Wilson said that Boeing wanted to use its torque device because it could operate in this tight space and with the force and precision needed.

According to the lawsuit, after some initial discussions, Boeing arranged for a "live" demonstration of Wilson's torque device, during which participants could handle and operate it to verify the tool's capability and performance. What Wilson claims it did not realize, however, is that some of the participants in this demonstration were not Boeing employees.

"Wilson later learned that at least seven of those in attendance for the live presentation were external to Boeing and were, at the time, employees of Wilson’s direct competitors," the lawsuit states. "This fact was concealed from Wilson who was deceived by Boeing and the 'Bogus Boeing Employees' into giving the presentation by falsely suggesting to Wilson that everyone was a Boeing employee."

The complaint alleges that Boeing subsequently used information from this demonstration, as well as proprietary drawings and designs, to work with Wilson's competitors to develop a cheaper solution. "Boeing concealed these facts from Wilson as part of its scheme to defraud Wilson and to transmit Wilson’s IP to its direct competitors," the lawsuit states.

Astronomers have detected a previously unknown supernova explosion more than 4 billion light-years away using a rare phenomenon called "gravitational lensing," which serves as a kind of cosmic magnifying glass. They described their discovery and its potential implications in a new paper published in the journal Nature Astronomy. Co-author Ariel Goobar, director of the Oskar Klein Center at Stockholm University, described the find as "a significant step forward in our quest to understand the fundamental forces shaping our universe."

Gravitational lensing is a direct consequence of the general theory of relativity: mass bends and warps spacetime, and light must follow that curvature. The phenomenon can form rare effects like an "Einstein ring" or an "Einstein cross." Essentially, the distortion in space-time caused by a massive object (like a galaxy) acts as a lens to magnify an object in the background. Since these aren't perfect optical-quality lenses, there are often some distortions and unevenness. This causes the light from the background object to take different paths to Earth, and thus a single object can appear in several different locations distributed around the lens. At cosmological scales, those paths can also require light to travel very different distances to get to Earth.

High concentrations of phosphorus, an essential element for all biological processes on Earth, have been detected in ice crystals spewed from the interior ocean of Saturn's moon Enceladus, adding to its potential to harbor life, researchers reported on Wednesday.

The discovery was based on data collected by NASA's Cassini spacecraft, the first to orbit Saturn, during its 13-year landmark exploration of the gaseous giant planet, its rings and its moons from 2004 to 2017.

The findings were published by a German-led international team of scientists in the journal Nature and announced by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) outside of Los Angeles, which designed and built the Cassini probe.

The same team previously confirmed that Enceladus' ice grains contain a rich assortment of minerals and complex organic compounds, including the ingredients for amino acids, associated with life as scientists know it.