Tech conferences are a vital way for CIOs and IT leaders to keep abreast of trends and make real-life connections in a fast-changing business climate.

From populations of multicellular organisms to selfish genetic elements, conflicts between levels of biological organization are central to evolution. Plasmids are extrachromosomal, self-replicating genetic elements that face selective pressures from ...

Commentary by David Michel, Will Todman, and Jennifer Jun; Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS) Published November 25, 2025 The Iranian president has warned that Iran has “no choice” but to move the location of the capital due to the water crisis. Tehran is experiencing an unprecedent…

Muniz, Bryan Cranston, Jane Kaczmarek, and more reunite for the first time in nearly 20 years in the first look at the upcoming four-part series

With human peer review struggling to keep pace with machine-generated science, aiXiv enlists bots to help

Some of the elements used by living systems are far more abundant in Cassiopeia A than we thought, hinting that some parts of our galaxy might be more suitable for life than others

The actress and singer was a symbol of sexual revolution. She later became an animal welfare campaigner and incendiary right-wing commenter.

Scientists have uncovered new details explaining why iron oxide minerals are such effective long-term carbon traps in soils. Scientists have known for years that iron oxide minerals play a major role in storing carbon by keeping it out of the atmosphere. A new study from Northwestern University now …

Over a month after announcing a massive data breach affecting 34 million of its users, South Korean e-commerce company Coupang announced this Monday it would offer 1.69 trillion won in compensation (around €1 billion) to customers in the form of vouchers. Also in this edition, former EU digital chie…

Laser light can physically distort Janus TMD materials, revealing how their asymmetrical structure amplifies light-driven forces. These effects could power breakthroughs in photonic chips, sensors, and tunable light technologies.

Insurance company Aflac Inc. has disclosed that a cyberattack that targeted the company in June resulted in the theft of records relating to 22.65 million individuals, making it one of the largest data breaches reported this year in the U.S. insurance sector. The company first detected unauthorized …

Electricity rates are set to skyrocket, fueled by the Trump administration’s war on cheaper clean energy and push for expensive fossil fuels.
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Here's what to know about proposals for enormous new data centers, and what Earthjustice is doing to control their pollution, climate impacts, and your energy bill.
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Louis Gerstner, the former chief executive officer credited with saving IBM Corp. from bankruptcy, has died aged 83, the company revealed today. Gerstner (pictured) served as chairman and CEO of IBM from 1993 to 2002, taking over during one of the darkest periods in the company’s history, when it wa…

Demis Hassabis, CEO of Google DeepMind, summed it up in three words: “This is embarrassing.”   Hassabis was replying on X to an overexcited post by Sébastien Bubeck, a research scientist at the rival firm OpenAI, announcing that two mathematicians had used OpenAI’s latest large language model, GPT-5…

The Soyuz MS-27 spacecraft is seen as it lands in a remote area near the town of Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan with Expedition 73 NASA astronaut Jonny Kim, and Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov and Alexey Zubritsky aboard, Tuesday, Dec. 9, 2025.

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features the blue dwarf galaxy Markarian 178 (Mrk 178) against a backdrop of distant galaxies in all shapes and sizes. Some of these distant galaxies even shine through the diffuse edges of Mrk 178.

A modeling analysis suggests that legacy PFAS in marine fish have declined on a global scale

Research into how a father’s choices — such as diet, exercise, stress, nicotine use — may transfer traits to his children has become impossible to ignore. The post How Dad’s Fitness May Be Packaged and Passed Down in Sperm RNA first appeared on Quanta Magazine

The family holiday in the park area turned tragic for Valencia CF Women's B coach Fernando Martín, 44, when the boat carrying him, his family, four crew members and a local guide sank.

New court filings from the Justice Department reveal more details about what Brian Cole, the man accused of placing two pipe bombs around Washington, D.C., on the eve of Jan. 6, 2021, allegedly told investigators. Scott MacFarlane has the latest.

French actress Brigitte Bardot died at age 91, her foundation said on Sunday. Here's a look back at the film icon and animal rights activist's career.

Skills, not degrees, will define IT hiring in 2026. CIOs are shifting from degree-based hiring to skills-based strategies, using AI and microcredentials to retain top IT talent.

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Remember when David Bowie and Tina Turner came together to sell Pepsi, or when Genesis and Eric Clapton helped turn an ordinary evening into a “Michelob Night?”

A new computational breakthrough is giving scientists a clearer view into how dark matter structures evolve. Dark matter has remained one of the biggest mysteries in cosmology for almost a hundred years, shaping the universe while remaining invisible and poorly understood. A new study from researche…

A sharp jump in tokenized silver trading suggests investors are getting exposure to the metal onchain.

Changpeng Zhao, a co-founder of Binance, which owns the utility, said the losses will be reimbursed.

Children regularly exposed to temperatures over 30°C (86°F) have lower scores on literacy and numeracy tests at age 3 to 4, according to UNICEF data from six countries

Deep ocean hot spots packed with heat are making the strongest hurricanes and typhoons more likely—and more dangerous. These regions, especially near the Philippines and the Caribbean, are expanding as climate change warms ocean waters far below the surface. As a result, storms powerful enough to ex…

When Earth was a molten inferno, water may have been locked safely underground rather than lost to space. Researchers discovered that bridgmanite deep in the mantle can store far more water at high temperatures than previously believed. During Earth’s cooling, this hidden reservoir could have held w…

New research shows that 2008's Great Recession caused people in the US to identify with a lower class, and this was a long-lasting effect.

Researchers have created an algae-based gel in the lab as a platform for studying mammary epithelial cells, which can turn into cancer cells.

Collection of expert analysis on the legality of the U.S. strike on Venezuelan vessels in the Caribbean, the consequences of the strike, and related issues.
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International law, the new Syrian government, and U.S. military strikes against ISIS
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One of the primary goals of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is to detect atmospheres around exoplanets, to try to suss out whether or not they could potentially support life. But, in order to do that, scientists have to know where to look, and the exoplanet has to actually have an atmosphere. …

Ready for another amazing year of skywatching? 2025 was a wild year, with a steady parade of comets knocking on naked eye visibility, and one extra special interstellar comet, 3I/ATLAS.

The sky just keeps on turning into 2026. Watch for mutual eclipse season for the major moons of Jupiter, as the…

Myanmar's dominant pro-military party claimed an overwhelming victory in the first phase of the elections after democracy watchdogs warned the junta-run poll would entrench military rule. The election win will be a way for the ruling junta, in power after a military coup in 2021 against the elected …

Rain lashed the Gaza Strip, flooding makeshift encampments with ankle-deep puddles as Palestinians displaced by the two-year war attempted to stay dry in tents frayed by months of use. The flooding came as Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu travelled to Florida to discuss the second phase of t…

Myanmar's dominant pro-military party is "winning a majority" in the first phase of junta-run elections, a party source said on Monday, after democracy watchdogs warned the poll would entrench military rule. The vote has been widely condemned for its stark crackdown on dissent and a candidate list s…

We want to hear from UK parents with experience in temporary accommodation about the impact on their lives, family and schoolingMore than 172,000 children were living in temporary accommodation in England at the end of June, according to the latest quarterly official figures from October.That repres…

Olympia Bowman champions a middle way. Helen Style says the risks of giving birth without medical assistance are well knownAfter listening to the Guardian podcast series the Birth Keepers, I feel compelled to share my own story. I believe that it is important to share examples of a middle way somewh…

Planet’s oldest bee species and primary pollinators were under threat from deforestation and competition from ‘killer bees’Stingless bees from the Amazon have become the first insects to be granted legal rights anywhere in the world, in a breakthrough supporters hope will be a catalyst for similar m…

Recent industry developments, such as Amazon’s announcement of the new EKS capabilities, highlight a trend toward supporting platforms with managed GitOps, cloud resource operators, and composition tooling. In particular, the involvement of Kube Resource Orchestrator (kro)—a...

It’s undeniable that AI is a breakthrough technology that no one wants to be left behind on. However, as AI accelerates innovation in the cloud-native world, environmental sustainability often gets sidelined, perceived as something that could...

Scientist and photographer Felice Frankel has zoomed in on everyday occurrences with her camera for her new book, Phenomenal Moments, which reveals the hidden science in our daily lives

Trump’s order against the practice is a crucial step in restoring the purpose of higher education.