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Archaeologists have discovered a 2,000-year-old lead bullet in the Holy Land with a darkly sarcastic inscription in Greek.
We know that a person’s outlook can have a huge effect on their health, and it’s no different when it comes to ageing. Columnist Graham Lawton looks at new evidence of just how powerful our attitude is – and how to use it to age better
Nasdaq's structure the SEC approved opens door to bring blockchain benefits to equities, while preserving the same-old intermediaries and market structure, industry insiders say.
Colossal Biosciences’ CEO says its work follows a ‘moral obligation’ while critics say it’s ‘tech bro’ hype that could undermine conservationCan and should we resurrect animal species that have been extinct for thousands of years? Such weighty, existential questions were once the preserve of science fiction but are now being played out within an unassuming brick building in a Dallas business park.Colossal Biosciences, valued at $10.2bn after raising hundreds of millions of dollars in funding from investors including celebrities spanning from Tiger Woods to Paris Hilton, has provoked a stampede of acclaim as well as denunciation after announcing last year it had made the dire wolf, a species lost from the world for more than 10,000 years, “de-extinct” via the birth of three new pups. Continue reading...
President Trump said the U.S. military conducted a massive strike on Kharg Island in Iran - the center of the country's oil exports. Why it matters: The strategic Island hosts Iran key oil export facilities. 80-90 percent of Iranian oil is exported from the Island. The White House has been consideri…
CBS News announced Friday that CBS News Radio will be shutting down this spring after nearly 100 years of broadcasting, citing "challenging economic realities."
"Once a Doll, always a Doll," Nicole Scherzinger said after struggling momentarily to respond.
People struggle to cook and businesses bear brunt as closure of strait of Hormuz slows imports of liquefied petroleum gasFor four days, Maya Rani, 36, has been arriving each morning at a gas distributor’s office in Delhi, her six-month-old daughter in her lap, waiting for hours. And each day she ret…
Forces have been stripped back since the cold war but political stasis is dangerous in the face of growing global threatsMiddle East crisis – live updatesIt will have been more than three weeks since the US and Israel first attacked Iran when the first British warship finally arrives off the coast o…
The device is being developed by the company's Devices and Services division, and it would feature personalized features aimed at making it easier to use Amazon's suite of apps, including Amazon shopping, Prime Video, and Prime Music, according to Reuters.
We’re expecting fresh electrics from Rivian, Hyundai, Honda, BMW, and newcomer Slate, among others. Here are the EVs arriving this year that we’re most excited about.
The U.S. holds an "extremely small" lead on China in the AI race, in part because authoritarian governments have certain advantages in deploying new technology, Anduril Industries founder Palmer Luckey said in a new episode of "The Axios Show."Why it matters: Having Beijing dominate AI — and thus se…
Cybercriminal groups are now using spyware tools once utilized mainly by spies and law enforcement to hack into iPhones, new research shows.Why it matters: Anyone with an iPhone can now be the target of invasive malware that siphons off personal text messages, photos, notes and calendar data. Drivin…
One police officer killed in strike by 'outlaw groups' on headquarters of Iraqi National Intelligence Service.
Now at its lowest-ever price, this deal on one of the top-rated VPNs could save you $300, but you'll have to hurry as deals end March 19.
Just under 100 ships have passed thorough the Strait of Hormuz since the start of March, according to data analysed by BBC Verify.
She’ll bring World’s Gone Wrong to six states in May
Earthjustice is representing Diane Wilson as she joins a legal challenge to a massive plastics facility owned by Dow and Union Carbide. The post The Bay She Loves Is Choked with Microplastics. She’s Taking the Polluter to Court. appeared first on Earthjustice.
A new study in mice indicates that bacteria from the gut can directly enter the brain, with potential implications for neurological health.
Jon Davison grew up with the late Foo Fighters drummer and became the lead singer of Yes in 2012 based largely on Hawkins' recommendation
Coral reefs are beautiful, vibrant ecosystems and a cornerstone of a healthy ocean. Often called the “rainforests of the sea,” they support an extraordinary diversity of marine life from fish and crustaceans to mollusks, sea turtles and more. Although reefs cover less than 1% of the ocean floor, the…
The conflict in the Middle East is driving oil prices up in a midterm year when Americans are already focused on high energy bills.
Ugandan wildlife authorities reintroduced rhinos into a remote protected area where the large mammals once were poached into extinction
Chris Noth took to Instagram on Wednesday to calm the buzz surrounding a comment he made on an earlier post that appeared to endorse a fan’s take-down of his former “Sex and the City” co-star Sarah Jessica Parker. “My off-the-cuff slightly sarcastic response to a comment on the internet seems to hav…
New findings from the University of East London show that online risk-taking is widespread among young people, with behaviors such as digital piracy, accessing risky online spaces or engaging with harmful content having a high potential to lead to more serious offenses.
Researchers at Kumamoto University have discovered that a purely inorganic crystal grown from water solution can emit circularly polarized light, a special form of light whose "handedness" distinguishes left from right.
An incredible smoked haddock paste for toast, crackers or crudités, and a moreish and indulgent multi-mushroom-topped pastryTwo key elements at the heart of Portuguese eating culture are couvert and pastry. A couvert, comprising bread, butter, pickled or garlic carrots, cheese and fish paté (often s…
Weeks into protests in Iran, President Trump has indicated he could soon intervene in favor of protesters, pressuring a regime already reeling from street uprisings. Why it matters: The stakes are life and death in Iran and escalating. More than 540 protesters have been killed, reports said, and the…
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For a number of very obvious reasons, we don’t want to roll back the clock to early 2020. No thank you. But if there was a feel-good lockdown story, it was the perfectly timed arrival of Animal Crossing: New Horizons, which allowed friends who could no longer meet up IRL to do so virtually on their …
The payments firm says the CSSF has issued a preliminary approval for an EMI license, a step toward offering regulated crypto and stablecoin payment services across the EU.
Lume Cube has a variety of marked-down lighting products to help revamp your home office.
To hear President Donald Trump tell it, a push to take control of Greenland is a “national security” necessity, critical to reinforcing control of the Arctic against possible threats from Russia and China
The Institute auditor has guided the Audit Division through a transformative period while strengthening collaborations across MIT.
MIT community members made headlines with key research advances and their efforts to tackle pressing challenges.
Scientists have used CRISPR to give the goldenberry a modern makeover, shrinking the plant by about a third and making it easier to farm. Goldenberries are tasty and nutritious but notoriously unruly, with bushy plants that complicate harvesting. By editing a few key genes and selectively breeding t…
Agents searched Hannah Natanson’s Virginia home and seized devices in inquiry tied to a classified materials caseThe FBI raided the home of a Washington Post reporter early on Wednesday in what the newspaper called a “highly unusual and aggressive” move by law enforcement, and press freedom groups c…
A recent study of more than 2,000 early-career adults found that young people whose parents were still very closely involved in their lives tended to have occupations with less "prestige" than young people whose parents were less involved.
The BBC's Europe Editor Katya Adler visits the Arctic island to ask what people think of the US president's plans.
Are you planning on viewing the solar eclipse on April 8, 2024? Please make sure you are doing so... The post How to Safely View the Eclipse appeared first on National Radio Astronomy Observatory.
How two big names in mainstream disaster preparedness helped sell Americans on fear, anxiety, and a new generator.
Small modular reactor startups are betting that mass manufacturing will help them bring costs down. But are they underestimating the challenge?
An intellectual property lawyer says OpenAI is "putting itself at great risk" with this approach.
NASA is helping shape the future of urban air travel with a new simulation that will manage how electric air taxis and drones can successfully operate within busy areas. The demonstration, held at NASA’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley earlier this year, focused on a system cal…
A woman in a car was shot and killed by a US immigration officer on a residential street in Minnesota.
In a conversation with Rep. Jake Auchincloss, Bhattacharya focused on the agency’s policy goals and funding practices.
ChatGPT Image 1.5 launched, and while it seems comparable to Gemini's Nano Banana Pro, the product around it shows OpenAI's advantages. Then, Apple v. Epic rolls on.
Dying is a process and in a person’s final hours and days, Nickie and her Threshold Choir are there to accompany people on their way and bring comfort. Through specially composed songs, akin to lullabies, the choir cultivates an environment of love and safety around those on their deathbed. For the…
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...
Security updates have been issued by Debian (pdfminer and vlc), Red Hat (kernel, kernel-rt, and microcode_ctl), Slackware (libtasn1), SUSE (apptainer, curl, ImageMagick, libpcap, libvirt, libwget4, php8, podman, python311-cbor2, qemu, and rsync), and Ubuntu (gnupg, gnupg2, gpsd, libsodium, and python-tornado).
Gentoo Linux has published a 2025 project retrospective that looks at how the community has evolved, changes to the distribution, infrastructure, and finances for the Gentoo Foundation.
Gentoo currently consists of 31663 ebuilds for 19174 different packages. For amd64 (x86-64), there are 89 GBytes of binary packages available on the mirrors. Gentoo each week builds 154 distinct installation stages for different processor architectures and system configurations, with an overwhelming part of these fully up-to-date.
The number of commits to the main ::gentoo repository has remained at an overall high level in 2025, with a slight decrease from 123942 to 112927. The number of commits by external contributors was 9396, now across 377 unique external authors.
Videos emerging despite internet and mobile phone blackout show demonstrations continuing despite reports of escalating crackdownDemonstrators have continued to take to the streets of Iran, defying an escalating crackdown by authorities against the growing protest movement.An internet shutdown impos…
In a significant step forward for Canada’s domestic space ambitions, the Atlantic Spaceport Complex (ASX)… The post Canada’s First Commercial Spaceport clears major hurdle with Environmental Approval appeared first on NASASpaceFlight.com.
The economic cost of food waste across the global supply chain is forecast to reach $540 billion by 2026, according to new research. The post Food waste forecast to cost businesses $540 billion in 2026 appeared first on Circular Online.
The fleet management and technology company is beginning the year with a new leader and headquarters in Austin, Texas. Routeware has seen other executives cycle out in recent years.
A warming planet has opened up new shipping routes and turned Greenland into a geostrategic asset for the Trump administration.
In a historical milestone, catastrophic collisions in a nearby planetary system were witnessed for the first time by astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. As they observed the bright star Fomalhaut, the scientists saw the impact of massive objects around the star. The Fomalhaut syst…
Scientists have discovered how to electrically power insulating nanoparticles using organic molecules that act like tiny antennas. These hybrids generate extremely pure near-infrared light, ideal for medical diagnostics and advanced communications. The approach works at low voltages and surpasses competing technologies in spectral precision. Early results suggest huge potential for future optoelectronic devices.
MCAF fellow Issah Seidu is mentoring emerging researchers for the protection of Africa’s marine megafauna. The post Building a Fellowship Program for Early Career Scientists in Ghana appeared first on New England Aquarium.
Scientists at the Marine Biological Association (MBA) and the University of Exeter have discovered how tiny photosynthetic microbes known as phytoplankton prioritise resource use when nutrients are scarce, in a breakthrough that could reshape our understanding of the impacts of nutrient limitation o…
Engineers are working to stabilize a dust cover on one of the science instrument’s cameras.
America’s nuclear warning systems aren’t ready for AI.
Federal officials claim the shooting in Minneapolis was an act of self-defence. The mayor says he’s seen the footage and that’s just spin.
In Tehran this week, young adults told the Guardian about collapsing living standards, the mass anti-government protests and their hopes for the futureMahsa is single and lives with her family. She has a page online where she sells her clothes and had arranged for a prominent influencer to run a maj…
“A simple thing like a bubble, it makes someone smile,” said driver Ricki Reid, who has found fans on Instagram and TikTok. His mission is to spread joy.
Great new tracks from August Ponthier, Haute & Freddy, Lala Lala, and more. Staff Picks: Best Songs of the Week January 3rd – January 9th Paolo Ragusa and Jonah Krueger
These are the key developments from day 1,416 of Russia’s war on Ukraine.
Experts said oil execs gave a 'less-than-full-throated' approval as they waited on terms from US and Venezuela.
Intel shared encouraging updates around its PC-chip business this week, but any turnaround for the chip maker is still years away.
The Peach Bowl kicks off Jan. 9 at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta at 7:30 p.m. ET.
Seaweeds are versatile algae. They are sources of food, medicine, and many other products, and they have the added benefit of being extremely efficient at removing CO2 from the atmosphere as they grow.
arXiv:2408.17297v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: 6D pose estimation aims at determining the object pose that best explains the camera observation. The unique solution for non-ambiguous objects can turn into a multi-modal pose distribution for symmetrical objects or when occlusions of symmetry-br…
Turn taking and equal time limits create the civic sensations necessary to slowly, but strongly, rebuild the American public sphere.
Restoration Ecology, Volume 34, Issue 1, January 2026.
Officers shot the driver of a BMW that had been involved in a motor vehicle incident after he drew an imitation firearm, the police said.
Scientists uncover the role of magnetic fluctuations in the counterintuitive behaviour of this rare plutonium phase The post 5f electrons and the mystery of δ-plutonium appeared first on Physics World.
Star Trek is in a weird place right now. Less than three years ago we were living in a golden age with five shows on the air, all with different styles and intended audiences. But the universe rapidly contracted, with Picard ending while four other shows were cut short. Strange New Worlds still has…
The Secret Traitor is forced to work alone, risking the lives of their fellow Traitors if one wrong move is made
Rev Dr Rebekah E Sims urges Britons to respond to the government consultation on ‘earned settlement’ in support of workers like her, while another reader describes prolonged years of uncertainty and costThis is an unsettling time to be a migrant worker in the UK. I am one, here on a skilled worker v…
Top Democrats on Capitol Hill are demanding a series of investigations into Wednesday’s fatal shooting of a woman by a federal immigration officer in Minneapolis, saying the tragedy was the direct result of a bellicose campaign by the Trump administration to menace blue cities under the guise of law…
The pivotal U.S. jobs report for December is supposed to be the first normal one since the government shutdown, but it could prove devilishly hard for investors to parse.
In 1934 and 1978, Fifa’s big event was given over to authoritarian aims. There’s no more doubt that 2026 will be the sameBy 1934, it was entirely evident what Benito Mussolini was up to. Italy’s dictator had already consolidated power, colonized Libya and annexed the city of Rijeka. He nevertheless …
Most voters want guidance from trained physicians and support continued vaccine innovation. Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s contradict defy that mandate.
McBride was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2017.
arXiv:2601.03690v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Smart grids are increasingly exposed to sophisticated cyber threats due to their reliance on interconnected communication networks, as demonstrated by real world incidents such as the cyberattacks on the Ukrainian power grid. In IEC61850 based smart s…
The AI plateau marks a shift from hype to practical results. CIOs who focus on governance and measurable value can navigate this period successfully.
DHS Secretary Kristi Noem said more than 1,500 people have been arrested.
Top Trump aide Stephen Miller says it's the "formal position" of the White House that Denmark's territory of Greenland "should be part of the U.S."
This year, for the first time, more Americans will earn a minimum wage of $15 per hour or higher than will earn the federal minimum of $7.25 per hour.
A record-setting 21 thunderstorm events each caused at least $1 billion in damages, a sign that more people and property are in harm’s way.
Restoration Ecology, Volume 34, Issue 1, January 2026.
The cryptocurrency industry is ramping up efforts to get market structure legislation past a key hurdle, as two Senate committees prepare to vote on the bill next week. Both the Senate Banking and Senate Agriculture panels will hold markups on Jan. 15, even as Republicans and crypto-friendly Democr…
In 1181 AD, a bright "guest star" was observed to linger in the sky for around six months. Nearly 850 years later, the likely remnants of this event were rediscovered and tentatively linked to the 1181 supernova and dubbed supernova remnant (SNR) Pa 30. Yet, this supernova remnant was unique in appearance and researchers have struggled to understand why.
The Minneapolis mayor told Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on Wednesday to “get the f‑‑‑ out” of the city after a woman was fatally shot amid the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) immigration crackdown. “We do not want you here,” Mayor Jacob Frey (D) said during a press conference. “…
Middle East rivalries are turning a local war into a regional crisis..
The BCTVNet neural network provides accurate and rapid target volume delineation for cervical cancer brachytherapy The post Hybrid deep-learning model eases brachytherapy planning appeared first on Physics World.
Move to expand landfill for US hazardous waste stirs disputes between leaders in Quebec and Montreal suburbThe proposed expansion of a Quebec landfill that accepts hazardous waste from the United States has ignited a turf war between the Quebec provincial government and local leaders, who say they o…
CoinDesk and the Solana Foundation said the developer event will kick off Consensus Hong Kong on Feb. 11, setting the tone for a week focused on builders, capital, and policymakers.
