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Nobel physicist key to world’s 1st gravitational wave discovery in Eastern WA dies  Tri-City Herald Professor Emeritus Rainer Weiss, influential physicist who forged new paths to understanding the universe, dies at 92  MIT News Nobel prize winner and gravitational wave pioneer Rainer Weiss dies at 92  Space Rainer Weiss, Who Gave a Nod to Einstein and the Big Bang, Dies at 92  The New …

Aug 28, 2025, 08:59 PM ET PHILADELPHIA — Phillies slugger Kyle Schwarber homered in four of his first five at-bats, pushing his season total to 49, in Philadelphia’s 19-4 win over the Atlanta Braves on Thursday night. Schwarber is the fourth Phillies player to hit four homers in a game and the first since Mike Schmidt against the Chicago Cubs …

Astronomers have discovered a hungry baby planet gobbling up material around an infant star located around 430 light-years from Earth. The planet has been given the suitably cute name WISPIT 2b. WISPIT 2b is estimated to be a gas giant around the size of Jupiter and around just 5 million years old. If this seems ancient, remember our solar system …

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has observed the interstellar visitor 3I/ATLAS for the first time. The powerful space telescope trained its infrared vision and its Near-Infrared Spectrograph instrument (NIRspec) on the comet on Aug. 6, 2025. Discovered on July 1 by the ATLAS (Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System) survey telescope, 3I/ATLAS is just the third-ever object found drifting through …

Cal Raleigh becomes 1st Mariner with 50 HRs since Ken Griffey Jr. \n\n”,”providerName”:”Twitter”,”providerUrl”:”https://twitter.com”,”thumbnail_url”:null,”type”:”oembed”,”width”:550,”contentType”:”rich”},{“__typename”:”Markdown”,”content”:”Raleigh won an eight-pitch battle with lefty JP Sears by working into a full count after falling behind 0-2 and crushing a 92.9 mph, low-and-in fastball 419 feet into the second deck at T-Mobile Park.”,”type”:”text”},{“__typename”:”Markdown”,”content”:”* Latest MVP poll: New AL favorite emerges“,”type”:”text”},{“__typename”:”Markdown”,”content”:”“I was just trying to fight, honestly, …

The Maryland Department of Health said Friday that an adult living in central Maryland has tested positive for West Nile virus, which is the first confirmed human case in the state so far this year. The Maryland Department of Health said Friday that an adult living in central Maryland has tested positive for West Nile virus, which is the first …

Chicago Bears preseason finale: Caleb Williams and offensive starters play ‘sloppy football’ in 1st half  Chicago Tribune Ben Johnson sounds off on Bears’ rough first half vs. Chiefs  Bears Wire QB Caleb Williams unconvincing against Chiefs’ starters as Bears’ backups rally for 29-27 win  Chicago Sun-Times Bears’ Ben Johnson slams ‘sloppy’ offense: ‘Not good enough’  ABC7 Chicago Bears Nightcap: Some Good, Some Bad, and …

New England Patriots head coach Mike Vrabel looks down during a press conference at Gillette Stadium.(Nick O’Malley, MassLive) The morning after his team’s preseason finale, New England Patriots coach Mike Vrabel announced the first wave of players that have been cut. Vrabel opened up his press conference on Friday by revealing that he and Eliot Wolf had met with the …

As Tania Rodrigues drove to work one morning in January 2024, something unusual happened with her vision. “All of a sudden, I was looking through a kaleidoscope or perhaps like a fly’s eye,” the 66-year-old from Marin County, California, tells TODAY.com. “Everything that was in front of me on the road was now in multiples.” For about 20 years, Tania …

In world 1st bid to cure paralysis, Israeli team gears up to implant innovative spinal cord  The Times of Israel Israel to carry out world’s first spinal cord transplant  The Jerusalem Post Israel to Perform World’s First Human Spinal Cord Implant  VINnews The first human spinal cord repair using the patient own cells  EurekAlert! First Spinal Cord Transplant to Take Place in Israel  IFCJ Source …