If someone orders shapewear from Spanx LLC’s website today, a humanoid robot handles that package. At a GXO Logistics Inc. distribution center in Georgia, Agility Robotics Inc.’s bipedal machines move merchandise with mechanical precision. And at BMW Group’s Spartanburg plant, Figure 02 robots achie…

Tech conferences are a vital way for CIOs and IT leaders to keep abreast of trends and make real-life connections in a fast-changing business climate.

“Our students’ ... dedication reflects not only their generosity, but also the spirit of engaging the MIT community in giving back through philanthropy.”

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 ...

Discover how Skyworks is powering the edge AI revolution across automotive, drones and robotics.
The post A Conversation with Skyworks on Pushing Intelligence to the Edge appeared first on EE Times.

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

Muniz, Bryan Cranston, Jane Kaczmarek, and more reunite for the first time in nearly 20 years in the first look at the upcoming four-part series

Some of the elements used by living systems are far more abundant in Cassiopeia A than we thought, hinting that some parts of our galaxy might be more suitable for life than others

Blood tests that look for over a dozen cancers are being developed. But how soon will they help patients?

10 years ago, the Rockland Water Coalition stopped a harmful desalination plant pushed by a corporate water giant. Here’s how.
The post How Grassroots Activism Beat a Corporate Water Giant in Rockland County appeared first on Food & Water Watch.

Meridian Innovation’s Cheetah thermal imaging sensor claimed this year’s Best Sensor of the Year award at EE Awards Asia 2025. This follows last year’s recognition of the Panther sensor and marks the fourth consecutive year for the company being honored at EE Awards Asia.   For Chief Operating Offic…

The actress and singer was a symbol of sexual revolution. She later became an animal welfare campaigner and incendiary right-wing commenter.

There's been a surge in remittances going back to Honduras amid Trump's immigration crackdown.

Many Indian cities rank at the bottom of liveability indexes despite big government spending on infrastructure.

Brooke May, managing partner at Evans May Wealth, offers her firm’s outlook for 2026 and explains why she expects markets to broaden out beyond the mag seven in the year ahead. (Source: Bloomberg)

It's all the truck he needs — one that picks up a new mattress from the furniture store, takes him to work and has ample space for groceries.“Most people have way more truck than they will ever use,” said David McChristian, 37, a firefighter from Houston.

Some people in Ukraine weathered the harshest moments of the last ice age by creating shelters made partly of mammoth bones and tusks.

New Yorkers will save an estimated $600 million per year
The post Governor Hochul Signs Legislation Ending 100 Foot Rule appeared first on Food & Water Watch.

Trump’s newest AI executive order doesn’t stop us from fighting data centers — but it makes these fights all the more important.
The post Trump’s Latest Attack on Communities Facing Data Centers appeared first on Food & Water Watch.

“They’re done with me – but we’re not talking about it,” he said

Cher, Carlos Santana, and Chaka Khan will also get the honor from the Recording Academy

The 5th Annual Science, Technology, Engineering, & Mathematics (STEM) Exploration Community Event hosted by the Coastal Virginia STEM Hub and the NASA eClips Education Team from the National Institute of Aerospace Center for Integrative STEM Education (NIA-CISE) lit up the Professional Workforce Dev…

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On 26–27 November, the ESA Ministerial Council will take place in Bremen, Germany. Key decisions will be made about the future activities of the European Space Agency within the frame of ESA’s Strategy 2040. Toni Tolker-Nielsen outlines how these decisions will shape the futu…

President Trump said during a recent radio interview that the U.S. “knocked out” a “big” facility in Venezuela, as the administration continues to turn up the pressure against President Nicolas Maduro. Asked about Venezuela during a Friday appearance on the "Cats and Cosby" show on New York's WABC r…

Insurance company Aflac Inc. has disclosed that a cyberattack that targeted the company in June resulted in the theft of records relating to 22.65 million individuals, making it one of the largest data breaches reported this year in the U.S. insurance sector. The company first detected unauthorized …

Electricity rates are set to skyrocket, fueled by the Trump administration’s war on cheaper clean energy and push for expensive fossil fuels.
The post Trump’s Holiday Gift to You: A Lump of Coal and a Higher Energy Bill appeared first on Earthjustice.

Here's what to know about proposals for enormous new data centers, and what Earthjustice is doing to control their pollution, climate impacts, and your energy bill.
The post What You Need to Know About AI Data Centers appeared first on Earthjustice.

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…

Louis Gerstner, the former chief executive officer credited with saving IBM Corp. from bankruptcy, has died aged 83, the company revealed today. Gerstner (pictured) served as chairman and CEO of IBM from 1993 to 2002, taking over during one of the darkest periods in the company’s history, when it wa…

Scientists have uncovered new details explaining why iron oxide minerals are such effective long-term carbon traps in soils. Scientists have known for years that iron oxide minerals play a major role in storing carbon by keeping it out of the atmosphere. A new study from Northwestern University now …

The Soyuz MS-27 spacecraft is seen as it lands in a remote area near the town of Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan with Expedition 73 NASA astronaut Jonny Kim, and Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov and Alexey Zubritsky aboard, Tuesday, Dec. 9, 2025.

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features the blue dwarf galaxy Markarian 178 (Mrk 178) against a backdrop of distant galaxies in all shapes and sizes. Some of these distant galaxies even shine through the diffuse edges of Mrk 178.

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

The family holiday in the park area turned tragic for Valencia CF Women's B coach Fernando Martín, 44, when the boat carrying him, his family, four crew members and a local guide sank.

New court filings from the Justice Department reveal more details about what Brian Cole, the man accused of placing two pipe bombs around Washington, D.C., on the eve of Jan. 6, 2021, allegedly told investigators. Scott MacFarlane has the latest.

French actress Brigitte Bardot died at age 91, her foundation said on Sunday. Here's a look back at the film icon and animal rights activist's career.

Research into how a father’s choices — such as diet, exercise, stress, nicotine use — may transfer traits to his children has become impossible to ignore. The post How Dad’s Fitness May Be Packaged and Passed Down in Sperm RNA first appeared on Quanta Magazine

Remember when David Bowie and Tina Turner came together to sell Pepsi, or when Genesis and Eric Clapton helped turn an ordinary evening into a “Michelob Night?”

Skills, not degrees, will define IT hiring in 2026. CIOs are shifting from degree-based hiring to skills-based strategies, using AI and microcredentials to retain top IT talent.

A new computational breakthrough is giving scientists a clearer view into how dark matter structures evolve. Dark matter has remained one of the biggest mysteries in cosmology for almost a hundred years, shaping the universe while remaining invisible and poorly understood. A new study from researche…

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Changpeng Zhao, a co-founder of Binance, which owns the utility, said the losses will be reimbursed.

A sharp jump in tokenized silver trading suggests investors are getting exposure to the metal onchain.

Children regularly exposed to temperatures over 30°C (86°F) have lower scores on literacy and numeracy tests at age 3 to 4, according to UNICEF data from six countries

Scientist and photographer Felice Frankel has zoomed in on everyday occurrences with her camera for her new book, Phenomenal Moments, which reveals the hidden science in our daily lives

Trump’s order against the practice is a crucial step in restoring the purpose of higher education.

Gold staged a dramatic rally in 2025 as the US Trump administration’s unorthodox economic policies sent investors and central banks reaching for safe-haven assets. Right now, however, it’s silver that’s stealing the spotlight.

At the big banks and the boutique investment shops, an optimistic consensus has taken hold: the US stock market will rally in 2026 for a fourth straight year, marking the longest winning streak in nearly two decades.

Ending a year in which it celebrated its fifth birthday, the Innovative Optical and Wireless Network project releases details of key evolutionary technological steps taken to address the networking, computing and energy consumption needs of businesses

Police say the suspects raised around €7m (£6m) for the militant group over more than two years.

The cocktail of kittenish charm and continental sensuality who swept away the cinematic cobwebs of the 1950s.

"We cannot live freely. You cannot even play music" - residents tell the BBC of militants' rule.

Thousands of homes in parts of Finland, Sweden and Norway have been left without power.

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

The James Webb Space Telescope blasted off from a launchpad in French Guiana in 2021, before reaching a spot in orbit a million miles away. It soon began breaking cosmology.

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.

The simple mistakes every stargazing newbie makes — avoid these traps and you'll get the best out of your telescope from night one!

DNA from soil could soon reveal who lived in ice age caves, research shows.

You might think that the human body has many holes, but that number shrinks when you stop to consider what counts as a hole.

Google’s proposal to explore space-based AI infrastructure raises fundamental questions about energy, physics and feasibility – and whether Earth has really run out of options.

The manumea, a critically endangered ground pigeon and one of the closest living dodo relatives, has been spotted multiple times in a remote Samoan rainforest.

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

Scientists in Paris discovered two new substances with incredible radioactivity. It earned them the Nobel Prize in Physics but would ultimately kill one of them.

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

Scholars know of some important ancient cities from texts, but they haven't been able to find them.

Concrete batteries, AI-developed antibiotics, the ozone’s recovery, and a more natural bionic knee were some of the most popular topics on MIT News.

With insect-like speed and agility, the tiny robot could someday aid in search-and-rescue missions.

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

An electrical engineer by training, Su is the chair and CEO of the semiconductor company AMD.

The new design could be adapted to assist the elderly, sort warehouse products, or unload heavy cargo.

Nineteen-year-old Freesia Gaul built a VR prototype thanks to MIT OpenCourseWare classes that provided “a solid foundation of knowledge and problem-solving abilities.”

In his 10 years at MIT, Loureiro helped illuminate the physics occurring at the center of fusion vacuum chambers and at the edges of the universe.

Images from geostationary satellites alone aren’t enough to help planes avoid contrail-prone regions, MIT researchers report.

Institute to launch new quantum initiative aimed at advancing the most significant practical applications in science, technology, industry and national security.

Cutting air travel and purchasing renewable energy can lead to different effects on overall air quality, even while achieving the same CO2 reduction, new research shows.

Russia launched hundreds of drones and missiles on Ukraine while downplaying progress in peace talks held in Florida.

SYDNEY — The sense of anger is palpable among members of the Jewish community in and around Bondi Beach as it reels from the attack on a Hanukkah celebration that killed 15 people

A humble shelter operating out of a tent remains the last beacon of hope for the injured and hungry animal population in war-ravaged Gaza, even as its workers and volunteers face their own impossible conditions.“You cannot look at a creature that trusts you and eat in front of it without sharing,” S…

Australian police have recovered thousands of rounds of ammunition, Hamas and Hezbollah flags and a "shopping list" of materials to make explosives at the home of a man who allegedly made antisemitic social media posts

It’s been two years since Jehan Trazi last celebrated Christmas

Hundreds of job applications from suspected North Korean operatives have been blocked by Amazon, according to the U.S. tech giant's chief security officer.

The State Department sanctioned Thierry Breton, Imran Ahmed, Clare Melford, Anna-Lena von Hodenberg and Josephine Ballon for "egregious acts" of censorship.

Screen siren Brigitte Bardot, whose portrayals of free-spirited ingenues made her an international sex symbol and the pride of France, and who turned her back on movie stardom in 1973 to become an animal rights activist, has died, according to French media and The Associated Press

She left Afghanistan as a teenage mother. Now bodybuuilding champion Roya Karimi has a message for the Taliban.

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum confirmed that at least 13 people died in the Interoceanic Train derailment in southern Mexico. Officials stated that 241 passengers and nine crew members were on board when the train derailed near Nizanda.

Russia on Monday promised to retaliate against Ukraine after it said nearly 100 drones targeted one of President Vladimir Putin's residences, likely throwing a wrench into President Donald Trump’s efforts to end the nearly four-year war."Such reckless actions will not go unanswered.

President Donald Trump will meet with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Florida on Monday hoping to push forward the ceasefire that he brokered in Gaza, while the Israeli leader is expected to make the case for new action against Iran

During a press conference, President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said they are close to a peace deal between Russia and Ukraine.

Climate activist Greta Thunberg was arrested in London on Tuesday for holding a sign supporting pro-Palestinian campaigners on hunger strike in prison.

Christmas started in Bethlehem more than 2,000 years ago, and now the celebration is bringing some much-needed holiday cheer right where it was born

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is en route to the U.S. via Canada ahead of a weekend of high-stakes diplomacy and a renewed push for peace amid deadly Russian bombing on Ukraine’s capital

President Donald Trump on Thursday said he ordered “numerous” strikes on Islamic State terrorists in Nigeria he accused of killing Christians.“The United States launched a powerful and deadly strike against ISIS Terrorist Scum in Northwest Nigeria, who have been targeting and viciously killing, prim…

British heavyweight and Olympic gold medalist Anthony Joshua was riding in a speeding Lexus and survived a crash Monday morning in Nigeria that killed two others, authorities said

President Donald Trump and his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelenskyy return to the negotiating room on Sunday with a familiar, fraught task: trying to chart a path toward ending Russia’s war against Ukraine.

The activation of a China EUV prototype marks the end of globalized silicon and fundamentally weakens the "Silicon Shield" protecting Taiwan.
The post China EUV Breakthrough and the Rise of the ‘Silicon Curtain’ appeared first on EE Times.

UFS 5.0 promises blazing 10.8 GB/s speeds for AI-driven devices.
The post AI Directs UFS Advancement appeared first on EE Times.

Nvidia's $20 billion payout for inference technology from Groq is a clear signal that real-time AI is now the real battlefield.
The post Groq: Nvidia’s $20 Billion Bet on AI Inference appeared first on EE Times.

Cadence's Zhuo Li discusses how their latest platform is reshaping LEC, low-power signoff, and ECO implementation using AI technologies.
The post Cadence’s Conformal AI Studio Redefines Logic Verification for the AI-Driven SoC Era appeared first on EE Times.