Two-color light steers electrons through graphene’s transient topological state

The electronic properties of materials are typically determined by their structure under normal, undisturbed conditions, when they are in a state known as equilibrium. Intense light beams, however, can temporarily reshape a material’s electronic band structure (i.e., the range of energy states available to electrons), potentially giving rise to new electronic behaviors.

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Country boys have frightening nightime encounter 78 miles south of Louisville (Report 82512)

Class B; August 2026; Kentucky, Larue County

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Video: Man runs at Wash. deputy with replica gun before fatal OIS

A Spokane Valley deputy responded after a man was seen with an apparent handgun near a school; the deputy fired shots when the man ran up to the cruiser and pointed the replica firearm

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Report: Mass. police seized nearly 200 ghost guns in 2025

State and local police seized more than 2,300 illegal “crime” guns last year, at least 8% of which were privately made firearms that cannot be traced

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Scientists simulate cosmic crashes to test whether icy moons gain or lose their ability to sustain life

Many of the moons orbiting Saturn, Uranus and Neptune likely conceal oceans of liquid water beneath miles of icy shell. Because life as we know it needs water, these buried oceans rank among the most promising places to search for life beyond Earth.

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Man sentenced to at least 47 years in prison for shooting Mich. officer

Kenyun Robert Smith was sentenced to a minimum of 47 years in prison for the shooting of Kalamazoo Township Police Officer Evan Finch on March 27, 2025

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Physicists extend the search for quantum black holes at the LHC

Physicists at UC Santa Barbara have extended the search for evidence of microscopic black holes produced at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN). The formation of these tiny, fleeting objects at the LHC represents one way theorists have sought to resolve anomalies in our understanding of the basic structure of spacetime, while the method used to look for them demonstrates a new way of searching for new particles.

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Laser experiments recreate solar flare physics and reveal consistent magnetic reconnection rates

Magnetic reconnection is a process that occurs when the magnetic fields of a conductive plasma quickly rearrange and release massive amounts of stored magnetic energy. It is widely thought to be the underlying mechanism behind cosmic events such as solar flares and substorms in Earth’s magnetosphere.

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BWC: Man wielding a knife in each hand runs at Texas officer before fatal OIS

The San Antonio Police officer responded to a domestic disturbance report to find a man wielding two knives in the yard

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‘Miserable is not an option’: Pa. lieutenant shot 8 times in ambush that killed 3 officers details recovery

One year after an ambush killed Detective Sgt. Cody Becker, Detective Mark Baker and Detective Isaiah Emenheiser, York County Sheriff’s Lt. Dave Godfrey shares his story of survival and recovery

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Hubble spots an out-of-sync galaxy

Though the spiral galaxy in this new image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope seems serene, it hides a chaotic secret. This galaxy is NGC 4698, and it lies about 55 million light-years away in the constellation Virgo. It’s one of more than a thousand galaxies in the Virgo Cluster, the nearest large cluster of galaxies bound together by gravity.

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An extremely stable quantum gas offers a new lens on strongly interacting systems

Molecular gases are a new form of artificial quantum matter. However, when these molecules collide, they are often lost extremely rapidly. Researchers from Radboud University and Columbia University have been able to suppress this collisional loss, paving the way for strongly interacting quantum matter. This new artificial quantum matter allows researchers to study quantum behavior relevant to electrons in real materials. Their results are published in Science.

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Ill. K-9 dies following training incident

Hancock County Sheriff’s Office K-9 Cato died after hitting a glass door and sustaining a neck injury

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From the start, the solar system chose fire over ice to build its first bodies

When the solar system first took up the task of building solid bodies—such as planets, moons and protoplanets—it basically had a choice between two ingredients: heat-forged chondrules, which were millimeter-sized bits of rock, and matrix, a fine-grained, cold dust loaded with water ice and organic molecules. And from the get-go, the solar system chose fire.

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Time is running out to catch a giant planet’s strange orbit

A team of researchers, including those from the University of Tokyo, spotted a rare kind of planet that’s unusually hot and eccentric. TOI-1355 b orbits its star, TOI-1355, which is also much hotter than our sun, in a strange way and incredibly quickly, completing an orbit in about two Earth days. The work is published in the journal Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan.

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