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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 ...

After launching in March and collecting near-infrared data throughout 2025, NASA’s SPHEREx observatory has completed…
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft captured dramatic plumes, both large and small, spray water ice out from many locations along the famed 'tiger stripes' near the south pole of Saturn's moon Enceladus.

Scientists discover 26 new bacterial species in NASA cleanrooms, revealing surprisingly resilient microbes with potential uses in biotechnology and medicine.

Picture this: You’re just about done with a transoceanic flight, and the tracker in your seat-back screen shows you approaching your destination airport. And then … you notice your plane is moving away. Pretty far away. You approach again and again, only to realize you’re on a long, circling loop th…

The global burden of Candida auris has been increasing since its discovery in 2009, a new review finds.

Dense seismic array more than 4000 kilometers long promises new views of Earth’s interior

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International law, the new Syrian government, and U.S. military strikes against ISIS
The post Operation Hawkeye Strike: Attacking ISIS in Syria and International Law appeared first on Just Security.

Paul Thacker, RCInvestigations The panic and outrage were palpable last February when President Trump announced plans to trim reimbursement rates for government-funded scientific...

Cancer stem cells (CSCs) represent a self-renewing population capable of fueling long-term tumor growth. In gastric cancer, the identity of CSC populations remains unclear. In this study, we established a gastric CSC population marked by the water ...

This February, the first-ever metal part 3D-printed in space landed on Earth. Produced in the European Space Agency’s Metal 3D Printer Technology Demonstrator on the International Space Station, it is now in the hands of ESA’s engineers at ESTEC, the agency’s technical centre in the Netherlands, who…

Findings about our extinct relatives, the Neanderthals, continue to surprise us, especially those from 2025.

The State Revolving Fund (SRF) Advocates Forum (Forum) brings together community leaders from more than 36 states advocating for critical water infrastructure funding needs to replace lead service lines, upgrade […]
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Artificial intelligence industry darling OpenAI Group PBC is reportedly mulling the idea of embedding advertisements into ChatGPT’s responses amid pressure from investors to start making money from the chatbot. A report in The Information today suggests that OpenAI is already exploring possible ad f…

NASA NASA's Mars Curiosity rover has measured a tenfold spike in methane, an organic chemical, in the atmosphere around it and detected other organic molecules in a rock-powder sample...

With the production process rapidly evolving, science policy must consider how institutions could evolve

A "Cyber Shield" would enable the United States and its Indo-Pacific allies to attribute quickly, act collectively, and stem Beijing’s cyber coercion.
The post America’s Cyber Retreat Is Undermining Indo-Pacific Security appeared first on Just Security.

A stronger military requires a stronger economy.

The tiny backpack you see fitted on this American Oystercatcher is a solar-powered GPS/GSM transmitter. It weighs around 10 grams (less than 3% of this bird’s total body weight) and is fitted to...

"If 60 Minutes had 'explained this' as Weiss described, the segment would have included false or highly misleading information."
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Defense firms will be notified of potential links to blacklisted Chinese-military companies a year before the contracting ban goes into effect, the assistant defense secretary for industrial policy said.

The Trump administration is boosting incentives as it seeks to meet lofty hiring goals.

From Appwrite to Zulip, Universe 2025’s Open Source Zone was stacked with standout projects showing just how far open source can go. Meet the maintainers—and if you want to join them in 2026, you can now apply for next year’s cohort.
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Fishermen and the latest fishery stock assessment agree: There are a lot of red snapper in the South Atlantic. Yet, promising numbers alone do not tell the whole story of red snapper off the U.S. East Coast. South Atlantic red snapper is a favorite among offshore anglers, but it’s been in a rebuildi…

The sun is just starting to set off the tip of Galinhos, a peninsula in northeast Brazil, and Rafael Revorêdo is holding a beer koozie as he sits in a folding chair with legs that have sunk deep...

Millie Bobby Brown's character takes center stage—finally!—in our first tiny glimpse at the Netflix hit's explosive conclusion.

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Click in for more news from The Hill {beacon} Health Care Health Care   The Big Story New ad attacks GOP for ACA enhanced subsidy lapse Expect to see a lot more of these: a new digital ad from Democratic-aligned health advocacy group Protect Our Care is attacking frontline House Republicans for le…

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is pausing all child care payments to Minnesota, amid a sweeping federal probe into allegations of fraud within the state’s social services programs. Citing a video released Friday by independent journalist Nick Shirley detailing his investigation i…

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) claimed Tuesday that Politico reporter Josh Gerstein was “inciting violence against federal agents.” Gerstein, a senior legal affairs reporter at the outlet, said Monday on the social platform X, “At some point, the amateur effort to knock on doors of home d…

President Trump has overseen a series of dramatic changes at the Kennedy Center since taking office at the beginning of the year. The most significant shifts came in two waves, both of which resulted in artists canceling performances in protest of Trump’s takeover of the cultural institution. In Feb…

Russia on Tuesday said it will take a tougher position in talks on ending its nearly four-year war in Ukraine after it claimed Kyiv attacked a Russian presidential residence, an accusation that Kyiv has denied. Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha also on Tuesday said that Russia has not given a…

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced Tuesday that it is halting all child care payments to Minnesota, as the Trump administration has put fresh attention on a years-long fraud scandal in the North Star State. "We have frozen all child care payments to the state of Minnesota," …

Iowa Democrats are looking to hold on to a critical state Senate seat in a special election Tuesday. Democrat Renee Hardman and Republican Lucas Loftin are vying for the seat in the Des Moines-area 16th District. The seat was vacated after its previous occupant, state Sen. Claire Celsi (D), died in …

Mehmet Oz, administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, on Tuesday called the seasonal flu vaccine "controversial of late" and advised various Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) initiatives as ways to "overcome" the virus. Appearing on Newsmax, Oz spoke on this year's flu season, …

Mugo & Elmorsy, The Conversation Farmers are under pressure. Fertilizer costs have soared in recent years. Tariffs are

The human blood proteome provides a holistic readout of health states through the assessment of thousands of circulating proteins. In this study, we present a pan-disease resource to enable the study of diverse disease phenotypes within a harmonized ...

Drew Dalton, Aeon Reality is not what you think it is. It is not the foundation of our joyful flourishing. It is not an eternally renewing resource, nor something that would, were it not for...

Ferroelectrics could bolster “flash” memory in AI data centers and autonomous robots

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

Policy to be implemented next year drew more than 900 comments, most of them critical

Memo cites overburdened staff, but some say move also aims to elevate White House priorities

Published December 16, 2025; Bridge Michigan As a wave of data center developers further their plans to set up shop in Michigan, two bipartisan Michigan lawmakers want to repeal the tax breaks that are luring them. State Rep. Jim DeSana, R-Carleton, announced Tuesday during an anti-data center rally…

TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. – For 72 years, in order to serve as a shortcut for crude oil from production fields in western Canada to refineries in eastern Ontario, Enbridge Inc.’s Line 5 pipeline has transported 540,000 barrels of oil and natural gas liquids daily beneath the forests and wetlands of north…

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…

NASA astronauts Matthew Dominick (left) and Mark Vande Hei (right) prepare to fly out to a landing zone in the Rocky Mountains as part of the certification run for the NASA Artemis course at the High-Altitude Army National Guard Aviation Training Site in Gypsum, Colorado, Aug. 26.

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Pollster Frank Luntz said Tuesday that Republicans would face an uphill battle with voters if the government shuts down in January over health care policy.  “The shutdown that we experienced, the longest ever in American history, started off hurting Democrats more than Republicans; ended up hurting …

A federal magistrate judge said Tuesday a local grand jury has secured a federal indictment against the suspect in the D.C. pipe bomb case, but he has not yet accepted it. Judge Matthew Sharbaugh said at a hearing that a D.C. Superior Court grand jury approved an indictment against Brian Cole Jr. on…

Flu activity is rising sharply across the country, according to new data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), with some areas seeing record-high numbers of illnesses.  The numbers come as experts brace for a particularly harsh season driven by a new, mutated variant of the viru…

The number of recorded measles cases in the U.S. during 2025 has officially exceeded 2,000 just before the end of the year, a bleak punctuation on what has been the worst spread of measles the country has seen in decades. As of Dec. 23, the U.S. has reported 2,012 measles cases, with the vast majori…

December 17, 2025; Originally published by Bridge Michigan In a long-awaited decision released Wednesday, a federal judge ruled that federal pipeline safety law leaves Michigan no room to shut down the Line 5 pipeline in the Straits of Mackinac. US District Judge Robert Jonker issued the ruling in r…

Can you believe it? We’re nearly at the end of 2025. And what a year it’s been! From re:Invent recap events, to AWS Summits, AWS Innovate, AWS re:Inforce, Community Days, and DevDays and, recently, adding that cherry on the cake, re:Invent 2025, we have lived through a year filled with exciting mome…

Accelerate AI model development with new training features that enable instant recovery from failures and automatic scaling based on resource availability.

The week after AWS re:Invent builds on the excitement and energy of the event and is a good time to learn more and understand how the recent announcements can help you solve your challenges and unlock new opportunities. As usual, we have you covered with our top announcements of AWS re:Invent 2025 t…

Access FSx for NetApp ONTAP file data through S3 to enable AI/ML workloads and analytics—letting you use enterprise file data with Bedrock, SageMaker, and analytics services while it remains in your file system.

Accelerate AI model development with new training features that enable rapid recovery from failures and automatic scaling based on resource availability.

A vaccine in development would be the first proactive treatment for overdose and fentanyl addiction, if approved.

Findings about our human ancestors continue to surprise us, especially those from 2025.

A dormant volcano in Ethiopia erupted after 10,000 years of silence. This event shows how the world's little-known volcanoes pose the greatest threat.

From sinking boats and feasting on shark livers to dining on whale tongue and tossing porpoises around for fun, orcas are displaying some fascinating — and sometimes terrifying — behaviors.

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.

Scientists and conservationists in the U.S. Midwest are working to stop industrial herbicides from drifting onto the region’s remaining hardwood trees.
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As the planet warms, people are moving—bringing familiar fights to new battlegrounds.
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Engineers are using a satellite link between two European Space Agency facilities to advance teleoperated robotics systems that could enable future lunar explorers to study the Moon from afar.

In a few days, ESA’s fourth European Service Module will leave the integration halls of Airbus in Bremen, Germany, setting sail across the Atlantic Ocean in the next step of its journey. The module will propel NASA’s Orion spacecraft towards the Moon during Artemis IV, supplying the crew with water,…

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…

NASA’s X-59 quiet supersonic research aircraft took off for its historic first flight on Oct. 28 at 11:14 a.m. EDT from Lockheed Martin Skunk Works in Palmdale, California. The one-of-a-kind aircraft flew for 67 minutes before landing and taxiing to NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards…

Editor’s Note: This article was updated on Friday, Dec. 19, 2025, to clarify the research done by ATM-X and ACERO. NASA’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley continued to make strides in research, technology, engineering, science, and innovation this past year. Join us as we take a l…

Scrambling with my team to close Audubon’s March-April 2008 issue, we hit a wall. In the dusk of publishing’s golden age, advertising was so strong that we had depleted our entire inventory of...

Plus, Monkeypaw Productions addresses those MCU rumors.

Clean energy infrastructure is being deployed with unmatched scale and speed—and China is leading the way

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

With limited public notice, the US Army Corps of Engineers has placed a new option on the table for the future of the Line 5 pipeline as it prepares to make a high-profile permitting decision about the pipeline’s fate. Rather than replacing the 4-mile stretch of Line 5 that currently rests in the op…

Construction equipment and temporary fencing have already cropped up on the Saline Township farm that is now the planned site of Michigan’s first hyperscale data center. (Joel Kurth/Bridge Michigan)
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NASA astronauts Christina Koch, Artemis II mission specialist, and Victor Glover, Artemis II pilot, walk on the crew access arm of the mobile launcher in the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Tuesday, Aug. 12, 2025.

New service acts as an always-on DevOps engineer, helping you respond to incidents, identify root causes, and prevent future issues through systematic analysis of incidents and operational patterns.

With a second Trump Administration at the helm in 2025, NASA marked significant progress toward the Artemis II test flight early next year, which is the first crewed mission around the Moon in more than 50 years, as well as built upon its momentum toward a human return to the lunar surface in prepar…

When Mark Benedict and his wife, Mary Shaw, moved in 2017 to Salmon Prairie, Montana, a remote enclave about two hours north of Missoula, they felt like they had won the retirement lottery. Their...

This summer, more than a dozen Burrowing Owls hatched in an unusual habitat: in plastic underground tunnels within the footprint of a sprawling, 10,000-acre solar energy complex outside of Phoenix...

Editor’s Note: Frank Graham was Audubon magazine’s field editor for 45 years, during which time he skillfully captured the beauty and complexity of subjects from across the natural world. This...

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An abundance of excitement is brewing at Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary as the first phase of our Capital Campaign campus transformation comes to fruition. You may have already...

These days, it’s common knowledge that birds are living dinosaurs. Victorian naturalists proposed the notion after spotting similarities between dinosaur fossils and contemporary bird skeletons...

We envision the future of AI-enabled tooling to look like near-effortless engineering for sustainability. We call it Continuous Efficiency.
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Security advice for users and maintainers to help reduce the impact of the next supply chain malware attack.
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“One way or another, we’re going to make sure Johnson Space Center gets its historic spacecraft right where it belongs.”

RIP Cecilia Giménez Zueco, a legendary self-starter.

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Scale vector storage and querying to new heights with S3 Vectors' general availability—now supporting up to 1 billion vectors per index, 100ms query latencies, and expanded regional availability, while reducing costs up to 90% compared to specialized databases.

Spotting an AI-generated face is harder than you might think. How confident are you in your ability?

Fifty years after a fossil skeleton of Australopithecus afarensis was unearthed in Ethiopia, we know so much more about how this iconic species lived and died.

In this James Webb telescope image, the gigantic molecular cloud near our galaxy's center appears as a canvas of pink and purple clouds set against a shadowy backdrop.

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

A controversial reintroduction program is off to a messy start.
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In the United States, efforts to save a beloved species face pushback from a surprising foe: gun rights advocates.
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Called AVIRIS-5, it’s the latest in a long line of sensors pioneered by NASA JPL to survey Earth, the Moon, and other worlds. Cradled in the nose of a high-altitude research airplane, a new NASA sensor has taken to the skies to help geoscientists map rocks hosting lithium and other critical minerals…

After years of design, development, and testing, NASA’s X-59 quiet supersonic research aircraft took to the skies for the first time Oct. 28, marking a historic moment for the field of aeronautics research and the agency’s Quesst mission. The X-59, designed to fly at supersonic speeds and reduce the…