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Climate activist and author Rebecca Solnit tells Rowan Hooper why she still has hope, even in these "catastrophic" times

Tina Fey will host the debut with musical guest Wet Leg, while next week will feature host Jamie Dornan and Wolf Alice

A recall has been issued for pet food after products tested positive for salmonella, listeria, and E. coli, according to the FDA.

It’s still early in the year, but already “Project Hail Mary” looks like it could have a strong gravitational pull on Oscar voters. Ryan Gosling is the first name worth circling on any early Oscar ballot this year, thanks to “Project Hail Mary,” the wildly entertaining space dramedy from Oscar-winni…

The speed at which artificial intelligence is gaining in mathematical ability has taken many by surprise. It is rewriting what it means to be a mathematician

"Project Hail Mary" is full of improvisation between Ryan Gosling and the puppeteers behind alien Rocky.

Best friends Frankie Cassidy and Nathan Ross formed Buffalo Traffic Jam as students at Montana State University. Dorm room jam sessions progressed into a sold-out worldwide tour as the duo garnered acclaim for their stripped-down sound and heartfelt lyrics. Here is Buffalo Traffic Jam performing "Ha…

Boyband drops album that speaks to its Korean roots ahead of Seoul comeback concert, with more than a quarter of a million fans expected to attendK-pop stars BTS released a new album on Friday billed as reflecting the maturing boy band’s Korean roots and identity, as buzz built ahead of their open-a…

In their latest joint public appearance, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and his teenage daughter rode a tank together, state media photos showed Friday.

Researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory have invented a reusable adhesive from waste polymers that is tougher than commercial glues, works underwater as well as in dry environments, and bonds a variety of materials, including wood, glass, metal, paper and polymers.

Voters in Denmark will decide who runs the Scandinavian country for the next four years in a general election next week

The singer initially sued to block the footage's release. Justin Timberlake DWI Arrest Body Cam Footage Released Scoop Harrison

"We put fuel in a rocket, blow it up in a remote location, and measure how big the boom is."

BTC holds near $70,500 as derivatives turn defensive, macro risks weigh on sentiment and altcoins show pockets of strength.

The South Korean won resumed its decline toward a 17‑year low on Thursday, testing officials’ resolve to stem the slide despite supportive remarks from US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent.

Campaign beset by violence with supporters of rival candidate Bobi Wine teargassed and detainedUgandans are preparing to vote in an election that is expected to result in Yoweri Museveni extending his nearly four-decade grip on power in the east African country, after a campaign beset by violence.Se…

Amid global backlash, billionaire had only hours earlier said he was not aware of any ‘naked underage images’Elon Musk’s xAI has announced it will block the ability of its Grok AI tool to alter images of real people to put them in “revealing clothing such as bikinis”, amid a global backlash over the…

President Trump on Wednesday said his administration had been informed that "the killing in Iran is stopping." Mr. Trump's statement comes with thousands believed to be dead in the wake of anti-government protests. Former Trump national security adviser H.R. McMaster joins with analysis.

Vast majority of 104 electricity-generating units set to start operation worldwide this year are in China

WATER VALLEY, Miss. — Rahm Emanuel is coming — whether Democrats like it or not."There's two wings in our party right now, and I hope to dominate one of them," Emanuel, the fiery former Chicago mayor, told Axios in Mississippi last week as he tested his potential 2028 run for president with a focus …

California's AG will investigate whether Musk’s nudifying bot broke US laws.

Ynyshir’s Gareth Ward ‘not embarrassed’ by score and says it was due to concerns about the use of raw ingredientsThe chef behind a Welsh restaurant with two Michelin stars says it has “the highest standards in the world”, despite being given a one-star hygiene rating in a recent inspection.Ynyshir, …

The crew is expected to splash down off the coast of California in the early hours of Thursday local time.

A stretch of viral DNA in the mouse genome gives cells in early-stage embryos the potential to become almost any cell type in the body.

The guitarist played on the band’s debut album before leaving in 2021 for mental health reasons

The New Zealand indie rock band are treating Straight Line Was a Lie to a live encore

CEO Brian Armstrong said there were "too many issues" with the bill.

Users can spend stablecoins and major cryptocurrencies which are automatically converted into Peruvian soles at the point of sale.

Japanese carmaker increases price proposal by 15% following criticism from activist investors and shareholders

In Minneapolis and other cities where federal agents have led immigration crackdowns, residents have formed loose networks to track and protest them.

Advertising on inDrive is being rolled out across its top 20 markets following mid-2025 tests.

arXiv:2601.05974v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Automated decision systems increasingly rely on human oversight to ensure accuracy in uncertain cases. This paper presents a practical framework for optimizing such human-in-the-loop classification systems using a double-threshold policy. Instead of r…

In Vallejo, California, ‘trad sons’ report feeling trapped by family obligations, slim job prospects and the fear of violence – leaving little room for romanceAre boys becoming men later? In recent decades, the markers of adulthood have shifted for young American men: they are almost twice as likely…

In the sparsely populated Kimberley region of Western Australia, jagged landforms reach like fingers into the turquoise-blue ocean waters. Along the coastline north of Derby, they used to reach even farther. But rising sea levels submerged part of the coastal landscape, giving rise to hundreds of is…

The United States has seized the Bella 1, which changed its name to the Marinera, a Russian-flagged oil tanker pursued by the Coast Guard off Venezuela.

Beijing is selling clean energy to the world, Washington is pushing oil and gas. Both are driven by national security.

Restoration Ecology, EarlyView.

Pendants and brooches packed with artificial intelligence abounded at the Consumer Electronics show, using cameras and microphones to watch and listen through the day like a vigilant personal assistant. The return of the wearable tech comes about a year after the discontinuation of a Humane AI Pin p…

SEVENTEEN’s Joshua caught up with Billboard’s Tetris Kelly on the red carpet of the 2026 Golden Globes.

Ever wondered about the chandeliers that sparkle inside the Beverly Hilton ballroom during the Golden Globes ceremony? Well, Swarovski has created four custom chandeliers for today’s awards show in partnership with Schonbek, a lighting company. There are three smaller chandeliers that measure 36 inc…

A new report reveals serious negligence and fiscal mismanagement.

An explorer and a glaciologist are kite-skiing across Antarctica with a ground-penetrating radar to gather data that will help understand the past and future of the ice sheet

Electrons can freeze into strange geometric crystals and then melt back into liquid-like motion under the right quantum conditions. Researchers identified how to tune these transitions and even discovered a bizarre “pinball” state where some electrons stay locked in place while others dart around fr…

Google LLC is making some sweeping changes to Gmail, integrating Gemini-powered artificial intelligence capabilities throughout its flagship email service in an effort to transform it into a “personal, proactive inbox assistant.” The updates introduced today represent one of the company’s most aggre…

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features a galaxy, NGC 2775, that’s hard to categorize.

A year ago, Audubon Florida’s Florida Coastal Islands Sanctuaries (FCIS) team completed four breakwater projects across the Tampa Bay region. These breakwaters protect the shorelines of mangrove...

The first full moon of 2026 shone brightly Saturday (Jan. 3). Known as the Wolf Moon, it appeared more luminous and larger than usual, rising together with Jupiter.

The dino lived during the Late Cretaceous alongside other hadrosaurids in present-day New Mexico.

Solar physicists say they have found a key source of intense gamma rays unleashed when Earth's nearest star produces its most violent eruptions.

10 years ago, the Rockland Water Coalition stopped a harmful desalination plant pushed by a corporate water giant. Here’s how. The post How Grassroots Activism Beat a Corporate Water Giant in Rockland County appeared first on Food & Water Watch.

Reps. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) and Dan Goldman (D-N.Y.) are planning to introduce a bill that would strip federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers of their qualified immunity protections. The bill, called the ICE OUT Act, comes amid fervent debate over whether an ICE officer should…

2025 marks another year pushing the boundaries of scientific research aboard the International Space Station. This past year, over 750 investigations were conducted aboard the space station, supported by crewed missions and resupply vehicles delivering essential cargo and experiments to the orbiting…

A new analysis finds that in 2025 major catastrophes took 276 lives and caused $115 billion in damages. It could have been much worse.

Here at MIT Technology Review we’ve been writing about the gene-editing technology CRISPR since 2013, calling it the biggest biotech breakthrough of the century. Yet so far, there’s been only one gene-editing drug approved. It’s been used commercially on only about 40 patients, all with sickle-cell …

Six Earthjustice attorneys share what motivates them to keep fighting for the planet and its people. The post The Lawyers Giving Us Hope appeared first on Earthjustice.

Middle East rivalries are turning a local war into a regional crisis..

Marriage between closely related cousins is a heavy taboo in many cultures and its critics often cite the higher risk of genetic diseases associated with inbreeding. That risk is certainly apparent for very close relatives, but a new study from Iceland shows that very distant relatives don’t have it…

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Roger Pielke, Jr., The Honest Broker Yesterday, the Trump administration

Variety Awards Circuit section is the home for all awards news and related content throughout the year, featuring the following: the official predictions for the upcoming Oscars, Emmys, Grammys and Tony Awards ceremonies, curated by Variety chief awards editor Clayton Davis. The prediction pages ref…

The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces have shared new video of the Syrian army shelling a large weapons depot.

The opera, which has performed at the arts center since 1971, was concerned about declines in attendance and donations during President Trump’s second term.

A nuclear-capable missile fired into Ukraine near Poland sent a message to Europe days after its leaders agreed to postwar security guarantees, Russian analysts said.

The U.K. has threatened to ban the service, which Elon Musk owns, over what Prime Minister Keir Starmer has called "disgusting" images

GTA 6? Resident Evil: Requiem? Saros? What will be 2026's Game of the Year? Let's take a look at the contenders.

The READ_ONCE() and WRITE_ONCE() macros are heavily used within the kernel; there are nearly 8,000 call sites for READ_ONCE(). They are key to the implementation of many lockless algorithms and can be necessary for some types of device-memory access. So one might think that, as the amount of Rust …

His demeanour after defeat by former club causes upsetNuno has two wins from 16 games since replacing PotterWest Ham are losing faith in Nuno Espírito Santo’s ability to save them from relegation and unhappy with their manager embracing Nottingham Forest players on the pitch after losing to his form…

Bonds offering 4% yields are losing their purchasing power when real inflation is somewhere between 6% to 12%, according to celebrated economist

From the V&A to the Stranger Things finale, the pop icon still looms large – but with lower streaming figures than his peers, how many new listeners are discovering his music?• ‘A perplexing, astonishing finale’: world pays tribute to David Bowie a decade after his deathWhen David Bowie died on 10 J…

The agreement with Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay represents a push for deeper global cooperation, in contrast to the United States turning to coercion in its dealings with other countries.

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arXiv:2502.18851v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Identifying LLM-generated code through watermarking poses a challenge in preserving functional correctness. Previous methods rely on the assumption that watermarking high-entropy tokens effectively maintains output quality. Our analysis reveals a …

HBO Max’s acclaimed medical drama The Pitt doesn’t reinvent the wheel by any stretch in its Season 2 premiere, and that’s just fine.

NASA has decided to bring home early four members of the International Space Station crew because of a medical issue with one of them, a first for NASA. The post Medical issue prompts early return of Crew-11 from ISS appeared first on SpaceNews.

Manipulating the topology of electronic bands can realize new states of matter, with possible implications for information technology. A central question is how to tell whether a topological regime has been achieved. Experiments are often guided by a ...

Study adds to evidence that sleep likely evolved among ancient animals as a means of repairing neurons

Stockpicker’s flagship fund failed to beat cash returns in 2025

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Arrested while reporting on an anti-Trump protest outside Atlanta, Salvadoran journalist Mario Guevara spent 112 days in ICE detention before being deported to El Salvador despite holding a valid US work permit and press credentials. He spoke to FRANCE 24 about press freedom under US President Donal…

Cells experience many different types of stress, such as starvation or stress caused by too much salt or too high a temperature. Insulin signals respond to such stress signals by sending the protein DAF-16 into the cell nucleus where it activates the stress-specific genes to protect the worm from st…

Aptos (APT) was also an underperformer, down 5% from Wednesday.

Go behind the propaganda, and the intensifying strain is evident

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CMA’s move comes as Associated British Foods, which also owns Primark, issues profit warningBusiness live – latest updatesThe UK competition watchdog has ramped up its investigation into a £75m takeover deal that will result in the owner of Kingsmill snapping up its sliced bread rival Hovis.Associat…

Mr. Reiner, who is charged with killing his parents, will now be represented by a public defender. His arraignment has been rescheduled for next month.

What will we see in the southern sky in 2026? A total eclipse of the moon (at a convenient time), a blue moon and a supermoon, the two brightest planets close together, and Jupiter disappearing behind the moon in the daytime.

As mobile devices gain popularity as enterprise devices, mobile apps become a greater target for hackers. Understand the risks that come with mobile apps and how to mitigate them.

Scientists have discovered that ordinary ice is a flexoelectric material, capable of generating electricity when bent or unevenly deformed. At very low temperatures, it can even become ferroelectric, developing reversible electric polarization. This could help explain lightning formation in storms a…

I know IKEA is all about small, efficient spaces, but their meeting room inside the Venetian during the company’s first-ever CES was the same size as my (not large) living room. Plenty of people were as excited as I was to see what the Swedish designers brought with them to the show and the room was…

Larry Page is reportedly moving assets out of California over concern the state will vote in a tax on billionaires.

Republican Sen. Thom Tillis (N.C.) on Wednesday slammed senior White House adviser Stephen Miller’s comment that Greenland rightfully belongs to the U.S. and that no one is going to stop the Trump administration from seizing it. Tillis called Miller’s remarks “amateurish” and suggested that White Ho…

Larry Ellison pledged $40B, but "he didn’t raise the price," Warner chair says.

Many Los Angeles residents are facing a difficult reality as they recover one year after the Eaton and Palisades blazes killed 31 people and charred almost 40,000 acres. Rebuilding is possible, but only for those who can negotiate deals, absorb losses or take on risk. Even then, the money often does…

President Trump has filed a motion in Fulton County seeking more than $6.2 million from the Fulton County District Attorney's Office.

Restoration Ecology, EarlyView.

Restoration Ecology, EarlyView.

Cell surface proteins are key disease biomarkers and therapeutic targets, yet high-throughput methods for aptamer discovery targeting these proteins in situ remain limited. We introduce single-cell perturbation-driven aptamer recognition and kinetics ...

MIT Technology Review Explains: Let our writers untangle the complex, messy world of technology to help you understand what’s coming next. You can read more from the series here. I am writing this because one of my editors woke up in the middle of the night and scribbled on a bedside notepad: “What …

arXiv:2505.05665v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) have recently demonstrated success in decision-making tasks including planning, control, and prediction, but their tendency to hallucinate unsafe and undesired outputs poses risks. This unwanted behavior is further exa…

Astronomers have found a system of three supermassive black holes, all actively feeding, that appear to be combining into a single system – a rare event that will help elucidate the physics of complex mergers