Image copyright Policeman Screenshot Jonty Bravery was 17 when he was charged with attempted murder. A teenager who threw a six-year-old boy from a 10th-floor balcony at London’s Tate Modern has been jailed for at least 15 years. Jonty Bravery, 18, of Northolt, planned an attack and attacked young children …
Read More »New ideas about energy levels in quantum dots
An electron within a quantum dot is raised by a photon (green waveform) to a higher energy level. The result is a so-called exciton, an excited state consisting of two electrons and a hole. By emitting a photon (green waveform), the system returns to the ground state (green path). In …
Read More »US Coronavirus: $ 600 unemployment benefit ending one week earlier
According to USA Today, the weekly unemployment benefit of $ 600 received by Americans who lost their jobs due to the COVID-19 pandemic “will disappear almost a week earlier than expected.” The benefit was included in the CARES Act passed by Congress in March in an attempt to mitigate the …
Read More »House approves measure to make Washington DC a state
The house approved a measure make Washington, DC the fifty-first state on Friday, marking the first time that a DC statehood proposal has been passed in either house of Congress. The legislation went from 232 to 180, and only one Democrat joined Republicans to vote against. The legislation, titled HR …
Read More »Carolina Panthers coach Matt Rhule becomes the second NFL coach to say he can kneel alongside his players.
Carolina Panthers head coach Matt Rhule said in a video conference with reporters Thursday that he is considering joining his players and kneeling down. “I would consider anything as we go along,” Rhule said. “I support the cause. I support the movement. I support social justice. I believe that for …
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