Spacewalkers complete five-year effort to upgrade space station power supply

China creates the coldest man-made matter ever aboard the China Space Station

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Chinese scientists have successfully created the coldest man-made matter ever recorded aboard the China Space Station, cooling a cloud of rubidium atoms to just 9.7 trillionths of a degree above absolute zero – the lowest possible temperature in the universe – in a breakthrough that sets a new world record and opens fresh possibilities for exploring the mysteries of quantum physics and the universe, the Global Times learned from program insiders on Thursday.

Jury in murder trial sees graphic wounds to wife’s head and neck

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The jury in the trial of accused killer Robert Crawford has been shown images including a laceration caused “either by an object hitting her head, or her head hitting something”, according to a forensic pathologist.

‘I’m embarrassed’: Premier apologises after families uninvited in NYE ticketing bungle

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Thousands of people thought they’d won the experience of a lifetime when Transport for NSW offered them tickets to the Cahill Expressway on New Year’s Eve. Then they were uninvited.

Video-rate volumetric chemical imaging via mid-infrared photothermal optical diffraction tomography

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Chemical imaging can reveal cellular structures without labels, but capturing their rapid 3D dynamics remains challenging. Here, the authors develop mid-infrared photothermal microscopy for video-rate 3D chemical imaging, revealing diverse lipid droplet movements in living cells.

White House denies Hegseth, Rubio will leave jobs amid Republican election fallout

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COP31 faces tough test as climate threats mount

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Nearly 200 nations gather for the COP31 summit in Turkey on Monday but tensions over geopolitics, finance and fossil fuels are tempering expectations of a major breakthrough in tackling the climate crisis.