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    A woman pleaded not guilty Monday to fatally stabbing a Kansas City, Missouri, paramedic while she was being transported in an ambulance Sunday. Shanetta Bossell, 39, is charged with first-degree murder, armed criminal action, assault, and resisting arrest, and is being held on $1 million bond, the AP reports.... Read more »
  • Child Damages Painting Worth $57M
    During what a museum spokesperson called an "unguarded moment," a child in the Netherlands damaged a painting worth nearly $57 million. Mark Rothko's Grey, Orange on Maroon, No. 8, was on display at Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam when the incident occurred, and it's not clear whether anyone will...... Read more »
  • Florida Man Accused of Killing Wife Found Dead in Prison
    A Florida businessman at the center of an international disappearance case was found dead in a Miami jail, less than a year after being charged with kidnapping and killing his estranged wife in Spain . David Knezevich, 37, was found dead from an apparent suicide Monday morning in the federal... Read more »
  • Man Has to Be Rescued Twice After Leaving Phone on Mt. Fuji
    A university student had to be rescued from Japan's Mt. Fuji last week, then had to be rescued again just five days later after he returned to the mountain to collect belongings he'd left there. The 27-year-old Chinese man, who is currently living in Japan, was first rescued Tuesday, though...... Read more »
  • Teen Who Stayed Home Lost His Family in Canada Attack
    A 16-year-old boy decided to stay home from Vancouver's annual Filipino heritage festival Saturday night because he had homework to finish. Within hours, his father, stepmother, and 5-year-old sister were dead after an SUV rammed the crowd at the Lapu Lapu Day festival , killing 11. Richard Le, Linh Hoang,... Read more »
  • Amazon Launches Starlink Rival
    Amazon has launched its first Project Kuiper internet satellites, signaling its official arrival in the fast-expanding race to blanket the globe with broadband from space. The company launched its first batch of 27 Project Kuiper internet satellites into orbit Monday from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, the AP reports. The...... Read more »
  • Deported Moms' Only Option Was to Take Kids: Lawyer
    The Trump administration insists the two mothers recently deported along with their young children—despite the fact that those children are US citizens , and one of them has cancer— chose to take their children with them . A lawyer representing one of the families says that's not so. "Here we... Read more »
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  • Physicists uncover hidden order in the quantum world through deconfined quantum critical points
    A recent study has unraveled some of the secrets concealed within the entangled web of quantum systems.... Read more »
  • Study on the reproducibility of behavioral experiments with insects now published
    A recent study provides evidence that some results of behavioral experiments with insects cannot be fully reproduced. So far, possible reproducibility problems have been little discussed in this context.... Read more »
  • Astronomers find Earth-like exoplanets common across the cosmos
    Astronomers have discovered that super-Earth exoplanets are more common across the universe than previously thought. While it can be relatively easy to locate worlds that orbit close to their star, planets with wider paths can be difficult to detect. Still, researchers estimated that for every three stars, there should be... Read more »
  • Nanophotonic platform boosts efficiency of nonlinear-optical quantum teleportation
    Researchers have long recognized that quantum communication systems would transmit quantum information more faithfully and be impervious to certain forms of error if nonlinear optical processes were used. However, past efforts at incorporating such processes could not operate with the extremely low light levels required for quantum communication.... Read more »
  • Scientists use James Webb Space Telescope to better understand solar system's origins
    Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), scientists analyzed far-away bodies -- known as Trans-Neptunian Objects (TNOs) -- and found varying traces of methanol. The discoveries are helping them better classify different TNOs and understand the complex chemical reactions in space that may relate to the formation of our solar... Read more »
  • Making AI-generated code more accurate in any language
    Researchers developed a more efficient way to control the outputs of a large language model, guiding it to generate text that adheres to a certain structure, like a programming language, and remains error free.... Read more »
  • Evidence blasted into space: Mystery why some meteorites look less shocked solved
    Carbon-containing meteorites look like they had less severe impacts than those without carbon because the evidence was blasted into space by gases produced during the impact. The discovery not only solves a 30-year-old mystery, but also provides guidelines for a future sampling mission to Ceres.... Read more »