Mountain permafrost is warming and thawing worldwide due to climate change, with ground temperature being a key control of its mechanical stability. Heat conduction is the dominant mode of heat transfer in frozen ground, and thermal diffusivity governs the rate at which temperature changes propagate…

A research team from the Xinjiang Astronomical Observatory (XAO) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has developed an interpretable artificial intelligence (AI) framework named Convolutional Kolmogorov–Arnold Network (CKAN), which sheds new light on the properties of dark matter at galaxy-cluster sca…

Faster, more efficient, and more versatile—these are the expectations for the technology that will produce our energy and handle information in the future. But how can these expectations be met? A major breakthrough in physics has now been made by an international team of researchers from the Univer…

Producer Neal Moritz has spent the past 15 years trying to reboot “Cliffhanger,” the 1993 blockbuster starring Sylvester Stallone. The project is finally coming to the big screen next year — but Stallone won’t be in it. And in a new lawsuit against the film’s financiers, Moritz explains why. Moritz …

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A new analysis of sewer drains from the Roman fort of Vindolanda, close to Hadrian's Wall, has shown that the occupants were infected by three types of intestinal parasite—roundworm, whipworm, and Giardia duodenalis.

Rep. Randy Fine (R-Fla.) told Axios on Wednesday that he is "actively considering" forcing a vote to expel Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) from Congress.Why it matters: The House has struggled this year to curb the use of tools like expulsion, censure and impeachment by renegade members as a cudgel agains…

Human norovirus and adenovirus, two major causes of viral gastroenteritis, can persist for extended periods inside free-living amoebas that are common in natural and engineered water systems. A newly published study shows that these gut viruses can "hide" within different stages of the amoebas and r…

arXiv:2504.05654v3 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: By analogy to the terminology of curved exponential families in statistics, we define curved Bregman divergences as Bregman divergences restricted to nonlinear parameter subspaces and sub-dimensional Bregman divergences when the restrictions are l…

Sounds like the flight mirror panels are in production as of June 2025.Cosmonauts Explore New Horizons at the Pushchino Observatory [June 9]Quote...

President Trump signed an executive order to reschedule marijuana to a lower drug classification, one of the most significant changes to drug policy in decades. Nancy Cordes has details.

arXiv:2509.25569v3 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: Accurate prediction of wall-bounded flows remains central to advancing both theoretical understanding and computational methods in fluid mechanics. In this study, we perform a numerical simulation of channel flow using a complementary approa…

The games are piling up for Crystal Palace who face a two-legged play-off in the Conference League after failing to qualify automatically for the last 16.

Under a law passed by Congress and signed by President Trump, the Justice Department has until Friday to release its files on the Jeffrey Epstein case. House Democrats released more photos from the estate of the convicted sex offender. Scott MacFarlane reports.

Kathy Bates rose to prominence with her Oscar-winning breakout role in Rob Reiner's adaptation of Stephen King's "Misery" in 1990.

The president has a long record of making false or misleading statements. But the sheer density of them in his administration’s boat attacks and Venezuela pressure campaign is exceptional.

In Kubernetes v1.35, the ability to specify an external Job controller (through .spec.managedBy) graduates to General Availability.
This feature allows external controllers to take full responsibility for Job reconciliation, unlocking powerful scheduling patterns like multi-cluster dispatching with …

Thursday Night Football returns with the Los Angeles Rams vs. Seattle Seahawks on Thursday (Dec. 18). Here's how to stream the game live.

The business jet erupted into a large fireball when it hit the ground at an airport in North Carolina.

Rep. Joyce Beatty (D-Ohio), an ex-officio member of the Kennedy Center Board of Trustees, disputed the White House’s claim that the vote was “unanimous” to rename the performing arts center to the Trump-Kennedy Center. In a short video post on the social platform X, the Ohio Democrat said she tried …

Google's latest addition to its NotebookLM artificial intelligence research platform is a feature called Data Tables. The tool can collect and synthesize information across multiple sources into a chart that can be exported to Google Sheets. All Pro and Ultra users will have access to the feature to…

President Trump signed the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) into law Thursday, establishing spending at the Pentagon and other priorities for the coming year. The bill approves a record $901 billion in military spending for fiscal 2026, roughly $8 billion more than what the Trump administra…

Launched in March, NASA’s SPHEREx space telescope has completed its first infrared map of the entire sky in 102 colors. While not visible to the human eye, these 102 infrared wavelengths of light are prevalent in the cosmos, and observing the entire sky this way enables scientists to answer big ques…

A recently issued Executive Order revises how the government implements Space Policy Directive-3, removing the longstanding expectation that basic space situational awareness (SSA) services, including conjunction warnings, would be provided without charge. This decision marks a departure not only fr…

Holiday shopping is in full swing, which means it's about time for the Steam Winter Sale. This go-around, Valve’s sale runs from December 18, 2025 through January 5, 2026, and includes discounts on some of this year's hit games, like Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, Silent Hill f and Assassin's Creed Sh…

Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.) said he wishes someone could have told President Trump “how math works” before touting his administration’s successes 11 months into his second term at the White House. “Somebody must have showed him some, like, abysmal poll numbers and said, ‘You better get out there in fr…

Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee (R) on Thursday issued a pardon for famed country music star Jason DeFord, whose stage name is Jelly Roll. DeFord was previously convicted of robbery as a juvenile but was granted parole in 2005. While on parole, he was found in possession of cocaine and was charged with the …

Europe's physics lab CERN on Thursday said private donors had pledged $1 billion toward the construction of a new particle accelerator that would be by far the world's biggest.

Quote from: DanClemmensen on Today at 02:17 pmYour equation is incomplete, but I understand your intent. If we replace it with a more valid equation it still ignores the cost to NASA caused by the disruptions to th...

https://twitter.com/wvmattz/status/2001821438647693598QuoteMattZ@wvmattz·Earlier this afternoon, Booster 19’s forward section was seen rolling across the ring yard headed into Mega Bay 1.  Crews are making incredible progress on the Starship Fli...

In a package of confirmations, the U.S. Senate approved Mike Selig to lead the CFTC and Travis Hill to run the FDIC, both with major potential reach into crypto.

It is the largest scheme since the Port Arthur massacre in 1996, which prompted massive gun law reform.

The long-running case had been on hold for nearly a year because of higher court appeals and the retirement of the military judge.

arXiv:2512.14990v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Despite their wide adoption in various domains (e.g., healthcare, finance, software engineering), Deep Learning (DL)-based applications suffer from many bugs, failures, and vulnerabilities. Reproducing these bugs is essential for their resolution, but…

For people living in the EU, the price of their next car, home renovation and even local produce may soon reflect a climate policy that many have never even heard of. This new regulation, which comes fully into force on New Year's Day, does not just target heavy industry—it affects everyday goods wh…

Labour's violence against women strategy and a royal Christmas family portrait dominate Friday's papers.

Trafalgar theatre, London Arriving from Broadway with much fanfare, Cole Escola’s play about Mary Todd Lincoln is loaded with obvious jokes and squanders the talents of its cast Oh, my! Mary Todd Lincoln is a drunken wannabe cabaret star! Her husband Abraham, the 16th US president, is a closet homos…

The outdoors can be challenging for portable batteries, but this one by Nitecore is built to withstand the elements.

Swiss artificial intelligence startup Neural Concept SA said today it has raised $100 million in funding to try and rethink how products are designed and engineered with computer-aided design software tools. The Series C round was led by Growth Equity at Goldman Sachs Alternatives and saw participat…

https://twitter.com/esa/status/1989277822343664014?s=20 [Nov. 14]Quote#3IATLAS update: we've just pinpointed the comet's path with 10 times more accuracy, using data from our @ESA_Ex...

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OpenZFS 2.4 is out as stable in time for the holidays! The big OpenZFS 2.4 feature release is now available for FreeBSD and Linux systems to continue advancing the open-source ZFS file-system support...

Alexa works well out of the box, but these lesser-known features improve it further.

From puzzles with secret endings to a 3D puzzle of Thor’s hammer, find something fun to piece together from our list of the best puzzles for adults.

CBS has ordered the pilot “Regency,” from “The Big Bang Theory” and “Young Sheldon” alum Tara Hernandez, to be put into consideration for the 2026-2027 TV season. The multi-camera sitcom, from Warner Bros. TV, is a period piece described as a “historical spin” on the typical family comedy. Here’s th…

arXiv:2501.06074v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: We study shallow neural networks with monomial activations and output dimension one. The function space for these models can be identified with a set of symmetric tensors with bounded rank. We describe general features of these networks, focusing …

https://x.com/TrackingTheSB/status/2001811659837354491QuoteStarbaseTracking@TrackingTheSB2 of the 3 barrel sections for Booster 19's CH4 tank have been rolled out.Tony -  Stacking chart updated.

Ford is killing the F-150 Lightning and US E-Transit models. No mention was made of the Mustang Mach E, but I wouldn’t get your hopes up too much. The market responded by increasing its share price. While it is discouraging to those of us supporting clean technology, the move made ... [continued]
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Senate Armed Services Committee Chair Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) said on Thursday that he has seen “no evidence of war crimes” committed during the U.S. military’s Sept. 2 strikes against an alleged drug-trafficking boat in the Caribbean, and he indicated that his panel does not plan to further probe th…

Seven people on a business jet that crashed at Statesville Regional Airport in North Carolina have died, the State Highway Patrol said. NASCAR driver Greg Biffle, 55, his wife Cristina and their two children were among those on the plane. Cristian Benavides reports.

Card providers can decide whether to offer unlimited payments on contactless cards.

TikTok’s long-running saga of a U.S. ban may be coming to an end after the company signed a deal to sell its American operations to a new joint venture.

Apple says it can now collect any money a developer owes the tech giant at any time.

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Falling fertility rates and rising life expectancy will pose ‘significant economic and fiscal challenges’

https://twitter.com/blueorigin/status/2001801885922005317QuoteNS-37 Update: Launch is no earlier than Saturday, December 20. Our window opens at 8:00 AM CST / 14:00 UTC. The live webcast will begin 20 minutes prior to launch. Mission updates: https:...

Nike posted more weakness in China and its Converse brand, sending shares down and offsetting higher-than-expected revenue in the latest quarter. Direct-to-consumer sales missed expectations, while Converse plunged 30% in the fiscal second quarter ended Nov. 30. Revenue rose 1% to $12.4 billion, abo…

Premier David Eby says logging the province's old-growth forests for pulp is not an option, as the BC government looks for ways to help a pulp mill closing on Vancouver Island.
The post The Canadian Press: Eby says no to harvesting old-growth to extend life of B.C. pulp mill appeared first on Ancien…

The public beta for iOS 26.3 is here, bringing with it a few interesting new features.

The White House issued a sweeping executive order on space policy Dec. 18 covering topics from NASA’s exploration plans to space security.
The post Trump signs sweeping executive order to assert U.S. dominance in space appeared first on SpaceNews.

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Data management provider AtScale Inc. today announced that it has closed a funding round led by Snowflake Inc.’s venture capital arm. The company didn’t specify the size of the deal, saying only that it’s the largest equity investment it has received to date. That indicates the round is worth more t…

arXiv:2512.14700v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Online harassment has been a persistent issue in the online space. Predominantly, research focused on online harassment in public social media platforms, while less is placed on private messaging platforms. To address online harassment on one private …

The long-rumored return has finally been confirmed, but is he playing Captain America?

Well the Avatar films basically feature big blue cat people, and if You Tube is anything to go by cats are very popular.

Investigators are also searching for a car they believe was rented by the suspect in the shooting that killed two students and injured nine.

Chalamet – who is currently promoting his upcoming film – says the singer “dreamt bigger than all of us.”

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CDC awards grant to controversial Danish researchers with ties to top FDA official Tracy Beth Høeg.

Also, authorities search for a person of interest in the Brown shooting. Here’s the latest at the end of Thursday.

Laura Crane, a 30-year-old from Devon, hopes to have broken a world record for the biggest wave ever surfed by a woman.

Wind finance drought turns into a minor flood, with the second wind project reaching financial close in two days, and the first on Australia's main grid in 2025.
The post Second wind farm in two days reaches financial close, first on main grid for 2025 appeared first on Renew Economy.

Quote from: TheKutKu on 12/16/2025 05:30 pmI am personally skeptical that there are enough discussion and threads to justify splitting Chinese Manned Spaceflight/Tiangong activities from Chinese uncrewed spaceflight,...

The clemency decision by Gov. Bill Lee of Tennessee could make it easier for the country star to travel internationally.

Help increase our charity haul of nearly $18,000 in just over a week.

Get in the holiday spirit with a whopping two hours of knee-slapping Christmas skits.

Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara criticized federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents this week after an attempted arrest on Monday led to a chaotic scene in which an officer dragged a woman through the street as agents fended off protesters. Video of the incident shows an agent …

arXiv:2512.15581v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: High-performance Radar-Camera 3D object detection can be achieved by leveraging knowledge distillation without using LiDAR at inference time. However, existing distillation methods typically transfer modality-specific features directly to each sensor,…

Comet 3I/ATLAS, the third interstellar object ever detected, will swing closest to Earth overnight from Thursday to Friday (Dec. 18 to 19). Here’s how to see it.

The cost per kilowatt hour of community batteries has plunged, says Ausgrid, making them competitive even with subsidised home batteries.
The post Community batteries now cheaper to install than home storage, Ausgrid says appeared first on Renew Economy.

'Quest for the Gold Pen' leverages a beloved 'Bluey' premise to help embrace your inner child.

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Drone footage shows huge circle of swimmers and surfers in the ocean in latest outpouring of grief Victims of Bondi beach shootingTen minutes of terror: how the Bondi mass shooting unfolded in real time – videoFollow the latest live updatesHundreds of surfers and beach goers have returned to Bondi’s…

ICICI Prudential Asset Management Co.’s shares are set to begin trading in Mumbai on Friday, following an initial public offering that raised 106 billion rupees ($1.2 billion), potentially marking the year’s final major listing.

Oracle, Silver Lake and MGX will be investors in new unit as part of deal arranged by Trump administration

Road, rail and air travellers are being advised to allow extra time for travel and check their routes.

Restricted chipmaking tools are being retrofitted to make advanced AI chips, exposing cracks in US-led export controls

ANZ Group Holdings Ltd.’s fine was increased to A$250 million ($165 million) by the Federal Court of Australia after an additional A$10 million was added to earlier regulatory penalties.

Australian law enforcement officials announced Thursday they detained several men near Sydney after responding to information that "a violent act was possibly being planned." Amy Mitchell, senior fellow at George Mason University's National Security Institute, joins CBS News to discuss.

Have you backed up yet? Erased your personal data? Turned off 'Find My'? There's more! We review every step you need to take before selling, trading, or giving away your old device.

Australian Retirement Trust, the nation’s no. 2 pension fund, is switching more money from passive index funds to active equity managers, citing the growing dominance of major technology companies in global benchmarks.

This is by far the fastest way I've ever made a presentation - and it might even help me win Christmas this year.

As climate change becomes a major driver of migration, EU researchers are listening to affected communities to help support fairer policies for those most at risk.

Former NASCAR driver Greg Biffle, his wife, Cristina, and their children were among the seven people killed Thursday in a North Carolina plane crash. CBS News' Cristian Benavides has more.

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Federal prosecutors said they were now investigating fraud worth billions of dollars in 14 social services programs in the state.

Quote from: clongton on Today at 12:32 amThis could be a really good thread to highlight the elements of a grand space policy but it's also one that can be very easily pulled off topic because it's so multifaceted ...

arXiv:2501.06138v3 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Temporal Action Detection (TAD) in untrimmed videos poses significant challenges, particularly for Activities of Daily Living (ADL) requiring models to (1) process long-duration videos, (2) capture temporal variations in actions, and (3) simultane…