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BWC: Armed, erratic man shoots at Fla. deputy before fatal OIS

The suspect fired multiple shots at the Bay County Sheriff’s deputy after the deputy asked him to take off a shotgun he had strapped to his shoulder

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New quantum sensors can withstand extreme pressure

The world of quantum physics is already mysterious, but what happens when that strange realm of subatomic particles is put under immense pressure? Observing quantum effects under pressure has proven difficult for a simple reason: Designing sensors that can withstand extreme forces is challenging.

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Atomic-level engineering enables new alloys that won’t break in extreme cold

Navigating the extreme cold of deep space or handling super-chilled liquid fuels here on Earth requires materials that won’t break. Most metals become brittle and fracture at such low temperatures. However, new research is pioneering an approach to build metal structures atom by atom to create tough and durable alloys that can withstand such harsh environments.

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Planets without plate tectonics and too little carbon dioxide could mean that technological alien life is rare

The closest technological species to us in the Milky Way galaxy could be 33,000 light years away and their civilization would have to be at least 280,000 years, and possibly millions of years, old if they are to exist at the same time that we do, according to new research presented at the EPSC–DPS2025 Joint Meeting in Helsinki this week.

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Synthetic magnetic fields steer light on a chip for faster communications

Electrons in a magnetic field can display striking behaviors, from the formation of discrete energy levels to the quantum Hall effect. These discoveries have shaped our understanding of quantum materials and topological phases of matter. Light, however, is made of neutral particles and does not naturally respond to magnetic fields in the same way. This has limited the ability of researchers to reproduce such effects in optical systems, particularly at the high frequencies used in modern communications.

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Suspect in Charlie Kirk’s assasination has been caught, Trump says

Charlie Kirk was killed by a single shot in what police said was a targeted attack and Utah’s governor called a political assassination

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Where did the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS come from?

Comet 3I/ATLAS is the third ISO ever detected. It was discovered by the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) station on 1 July 2025. It’s traveling through the inner solar system at about 220,000 km/h and will make its closest approach to the sun in late October.

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Mich. officer known for kindness dies from medical emergency after helping disabled veteran finish 5K

Grant Police Sgt. Don Morsaw was known to buy hot meals for suspects he arrested, help families with groceries and purchase gas cards for stopped motorists

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Models explain mysterious feature controlling magnetic properties of the sun

In the late 1980s, scientists realized they could understand the interior properties of the sun by observing the sound waves that resonate inside it. This technique, called helioseismology, revealed a mysteriously thin dynamical layer in the interior of the sun that became known as the tachocline.

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Microscopes can now watch materials go quantum with liquid helium

A new specimen holder gives scientists more control over ultra-cold temperatures, enabling the study of how materials acquire properties useful in quantum computers.

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Ultra-flat optic pushes beyond what was previously thought possible

Cameras are everywhere. For over two centuries, these devices have grown increasingly popular and proven to be so useful, they have become an indispensable part of modern life.

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The Aurora Incident: 50 years before Roswell, a massive UFO crashed near Dallas

It is believed that on April 9, 1897, an unidentified flying object crashed in the town of Aurora, just outside of Dallas, and that a small humanoid being was recovered from the crashed UFO.

The town of Aurora, in North Texas, United States, is considered by many as an unattractive place, where time seems to have stopped.

The nearest city, Dallas, lies about 30 miles to the east and the northwest borders with the beaches of the Gulf of Mexico.

The largest business in the town is a service station which is rarely open.

However, every summer, large numbers of North American tourists are attracted by a mysterious history. Tourists did not look for vacations or fun but searched for the remains of an extraterrestrial humanoid that is believed to have crashed with his  ‘UFO’ decades ago.

Many years ago, according to some stories and legends, a huge ship fell from the sky and crash landed in Aurora. Local residents found ONE pilot inside the crashed spacecraft and buried him.

Since then many groups of UFO investigators have arrived in Aurora to find the body or what remains of it.

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A newspaper clipping from a neighboring city covers the 1897 Aurora, Texas UFO incident.

They cover an extensive route where the ship allegedly crashed and analyze countless tombs in the cemetery, with the illusion of rescuing some small bone fragments that survived the passage of time.

The inhabitants of the village smile at the ingenuity of tourists who arrive with the idea of obtaining a souvenir.

Nearly everyone in the town thinks that the history of the extraterrestrial is nothing more than a joke. But, at the same time, they admit that history is grounded in a fact that may have some truth.

In the year 1897, local residents reported large numbers of sightings of strange objects in the sky.

At that same time, people in Texas said they saw a UFO that was shaped like a cigar with strange lights, flying at extremely low altitude.

Obviously, at that time UFO sightings were of no greater importance in the village of Aurora. However, on April 9, 1897, an unidentified flying object was reported to have descended at high speed from the sky, exploding at the center of the village.

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Actual Newspaper Article from Dallas Morning News, 4-19-1897

The strange event was covered by journalist F.E. Hayden, for the Dallas newspaper, who was informed, in turn, by an Aurora resident named T.J. Weems.

The report mentioned that the collision was observed and verified by numerous witnesses.

Hayden wrote that the object was a UFO that impacted the property of J.S. Proctor, a Judge from Texas.

Furthermore, Weems also said that the explosion illuminated the town as if it were daylight and spread a large number of fragments along three acres.

He also added that the body of the UFO’s crew was recovered and was not of this world.

The body was small and thin. It was buried at the local cemetery.

Locals made a gravestone, and a cigar-shaped object was engraved to distinguish and remember what had happened.

The people of Aurora now think that this story is likely to have happened, but they hesitate when asked if it was true that an alien being was buried there.

They think that what crashed at the center of the village was simply a meteorite and that Weems and Hayden created the whole fantasy.

In the last century, the theory of the crashed UFO was supported by the only living man who remembered the event, Charles Stevens, who was then a child.

He claims that his father saw something that fell on the property of Judge Proctor and that “they had found the bodies of two or three men…”

Curiously, according to locals, only one alleged alien body was found, and not two or three.

Years went by no one knew anything else about it. Eventually, the tombstone was stolen from the cemetery and the place it inhabited was lost with the passage of time, leaving the alleged aliens grave completely unmarked.

Interestingly, on December 2, 2005, UFO Files first aired an episode related to this incident, titled “Texas’ Roswell”.

MUFON even investigated the mysterious case. Researchers from MUFO had uncovered the grave marker that appeared to show a flying saucer of some sort, as well as readings from its metal detector.

MUFON eventually asked for permission to exhume the site, but the cemetery association declined permission.

It was only after MUFON’s investiagt5ion that the grave marker mysteriously disappeared from the cemetery.

MUFON’s report eventually stated that the evidence was inconclusive, but did not rule out the possibility of a hoax.

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Trump: ‘High degree of certainty’ that suspect in Charlie Kirk killing has been caught

Charlie Kirk was killed by a single shot in what police said was a targeted attack and Utah’s governor called a political assassination

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Mysterious ‘red dots’ in early universe may be ‘black hole star’ atmospheres

Tiny red objects spotted by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) are offering scientists new insights into the origins of galaxies in the universe—and may represent an entirely new class of celestial object: a black hole swallowing massive amounts of matter and spitting out light.

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For too long, colonial language has dominated space exploration: Is there a better way?

At an internal staff briefing last week, acting NASA Administrator Sean Duffy declared the United States has a “manifest destiny to the stars,” linking this to the need to win the “space race.”

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