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BWC: NYPD cops rescue woman in crisis from ledge of high-rise

Officers from the NYPD’s Emergency Services Unit, secured by tethers, joined the woman on the ledge and coaxed her back over the barrier

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Katalyst wraps testing at NASA Goddard for Swift boost mission

A daring mission to lift NASA’s sinking Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory is now one step closer to launch this June. On May 4, Katalyst Space Technologies completed environmental tests of its LINK robotic servicing spacecraft at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. LINK will meet up with Swift and attempt to raise its orbit.

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Black holes don’t live forever, but they might live long enough to look like white holes

Black holes live forever, at least according to general relativity. Once material crosses a black hole’s event horizon, it is trapped forever, until the last day of cosmic time. But we know that isn’t true. General relativity is a classical model. It doesn’t take into account the fuzzy, indeterminate nature of the quantum. We don’t have a complete and consistent theory of quantum gravity, but we do have some understanding of quantum black holes.

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Miami deputies sue Ben Affleck, Matt Damon, alleging reputation damages from movie inspired by real case

Deputies Jason Smith and Jonathan Santana allege that “The Rip” portrays them in such a way that implies “misconduct, poor judgment, and unethical behavior”

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BWC: Driver fleeing traffic stop strikes NYPD officer, is arrested after getting stuck at dead end

Officers stopped the vehicle during an early-morning car meetup; after initially stopping for the officers, the suspect fled, striking an officer on his left side

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More Star Wars-like worlds emerge as 27 planet candidates with two suns discovered

There’s so little we know about circumbinary planets—planets that orbit two stars instead of one—that they can feel like the stuff of fantasy. And for good reason: to date, we’ve only confirmed the existence of 18 circumbinary planets, compared to the more than 6000 planets we know about in single star systems.

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‘Elegant triangle’ experiment suggests quantum internet may be closer than we think

For more than 60 years, Bell’s theorem has been the gold standard for demonstrating that quantum mechanics defies the rules of classical physics. Now, an international team of researchers, including Constructor University Professor Dr. Nicolas Gisin, has extended this principle to new limits, using an “elegant triangle” to reveal new forms of quantum nonlocality that specifically emerge in multi-node quantum networks.

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Possible sighting by motorist along Wind River Hwy north of Carson (Report 80159)

Class B; May 2026; Washington, Skamania County

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Good vibrations for quantum communications: Engineers couple single phonon to single atomic spin

Researchers at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have demonstrated, for the first time, a single quantum of vibrational energy interacting with a single atomic spin, seeding a pathway to quantum technologies that use sound as an information carrier, instead of light or electricity. The results are published in Nature.

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Radio telescopes confirm 3.3-million-light-year halo in unusually quiet galaxy cluster

Astronomers have employed the upgraded Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (uGMRT) and the MeerKAT radio telescope to observe a galaxy cluster known as RXCJ0232–4420. Results of the new observations, published April 29 on the arXiv pre-print server, deliver important insights into the nature of this cluster.

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Minn. sheriff’s livestream shows suspect in stolen vehicle crash into cruiser, injuring trooper

The 19-year-old suspect admitted to officers that he enjoyed driving stolen cars following the crash that left a trooper with a broken leg and shoulder blade

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Mich. man convicted after drone interferes with police search

Jury finds livestreaming operator disrupted Bay County deputies’ aerial efforts to locate suspects during 2024 incident

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Scientists trace latest interstellar comet’s home to a cold, isolated corner of the Milky Way

The comet that rambled past us from another star last year likely originated in a cold, isolated corner of the galaxy that had yet to gel into its own solar system, astronomers reported Thursday.

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Mass firing voided: Georgia town council uses legal loophole to reinstate police department

Two days after Mayor Ron Shinnick terminated the entire Cohutta Police Department, officials found his order violated the town charter

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Ganymede’s unique magnetic field may be powered by ongoing core formation—not a cooling core

Ganymede is not only Jupiter’s largest moon, but also the largest in our solar system and one of the few that hosts a massive ice ocean. Adding to this planet-like moon’s uniqueness is the fact that among the hundreds of moons in our solar system, Ganymede is the only one that generates its own magnetic field. While the prevailing view was that Ganymede generates this magnetic field through convection in an already-formed core, there are still uncertainties surrounding this idea.

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