Exeter University student and MBA Student Member, Jasmin Orak, joined the Marine Biological Association (MBA) this summer as a Spooner-Parke Summer Studentship awardee, spending 6 weeks immersed in hands-on marine microbiology research.

Don't miss the moon cozy up to Saturn on Dec. 26.

Bank of America Chairman and CEO Brian Moynihan spoke with "Face The Nation" moderator Margaret Brennan ahead of President Trump's move to replace Jerome Powell with a new chair of the Federal Reserve. CBS News contributor Javier David has more.

On this edition of CBS Mornings Deals, we feature some items that can help simplify 2026. Visit cbsdeals.com to take advantage of these exclusive deals today. CBS earns commissions on purchases made through cbsdeals.com.

A bomb cyclone could dump 1 to 2 feet of snow on the upper Great Lakes, per the National Weather Service.

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From left to right, NASA astronauts Victor Glover, Artemis II pilot; Reid Wiseman, Artemis II commander; CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Jeremy Hansen, Artemis II mission specialist, and NASA astronaut Christina Koch, Artemis II mission specialist, suit up and walk out of the Neil A. Armstrong…

University of Arizona About 300 years ago, Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus set out on a bold quest: to identify and name every living organism on Earth. Now celebrated as the father of...

UK lender is latest major bank to retreat from sector in pivot towards lucrative corporate clients

Wes Streeting’s wish for deeper trade relations to help fight against Farage is shared by growing number of MPsWhen Keir Starmer stood on the Labour conference stage in 2018 and defied Jeremy Corbyn to call for a second Brexit referendum with remain as an option, it put him in pole position to becom…

Their heads and bodies of bats have amassed an extraordinary array of adaptations that have make them lords of the night sky. Today, the thousand-plus types of bats make up a fifth of living mammal species. Richard Dawkins once described the evolution of bats as “one of the most enthralling stories …

One of the unexpected Linux kernel surprises of 2025 was NTFSPLUS being announced as a new driver for Microsoft's NTFS file-system with better performance and more features compared to the classic read-only NTFS driver or the "NTFS3" kernel driver that Paragon Software submitted upstream. That NTFSP…

Analysts expect demand for industrial metal to outstrip mined supply by 2030s

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

Fish 4.3 is out today as the newest update to this user-friendly command line shell. Fish 4.0 released at the beginning of this year in porting the codebase from C++ to Rust and now before closing out 2025 they have out Fish 4.3...

Kubernetes Events provide crucial insights into cluster operations, but as clusters grow, managing and analyzing these events becomes increasingly challenging. This blog post explores how to build custom event aggregation systems that help engineering teams better understand cluster behavior and tro…

The unsigned order, which prompted no public dissents, suggested the Trump administration could return to the high court if the federal district court’s factfinding mission commences before justices consider whether to formally take on the case.

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NASA's SPHEREx has produced its 1st cosmic map, revealing the entire sky in 102 colors. Take a look at this spectacular map.
The post NASA’s SPHEREx observatory completes stunning 1st cosmic map first appeared on EarthSky.

From the moon and Jupiter to famous nebulae and galaxies, here’s your beginner-friendly guide to what to point your brand-new telescope at.

ETH Zurich scientists have created “MetaGraph,” a revolutionary DNA search engine that functions like Google for genetic data. By compressing global genomic datasets by a factor of 300, it allows researchers to search trillions of DNA and RNA sequences in seconds instead of downloading massive data …

A new microchip-sized device could dramatically accelerate the future of quantum computing. It controls laser frequencies with extreme precision while using far less power than today’s bulky systems. Crucially, it’s made with standard chip manufacturing, meaning it can be mass-produced instead of cu…

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Tom Lee's publicly traded miner and treasury firm said it now controls more than 3% of ether’s total supply and is accelerating staking plans.

UK researchers will get a chance to develop applications for the tech giant's quantum processor.

You saw it here firstUPDATE: Read the solution hereThere are many contenders for “world’s greatest invention.” The wheel. The printing press. The steam engine.According to a new book, however, that title should go to the mechanised sawmill invented by Dutchman Cornelis Corneliszoon in 1593. Continue…

arXiv:2512.21905v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Recent progress in diffusion models has significantly advanced the field of human image animation. While existing methods can generate temporally consistent results for short or regular motions, significant challenges remain, particularly in generatin…

arXiv:2505.11850v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: The recovery of anomalies from backscattering far field data is a long-standing open problem in inverse scattering theory. We make a first step in this direction by establishing the unique identifiability of convex impenetrable obstacles from back…

A complete rundown of the most important events across the music business.

Manchester United have signed Germany international Lea Schuller from Bayern Munich until June 2029.

Nathan Aspinall becomes the latest seed to fall at the PDC World Championship, but 20-year-old Charlie Manby sets up a tie against 10th seed Gian van Veen.

Companies like Phoenix Tailings, which recently began producing metal in New Hampshire, are using new processing methods to compete with Chinese suppliers.

The funeral for French cinema icon Brigitte Bardot will take place in her hometown of Saint-Tropez on January 7, her foundation said on Monday, as France wrestles with how to pay tribute to a cultural legend who in her later years championed far-right views, even being fined for hate speech.

Frontier artificial intelligence research and product startup Lemon Slice launched today and announced that it had raised $10.5 million in funding. The money will be used to scale up its real-time interactive avatar technology and drive broader commercial adoption of its application programming inte…

Harvard's free programming classes teach you how to think, debug, and adapt in an AI-driven world where knowing code matters more than ever.

If you're ready to cut the cord with Google, this option lets you host and sync your photos on your own terms. Here's how.

Ethan Zuckerman says his intentions were good when he invented the ads.

Tory Bruno, the longtime chief executive of United Launch Alliance, is leaving the joint venture for another opportunity.
The post United Launch Alliance chief Tory Bruno resigns appeared first on SpaceNews.

It’s a familiar scene – the wee hours of the morning are ticking away and your head is bent over a stack of notes, desperately trying to cram as much knowledge into your head before the test in the morning. Because of the way our education system works, this process of hard studying has become […]

US president claims widespread and varied emergencies to justify executive authority in first year of second term.

The Artificial Intelligence Security Institute (AISI) says the tech is being used by one in 25 people daily.

Entrepreneur Talifhani Banks has bought a modern delivery system to smaller firms in South Africa.

In the Peloponnese mountains, the usually hardy trees are turning brown even where fires haven’t reached. Experts are raising the alarm on a complex crisisIn the southern Peloponnese, the Greek fir is a towering presence. The deep green, slow-growing conifers have long defined the region’s high-alti…

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 ...

Every episode from the classic run and the 2016 revival is coming to Pluto TV on January 1.

GPS jamming has gotten cheap and easy, but there are potential solutions.

Dynamic Resource Allocation (DRA) is a Kubernetes API for managing scarce resources across Pods and containers.
It enables flexible resource requests, going beyond simply allocating N number of devices to support more granular usage scenarios.
With DRA, users can request specific types of devices ba…

With the release of Kubernetes 1.34, a new alpha feature is introduced
that gives you more granular control over container restarts within a Pod. This
feature, named Container Restart Policy and Rules, allows you to specify a
restart policy for each container individually, overriding the Pod's globa…

Modern generative AI and large language model (LLM) services create unique traffic-routing challenges
on Kubernetes. Unlike typical short-lived, stateless web requests, LLM inference sessions are often
long-running, resource-intensive, and partially stateful. For example, a single GPU-backed model s…

This announcement originally appeared on the etcd blog.
Today, we are releasing etcd v3.6.0, the first minor release since etcd v3.5.0 on June 15, 2021. This release
introduces several new features, makes significant progress on long-standing efforts like downgrade support and
migration to v3store, …

Kubernetes typically uses ConfigMaps and Secrets to set environment variables,
which introduces additional API calls and complexity,
For example, you need to separately manage the Pods of your workloads
and their configurations, while ensuring orderly
updates for both the configurations and the work…

Kubernetes v1.34 is coming at the end of August 2025.
This release will not include any removal or deprecation, but it is packed with an impressive number of enhancements.
Here are some of the features we are most excited about in this cycle!
Please note that this information reflects the current st…

Historically, configuring the correct cgroup driver has been a pain point for users running new
Kubernetes clusters. On Linux systems, there are two different cgroup drivers:
cgroupfs and systemd. In the past, both the kubelet
and CRI implementation (like CRI-O or containerd) needed to be configured…

One of the more interesting announcements over the holiday period thus far is that moving into 2026, CachyOS is looking to develop a server edition for their Arch Linux based operating system. CachyOS has garnered quite a following among Linux enthusiasts and gamers for its competitive out-of-the-bo…

Similar to AMD GCN 1.0/1.1 GPUs where there was product overlap between the Radeon and AMDGPU kernel drivers (and now using AMDGPU by default for those aging Radeon GPUs with Linux 6.19), the Intel Arc A-Series "Alchenist" graphics cards are in a similar boat. By default the Alchemist and Meteor Lak…

One of the many interesting Linux kernel innovations I have closely been following this year has been the proposed Cache Aware Scheduling support. I have shown the Cache Aware Scheduling performance on AMD EPYC as well as the Intel Xeon 6 Granite Rapids performance, but what about desktops? In this …

The next Linux kernel cycle, which will be known as Linux 6.20 or more than likely Linux 7.0, is expected to land some IO_uring improvements for better IOPOLL polling...

GNOME developer Sophie Herold has shared some interesting end-of-year code stats for the GNOME project. The "GNOME" codebase is up to 6,692,516 lines of code at the end of 2025 with 1,611,526 lines of that being from GNOME apps. Where the data gets interesting is on the programming language breakdow…

For those using Microsoft's exFAT file-system under Linux for the likes of flash drives and SD cards, a new patch series posted today aims to enhance the read performance. The new patches are shown to improve performance by about 10% while also having lower overhead...

As a wonderful Christmas gift to open-source fans, NVIDIA dropped their proprietary license on the CUDA Tile intermediate representation and has now made the IR open-source software...

It was a very interesting year for Ubuntu Linux. Ahead of the important Ubuntu 26.04 LTS release due out this coming April, Ubuntu Linux this year was expeditiously migrating to new Rust-based system tools like sudo-rs and Rust Coreutils, new performance optimizations continued to be explored for be…

Open-source developer Derek J. Clark continues leading the efforts on improving the Lenovo Legion Go series hardware support under Linux. Posted today was the second iteration of the HID driver work for the Legion Go and Legion Go S for configuration support with the built-in controller HID interfac…

Adding to the early headaches of Linux 6.19 with some regressions in performance and functionality were ARM64 hosts crashing on this in-development kernel version for those platforms using EFI. But a fix is now merged ahead of Linux 6.19-rc3 due out tomorrow...

Linus Torvalds just released Linux 6.19-rc3 to ship this week's fixes. Linux 6.19-rc3 is coming in light as expected due to the Christmas week with many corporate developers getting paid time off and others taking part in year-end festivities...

Listen to this audio excerpt from Jen Madsen and Trey Perryman, leads of the Orion Mission Evaluation Room for the Artemis II mission: During NASA’s Artemis II mission, Jen Madsen and Trey Perryman will be leading a team monitoring the Orion spacecraft as it carries four astronauts around the Moon. …

NASA astronauts will conduct a pair of spacewalks in January outside of the International Space Station to prepare for the installation of a roll-out solar array and complete other tasks. Experts from NASA will preview the spacewalks in a briefing at 2 p.m. EST Tuesday, Jan. 6, at NASA’s Johnson Spa…

Mid-infrared data from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (in white, gray, and red) and X-ray data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory (in blue) come together in this photo of colliding spiral galaxies released on Dec. 1, 2025. The pair grazed one another millions of years ago; billions of years in…

We examine what we’re most excited for and what’s most likely to come true.

What happened online in 2025 didn’t stay online—and it’s already shaping what comes next year and beyond.

Today's puzzle has six pears.

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The ‘Rents reflect on 2025 and look ahead to what they hope to take into the new year with them. Plus! Poetry!

The Colorado Supreme Court has a blatantly unconstitutional practice. Two justices want to change that.

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I do not understand her.

Roofman hasn’t gotten enough attention.

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This year, we raised eyebrows at raised eyebrows.

Donald Trump has already endorsed those involved.

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I want this with every fiber of my being, but I know how scary it would be for me.

At the end of 2025, we consider reader questions (and worries) about the years ahead.

I need him to be a better partner—and parent.

Why the Coldplay “Kiss Cam” scandal made such a splash.

Slate approached the news in many ways: head-on, confronting the realities of a second Trump administration, and from unique, at times playful, angles.

Farming has long been seen as low-status work across much of Africa, pushing young people to cities in search of office jobs

Pakistan police have detained a teenage girl they say was radicalized and recruited online by an outlawed separatist group to carry out a suicide attack

Families of victims of the recent Sydney massacre are urging more federal action to investigate rising antisemitism and security failures

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

Top diplomats from Thailand and Cambodia have started talks in China to address their border dispute

Folklorist/historian Adrienne Mayor on her new book Mythopedia: A Brief Compendium of Natural History Lore

China wants a human to intervene and notify guardians if suicide is ever mentioned.

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Conservation Biology, Volume 39, Issue 6, December 2025.

Conservation Biology, Volume 39, Issue 6, December 2025.