Scientists at the University of Warwick and University of Exeter have developed a fully fiber-coupled terahertz (THz) imaging system that significantly improves the speed, resolution, and clinical practicality of terahertz imaging. The study, published in Nature Communications, demonstrates a high-throughput, compact platform that overcomes key barriers limiting current THz systems—bringing real-time, non-invasive tissue imaging closer to routine clinical use.

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Late night sighting of a sasquatch on Fort Stewart Army Base (Report 79000)

Class A; June 2025; Georgia, Bryan County

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Possible Sasquatch vocals at Fraser Lake, 80 miles west of Prince George (Report 79929)

Class B; May 2025; British Columbia

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Nightime sighting by fisherman on Wapsipinicon River 11 miles SW of Clinton (Report 79913)

Class A; October 2006; Iowa, Clinton County

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NASA hauls its repaired moon rocket from the hangar back to the pad for an early April launch

For the second time this year, NASA moved its moon rocket from the hangar out toward the pad Friday in hopes of launching four astronauts on a lunar fly-around next month.

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New controls can stretch, blur and even reverse quantum time flow

In new research published in Physical Review X, scientists have designed quantum control protocols that generate processes more consistent with time flowing backward than forward. The protocols—techniques to control quantum systems—modify a quantum system’s “arrow of time,” the concept of time as moving in one forward direction. The work opens up possibilities for energy extraction from quantum systems and for quantum state preparation.

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BWC: Va. officer stops ‘bloodbath,’ fatally shoots man actively stabbing family member

The Fairfax County PD chief says rapid response likely prevented further deaths as officers entered a dark apartment with multiple victims

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Chuck Norris, ‘Walker, Texas Ranger’ star and former air policeman, dies at 86

The actor, Air Force air policeman and Texas reserve officer maintained a lifelong connection to law enforcement

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ALICE sees new sign of primordial plasma in proton collisions

The ALICE Collaboration takes a step further in addressing the question of whether a quark–gluon plasma can be formed in proton–proton and proton–nucleus collisions. In the first few microseconds after the Big Bang, the universe was in an extremely hot and dense state of matter known as quark–gluon plasma (QGP), which can be reproduced with high-energy collisions between heavy ions such as lead nuclei.

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Smile mission set for April 9 launch to image Earth’s magnetic field in X-rays

The Smile mission is set to launch on a Vega-C rocket from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana on Thursday, April 9, at 08:29 CEST/07:29 BST/03:29 local time.

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NYC Mayor Mamdani moves to reduce NYPD role in mental health, crisis calls

NYC Mayor Mamdani’s new Office of Community Safety will oversee mental health response, violence prevention and victim services as part of a broader strategy to reduce non-criminal demands on NYPD

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