BWC: Officer fires shots from neighbor’s window, kills gunman in Mo. standoff

A St. Louis County officer fired from a neighbor’s window at a man who had been shooting at police and nearby homes

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Theory predicting an older universe without dark matter or dark energy passes key cosmological tests

An alternative model in which the universe is 26.7 billion years old and needs neither dark matter nor dark energy has held up against several major cosmology tests, according to a new University of Ottawa study. The research, titled “A Big Bang Nucleosynthesis Consistency Test of the CCC+TL Cosmology,” is published in the journal Universe.

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‘Tarpoleon Dynamite’ and his ‘TarpMobile’ sought in N.C. store break-ins

A criminal enterprise in Caldwell County has won the attention of social media after surveillance photos showed the getaway car roams the night wrapped in blue tarps

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Pakistani astronaut to board Shenzhou 24 and become the first foreigner on China’s space station

A Pakistani astronaut will join the crew of China’s Shenzhou 24 spacecraft on a mission that would make him the first foreign national to board Beijing’s space station, state media reported Saturday.

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Untangling the patterns of the cosmic microwave background to better understand the early universe

A figure in red trudges across a blanket of white. Snow squeaks under the scientist’s feet, too dry to be slick or soft. Only a line of flags and a few large buildings—the scientist’s destination—break up the landscape. The sun hovers on the horizon, never quite setting against a blue sky devoid of clouds.

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Air holes turn silicon wafers into flat ultraviolet focusing mirrors for compact optics

Traditional lenses and mirrors focus light using curved surfaces. Metasurfaces can achieve similar functions with a flat layer of nanoscale structures that locally control the phase of light. Extending these flat optics into the ultraviolet could support compact systems for high-resolution imaging, spectroscopy, and sensing, but it introduces a fundamental materials problem: many of the materials used to make metasurfaces strongly absorb UV light.

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Deputies shot in Wash. SWAT response identified

Spokane County Deputy Parker Perry and Deputy Mason Acheson were shot as they tried to break down the door of a home where a woman reported being shot by her brother

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Quantum gas microscope reveals individual atoms in first tunable three-component Hubbard system

For the first time, an international team of researchers from Germany, Thailand, India, China and the United States has created a three-component Hubbard system with tunable interactions in the laboratory. In doing so, the team used a quantum gas microscope to make the individual atoms visible. The study, published in Science, provides an important foundation for future quantum simulations of nuclear physics and materials science.

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Couple’s 10PM road crossing sighting on Route 542 between New Gretna and Wading River (Report 82683)

Class A; October 2026; New Jersey, Burlington County

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What the new LA Mayor’s public safety agenda could mean for LAPD

Los Angeles Mayor-elect Nithya Raman’s outline proposes expanding unarmed crisis response, changing police deployment and strengthening oversight of the Los Angeles Police Department

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Vibrating mirrors of light create analog of a black hole event horizon

Optical cavities are pairs of light-trapping mirrors and underpin the operation of lasers, atomic clocks and many types of precision sensors. If the distance between the mirrors is changed rapidly enough, some theories predict that the waves inside them should bunch together into short, intense pulses. So far, however, this prediction has never been tested directly.

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Robot successfully builds space structure in first autonomous construction demo

A robotic truss builder that was conceived, designed and built by Caltech researchers has successfully built a structure in space—without the help of astronauts—for the first time. The truss builder, part of DARPA’s Novel Orbital and Moon Manufacturing, Materials, and Mass-efficient Design (NOM4D) program, consists of an autonomous manipulator that picks up struts and joints held in nearby dispensers to repeatedly assemble identical sections, or bays, of a perimeter truss.

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Scientists achieve record-breaking low temperature on China’s space station, paving the way for new physics experiments

Matter starts to behave differently at extremely low temperatures, creating conditions ideal for studying quantum physics and new states of matter. Now, researchers from China have achieved a new low-temperature record aboard their Tiangong space station. Their research, recently published in Science, might lead to a new generation of experiments in quantum physics and precision measurements in space.

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LAPD officer dies during on-duty training exercise

Officer Thomas Denton, who joined LAPD in 2006, died while training with the dive team

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BWC: 2 Mass. officers wounded when suspect opens fire during ground struggle

Fall River police say the suspect, who was a convicted felon, had a handgun with a “switch”; the DA found the officers’ use of deadly force justified

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