All child care payments to Minnesota were frozen Tuesday evening as the Trump administration investigates alleged fraud by organizations in the state, Health and Human Services deputy secretary Jim O'Neill announced. Why it matters: The Trump administration has repeatedly portrayed Minnesota as a pr…

Senegal beat Benin 3-0 and qualified for the AFCON round of 16 as group winners ahead of DR Congo.

Researchers created scalable quantum circuits capable of simulating fundamental nuclear physics on more than 100 qubits. These circuits efficiently prepare complex initial states that classical computers cannot handle. The achievement demonstrates a new path toward simulating particle collisions and…

Roger Pielke, Jr., The Honest Broker Two things are true at once — First, humans influence the climate system, presenting risks that merit policy attention. Second, climate research,...

Conservationists are celebrating the rediscovery of flat-headed cats in Thailand after camera traps recorded the endangered feline for the first time in almost 30 years.

A draft document by China's Cyberspace Administration outlines sticter oversight of minors and chatbot companions.

How to watch Africa Cup of Nations for free. Live stream Tanzania vs. Tunisia in the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations for free.

With the recent v1.35 release of Kubernetes, support for a kubelet configuration drop-in directory is generally available.
The newly stable feature simplifies the management of kubelet configuration across large, heterogeneous clusters.
With v1.35, the kubelet command line argument --config-dir is p…

The company's pivot to building an ether treasury sparked a 3,000% rally, attracting attention from high-risk investors.

Researchers at the University of Illinois have pulled off a laser first: they built a new kind of eye-safe laser that works at room temperature, using a buried layer of glass-like material instead of the usual air holes. This design not only boosts laser performance but also opens the door to safer …

Editor’s note: This story is part of a collaboration between Ensia and Egab exploring environmental efforts by communities facing potentially more urgent concerns such as war and poverty. Egab is a media startup that helps young local journalists from across the Middle East and Africa get published …

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Hisense is perhaps best known for its budget-friendly electronics and appliances, like TVs and refrigerators. But at CES 2025, the China-based company showed its high-end chops with a massive 136-inch micro LED TV, which recently became available for a whopping $1…

Scientists in Kansas believe Kernza could cut emissions, restore degraded soils and reshape the future of agricultureOn the concrete floor of a greenhouse in rural Kansas stands a neat grid of 100 plastic plant pots, each holding a straggly crown of strappy, grass-like leaves. These plants are peren…

Global Change Biology, Volume 32, Issue 1, January 2026.

From auroras at 36,000 feet to comet flybys and eclipses, these are the standout images our readers shared with Space.com in 2025.

China's massive live-fire military exercises this week in the air and seas around Taiwan come as the calendar flips one year closer to a date that looms larger for Pentagon planners than almost any other.Why it matters: The U.S. military has been operating for the past five years under the assumptio…

The daughter of Jimmy Lai tells the BBC that her father's health is deteriorating in prison.

Acquisition would further expand SoftBank’s investments in artificial intelligence as it tries to center itself in the boomSoftBank Group will acquire digital infrastructure investor DigitalBridge Group in a deal valued at $4bn, the companies said on Monday, as the Japanese investment firm looks to …

The Sustainable Forestry Initiative (SFI) and McMaster University announce a new partnership to support the SFI Climate Smart Forestry Initiative, which is advancing the interpretation and implementation of climate-informed forestry practices across almost 120 million SFI-certified hectares in Canad…

Global Change Biology, Volume 32, Issue 1, January 2026.

Global Change Biology, Volume 32, Issue 1, January 2026.

Catch up on the latest trends in health news in this roundup of long-reads compiled by Live Science's health channel editor.

CES 2026 is almost upon us. Here's an overview of what we expect to see at this year's event.

The Soundcore Sleep A30 earbuds are on sale at Amazon for $199.99, down from the list price of $229.99. That's a 13% discount.

Soaring demand and extreme weather worsened by climate change have wiped out harvests of the popular purple yam.

A raid on a suspected safe house for the terrorist group Islamic State set off a clash that killed the police officers as well as six Turkish militants.

When the Trump administration slashed foreign aid, it gutted a program that had reduced malaria deaths world wide. In northern Cameroon, health workers tried to protect children in one last rainy season.

The evolutionary history of domesticated cattle in East Asia for the past 5000 years remains largely obscure. Here, we investigated the origins and evolution of cattle genetic diversity in China by analyzing shotgun genome sequences of 166 ancient ...

A new computational model suggests that Uranus' and Neptune's cores may be less icy than their "ice giant" nickname suggests.

Celebrate the New Year with the "Champagne Cluster," a galaxy cluster seen in this new image from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and optical telescopes.

A new theory of "dark photons" attempted to explain a centuries-old experiment in a new way this year, in an effort to change our understanding of the nature of light

At first glance, it seems like our understanding of physics forbids free will.