After nearly five years on Mars, NASA's Perseverance rover has traveled almost 25 miles (40 kilometers), and the mission team has been busy testing the rover's durability and gathering new science findings on the way to a new region nicknamed "Lac de Charmes," where it will be searching for rocks to…

We must do far more to address the national crisis of addiction that leaves so many households in despair as well as danger.

Reagent-free (photo)electrochemical systems effectively break down cobalt–organic complexes while simultaneously recovering cobalt, presenting a promising strategy for advanced wastewater treatment and resource recovery.

Vote on Isaacman, private astronaut and Mars missions advocate, passes 67-30 for him to be agency’s 15th leaderThe US Senate on Wednesday confirmed billionaire private astronaut Jared Isaacman to become Donald Trump’s Nasa administrator. The confirmation makes an advocate of Mars missions and an all…

arXiv:2512.14424v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: The advancement to 6G calls for waveforms that transcend static robustness to achieve intelligent adaptability. Affine Frequency Division Multiplexing (AFDM), despite its strength in doubly-dispersive channels, has been confined by chirp parameters op…

Rep. Mike Lawler (R-N.Y.) on Wednesday said President Trump’s national address has to focus on affordability as Americans grapple with rising prices. “Look, I'm sure he's going to highlight the work that the administration and Congress have done throughout the course of this year. But the focus has …

For often-underfunded non-profits, merch can help raise funds and visibility – here are gifts that support animal conservation, civil liberties and public media19 unique small business gifts that beat predictable US big brandsSign up for the Filter US newsletter, your weekly guide to buying fewer, b…

Just 18 percent of respondents approve of the job congressional Democrats are doing, according to a Quinnipiac survey released Wednesday, while 73 percent disapprove. That approval rating marks a new low since Quinnipiac began asking the question in 2009, surpassing the 19 percent of voters who appr…

The camera is a vintage-inspired model that you can get just in time for the holidays.

Exclusive: UK government’s ‘naive belief’ that Trump is a good faith actor ‘could cost UK taxpayer billions’, says health select committee chair Ministers and senior MPs have warned that the UK’s agreements with Donald Trump are “built on sand” after the Guardian established that the deal to avoid d…

That slice of full-fat cheese might not just be indulgent—it could be linked to a healthier brain. A large new study suggests that people who regularly eat high-fat cheese and cream may have a lower risk of developing dementia later in life. High-fat cheeses are defined as containing more than 20% f…

How is it December already? What happened to 2025? And how did we suddenly jump from eating Easter eggs to putting up Christmas trees?

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Similar to previous releases, the release of Kubernetes v1.35 introduces new stable, beta, and alpha features. The consistent delivery of high-quality releases underscores the strength of our development cycle and …

Great, he got more than 2/3 of the votes! The last thing now is that he has to be sworn-in (probabaly by VP Vance).

Micron has been a victim of souring AI sentiment lately, but its upbeat outlook has Wall Street now feeling better about the path forward.

Ten years on from 'The Force Awakens', we look back at what's gone right and what's gone wrong.

FIFA's first true soccer sim after the end of its EA partnership will be available exclusively on Netflix, the streaming service announced. This "reimagined FIFA football simulation game" will be developed and published by Delphi Interactive, and be available to Netflix subscribers next year, right …

arXiv:2509.24102v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Moral reasoning has emerged as a promising research direction for Large Language Models (LLMs), yet achieving generalization remains a central challenge. From a linguistic standpoint, this difficulty arises because LLMs are adept at capturing dist…

From CSI to Amsterdam, check out the characters Swift has played on screen.

Despite the fact that Mount Vesuvius triggered one of the most infamous ancient tragedies, not everyone agrees on exactly when it took place.

In a new study published in The Crop Journal on November 7, researchers developed an AI model named TillerPET that enables simultaneous in-situ high-throughput phenotyping of tiller number and compactness from post-harvest rice RGB images. It demonstrates stable performance across multi-year, multi-…

Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch says defence "must be the first priority of any government".

President Donald J. Trump is set to deliver a primetime national address from the White House at 9 p.m. ET on Wednesday. The address, set to focus on Trump’s economic record and his 2026 policy priorities, comes at a critical moment for the Republican leader. The president’s handling of tariff-linke…

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The US Securities and Exchange Commission is permitting dozens of asset managers including BlackRock, JPMorgan, Fidelity and State Street to offer multi-share class funds.

From cases and screen protectors to controllers and chargers, here’s everything you need for your brand-new Switch 2.

YouTube announced that it will no longer share data with Billboard for the creation of the Billboard Hot 100 and other charts because the video platform doesn't believe they're calculated fairly. The issue lies, per YouTube, with how Billboard weighs on-demand streams in its rankings: The publicatio…

NASA is at an inflection point. 2026 will now begin with a newly-confirmed Jared Isaacman as a NASA Administrator with the White House directive to beat China back to the moon with astronauts. On the science side, we hope that NASA will continue its in-depth exploration of the Earth, solar system an…

Every living being must cope with a changing world—summer gives way to winter, one year it floods and the next is a drought. It's obvious that populations of plants and animals must constantly face new challenges, says University of Vermont scientist Csenge Petak. But what's not obvious is how these…

Brennan Lee Mulligan takes us to a sun-scorched post-apocalyptic adventure in this trailer for the next season of "Dimension 20," entitled "Gladlands."

Scientists have expressed alarm about the dominant version of the virus that’s circulating now.

American Jews are arguing with one another in a moment of real danger. That fear is heartbreaking and regrettably justified. But fear does not confer moral license. It does not excuse contempt, nor absolve us of the obligation to argue with care rather than cruelty.
The post Civility Is a Discipline…

From one favorite child to another: here’s how to keep that title this Christmas with one of these top-rated gifts

The region has faced significant flooding in the last week. Powerful winds from another storm have compounded the misery.

Data compromises carry real financial risk to organizations. It's imperative to invest in the right multifunctional data protection software that ensures security.

Cheese can be part of a brain-healthy diet and might even help lower dementia risk, researchers in Sweden have concluded.

OpenAI Group PBC is in talks to raise at least $10 billion from Amazon.com Inc., The Information reported late Tuesday. The retail and cloud giant is no stranger to investing in large language model startups. It’s the biggest backer of Anthropic PBC, OpenAI’s top rival. A few weeks ago, Amazon Web S…

A dispute on a Brooklyn street appeared to explode after the perpetrator accosted the victim with antisemitic statements, the police said.

Gaza's health ministry says one baby has died from hypothermia and 11 other people have died in building collapses over the past week.

How can merchants trust agentic transactions? Visa and Akamai's partnership is here to help.

The main dark-money group backing Kamala Harris and Joe Biden raised a staggering $613 million last year, while its pro-Trump counterpart brought in $275 million, new filings show.

A woman who was once a child bride in Afghanistan escaped, along with her infant son, and found her way years later to winning third place at a bodybuilding competition, representing Norway. NBC News’ Daniele Hamamdjian reports on Roya Karimi’s journey.

Government announces return to Erasmus study scheme in 2027.

From best-selling vibrators to penis rings, these sex toys will bring more joy to their world

Children under the age of 16 needed protecting and the moral argument wasn’t winning. Government regulation can change the terms of debateOn 10 December, the world watched as Australia enacted the first social media ban for under-16s. Whether it will have the desired effect of improving young people…

The 13-inch M4 Apple MacBook Air is on sale for just $749 at Amazon and Best Buy (or $250 off). That's a record-low price for most of its colorways.

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Bitcoin’s most entrenched investors are still cashing out — and the pressure is starting to show.

Prasad's exit comes after Amazon struggled to show its internal AI efforts could match those of rivals—and just as reports surface that Amazon is discussing a big investment into OpenAI

It's currently priced lower than the best deal I saw on Black Friday.

Brendan Carr’s declaration raises concerns amid Trump efforts to exert greater control over independent agenciesThe Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is not an “independent” agency, its chairman suggested on Wednesday, as the word was scrubbed from its online mission statement.Brendan Carr’s d…

Learn about CUWiP+, a special event to build connection and confidence among women and non-binary students
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Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Senate Democrats will speak with reporters Wednesday afternoon to unveil a new initiative to lower costs. Democrats have leaned heavily into the affordability message in recent weeks, following a slew of key election wins and as high prices and infla…

The Senate on Wednesday passed a bill by Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) aimed at boosting military helicopter safety, particularly around Reagan Washington National Airport, after a battle in recent days to have it included in the National Defense Authorization Act. Cruz sought and received unanimous conse…

Robinhood rolls out updates to its AI assistant and prediction market offerings. Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev addressed concerns about integrity and consumer protection in prediction markets. He said that sports-prediction markets are regulated entirely differently from sports betting, and have had the …

President Trump on Wednesday met with the families of U.S. servicemembers who were killed in Syria last weekend and participated in a dignified transfer, a solemn ceremony where the troops’ remains are returned to the U.S. Trump attended the proceedings at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware for Sgt. …

Everyone’s favorite interstellar comet posed for one more portrait recently. The European Space Agency’s XMM-Newton mission nabbed 3I/ATLAS on December 3rd from about 283 million kilometers distant. This comes as the comet is set to make its closest passage versus Earth this coming Friday, on Decemb…

House GOP moderates on Wednesday privately huddled with a bipartisan group of senators to begin plotting the next steps on extending the Affordable Care Act’s enhanced subsidies. The meeting came after four Republicans broke ranks and signed a Democratic-led discharge petition, pushing it to the 218…

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The company said that it would revisit opportunities for third-party partnerships in the future.

Nineteen-year-old Freesia Gaul built a VR prototype thanks to MIT OpenCourseWare classes that provided “a solid foundation of knowledge and problem-solving abilities.”

arXiv:2512.14240v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: This paper addresses the problem of learning reaction-diffusion (RD) systems from data while ensuring physical consistency and well-posedness of the learned models. Building on a regularization-based framework for structured model learning, we focus o…

The news highlights YouTube's growing dominance in the television space and a major shift as streaming takes on more live events.

The fictional station was brought to life by a U.K. media company as a real-world pop-up running through the end of the year — and radio veterans say it gets every detail right

arXiv:2508.01031v4 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Computer Aided Design (CAD) plays a pivotal role in industrial manufacturing but typically requires a high level of expertise from designers. To lower the entry barrier and improve design efficiency, we present an agent for CAD conceptual design p…

The district attorney in Atlanta addressed a Republican-led committee created to investigate her conduct during her prosecution of President Trump last year.

It comes as the US justice department faces a 19 December deadline to release all files related the investigation into Jeffrey Epstein.

Even adversaries of Jack Smith, the former special counsel, conceded that his tight-lipped, painstaking approach made tripping him up particularly difficult.

Plus: Jay Wheeler and Morat's "Sin Ti" hits No. 1 on Latin Pop Airplay.

Cops may be fined for jailing a man over his Facebook posts.

arXiv:2512.14319v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: We analyze strategic complexity across all 960 Chess960 (Fischer Random Chess) starting positions. Stockfish evaluations show a near-universal first-move advantage for White ($\langle E \rangle = +0.30 \pm 0.14$ pawns), indicating that the advantage…

Medline’s stock soared more than 40% above its IPO price on Wednesday, its first day of trading.

Antivirus helps keep your devices safe. Anti scam tech helps keep your decisions safe. Both matter in a digital world where trickery is quick, clever, and absolutely everywhere.

Europe's new Ariane 6 rocket successfully placed two satellites into orbit to join the EU's rival to the GPS navigation system on Wednesday after the mission blasted off from French Guiana.

If you can't trust a porn site with your credit card, who can you trust?

Meanwhile, Ted Cruz wants to restrict FCC's power to intimidate broadcasters.

arXiv:2412.17744v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Repository-level code translation refers to translating an entire code repository from one programming language to another while preserving the functionality of the source repository. Many benchmarks have been proposed to evaluate the performance …

Comprehensive cross-platform coverage of the U.S. market close on Bloomberg Television, Bloomberg Radio, and YouTube with Romaine Bostick, Katie Greifeld, Carol Massar and Tim Stenovec. (Source: Bloomberg)

The converging waves swirl until they finally break into a 130-foot pillar of saltwater, in a process that scientists have yet to fully explain.

arXiv:2505.10852v2 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly applied to materials science questions, including literature comprehension, property prediction, materials discovery and alloy design. At the same time, a wide range of physics-based computationa…

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An onstage fight between band members in September 2024 led to the legendary alt-rock act's breakup.
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A new book providing a roadmap for blending innovation with tradition among shrinking towns blossomed from a practicum in the MIT Department of Urban Studies and Planning.

UTA announced its latest round of promotions, with 105 employees boosted to new positions across 22 departments. The promotions elevate colleagues across comedy touring, TV literary, creators, music, endorsements & voiceover, Klutch Sports Group, news, production arts, publishing, talent, speakers, …

The actress would like to see DreamWorks re-release the film to honor the late, great Alan Rickman.

A majority of Americans say they oppose the United States taking military action against Venezuela as the Trump administration escalates its campaign against the country's president, Nicolás Maduro, according to the Quinnipiac University poll released Wednesday. Pollsters found that 63 percent of Am…

STOP Texas House Bill 2239 - support the Golden-cheeked Warbler and the ONLY place in the world where this species can reproduce. HB 2239, if passed, would remove local protections currently...

Creative Artists Agency has announced its latest round of promotions, with 13 CAA Elevate trainees promoted to agent or executive roles. CAA Elevate is the agency’s next-generation training and practical development curriculum. The promoted class includes Ally Brzezinski, Oren Davidson, Emily Dunetz…

In Marcie Hume’s new documentary “Corey Feldman vs. The World,” the child star alleges that Corey Haim molested him while making the 1987 film “The Lost Boys.” Feldman and Haim skyrocketed to fame in the 1980s after working together on the blockbuster movie and quickly became young Hollywood heartth…

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arXiv:2512.11880v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: It has often been said, correctly, that a monkey forever randomly typing on a keyboard would eventually produce the complete works of William Shakespeare. Almost just as often it has been pointed out that this "eventually" is well beyond any conceiv…

arXiv:2407.07740v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Comprehensive perception of the vehicle's environment and correct interpretation of the environment are crucial for the safe operation of autonomous vehicles. The perception of surrounding objects is the main component for further tasks such as tr…

⚽ Women’s Champions League updates, 8pm GMT starts⚽ Live scoreboard | Follow us on Bluesky | And email YaraThe referees blow their whistles across Europe and we are underway!Kick-off is fast approaching. Here is a reminder to all nine games that I will be (attempting) to keep tabs on. Continue readi…

President Trump on Wednesday attended the dignified transfer of two National Guardsmen and an interpreter, who were killed in Syria.

A prototype of the EV platform will be shown off at CES next month.

Manchester, Bradford and outer London boroughs among those to receive increases ministers hope will ‘restore pride’Which councils are the winners and losers – and will tax bills go up?Some of England’s most-deprived councils will receive a funding boost under a new three-year local government deal w…

The Atlanta natives have been beefing since Gunna accepted an Alford plea deal in the YSL RICO case.

The Senate on Wednesday confirmed Jason Isaacman to lead the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), bringing the roller-coaster road for approving a full-time head of the agency to an end. Senators voted 67 to 30 on Isaacman, who was nominated for a second time to the post in early No…

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