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BWC: Man fires ‘homemade flamethrower’ at Okla. deputies serving eviction

The suspect, who had also rigged an IED in the apartment, was arrested by Oklahoma County Sheriff’s deputies after the bomb squad responded and deactivated the devices

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N.Y. governor, AG sue sheriff’s office for refusing to end ICE agreement

Rensselaer County Executive Steve McLaughlin has maintained he has no intention of dissolving the county’s prison

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Diamond clock combines two signals to cut temperature-driven drift

Despite all the advertisements for engagement rings and necklace gifts, natural diamonds are imperfect. Their carbon atoms are arranged in a cubic lattice, but they nonetheless contain several types of crystallographic defects due to impurities that occasionally replace a carbon atom. The most common types of impurities are nitrogen and boron; “Type I” diamonds contain nitrogen impurities, which can be isolated or clustered, at concentrations of up to 1%, and make up about 95% of all natural diamonds.

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NASA telescope honors Nancy Grace Roman, architect of space-based astronomy

The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is set to launch this weekend aboard a SpaceX rocket from Kennedy Space Center in Florida. When it becomes operational early next year, it will transform our view of the universe.

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Light reveals internal motion in electron crystals and can trigger their melting

Electrons, particles that carry a negative electric charge, typically move through materials. At low densities and temperatures, however, the electrical repulsion between them can overpower their tendency to move, prompting them to arrange themselves into ordered patterns known as Wigner crystals.

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Will new telescope Roman help reveal long-kept secrets of the universe? Q&A with an expert

On Sunday, Aug. 30, the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is expected to launch from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The observatory will join the Hubble Space Telescope, launched in 1990, and the James Webb Space Telescope, launched in 2021, in scanning the vastness of space and potentially finding answers to longstanding mysteries of the universe.

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Discovery reveals rapid pathways to complex aromatic molecules in space

A team of researchers led by the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Department of Chemistry has uncovered a faster way large carbon-based molecules may form in space, helping solve a long-standing mystery about how some of the building blocks of the universe grow.

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ASTRID traces 13.5 billion years of black hole and galaxy evolution

In dark skies at night, distant starlight twinkles and speaks to vast cosmic histories almost as old as time itself. New data from instruments such as NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope are helping astrophysicists probe deep cosmic mysteries, including the evolution of black holes and galaxies.

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Milky Way’s own gravity can mimic dark matter clues, stellar stream simulations suggest

Most of the stars in our Milky Way galaxy sit neatly on a flat plane. But the space around our galaxy is much more chaotic. Rogue bands of stars called “stellar streams” orbit the Milky Way much like planets in our solar system orbit the sun.

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Fast but error-prone AI assists in solving a decades-old fluid mechanics problem in five weeks

An AI assistant helped University of Colorado Boulder researchers solve a mathematical problem that had challenged their lab for a year and a half, though it made subtle errors along the way. The breakthrough could improve how scientists study nanoparticles—tiny particles about 1,000 times thinner than a human hair—but it reveals both the promise and limitations of AI as a scientific research partner.

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Seattle PD ends hiring incentives amid budget crunch

The department will end hiring incentives of up to $50,000 for new recruits and lateral transfers starting Sept. 1

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BWC: Man hiding in bushes grabs Va. officer’s gun before OIS

The suspect, who Fairfax County police said had fled a domestic incident armed with two knives, was held without bond

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ATLAS and CMS narrow in on twin Higgs production

Finding one Higgs boson was hard enough, but physicists at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) are hunting for something even more elusive: pairs of Higgs bosons. At the recent International Conference on High Energy Physics 2026, the ATLAS and CMS collaborations presented new constraints on the double-Higgs production rate, providing insight into how the Higgs boson interacts with itself.

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The physics of kiiking, Estonia’s extreme sport of swinging

When an athlete swings upside down atop a 7-meter (23-foot) pendulum, it may seem like a feat of strength, courage or technique. A new study suggests it is something more fundamental: a striking demonstration of how intelligence emerges from the interaction of brain, body and environment.

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NASA Johnson pilots chase moon’s shadow for eclipse science

During the Aug. 12 total solar eclipse over Europe, scientists aimed to study a long-standing mystery: why the sun’s outer atmosphere, the corona, is far hotter than its visible surface. Capturing the data they needed meant being in exactly the right place at the right time.

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