Every day, millions of small-scale fishers set out to sea with simple gear and big purpose. These local fishers sustain coastal communities — casting nets not for large profits, but for meals, livelihoods, and survival. While the definition of a “small-scale fisher” differs across countries, these f…

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 ...

BCI trends to watch in 2026: Better ways of capturing brain signals, brain implants for mental health, and Chinese competition.

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…

Support the protection of old-growth forests in BC through Indigenous-led conservation, science, and public action. Donate to help safeguard ancient forests.
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To prioritize the safety and security of the ecosystem, Kubernetes SIG Network and the Security Response Committee are announcing the upcoming retirement of Ingress NGINX. Best-effort maintenance will continue until March 2026. Afterward, there will be no further releases, no bugfixes, and no update…

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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.

The most far-reaching analysis of environment and environmentalism in Russia since 2022 shows how Putin’s regime relies on a toxic troika of extractivism, authoritarianism and war.

Local governments on Vancouver Island are frustrated after legislative changes are not coming to the law governing how private forest lands are managed in BC.
The post National Observer: Long-awaited changes to BC’s private forests not coming, government confirms appeared first on Ancient Forest All…

The four astronauts who will fly around the moon on NASA's Artemis 2 mission suited up, walked out and climbed aboard their spacecraft during a key prelaunch test at Kennedy Space Center.

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

We’re sharing how we’ve enabled Dolby Vision and ambient viewing environment (amve) on the Instagram iOS app to enhance the video viewing experience. HDR videos created on iPhones contain unique Dolby Vision and amve metadata that we needed to support end-to-end Instagram for iOS is now the first Me…

Here is the full list of the consumer/edtech Startup Battlefield 200 selectees, along with a note on what made us select them for the competition.

Tech companies are increasingly warning their customers that they have been targeted by governments with advanced government spyware, such as NSO's Pegasus or Paragon's Graphite. What happens after receiving a threat notification?

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

Italy’s Parliament has approved the government’s 2026 budget, which includes deficit-cutting measures

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

Manage development, testing, and production database workloads more efficiently with new features including Developer Edition support for SQL Server, M7i/R7i instance support with optimize CPU, and expanded storage options up to 256 TiB.

According to Dealroom’s European Spinout Report 2025, 76 European deep tech and life sciences spinouts have either reached $1 billion valuations, $100 million in revenue, or both.

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.

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

China overcomes human spaceflight emergency and makes leaps with lunar hardware tests

When we think of snow, we usually think of winter. But did you know that it is always snowing in the ocean? Marine snow isn’t the kind you can sled on — this continuous underwater snowfall sustains life in the deep sea and helps regulate Earth’s climate.  WHAT IS MARINE SNOW? Marine snow is made up …

China’s decision to bring serious firepower to bear for military drills in the waters off Taiwan this week has deep roots both in the past several weeks and the past several decades

arXiv:2512.22809v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Motivated by frequency assignment problems in wireless broadcast networks, Goddard, Hedetniemi, Hedetniemi, Harris, and Rall introduced the notion of $S$-packing coloring in 2008. Given a non-decreasing sequence $S = (s_1, s_2, \ldots, s_k)$ of posi…

What might 2026 hold for the fields of public health, both domestically and abroad? Quite a lot.

Meta says it'll keep Manus running independently while weaving its agents into Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, where Meta's own chatbot, Meta AI, is already available to users.

In anticipation of the upcoming 35th anniversary of the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, ESA/Hubble is continuing the celebrations with a new view of the Eagle Nebula. This vast stellar nursery displays a towering spire of cosmic gas and dust that incorporates new data processing techniques develope…

This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Every day when Rajaa Musleh wakes up and checks her phone, she fears she will see news that another member of her family has been killed in Gaza.  Musleh, a nurse and humanita…

This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Early last year, the hydropower company Nature and People First set its sights on Black Mesa, a mountainous region on the Navajo Nation in northern Arizona. The mesa’s steep drop offered id…

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.

An interview with MoffettNathanson's Michael Nathanson about Netflix's acquisition of Warner Bros. and the Hollywood end game.

A leaked technical review prepared for a group of First Nations claims British Columbia is greatly overestimating how much timber it can sustainably harvest in a push for short-term economic gains. 
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The season of giving doesn’t have to be giving plastic disaster. Here are 5 ways to beat those consumption blues.

Looking to watch some of the best Sci-Fi movies and shows ever without having to rely on streaming? Don't skip these out-of-this-world Blu-ray editions.

Boldly going where no Lego set has gone before, the first-ever Star Trek Lego set you can buy and it is awesome!

New discoveries and fresh looks at familiar worlds show how far exoplanet science has come — and how much remains unknown.

China's People's Liberation Army is conducting large-scale military drills around Taiwan as part of "Justice Mission 2025."

Bolivian miners have set off dynamite and launched fireworks at police during protests against economic reforms by President Rodrigo Paz

Protesting university students in Serbia have collected signatures throughout the country for their request for an early parliamentary election

South Korea says it will end its dwindling yet much-criticized bear bile farming industry

Turkey and Armenia have agreed to simplify visa procedures to normalize ties, Turkey's Foreign Ministry announced Monday

Police say an investigation that extended to the Philippines of two men accused of killing 15 people at a Sydney Jewish festival has found no evidence they were part of a “broader terrorist cell.”

China has been staging live-fire military drills around Taiwan featuring aircraft, warships and rocket launches

The American Cemetery in the Dutch village of Margraten has become a flashpoint over the removal of displays honoring Black soldiers

Southern Hungary landowner Oszkár Nagyapáti has been battling severe drought on his land

Sue Shore told the BBC how scammers targeted her - and we found her information had been leaked online.

The key to the app's success - its algorithm - is to be retrained on US data. Will that make US TikTok blander?

The $1bn deal will let fans generate videos and images of more than 200 Disney characters on ChatGPT and Sora.

Just a handful of companies can make cadmium zinc telluride, a material with powerful properties.

The errors included getting dialogue wrong and incorrectly claiming a scene was set 100 years earlier than it was.

Kubernetes is the de facto standard for container orchestration, but when it
comes to handling specialized hardware like GPUs and other accelerators, things
get a bit complicated. This blog post dives into the challenges of managing
failure modes when operating pods with devices in Kubernetes, based…

Editors: Aakanksha Bhende, Arujjwal Negi, Chad M. Crowell, Graziano Casto, Swathi Rao
Similar to previous releases, the release of Kubernetes v1.35 introduces new stable, beta, and alpha features. The consistent delivery of high-quality releases underscores the strength of our development cycle and …

How can we respond to the climate crisis in a way that creates hope, while also being realistic and truthful as to the current state of this world? Yes, we…

This story was originally published by Vox and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. If you’re reading this, chances are you care a lot about fighting climate change, and that’s great. The climate emergency threatens all of humanity. And although the world has started to make…

An interview with Ryan Jones about Flighty, my favorite iOS app, and how the App Store has evolved over the last 15 years.

An interview with Rivian founder and CEO RJ Scaringe about starting a car company, scaling, and building for an autonomous future.

BC Timber Sales has ended a policy protecting remnant old-growth in northwest B.C., citing First Nations’ positions, sparking concerns from ecologists and residents.
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Premier David Eby says logging the province's old-growth forests for pulp is not an option, as the BC government looks for ways to help a pulp mill closing on Vancouver Island.
The post The Canadian Press: Eby says no to harvesting old-growth to extend life of B.C. pulp mill appeared first on Ancien…

We’re excited to invite you to our first-ever online Silent Auction, happening now! This is your chance to bid on unique items, experiences, and gifts — all while supporting the protection of endangered old-growth forests in BC.
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It is time for a Global Wildlife Health Authority
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Historically, configuring the correct cgroup driver has been a pain point for users running new
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Investors owning more than 100 properties account for a mere one percent of the US single-family housing stock, according to a recent and penetrating analysis by my AEI colleagues. Even at their peak, these firms never represented more than three percent of annual home purchases.
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Public education is not a consumer good, like a gym membership or a streaming service. It is a civic institution. Conservatives have always recognized that some goods must be funded collectively because everyone benefits from their existence, not merely from direct use.
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Walter Koroshetz, director of the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, will soon be leaving his role, STAT has learned. His departure in the coming days means about half…

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With the release of Kubernetes 1.34, a new alpha feature is introduced
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Overdiagnosis of UTIs in elderly patients leads to unnecessary antibiotics.

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Incident investigation can be a daunting task in today’s digital landscape, where large-scale systems comprise numerous interconnected components and dependencies DrP is a root cause analysis (RCA) platform, designed by Meta, to programmatically automate the investigation process, significantly redu…

arXiv:2407.16359v2 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: This paper proposes a general switching dynamical system model, and a custom majorization-minimization-based algorithm EM++ for identifying its parameters. For certain families of distributions, such as Gaussian distributions, this algorithm…

arXiv:2512.22153v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: We introduce shielded Langevin Monte Carlo (LMC), a constrained sampler inspired by navigation functions, capable of sampling from unnormalized target distributions defined over punctured supports. In other words, this approach samples from non-conv…

arXiv:2512.22475v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: We study the problem of Envy-Free Incomplete Connected Fair Division, where exactly p vertices of an undirected graph must be allocated to agents such that each agent receives a connected share and does not envy another agent's share. Focusing on agen…

arXiv:2512.22708v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: In this paper, the periodic initial-value problem for the fractional nonlinear Schr\"odinger (fNLS) equation is discretized in space by a Fourier spectral Galerkin method and in time by diagonally implicit, high-order Runge-Kutta schemes, based on the…

At first glance, it looks like the start of a human pregnancy: A ball-shaped embryo presses gently into the receptive lining of the uterus and then grips tight, burrowing in as the first tendrils of a future placenta appear.  This is implantation—the moment that pregnancy officially begins. Only non…

Lately, everywhere I scroll, I keep seeing the same fish-eyed CCTV view: a grainy wide shot from the corner of a living room, a driveway at night, an empty grocery store. Then something impossible happens. JD Vance shows up at the doorstep in a crazy outfit. A car folds into itself like paper and dr…

Climate news hasn’t been great in 2025. Global greenhouse-gas emissions hit record highs (again). This year is set to be either the second or third warmest on record. Climate-fueled disasters like wildfires in California and flooding in Indonesia and Pakistan devastated communities and caused billio…

In April 2025, Ronald Deibert left all electronic devices at home in Toronto and boarded a plane. When he landed in Illinois, he took a taxi to a mall and headed directly to the Apple Store to purchase a new laptop and iPhone. He’d wanted to keep the risk of having his personal devices confiscated…

Demis Hassabis, CEO of Google DeepMind, summed it up in three words: “This is embarrassing.”   Hassabis was replying on X to an overexcited post by Sébastien Bubeck, a research scientist at the rival firm OpenAI, announcing that two mathematicians had used OpenAI’s latest large language model, GPT-5…

For 15 years, Patrice Etlin has embarked on expeditions around the world as a freediver and spearfisher — a passion he inherited from his father, a pioneer of spearfishing in Brazil. During these expeditions, Etlin plunged into waters populated by sharks, carpeted with vibrant corals, and swirling w…