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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…

New features enable automatic cost optimization through intelligent storage tiering and simplified table replication across AWS Regions and accounts.

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 …

New research shows the disease may one day be reversible.

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…

Today’s global coral bleaching events are the worst kind of climate warning.

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…

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

The venue's owners have decided not to renew the lease

From Donald Trump to DOGE to Chinese hackers, this year the internet's chaos caused outsized real-world harm.

I’m at a bit of a loss.

"This isn't just waste management, it's resource creation. We're taking what we don't want and turning it into something we do."

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…

One of two alleged killers has been acquitted

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 …

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Samsung said that Memories features for Google Photos will be exclusive to its TVs for six months.

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.

Shares of both Ultragenyx and Mereo BioPharma were seeing record selloffs after disappointing trial results for setrusumab.

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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.

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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…

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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Stimulating the liver to produce some of the signals of the thymus can reverse age-related declines in T-cell populations and enhance response to vaccination.

Professors Ahmad Bahai and Kripa Varanasi, plus seven additional MIT alumni, are honored for highly impactful inventions.

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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.

It’s time to finally reform—or risk irrelevance.

How Beijing builds leverage for indefinite competition.

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…

The post AI Data Center Electricity Demand Increasing US Utility Bills, Putting Households in Debt appeared first on The Century Foundation.

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…

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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…

A link between tumor metabolism and drug efficacy in cancer cells may help advance precision chemotherapy, researchers report.

New research reveals that disrupting our internal body clock weakens immune defenses and fuels aggressive cancer.

"This new fundamental understanding of how the signaling system works may help re-engineer that next generation of treatments."

Researchers have found that a brief virtual reality simulation of a near-death experience can sharply reduce people's anxiety about death.

"Our study emphasizes the need to include the home environment as a key component of fall prevention..."

A widely used questionnaire for triaging mental health symptoms could be giving providers poor data to inform treatment.

New research reveals why even state-of-the-art large language models stumble on seemingly easy tasks—and what it takes to fix it.

New research shows that 2008's Great Recession caused people in the US to identify with a lower class, and this was a long-lasting effect.

New research shows soil carbon decomposition varies widely. The finding has implications for climate change models.

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.

New capabilities help optimize application performance, analyze unlimited prefixes, and simplify metrics analysis through S3 Tables integration.

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.

Amazon Bedrock now supports reinforcement fine-tuning delivering 66% accuracy gains on average over base models.

Build and optimize large-scale vector databases up to 10 times faster and at a quarter of the cost with new GPU acceleration and auto-optimization capabilities that automatically balance search quality, speed, and resource usage.

Can you believe it? We’re nearly at the end of 2025. And what a year it’s been! From re:Invent recap events, to AWS Summits, AWS Innovate, AWS re:Inforce, Community Days, and DevDays and, recently, adding that cherry on the cake, re:Invent 2025, we have lived through a year filled with exciting mome…

New pricing model helps maintain cost efficiency while providing flexibility with database services and deployment options.

Access fully managed foundation models from leading providers like Google, Kimi AI, MiniMax AI, Mistral AI, NVIDIA, OpenAI, and Qwen, including the new Mistral Large 3 and Ministral 3 3B, 8B, and 14B models through Amazon Bedrock.

Taipei has condemned 'military intimidations' from Beijing as China started military drills off the cost of the island nation, simulating a blockade of its main ports. The operation 'further confirm its nature as an aggressor, making it the greatest destroyer of peace', said its defence ministry. FR…

Iranian traders and shopkeepers protested for a second day Monday after the country’s currency plummeted to 1.42 million to the US dollar. Many shut shop and asked others to do the same as prices of food and other daily necessities put further strain on household budgets.

As China holds military drills around Taiwan to deter what it calls separatist forces, why is it happening now? Several reasons include the United States' multi-billion arms deal to Taipei, at a time where the Trump administration is trying to woe the Chinese government on trade. While the US is bou…

Taiwan's Civil Aviation Administration said that the delay of roughly 296 international departures, 265 international arrivals and 296 transit flights affected by the live-fire drills that China launched around the island on Monday would snarl travel for more than 100,000 passengers.

A theatre that became a symbol of Russia’s 2022 siege of Mariupol has reopened after extensive restoration, Russian authorities said. State television showed a gala event and rebuilt interiors, including a marble staircase, columns and a large crystal chandelier. Amnesty International said at least …

China has spoken out against the demolition of a monument near the entrance to the Panama Canal, celebrating the friendship of the two nations, with local authorities citing safety issues and an expired land concession. It comes amid warnings from Donald Trump over Beijing's influence over the key w…

Control over the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in east Ukraine has remained one of the main sticking points in peace negotiations since Russia took control of it in March 2022. Zaporizhzhia's proximity to the front lines has sparked international fears for the safety and stability of the nuclear …

South Africa is to play Zimbabwe in a decisive group B clash after losing to Egypt, automatically qualifying the Pharaohs to the round of 16. For South Africa, it's a matter of laying down their credentials as contenders. In the meantime, host nation Morocco is expected to also join the knockout sta…

Members of Syria's Alawite minority protested in their thousands on December 28, days after an attack on an Alawite mosque killed eight people. Clashes between demonstrators and security forces broke out at some of the protests, with at least four people killed and dozens injured. The religious mino…

US President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu are meeting in Florida for talks that will cover the next phase of the Gaza ceasefire deal. Washington wants to see it move to the second phase in January 2026, but Israel and Hamas both accuse each other of breaching the first …

China has launched sea and air military drills around Taiwan, which it claims as its own. Riled by a US arms package to the island nation and Japan saying it would intervene in the case of an invasion, it calls its war games a warning against what it calls separatist forces and external interference…

Russia accused Ukraine on Monday of having fired dozens of drones at one of President Vladimir Putin's homes, an accusation that Ukraine called a "lie" aimed at undermining US-led efforts to end the war. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, who does not typically announce drone strikes, said Ukra…

Hollywood superstar George Clooney has become French, along with his wife Amal Alamuddin Clooney and their two children, an official decree seen by AFP on Monday showed.

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.

As the March 10 agreement between the Syrian government and the Syrian Democratic Forces nears its end, more and more new tunnels are under construction in residential neighbourhoods in Raqqa, in northeastern Syria. Locals told us that they are concerned about the underground militarisation of their…

US President Donald Trump is expected to ⁠push for progress in the stalled ceasefire in Gaza when he meets with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for talks on December 29 that will include Israel's concerns over Hezbollah in Lebanon and Iran. For Netanyahu, the meeting comes amid domestic di…

The US has offered Ukraine "solid" security guarantees for the next 15 years with the possibility of an extension, Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky said Monday after talks with the US president at his Mar-a-Lago residence in Florida. Kyiv is seeking guarantees for a longer time period.

Hamas's armed wing confirmed on Monday the death of its spokesperson in a video statement, months after Israel announced he had been killed in an air strike in Gaza.