Barcelona begin the defence of their Spanish Super Cup crown against Athletic Bilbao on Wednesday in Saudi Arabia.

2026 is a special year for creator Gene Roddenberry's iconic "Wagon Train To The Stars" sci-fi franchise as it celebrates its 60th anniversary seeking out new life and new civilizations!

Coventry City Council has incurred £900,000 in fines after non-recyclable waste was placed in recycling bins, contributing to a wider overspend in its city services budget, according to a council finance report. Coventry City Council’s city services department recorded a £1.5m overspend in the three…

The California Republican’s sudden passing, on the same day that Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene’s resignation took effect, made the party’s House math even trickier.

On the cusp of a December 16 county hearing in Georgia on a proposed law to regulate the booming data center industry, documents uncovered by DeSmog reveal that lobbyists continued to influence county leaders to revise planning regulations in favor of developers. Over the past year, Coweta County, a…

The country is focused on exports, but China is slowing imports and U.S. tariff threats are growing. Politicians are offering few alternatives.

The dictator, eager to shut out the influence of Hollywood and K-pop, has been exalting a “shock brigade” of 300,000 teens and 20-somethings drafted into flood reconstruction.

Israel claimed the strikes were targeting Hezbollah and Hamas infrastructure. Lebanese President Joseph Aoun said the attacks would make the task of disarming Hezbollah more difficult to achieve.

Researchers are developing a real-life tractor beam, with the goal of pulling defunct satellites out of geostationary orbit to alleviate the space junk problem.

Neanderthals and humans mated millennia ago, and their legacy lives on in us today. Here's how.

Live Science spoke with Dr. Joe Alexander of NTT Research about "digital twins" and the development of an autonomous device for acute cardiac care.

Try as they might, scientists can’t truly rid a space or an object of its energy. But what “zero-point energy” really means is up for interpretation. The post In Quantum Mechanics, Nothingness Is the Potential To Be Anything first appeared on Quanta Magazine

The Hood Pediatric Innovation Hub brings together clinicians, researchers, and industry to bridge the gap between discovery and care.

The approach could apply to more complex tissues and organs, helping researchers to identify early signs of disease.

Protecting babies from RSV could help prevent asthma years later. Researchers in Belgium from VIB and Ghent University (UGent), working alongside colleagues in Denmark, have identified strong evidence that infection with respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) during early infancy greatly increases the ch…

The global nylon 66 industry has undergone a dramatic reversal over the past few years. Not long ago, producers were struggling with a shortage of upstream materials, particularly adiponitrile and hexamethylenediamine. By the end of 202,5, the sector is facing the opposite problem. A surge of new ca…

The global UPR market in 2025 was characterized by subdued demand, declining feedstock costs, and increasing competitive intensity. Across North America, Europe, and China, buyers maintained conservative procurement strategies, operating rates remained low to moderate, and producers continued to fac…

Ousted Venezuelan leader and his wife Cilia Flores have appeared in a US court.

Most of those killed were teenagers and came from all over Europe, with some so badly burnt their families had to provide DNA samples to help identify them.

NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston closed 2025 with major progress across human spaceflight, research, and exploration. From Artemis II mission preparations to science aboard the International Space Station, teams at Johnson helped prepare for future missions to the Moon and, ultimately, Mars. O…

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Environmental advocates notched key wins at local and state levels this year — despite the Trump administration’s rollbacks.

No-bid deals, undisclosed contracts, and millions already spent: inside the wild story of the Alaska gas pipeline that will not die.

Two spiral galaxies locked in a slow motion collision have been captured in stunning detail by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope and Chandra X-ray Observatory. The pair grazed past each other millions of years ago, triggering spectacular waves of star formation and distorting their elegant spiral ar…

A new study by researchers at the University of Amsterdam shows how gravitational waves from black holes can be used to reveal the presence of dark matter and help determine its properties. The key is a new model, based on Einstein’s theory of general relativity, that tracks in detail how a black ho…

It feels like every week now we’re writing a new article about how 3I/ATLAS is not an alien technology. But it’s worth re-iterating, and perhaps taking a look at the methodology we used to prove that statement. A new paper, available in pre-print form on arXiv from Sofia Sheikh of the SETI Institute…