Exeter University student and MBA Student Member, Jasmin Orak, joined the Marine Biological Association (MBA) this summer as a Spooner-Parke Summer Studentship awardee, spending 6 weeks immersed in hands-on marine microbiology research.

At the end of their lives, most satellites fall to their death. Many of the smaller ones, including most of those going up as part of the "mega-constellations" currently under construction, are intended to burn up in the atmosphere. This Design for Demise (D4D) principle has unintended consequences,…

Japan’s flagship H3 rocket suffered an issue with its second stage late Sunday resulting in the loss of the Michibiki 5 (QZS-5) navigation satellite.
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arXiv:2512.21354v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Contemporary large language model (LLM) agents are remarkably capable, but they still lack reliable safety controls and can produce unconstrained, unpredictable, and even actively harmful outputs. To address this, we introduce Reflection-Driven Contro…

Wintering Well boxes to counter effects of low light on mental health are ‘super popular’, says island librarian“Boxes of light” are being used to help people who struggle with low winter mood while living in one of Scotland’s darkest communities as part of a wider research initiative to support the…

CSAIL researchers find even “untrainable” neural nets can learn effectively when guided by another network’s built-in biases using their guidance method.

Back in November, Sony started selling PS5 consoles at a $100 discount as part of a Black Friday/Cyber Monday promotion. The deal officially sunsets at 3AM ET, so now is a good time to bite the bullet on a gaming console given that prices aren't likely to go down anytime soon.
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Some comeback! The past 12 months were supposed to turn things around for struggling cinemas. But instead of heralding a dramatic return to moviegoing, 2025 is running neck-and-neck with the middling 2024 box office, and will fall far short of the $9 billion in domestic ticket sales that most analys…

James Riordan’s new book will help readers wrap their heads around this mysterious, fundamental force of nature.

After the country barred children under 16 from using social media, many parents have been asking whether similarly tough action is needed in their own countries.

There are a host of celestial events to get excited about next year – including a total solar eclipse. Abigail Beall is lining up her calendar

Feedback's eyebrows are raised at tech millionaire Bryan Johnson's latest exploits, which involve Grimes, music, and hallucinogenic mushrooms

Activist was entitled to UK passport but for a rising number of voters Britishness is something you are born with What does it mean to be British? That question is increasingly at the heart of our national political debate. And it has become a more urgent one this week as the Conservatives and Refor…

President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine said that the assault with hundreds of drones and missiles, lasting nearly 10 hours, showed that Moscow was not serious about peace.

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How to watch NBA for free. Watch Portland Trail Blazers vs. Los Angeles Clippers in the NBA for free from anywhere in the world.

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky will meet with President Trump at the latter’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida on Sunday, as negotiations to end the Russian invasion of Ukraine continue. During their meeting, Zelensky is set to propose his 20-point peace plan, a counteroffer to the Trump adminis…

One of the unexpected Linux kernel surprises of 2025 was NTFSPLUS being announced as a new driver for Microsoft's NTFS file-system with better performance and more features compared to the classic read-only NTFS driver or the "NTFS3" kernel driver that Paragon Software submitted upstream. That NTFSP…

The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced a recall on more than 2,800 pounds of raw 90/10 ground beef processed by Mountain West Food Group, LLC, from Idaho.

News Release Marine Conservation Institute Commends IUCN’s Commitment to Protecting the Ocean’s Twilight Zone By Marine Conservation Institute | October 14, 2025 Today, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) voted to pass Motion 035, “Protection of mesopelagic ecosystem integrity,…

Our visual highlights from the animal world this year include a mouse caring for its companion, dolphins communicating in an unexpected way and a colossal squid caught on camera for the first time

After starting the year with its first known bird flu death, the US expanded its efforts to contain the virus, which enabled it to end its public health emergency response months later

As part of the various end-of-year benchmarking comparisons on Phoronix and with Linux 6.19 switching older AMD GCN 1.0/1.1 graphics cards to the AMDGPU driver by default, I planned for a very large AMD Radeon graphics card comparison on the latest open-source Linux driver for ending out 2025. In th…

A major evolutionary theory says most genetic changes don’t really matter, but new evidence suggests that’s not true. Researchers found that helpful mutations happen surprisingly often. The twist is that changing environments prevent these mutations from spreading widely before they become useless o…

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arXiv:2512.21525v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: In todays security landscape, every user wants to access large amounts of data with confidentiality and authorization. To maintain confidentiality, various researchers have proposed several techniques. However, to access secure data, researchers use a…

Choosing a mattress for your guest room, Airbnb, or VRBO rental is challenging. This hybrid is up for it.

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A Texas power developer is proposing to use repurposed retired U.S. Navy nuclear reactors from aircraft carriers and submarines to supply continuous power to large-scale artificial intelligence data centers. The proposal comes from HGP Intelligent Energy LLC, which, according to filings with the U.S…

How to watch Africa Cup of Nations for free. Live stream Angola vs. Egypt in the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations for free.

On the side of a dusty road in Gaza, dozens of mostly young men gather against the counter of a makeshift storefront.

CES is the January trade show where the tech industry kicks off the year with a bevy of new and notable announcements — and it’s less than a week away. The CES 2026 show floor is officially open from January 6 through 9, but the fun kicks off with events on Sunday January 4 and a host of press confe…

The National Center for Atmospheric Research has played a leading role in providing data, modelling and supercomputing to researchers around the world – but the Trump administration is set to shut it down

A double explosion, in which a dying star split, then recombined, may be a long-hypothesized but never-before-seen "superkilonova."

Ahead of CES 2026, Samsung has unveiled a number of impressive gaming monitors that flaunt 3D and very high refresh rates. The headliner is the 32-inch Odyssey 3D, "the world's first 6K display with glasses free 3D," according to Samsung. Along with the high resolution, it offers a 165Hz refresh rat…

When researchers lowered whale bones into the deep ocean, they expected zombie worms to quickly move in. Instead, after 10 years, none appeared — an unsettling result tied to low-oxygen waters in the region. These worms play a key role in breaking down whale remains and supporting deep-sea life. The…

A proposed state constitutional amendment introduced in the Michigan House in April  would put the right to clean air, water, soil and a stable climate on par with other fundamental liberties like the freedoms of speech and religion. The Michigan Green Amendment, introduced by Rep. Rachel Hood (D-Gr…

Tighter border controls caused arrivals to decline sharply but forced people on to more dangerous routes, activists sayMore than 3,000 people died trying to reach Spain by sea over the past year, a sharp fall from the previous 12 months.However, activists cautioned that the drop reflected tighter bo…

For more than three decades, the Nassars have battled Israeli efforts to reclassify their property as ‘state land’In 1916, Daher Nassar, a Christian Palestinian farmer living south of Bethlehem, made a move considered more than unusual at the time. He bought a 42-hectare stretch of farmland on the s…

A microscope that cost less than £50 and took under 3 hours to build using a common 3D printer could be transformative for students and researchers with limited funding

Christina had tried dieting and exercise before. The weight always came off but then crept back on, especially after she gave birth to her son in 2022.She had hoped that a new class of weight-loss drugs might finally offer something different. Obesity treatments such as Wegovy and Zepbound had just …

On behalf of Kubernetes SIG Node, we are pleased to announce the graduation of fine-grained supplemental groups control to General Availability (GA) in Kubernetes v1.35!
The new Pod field, supplementalGroupsPolicy, was introduced as an opt-in alpha feature for Kubernetes v1.31, and then had graduate…

Kubernetes Events provide crucial insights into cluster operations, but as clusters grow, managing and analyzing these events becomes increasingly challenging. This blog post explores how to build custom event aggregation systems that help engineering teams better understand cluster behavior and tro…

Fish 4.3 is out today as the newest update to this user-friendly command line shell. Fish 4.0 released at the beginning of this year in porting the codebase from C++ to Rust and now before closing out 2025 they have out Fish 4.3...

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GPS jamming has gotten cheap and easy, but there are potential solutions.