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Purdue’s Braden Smith is now the NCAA’s all-time assist leader‼️ He passes Duke legend Bobby Hurley with assist No. 1,077 👏

An unforgettable season comes to a close in the NCAA Tournament. Thank you Lady Bear nation for your support all season long! #LadyBears | #WeAreMoState | #MarchMadness

03/20/54: Bobby Plump wins it for Milan at Butler (Hinkle) Fieldhouse

LUKA DONCIC TONIGHT VS THE HEAT: 60 POINTS 7 REBOUNDS 5 STEALS 9 3PM 18/30 FG

WSJ: Tesla Finally Has Its First Semi-Truck and It’s Already a Hit With Truckers. "Truckers who drove it in pilot tests say they loved features including a centered driving position, faster charging and longer range for about $100,000 less than other battery-electric trucks. Angel Rodriguez, a 56-year-old truck driver for Hight Logistics in Long Beach, Calif., recently swapped out a 13-gear diesel truck for a Tesla Semi, which is automatic, for a one-month pilot test. “It’s just easier on your body. It’s less stressful because you’re not really having to engage the clutch and the stick shift.” Big F Transport employs five mechanics to service more than 40 diesel-powered rigs and a fleet of trailer chassis in Wilmington, Calif. “If we go all EV we will only need one [mechanic] to service chassis,” said Geovanny Melendez, the carrier’s VP of operations, who went to see the Semi earlier this month at a ride-and-drive event near the Port of Long Beach. Jennie Abarca, co-founder and CEO of King Fio Trucking in Long Beach, Calif., once worked as a truck dispatcher and her husband is a truck driver, so she knows all too well the toll a diesel engine takes on people’s lungs and hearing. She eventually wants to swap out King Fio’s 27 diesel trucks to create an all-electric fleet. King Fio already has 11 battery-electric trucks from Volvo and Nikola. But the company limits those trucks to shorter trips to and from local ports because they only have a range of about 225 miles. The Semi, by contrast, can travel 500 miles on a single charge, according to Tesla. For King Fio that means two or three round-trips a day from Long Beach to warehouses in the nearby Inland Empire or a single round-trip to Las Vegas. She has 20 Semis on order. “The Teslas change everything,” Abarca said. “It opens up a whole different type of delivery that I can make.”

We just saw the exact moment a star exploded for the first time ever. Astronomers have achieved a rare feat: imaging the exact moment a massive star detonated—and the explosion was anything but spherical. SN 2024ggi, a supernova located 22 million light-years away in the spiral galaxy NGC 3621, was detected a mere 26 hours after ignition. This extraordinarily early discovery allowed researchers to train the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope in Chile on the event while it was still in its infancy. Using the technique of spectropolarimetry—which analyzes the polarization of light to reveal geometric structure—the team uncovered a surprising truth: the expanding shockwave was distinctly aspherical, elongated into an “olive” or prolate shape along one primary axis. This asymmetry means the catastrophic rebound following the star’s core collapse did not propagate uniformly in all directions, directly contradicting the long-standing assumption that the deepest layers of a core-collapse supernova explode spherically. The progenitor was a red supergiant 12–15 times more massive than the Sun that had exhausted its nuclear fuel, triggering gravitational collapse of its iron core. In most supernovae, the initial shape of this breakout is quickly obscured as the blast wave slams into the star’s outer envelope. Here, however, astronomers captured polarized light signatures of the still-unobscured ejecta, freezing the explosion’s geometry in time. The discovery carries far-reaching consequences. It strongly suggests that asymmetry is common, if not universal, in the earliest phases of massive-star deaths. Current theoretical models, which often assume spherical symmetry at the core, will need significant revision. Moreover, these distorted explosions could help explain observed peculiarities in supernova remnants, the production of gamma-ray bursts, and the kicking of neutron stars and black holes to high speeds at birth. By catching a star in the act of dying asymmetrically, SN 2024ggi has given us a vivid glimpse into the violent, chaotic physics that govern the final heartbeat of the universe’s most massive stars. [🎞️ Artist’s animation of a supernova explosion] [Unique shape of star’s explosion revealed just a day after detection. ESO, 2025]

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To the Boilermakers out there gearing up for this Tourney run ... here's to us saying "Dig This" as we March -- 🚞 up. 🔨 down. ***(@christycunn dropping the hammer, 2001)

LUKA DONCIC LOBS TO LEBRON JAMES FOR THE SLAM DUNK!!!!

Missouri State moves on after beating Stephen F. Austin in the First Four!

Remembering Lou Holtz ☘️ On Monday, the Notre Dame community gathered in prayer and gratitude to honor a legendary coach and member of the Irish family. See moments of remembrance and appreciation from @PhotosND: go.nd.edu/5c4ef7

🚨 @RaphealDavis3 has an All-B1G National Championship with 3️⃣ teams in the Final Four 😳 Full bracket ⬇️

GAMEDAY ‼️ 🆚 (16) Stephen F. Austin | 8:00 p.m. 📍 Moody Center | Austin, Texas 📺 ESPN2 | tinyurl.com/3dx7bdau 📱 tinyurl.com/bde66ff2 📻 tinyurl.com/bdzbzbd6 📊 tinyurl.com/48ybucy4 🎟️ tinyurl.com/496heu5t #LadyBears | #WeAreMoState | #MarchMadness

NASA mapped the entire ocean floor using gravity from space.

What makes Mo State special? Bears who believe in the next generation! Join the celebration March 24-25 and see what happens when the Bear community comes together. #bearsgive

Team USA rocking game-worn USA Olympic hockey jerseys ahead of the #WorldBaseballClassic final. Bryce Harper wearing a Matthew Tkachuk jersey. SO awesome 🙌🏼

This is how the Milky Way actually rotates

Smoothest shot east or west of the Mississippi; still Purdue’s single-season 3pt% leader. Hall of Fame worthy Redd Foxx impersonation. Dear friend.

Inductee Highlight | Brandon Brantley 🏀 A 1991 Indiana All-Star and Andrean High School standout, the 6-foot-8 forward averaged 22.5 points, 12.1 rebounds and 4.0 blocks as a senior, leading Andrean to a 19–5 season and a third straight sectional title while finishing with 1,021 career points. At Purdue, he totaled 803 points, 591 rebounds and 114 blocks while helping the Boilermakers win three straight Big Ten championships and reach the Elite Eight. Brantley played professionally in Europe for 10 years, winning four rebounding titles and earning four team MVP honors. Since joining Purdue’s staff in 2013, he has helped guide the program to multiple Big Ten titles, deep NCAA Tournament runs and the 2024 national title game.

SpaceX Starship rocket garden