I went from selling flats in Paris to being alone in a cabin in Guinea looking after primates. It changed my life, but one relationship marked me like no otherIn 2022, I had a job at an estate agents in Paris selling ridiculously expensive flats, and decided I needed to do something more meaningful …
The Marine Biological Association (MBA) is pleased to announce that applications are now open for the Molly Spooner Studentship, a unique opportunity that enables undergraduate university students to experience hands-on marine biological research at the MBA.
National Trust says these are ‘alarm signals we cannot ignore’ as climate breakdown puts pressure on wildlifeExtremes of weather have pushed nature to its limits in 2025, putting wildlife, plants and landscapes under severe pressure, an annual audit of flora and fauna has concluded.Bookended by stor…
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…
An easy-to-remember acronym, WRAP will help you write effective issues, refine your instructions, and get the most out of Copilot coding agent.
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NASA’s X-59 quiet supersonic research aircraft lifts off for its first flight Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2025, from U.S. Air Force Plant 42 in Palmdale, California. The aircraft’s first flight marks the start of flight testing for NASA’s Quesst mission, the result of years of design, integration, and ground …
Looking for the perfect book to curl up with this winter? If you love the ocean, marine life and the stories behind our ocean, these three titles – reviewed in The Marine Biologist magazine – are essential additions to your reading list. Plus, MBA Members enjoy exclusive discounts when purchasing th…
While Black Friday often fuels overconsumption, its alternative Green Friday offers something different—a moment to pause, reflect, and choose impact over excess. It’s an opportunity to uplift businesses that intentionally center sustainability, community, and environmental stewardship in everything…
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is set to meet Donald Trump in Florida on December 29, with the US president pushing to move to the next stage of his fragile Gaza truce plan. Netanyahu is also expected to try to shift some focus onto Iran, amid reports he will call for more US strikes on t…
Traumatised civilians left in Sudan's El-Fasher after its capture by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces are living without water or sanitation, UN aid coordinator Denise Brown told the AFP news agency on Monday, after a small humanitarian team was able to make its first visit there in almost two …
Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani loves his Astoria, Queens, neighborhood, and the feeling is mutual. But voters who live near Gracie Mansion, his new home, really wanted his opponent to win.
So, I have some really exciting news – this blog is evolving. After 18 excellent months at WordPress, I am packing up and moving over to ScienceBlogs, a collection of some of the best, er… science blogs on the Interweb. I want to assure current readers that the blog is not going to change, (well, [……
Blue Origin successfully launches its huge New Glenn rocket on Thursday with a pair of Nasa spacecraft destined for Mars. It is only the second flight of the rocket that Jeff Bezos's company and Nasa are counting on to ferry people and supplies to the moon. The 321ft (98-meter) New Glenn blasts into…
We all know eating too much sugar is bad for our health – but would we be better off replacing it with artificial sweetener? It’s a question Science Weekly listener Marion posed recently and, as Madeleine Finlay tells Ian Sample, the answer is complicated. She explains what the science says about su…
Astrophysicist Prof Tomonori Totani says research could be crucial breakthrough in search for elusive substanceNearly a century ago, scientists proposed that a mysterious invisible substance they named dark matter clumped around galaxies and formed a cosmic web across the universe.What dark matter i…
Exclusive: Scientists find a way to forecast hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, which affects millions worldwideScientists are developing a simple blood test to predict who is most at risk from the world’s most common inherited heart condition.Millions of people worldwide have hypertrophic cardiomyopathy …
WIRED spoke with DeepMind’s Pushmeet Kohli about the recent past—and promising future—of the Nobel Prize-winning research project that changed biology and chemistry forever.
Although the Apple Watch comes with simple built-in productivity apps like Reminders and Calendar, it’s worth exploring some third-party apps that are designed to boost productivity by offering additional functionality.
PHOENIX — MAGA speakers torched each other as pompous, cancerous cowards at this weekend's 30,000-person Turning Point USA AmericaFest, accelerating the right's media meltdown over Israel, hate speech and more. Why it matters: The MAGA movement — so lockstep when President Trump was running, and lar…
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Powerball's $1.817 billion Christmas Eve jackpot was won by a single ticket sold in Arkansas, lottery officials said Thursday.Why it matters: The win caps one of the largest jackpot runs in U.S. lottery history and delivers a rare Christmas Eve payout — turning a $2 ticket into a life-changing windf…
Chipmakers Nvidia and Groq entered into a non-exclusive tech licensing agreement last week aimed at speeding up and lowering the cost of running pre-trained large language models. Why it matters: Groq's language processing unit (LPU) chips power real-time chatbot queries — as opposed to model traini…
What would you do if your future depended on the health of the forest around you? For many in the Amazon, that’s not a hypothetical—it’s daily life. Across the rainforest, powerful stories are unfolding—stories of strength, hope, and courage. Indigenous communities and local leaders are working hard…
A new technical paper titled “Ultra-Fast, Low-Resistance Nano Gap Electromechanical Switch for Power Gating Applications” was published by researchers at KAIST and Chonnam National University. Abstract “The growing demand for artificial intelligence and high-performance computing accelerates concern…
How to find the root cause of a failure in a multi-die assembly.
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Savvy countries will discover there’s a way to mitigate the harm incurred by Trump’s tariffs—and it’ll boost their own economies while making goods cheaper too.
Download a one-page summary of this report here. Americans’ concerns about health care costs are high and growing, and state officials are under pressure to respond to them. About half of adults reported that it is difficult to afford the cost of health care, and more than one in three American hous…
Out-of-pocket premiums for health coverage through the Affordable Care Act (ACA) health insurance marketplaces will double starting on January 1, 2026. The Senate will vote this week to prevent this from happening. The House has no such vote scheduled. For the past year and a half, The Century Found…
As families hunt for the perfect gift this holiday season, soaring prices are dampening some of the holiday magic. New analysis from Groundwork Collaborative, The Century Foundation, and AFT finds that many of this season’s most popular holiday gifts are significantly more expensive under President …
America’s families need reliable child care options that are affordable, convenient, with no wait list and ensure their children are safe, happy, healthy, and learning. Unfortunately, today’s child care landscape remains far from that vision. Across the United States, communities have fewer child ca…
On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court took up the question whether independent agencies, as they have been known for the last ninety years, can continue to exist. In Trump v. Slaughter, the Court heard arguments about whether Congress can constitutionally design an agency to be insulated from direct pre…
Since January, Donald Trump has fundamentally reshaped U.S. foreign assistance, ostensibly to align with his “America First” foreign policy. The administration has effectively eliminated Washington’s main development agency—the United States Agency for International Development (USAID)—terminated so…
A new survey of 1,426 registered voters, conducted by GQR on behalf of The Century Foundation (TCF), provides fresh evidence of the extent to which families are struggling in President Trump’s economy. While financial insecurity is widespread, younger Americans, people of color, and women are dispro…
Accelerate AI model development with new training features that enable rapid recovery from failures and automatic scaling based on resource availability.
Accelerate AI model development with new training features that enable instant recovery from failures and automatic scaling based on resource availability.
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.
Simplify AI experimentation with zero-infrastructure MLflow that launches in minutes, scales automatically, and seamlessly integrates with SageMaker's model customization and pipeline capabilities.
Reduce data management complexity and costs with automatic normalization across sources, native analytics integration, and built-in support for industry-standard formats like OCSF and Apache Iceberg.
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.
Deploy AI agents with confidence using new quality evaluations and policy controls—enabling precise boundaries on agent actions, continuous quality monitoring, and experience-based learning while maintaining natural conversation flows.
New Lambda capability lets you build applications that coordinate multiple steps reliably over extended periods—from seconds to up to one year—without paying for idle compute time when waiting for external events or human decisions.
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.
Prevent cloud infrastructure issues before they impact your business with AWS Support plans that combine AI-powered insights with expert guidance, offering faster response times and proactive monitoring across performance, security, and cost dimensions.
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.
New memory-optimized instances deliver up to 5 GHz processor speeds and 3 TiB of memory—ideal for electronic design automation workloads and memory-intensive databases requiring high single-threaded performance.