• Uma equipe internacional, incluindo pesquisadores da University of Wisconsin–Madison, mediu a força dos jatos de partículas expelidos de um buraco negro no sistema Cygnus.
• Esta medição inédita confirma uma previsão feita por astrônomos da UW-Madison há uma década.
• As descobertas validam teorias de longa data sobre a mecânica dos jatos de buracos negros, avançando o entendimento da astrofísica.
Claudio Neves Valente, que se suicidou após o ataque mortal, começou a planejar a violência em 2022, afirmam autoridades. O atirador por trás de um tiroteio fatal na Brown University em dezembro parecia estar ressentido por fracassos pessoais e buscava retribuição contra aqueles que considerava responsáveis, disseram autoridades federais na quarta-feira. Mais de quatro meses depois que Claudio Manuel Neves Valente abriu fogo no campus da Ivy League, matando dois estudantes e ferindo outros nove, oficiais da divisão de Boston do FBI anunciaram que concluíram uma parte significativa de sua investigação sobre o atirador. Continue lendo...
O regulador do ensino superior da Inglaterra deve reconstruir a confiança com um setor problemático após uma série de erros sob a liderança anterior. Em sua breve e infeliz existência, o Office for Students da Inglaterra enfrentou uma série de desafios que, em grande parte, não conseguiu superar. Esta semana, o mais recente e embaraçoso deles foi revelado quando a alta corte rejeitou decisivamente as tentativas do órgão fiscalizador do ensino superior de multar a University of Sussex em mais de £ 500.000 por falhas regulatórias relacionadas ao período de Kathleen Stock como acadêmica em Sussex. Stock deixou Sussex em 2021, afirmando sentir-se ostracizada e visada por suas visões sobre identidade de gênero e direitos transgêneros. Este era o caso-teste de maior perfil que o OfS já enfrentou: um assunto de enorme controvérsia e sensibilidade, envolvendo questões fundamentais de liberdade acadêmica e liberdade de expressão. Mas, como agora sabemos pela decisão da juíza Mrs Justice Lieven, em sua pressa de intervir, o OfS acabou se atrapalhando completamente. Continue lendo...
• A decisão é um golpe para o Office for Students, após a aplicação de multa pela gestão de protestos sobre as opiniões de uma professora sobre direitos trans
• A Universidade de Sussex anulou uma multa de £585.000 imposta pelo órgão regulador do ensino superior da Inglaterra, depois que o tribunal de instância superior rejeitou alegações de que a universidade teria violado regulamentos de liberdade de expressão envolvendo sua ex-professora Kathleen Stock.
• A decisão é um golpe prejudicial à credibilidade e gestão do Office for Students, após o tribunal rejeitar a extensa investigação do regulador sobre a maneira como a Sussex lidou com os protestos direcionados a Stock devido às suas opiniões sobre direitos de pessoas transgênero e sua subsequente renúncia em 2021.
Hisham Abugharbieh was arrested after standoff with police and charged with killing Zamil Limon and Nahida BristyThe man who was detained after two Bangladeshi doctoral students went missing from the University of South Florida (USF) has been booked with two counts of murder.Hisham Abugharbieh faces two counts of premeditated murder in the first degree with a weapon in the deaths of Zamil Limon and Nahida Bristy, the Hillsborough county sheriff’s office announced on Saturday. Continue reading...
Hisham Abugharbeih, 26, taken into custody after remains of Zamil Limon found, as search for Nahida Bristy continuesThe body of one of two Bangladeshi doctoral students missing from the University of South Florida (USF) was found on a bridge over Tampa Bay, and his roommate has been taken into custody, law enforcement authorities said Friday.Zamil Limon’s remains were found on the Howard Frankland Bridge on Friday morning, but Nahida Bristy is still missing, Hillsborough county sheriff’s office chief deputy Joseph Maurer said. Continue reading...
Authors including Evelyn Araluen and Melissa Lucashenko say they won’t work with publisher after it dumps Jazz Money’s book illustrated by Matt Chun, who called Bondi victims ‘affluent beneficiaries of imperialism’Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastAn Australian publishing house has cancelled the publication of a children’s book by an award-winning Indigenous poet over comments the book’s illustrator made about the victims of the Bondi beach terror attack, whom he called “affluent beneficiaries of imperialism”.University of Queensland said on Wednesday its publishing house would not proceed with the publication of Bila, A River Cycle, written by Jazz Money and illustrated by Matt Chun, and was considering “recycling options” for already printed copies. Continue reading...
• Researchers at the University of Washington created an artificial photosynthesis prototype converting sunlight directly into storable chemical fuels with 13% efficiency, surpassing previous laboratory records of 8-10%.
• The system uses engineered nanostructures and novel catalysts to split water and fix carbon dioxide, producing methanol as a liquid fuel suitable for existing energy infrastructure, detailed in Nature Energy on April 21.
• The breakthrough could enable large-scale production of carbon-neutral synthetic fuels without competing for agricultural land, addressing both climate and energy security challenges.
Head of newly formed institution questions whether naming is ‘reflective of our current reality’ amid criticism of ‘shameful’ fossil fuel company promotionGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe newly formed Adelaide University is considering removing gas company Santos’s name from one of its buildings.On Saturday, students and conservationists rallied outside the Santos Petroleum Engineering building, calling on the university to dump the name because of the company’s new gas projects. Continue reading...
Rümeysa Öztürk, who faced deportation over pro-Palestinian op-ed, travels back to Turkey to begin careerSign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inboxRümeysa Öztürk, the Tufts University student who was targeted by the Trump administration last year in response to co-writing a pro-Palestinian op-ed, completed her doctorate in the US and traveled back to her native Turkey this week.Öztürk was detained last year by immigration agents in Massachusetts, with video of the Tufts University student’s arrest going viral. She was one of many international students targeted by the Trump administration for pro-Palestinian speech and activism during widespread protests, which were especially active on US college campuses, against Israel’s war in Gaza in response to the Hamas-led 7 October 2023 deadly attack on southern Israel. Continue reading...