https://twitter.com/cbs_spacenews/status/2000853393812672992QuoteWilliam Harwood@cbs_spacenewsA5/LEO 4: Assuming all goes well with today's launch, Amazon will have put 180 Leo sats in orbit using 4 United Launch Alliance Atlas 5s (27 Leos each) a...

Pakistani officials say an anti-terrorism court has sentenced a senior leader of a banned Islamist party to 35 years in prison for inciting violence

Phys.org Scientists have discovered a way to efficiently transfer electrical current through specific materials at room temperature, a finding that could revolutionize superconductivity and...

Jess Cockerill, Science Alert A plague that swept through Eurasia for 2,000 years - millennia before the

arXiv:2512.12590v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Wire harness inspection process remains a labor-intensive process prone to errors in the modern Electronics Manufacturing Services (EMS) industry. This paper introduces a semiautomated machine vision system capable of verifying correct wire positionin…

Antigovernment, anti-colonial group accused of targeting immigration agents and companies.

arXiv:2408.06069v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Deep Gaussian process models typically employ discrete hierarchies, but recent advancements in differential Gaussian processes (DiffGPs) have extended these models to infinite depths. However, existing DiffGP approaches often overlook the uncertai…

arXiv:2512.12870v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Active Learning (AL) has garnered significant interest across various application domains where labeling training data is costly. AL provides a framework that helps practitioners query informative samples for annotation by oracles (labelers). However,…

The surge in artificial intelligence investment that has buoyed world growth is set to continue and deliver longer-term gains, OECD Secretary General Mathias Cormann said.

UFC title holder IIia Topuria took a break from the sport in November to fight what he is calling "attempted extortion".

arXiv:2506.23046v3 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Humans continuously infer the states, goals, and behaviors of others by perceiving their surroundings in dynamic, real-world social interactions. However, most Theory of Mind (ToM) benchmarks only evaluate static, text-based scenarios, which have …

The chair of the House of Lords Environment and Climate Change Committee has written to the environment secretary expressing “deep disappointment” at the government’s response to its waste-crime inquiry.
The post Lords write to environment secretary over “complacent” response to waste crime inquiry …

Nordea Bank Abp announced a new share buyback worth as much as €500 million ($587 million) as it seeks to increase payouts to investors.

Liverpool great understood to be recovering wellClub thank hospital for giving ‘the best care possible’Ian Rush has been released from hospital having spent two days in intensive care last week with flu.The former Liverpool and Wales striker was admitted to the Countess of Chester hospital with brea…

Dashcam footage shows the moment Boris Gurman tackles shooter Sajid Akram and wrestles a gun from himDramatic footage has emerged of two victims who tried to stop a gunman during the early stages of the Bondi beach terror attack on Sunday.The couple have been identified as Boris Gurman, 69, and Sofi…

arXiv:2512.12900v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: We present a \emph{deterministic exact algorithm} for the \emph{minimum $k$-cut problem} on simple graphs.
Our approach combines the \emph{principal sequence of partitions (PSP)}, derived canonically from ideal loads, with a single level of \emph{Ka…

arXiv:2512.12391v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: $\renewcommand{\Re}{\mathbb{R}}$We present an efficient $O (n + 1/\varepsilon^{4.5})$-time algorithm for computing a $(1+\varepsilon$)-approximation of the minimum-volume bounding box of $n$ points in $\Re^3$. We also present a simpler algorithm (for …

QuoteDec 16 02:35ULA rocket factory tourOur journey to space begins in Decatur, Alabama at ULA's 2.2M square foot rocket factory. Long before the path to orbit, the missions start on the factory floor.

arXiv:2512.12837v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: AI-powered greenwashing has emerged as an insidious challenge within corporate sustainability governance, exacerbating the opacity of environmental disclosures and subverting regulatory oversight. This study conducts a comparative legal analysis of cr…

arXiv:2512.12132v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: This article establishes a comprehensive theoretical framework demonstrating that SiLU (Sigmoid Linear Unit) activation networks achieve exponential approximation rates for smooth functions with explicit and improved complexity control compared to cla…

QuoteDec 16 03:29T+plus 60 seconds. Atlas V is 9 miles in altitude and the main engine has throttled as programmed to minimize aerodynamic loads while the full complement of five side-mounted solid rocket boosters provides two-thirds of the launch p...

arXiv:2512.12751v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Physics-aware driving world model is essential for drive planning, out-of-distribution data synthesis, and closed-loop evaluation. However, existing methods often rely on a single diffusion model to directly map driving actions to videos, which makes …

arXiv:2512.11858v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Diffusion-based samplers -- Score Based Diffusions, Bridge Diffusions and Path Integral Diffusions -- match a target at terminal time, but the real leverage comes from choosing the schedule that governs the intermediate-time dynamics. We develop a pat…

France said on Monday the lumpy skin disease affecting cattle is under control in the country even as farmers continue a second week of protests against the government's handling of the virus by blocking highways with tractors and dumping manure. Lumpy skin disease is a virus spread by insects that …

Horizons Middle East & Africa is your daily spotlight on one of the world's fastest-growing regions. Live from Dubai, we bring you the latest global markets and analysis, plus news-making interviews, with a special focus on MEA. All that and more, as you head to the office in the Gulf, pause for lun…

Catherine E. Regan et al 2024 Planet. Sci. J. 5 130 A months-long dust storm raised the temperature of Mars’s atmosphere and increased the density of atmospheric water vapor and carbon dioxide, affecting the location of the induced magnetospheric boundary.
The post Effects of the 2007 Martian Global…

Clarissa Brincat, Pop Sci "Cooking is art—but baking is science," Bill Nye the...

Despite logging record a trade surplus, economic data for November showed China's domestic woes are deepening.  Retail sales grew at their slowest pace in three years and investment slowed sharply, signalling Chinese people and businesses are becoming increasingly cautious. Plus, Roomba maker iRobot…

arXiv:2512.13281v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Recent advances in video generation have produced vivid content that are often indistinguishable from real videos, making AI-generated video detection an emerging societal challenge. Prior AIGC detection benchmarks mostly evaluate video without audio,…

Twenty six people were killed at a beauty spot near Pahalgam in April after militants opened indiscriminate fire.

arXiv:2512.12131v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: The scale of transformer model pre-training is constrained by the increasing computation and communication cost. Low-rank bottleneck architectures offer a promising solution to significantly reduce the training time and memory footprint with minimum i…

Once prized fighters under the Tsars, Russia’s Cossack population was ostracised by authorities during the Soviet era. Under President Vladimir Putin, they have reintegrated into Russian society, acting as a supplementary police force and restoring their military status on the front lines in Ukraine…

"And we have to do everything we can to not make setting an example a lost art," the Late Night host said

Climate change will shape everything about life in Australia—from the homes we live in and the food we grow to the risks of bushfires, floods, and heat waves. But what will that future look like? We can't know without climate models.

Professional footballer players who became injured while on their period took longer to recover than when injuries occurred at other times of their menstrual cycle

European Union leaders are gathering this week at the end of political year dominated by U.S. President Donald Trump

Emma Chapman reviews Crush: Close Encounters with Gravity by James Riordon
The post Bring gravity back down to Earth: from giraffes and tree snakes to ‘squishy’ space–time appeared first on Physics World.

arXiv:2512.12395v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Generating articulated assets is crucial for robotics, digital twins, and embodied intelligence. Existing generative models often rely on single-view inputs representing closed states, resulting in ambiguous or unrealistic kinematic structures due to …

Explore SiC module innovations and converter designs unveiled at PCIM India.
The post SiC Modules, Converter Designs Come into Focus at PCIM India Debut appeared first on EE Times.

QuoteDec 16 02:16Today's launch comes as the Atlas V rocket marks 23 years in service. The launch system has demonstrated unmatched reliability since 2002, successfully launching scientific spacecraft to Mars on five different occasions, plus resear...

José Antonio Kast was elected Chilean president on December 14, the first far-right leader in the country since the fall of Augusto Pinochet in 1990. An ultraconservative, the 59-year-old won 58% of the popular vote, with the moderate communist Jeannette Jara, supported by a broad leftist coalition,…

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said on Tuesday that a father and son who opened fire at a Jewish festival on Sydney’s Bondi Beach appeared to be driven by Islamic State group ideology. Sajid Akram and his son Naveed killed 15 people at a Hanukkah celebration, in what authorities called a…

Cooper Flagg, 18, becomes the youngest player in NBA history to score at least 40 points in a game.

QuoteDec 16 03:02The fuel fill sequence is beginning. This procedure releases RP-1 kerosene fuel into the RD-180 main engine in preparation for ignition.

From tender coming of age stories to images that question the meaning of home, Ed Alcock’s photography blurs the personal with the political Continue reading...

A French court on Monday sentenced ex-rebel leader Roger Lumbala to 30 years in jail after finding him guilty of complicity in crimes against humanity in the Democratic Republic of Congo in 2002-2003.

Reiner and Singer were found dead inside their Brentwood home on Saturday evening (Dec. 14).

F-16s bring down unmanned aerial vehicle in the latest incident in Turkish territories

Keir Starmer urged to ‘stand up for the BBC’ after US president files $10bn lawsuit against corporationBBC bosses are “right to stick by their guns” against Donald Trump, a minister has said, after the US president filed a $10bn lawsuit against the corporation.The UK government is under pressure to …

A 2022 astronaut photo shows a thick blanket of snow covering Yellowstone Lake, transforming the frozen body of water into a featureless white void. But below the ice lie some of Earth's hottest hydrothermal vents.

arXiv:2512.13638v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Tile-based many-Processing Element (PE) accelerators can achieve competitive performance on General Matrix Multiplication (GEMM), but they are extremely hard to program, as their optimal software mapping is deeply coupled with hardware design which is…

arXiv:2512.11811v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Crowdsourced street-view imagery from social media provides valuable real-time visual evidence of urban flooding and other crisis events, yet it often lacks reliable geographic metadata for emergency response. Existing Visual Place Recognition (VPR) m…

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Early season chaos has given way to an approach based on solidity and utilising the squad’s attacking strengthsThe table does not lie and Nottingham Forest were proudly fifth in the Premier League on Sunday night. Admittedly, the reality is they sit 16th but since Sean Dyche took over as manager onl…

Indonesian filmmaker Joko Anwar has been awarded the Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French government, receiving the prestigious cultural honor at a ceremony held at the French Ministry of Culture in Paris. French Minister of Culture Rachida Dati presented the award, recognizing…

arXiv:2506.00227v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Video diffusion techniques have advanced significantly in recent years; however, they struggle to generate realistic imagery of car crashes due to the scarcity of accident events in most driving datasets. Improving traffic safety requires realisti…

arXiv:2512.11892v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Artificial Intelligence (AI) is rapidly becoming a foundational layer of social, economic, and cognitive infrastructure. At the same time, the training and large-scale deployment of AI systems rely on finite and unevenly distributed energy, networking…

Private credit groups, hedge funds and other institutions account for more than half of global financial assets

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arXiv:2407.13882v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Hutchins' Pure Subtype Systems (PSS) offer a unified framework for types and terms, promising significant advancements in language design for features like dependent types and higher-order subtyping. However, the theory has been hampered by a crit…

Unemployment rises slightly as job vacancies flatline in a "subdued labour market"

The country’s southern regions have long been a breeding group for radical Islamic militancy, attracting foreign fighters to a network of shadowy training camps.

arXiv:2512.12790v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Neural Video Compression has emerged in recent years, with condition-based frameworks outperforming traditional codecs. However, most existing methods rely solely on the previous frame's features to predict temporal context, leading to two critical is…

Japan is lifting a megaquake advisory for the country’s northeastern coast, a week after a magnitude 7.5 earthquake struck off northern Japan that officials said had caused an increased risk of another major quake

arXiv:2507.05622v3 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: The widespread application of Deep Learning across diverse domains hinges critically on the quality and composition of training datasets. However, the common lack of disclosure regarding their usage raises significant privacy and copyright concern…

arXiv:2512.11846v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are characterized by their capacity of processing graph-structured data. However, due to the sparsity of labels under semi-supervised learning, they have been found to exhibit biased performance on specific nodes. This kin…

Chile has become the latest country in Latin America to veer toward the right, electing a deeply conservative veteran politician who has long attracted comparisons to Donald Trump

A new report warns Deaf women experiencing domestic abuse in Scotland remain "effectively invisible" due to the chronic absence of specialist services and a lack of coordinated national support. Researchers say this gap leaves deaf victim-survivors without meaningful access to safety and advocacy.

There is no better place for cinephiles than New York. A film journalist brings us to raucous midnight screenings, gorgeous historic theatres, famous filmmaker Q&As and secret archives

arXiv:2011.10690v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: We study dynamic pricing of a product with an unknown demand distribution over a finite horizon. Departing from the standard no-regret learning environment in which prices can be adjusted at any time, we restrict price changes to predetermined poi…

https://t.me/zheleznyakov_spaceera/7714Google translate:QuoteA complete replacement kit for the service cabin on Launch Pad 31 has arrived at Baikonur.▶️ Launch readiness – late winter 2026

QuoteDec 16 03:29T+plus 1 minute, 35 seconds. We have solid rocket booster burnout as Atlas V accelerates over 3,000 mph. Jettison will occur once aerodynamic conditions are met a few seconds from now.

The judges convicted Lai of colluding with foreigners to boost the pro-democracy movement. Donald Trump’s name is mentioned 195 times in their verdict.

QuoteDec 16 03:29SRB separationT+plus 1 minute, 50 seconds. Solid rocket booster jettison is confirmed at an altitude of 30 miles. The GEM 63 motors have successfully separated from the Atlas V first stage, having completed their job.The five GEM ...

arXiv:2512.13333v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: As quantum computing advances toward practical deployment, it threatens a wide range of classical cryptographic mechanisms, including digital signatures, key exchange protocols, public-key encryption, and certain hash-based constructions that underpin…

Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim said he would announce new members of his cabinet at 3:30 p.m. local time on Tuesday.

We all know eating too much sugar is bad for our health – but would we be better off replacing it with artificial sweetener? It’s a question Science Weekly listener Marion posed recently and, as Madeleine Finlay tells Ian Sample, the answer is complicated. She explains what the science says about su…

The attacks brought the number killed since the Trump administration began the strikes on suspected drug smugglers to at least 95.

Partnership between the British Beauty Council and MYGroup aims to capture cosmetic packaging not handled by kerbside collections.
The post UK beauty brands invited to join nationwide take-back scheme for hard-to-recycle packaging appeared first on Circular Online.

North Somerset Council and Noah’s Ark Zoo Farm are aiming to repurpose up to 4,000 Christmas trees this winter, expanding a long-running partnership designed to reduce seasonal waste and support environmental and community initiatives. Thousands of Christmas trees are set to be given a second life i…

In this edition of our arts24 music show, Jennifer Ben Brahim chats with the frontman of British band The Spitfires, Billy Sullivan, as well as French musician Gaspard Royant. The Spitfires are back after having split up three years ago. The indie rock, nu-mod band are celebrating their musical rena…

QuoteDec 16 01:42Filling of the first stage liquid oxygen tank has been completed. Topping mode is now underway.

Liz Kendall faces pressure from campaigners as she tells parliament there is no clear consensus on issue A campaign fronted by popstars including Elton John and Dua Lipa to protect artists’ works from being mined to train AI models without consent has received a boost after almost every respondent t…

The oil and gas industry must be legally bound to cut methane emissions. With climate tipping points approaching, time is running out • Mia Mottley is the prime minister of BarbadosThe timing is brutal. Just as the world celebrates the 10th anniversary of the adoption of the Paris climate agreement …

Chancellor’s claim to be helping trade met with disbelief in England and Wales amid soaring staff costs, energy bills and other overheadsEmma Harrison has begun to wonder how her business will survive in recent weeks. The managing director of the Three Hills pub in Bartlow, Cambridgeshire, is strugg…

Despite a 'concerning decline' in citation impact, there were, however, benefits to increasing remote interactions
The post Remote work expands collaboration networks but reduces research impact, study suggests appeared first on Physics World.

QuoteDec 16 01:44Centaur's liquid hydrogen tank is 50 percent full. The cryogenic propellant will be consumed with liquid oxygen by the stage's Aerojet Rocketdyne RL10C-1-1 engine.

Videos show celebrations after Jordan qualified for football’s Arab Cup final for the first time.

Investigators say the deadly Bondi Beach attack is being treated as 'terrorism' after evidence of ISIL influence found.

arXiv:2512.12760v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: The rapid acceleration of scientific publishing has created substantial challenges for researchers attempting to discover, contextualize, and interpret relevant literature. Traditional keyword-based search systems provide limited semantic understandin…

Around 1,000 years ago, a major climate shift reshaped rainfall across the South Pacific, making western islands like Samoa and Tonga drier while eastern islands such as Tahiti became increasingly wet. New evidence from plant waxes preserved in island sediments shows this change coincided with the f…

arXiv:2512.13106v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) has proven effective in training large reasoning models (LRMs) by leveraging answer-verifiable signals to guide policy optimization, which, however, suffers from high annotation costs. To alleviate…

Asian private equity firm Longreach Group is considering selling its majority stake in the hamburger chain Wendy’s First Kitchen in Japan, people familiar with the matter said.

Unless urgent action is taken life will be fundamentally altered for the ancient communities who live on its banksAs a leader of one of the oldest gnostic religions in the world, Sheikh Nidham Kreidi al-Sabahi must use only water taken from a flowing river, even for drinking.The 68-year-old has a lo…

Astrobites reports on a study that uses JWST to investigate how warm, star-forming molecular gas is blown away by active galactic nuclei.
The post Blowing Away Star Formation with Warm Molecular Gas appeared first on AAS Nova.

European leaders meeting in Berlin on Monday agreed that Ukraine required robust security guarantees, including a European-led "multinational force" with US support, before making any decisions on potential territorial concessions to Russia. A statement issued by 10 European leaders said security gu…

QuoteDec 16 02:49This is Atlas Launch Control at T-minus 4 minutes and holding, with 35 minutes remaining in this programmed hour-long hold.The launch team is not working any significant issues in the countdown that would preclude an on-time liftof...

QuoteDec 16 02:43The Atlas V, designated AV-111, is a two-stage rocket that incorporates five GEM 63 solid rocket boosters, features a single RL10C-1-1 engine on the Centaur upper stage and encapsulates the spacecraft in a 5.4-meter-diameter (17.7-f...

arXiv:2512.13488v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: An increasing variety of AI accelerators is being considered for large-scale training. However, enabling large-scale training on early-life AI accelerators faces three core challenges: frequent system disruptions and undefined failure modes that under…

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