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Charges dropped against NYPD lieutenant in OIS of man who pointed gun at him

An investigation by the New York AG’s Office found that prosecutors would not be able to disprove beyond a reasonable doubt that Lt. Richard Custodio was unjustified in fatally shooting the suspect

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Rocks from unexplored far side of the moon help rewrite lunar history

Ancient samples from the moon’s far side are helping scientists uncover how asteroid impacts shaped the early solar system. The findings challenge decades of thinking about when those impacts occurred and offer new insights into the conditions that influenced Earth’s evolution.

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‘You can’t park there’: Suspect vehicle lands on top of Ga. police cruiser amid pursuit

The suspect vehicle ran into a concrete barrier, causing its rear to lift and land on the Sandy Springs Police cruiser

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Quantum Zeno effect could freeze computations as qubit systems scale up

The promise of quantum computing is to solve complex problems faster and more energy-efficiently than today’s supercomputers—from optimizing logistics to simulating molecules. This goal is coming within reach as the number of qubits—the computational units of quantum computing—increases.

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Magnetic clues inside atomic nuclei help explain how elements form in stars

A scientific team led by Facility for Rare Isotope Beams, or FRIB, has identified the origin of a mysterious excess of low-energy gamma rays emitted by the nucleus zinc-70. They found that the excess is caused by magnetic transitions within the nucleus. The study, “Magnetic Character of the Low-Energy Enhancement in 70Zn,” published in Nature, sheds light on a long-standing puzzle in nuclear physics and has far-reaching implications for astrophysics.

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Why Europa’s hidden ocean may be more difficult to reach than scientists thought

Europa, one of Jupiter’s icy moons, has long fascinated scientists because of what may lie beneath its frozen shell: a global ocean of liquid water. That hidden ocean has made Europa one of the most compelling places in the solar system to study the conditions that might support life. But new research led by Rutgers scientist Lujendra Ojha suggests one of the most promising shortcuts to Europa’s ocean may be far more complicated than previously thought.

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Io’s volcanic output offers a 40‑day forecast of plasma density in Jupiter’s magnetosphere

A careful statistical comparison of observations recorded by NASA’s Juno mission and the Planetary Science Institute’s Io Input Output observatory (IoIO) shows that IoIO observations reliably predict the density of Jupiter’s plasma disk, an important part of Jupiter’s magnetosphere, according to a new Geophysical Research Letters paper co-authored by Planetary Science Institute Senior Scientist Jeff Morgenthaler. Jian-Zhao Wang of the University of Colorado Boulder is the paper’s lead author.

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BWC: Man grabs Nev. officer’s rifle during arrest

North Las Vegas officers responded to reports that the man was kicking doors and firing a gun at random; the man died following the arrest

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UK in pole position to lead key instrument in NASA’s hunt for Earth-like worlds

UK astronomers are a step closer to playing a leading role in NASA’s search for alien life in the coming decades as they continue developing one of the core instruments of the Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO). The exciting mission—the U.S. space agency’s next flagship space telescope after the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope—is expected to launch in the 2040s.

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Oxygen collisions at the LHC show new indications of extreme state of matter

All four main LHC experiments have found new signs that oxygen and neon collisions may create the extreme state of matter that existed during the first microseconds after the Big Bang.

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Ark. PD shares video of ‘Spiderman’ leaping into action to help wheelchair user cross street in traffic

“Some people say cops are heroes, but even we need a little helping hand,” the Jonesboro PD stated in a post sharing traffic camera footage of the superhero rescue

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World’s first ‘zinc oxide spin qubit’ could advance scalable quantum devices

A research team led by SKKU professor Hosung Seo of the Department of Quantum Information Engineering and the SKKU Advanced Institute of Nanotechnology, working with the University of Wisconsin–Madison and the University of Washington, has identified—for the first time—an atomic defect structure in the zinc oxide (ZnO) semiconductor with outstanding properties for use as a “spin qubit,” a core building block of future quantum computers, quantum communications and quantum sensors.

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Astronomers catch massive galaxy assembling piece by piece 1.2 billion years after Big Bang

Astronomers have discovered a remarkably tiny group of six young galaxies just 1.2 billion years after the Big Bang. This may be a rare glimpse of how some of the universe’s largest galaxies formed. The paper outlining the findings was submitted to the arXiv preprint server on July 13.

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Physicists turn to the universe’s ‘piano notes’ to detect hidden particles

It’s been said that a finely tuned ear knows the size and shape of a piano by merely listening to the instrument’s notes. An international team of physicists has now devised an analogous approach to detect the universe’s hidden particles at high energies—opening a potential pathway for discovering new laws of physics.

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Should scientists have research ‘reserves’ on the moon?

The worlds of the solar system are exciting and, so far, mostly pristine places for planetary scientists to study. As space missions continue to travel to Mars, Europa, asteroids and other worlds, questions arise about keeping them safe for continued exploration and observation.

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