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Light technology is at the heart of many cutting-edge innovations, from high-speed internet to advanced medical imaging. However, transmitting light through challenging environments, such as turbulent atmospheres or deformed optical systems, has always posed a significant hurdle. These complexities can distort and disrupt the light field, making it difficult to achieve clear and reliable results. Scientists have long sought ways to overcome these limitations, and a new breakthrough may hold the key to advancing practical applications.

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Key to winning a cricket match is tricking the other team’s batters—no small feat, as bowlers bowl cricket balls nearly 100 miles per hour. In recent years, a bowling technique that has become popular involves keeping the arm almost entirely horizontal during delivery, notably used by Sri Lankan stars Lasith Malinga and Matheesha Pathirana. The aerodynamics of such deliveries have perplexed sports physicists.

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An international team of astronomers has reported the discovery of a new brown dwarf, which received designation TOI-2490 b. The newfound object is about 74 times more massive than Jupiter and orbits a sun-like star on a highly eccentric orbit. The finding was detailed in a paper published August 8 on the pre-print server arXiv.

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That the universe began seems astonishing. What brought it about? What forces were involved? How did the laws of nature generate the vast expanse of billions of galaxies of billions of stars and planets in the structures that we see today? What new physics was involved? What more must we learn?

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Alexander Vilenkin is the Leonard and Jane Bernstein Professor and Director of the Institute of Cosmology at Tufts University. A theoretical physicist who has been working in the field of cosmology for 35 years, Vilenkin has written over 150 papers and is responsible for introducing the ideas of eternal inflation and quantum creation of the universe from nothing. His work in cosmic strings has been pivotal.

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Toxoplasma gondii culture and maintenance.

Type I RH and type II Pru and ME49 strain T. gondii were grown in HFF in high-glucose Dulbecco’s modified Eagle’s medium (DMEM) supplemented with 4 mM l-glutamine, 10% fetal bovine serum (FBS) and 1% penicillin/streptomycin or 20 μg ml−1 gentamicin antibiotics (‘complete DMEM’) at 37 °C with 5% CO2. Cultures were monitored daily and T. gondii were passaged by transferring 1–3 drops (20–100 μl) of the supernatant of a lysed dish (containing extracellular parasites) into a fresh dish with confluent HFF cells. Type I RH and type II Pru strains were validated by PCR–restriction-fragment length polymorphism (primers described in Supplementary Table 1)81 or by passage into Cre Reporter cell lines to confirm Cre recombination as previously described16.

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Security experts are warning that a background check site may have been breached, resulting in the potential exposure of billions of Social Security and address records that could cover everyone in the United States.

As BleepingComputer reports, a hacking forum lit up when a user claimed to have access to a huge cache of documents gleaned from data brokerage National Public Data.

Though it doesn’t share its methodology on its website, NPD is believed to scrape its data from publicly available records to create individual user profiles generally used by private investigators or in background or criminal records checks.

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