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Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Every person suspected of a crime has a right to an attorney, yet the cost for that attorney—even a public defender—can differ from state to state. For individuals at or below the poverty level, costs can add up fast, regardless of whether they are found guilty or serve jail time. With the federal poverty level being less than $32,150 for a family of four, one hefty fine can mean the difference between paying utility or food bills or not.

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Could global positioning systems become more precise and provide more accurate details on distances for users to get from point A to point B? A study by University of Rhode Island assistant physics professor Wenchao Ge in collaboration with Kurt Jacobs, a physicist of quantum tech with the U.S. Army, which was recently published by Physical Review Letters, may lead to more enhanced quantum sensing and make such detection data more definitive.