Quantum stocks are where AI was five years ago — and the science actually works.

NASA’s launch and mission teams, along with the Artemis II crew, completed a key test Dec. 20, a countdown demonstration test, ahead of the Artemis II flight around the Moon early next year. The astronauts, supported by launch and flight control teams, dressed in their launch and entry suits, boarde…

The US president has named a proposed new vessel after himself.

By stripping two metabolic enzymes, scientists created a mycoprotein that needs less energy, emits less carbon, and rivals the taste and texture of real meat.

In South Korea, National Geographic and even Lockheed Martin are among the U.S. brands that have been resurrected or reinvented as clothing lines.

Whether you’re switching from springs to memory foam or just want to sleep cooler this summer, these Sealy mattress deals will have you waking up refreshed—and with cash left in your wallet.

NASA's Cassini spacecraft captured dramatic plumes, both large and small, spray water ice out from many locations along the famed 'tiger stripes' near the south pole of Saturn's moon Enceladus.

Millions of Afghans are struggling as international aid cuts sever a lifeline many relied on for food and heating

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

MCAF Project Leader Nathaniel Kollie interviews small-scale fishers, uncovering the negative impacts of distant water fishing in Liberia.
The post Uncovering Negative Impacts of Industrial Fishing on Liberia’s Small-scale Fisheries appeared first on New England Aquarium.

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…

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 …

An unlikely partnership could allow Tokyo and Seoul to counter China.

US President Donald Trump is expected to push for progress on the faltering Gaza ceasefire when he meets Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday, with talks also set to cover Israel’s security concerns over Hezbollah in Lebanon and Iran.

In a few days, ESA’s fourth European Service Module will leave the integration halls of Airbus in Bremen, Germany, setting sail across the Atlantic Ocean in the next step of its journey. The module will propel NASA’s Orion spacecraft towards the Moon during Artemis IV, supplying the crew with water,…

A new CPU Manager Static Policy Option called prefer-align-cpus-by-uncorecache was introduced in Kubernetes v1.32 as an alpha feature, and has graduated to beta in Kubernetes v1.34.
This CPU Manager Policy Option is designed to optimize performance for specific workloads running on processors with a…

French actress Brigitte Bardot, whose death at the age of 91 was announced on Sunday, became a global symbol of glamour and desire during the on-screen career of her youth. Here are a few of the most memorable moments from that career, from the iconic image of a bikini-clad Bardot in "... And God Cr…

Researchers have discovered a way to store information using a rare class of materials called ferroaxials, which rely on swirling electric dipoles instead of magnetism or charge. These vortex-like states are naturally stable and resistant to outside interference, but until now were almost impossible…

Researchers have found a way to make “dark excitons”—normally invisible quantum states of light—shine dramatically brighter by trapping them inside a tiny gold-nanotube optical cavity. This breakthrough boosts their emission 300,000-fold and allows scientists to switch and tune them with unprecedent…

LG has revealed a new lineup of gaming monitors just ahead of CES. The UltraGear evo displays offer 5K visuals. Many incorporate on-device AI upscaling, taking some of the burden away from the GPU. 
LG says the tech will let consumers skip out on some card upgrades. This could end up being extremely…

A pro-Russian hacker group has come forward as the perpetrator of a DDoS attack on the French national postal service La Poste that took place on December 22, according to Reuters. The distributed denial-of-service attack took central computer systems at La Poste entirely offline and caused major di…

IAR and SiFive, Inc. have announced support for SiFive's Automotive IP portfolio within IAR's development toolchain. With the latest release of the IAR Embedded Workbench for RISC-V, IAR has broadened its coverage beyond the E6-A series to now include the SiFive Essential E7-A and S7-A product famil…

Volunteering has declined along with religion — it needs a revival

One person is dead and another is fighting for life after two helicopters collided in midair in southern New Jersey.

Turkish authorities have apprehended a suspected member of the extremist Islamic State group planning attacks on New Year's celebrations

The U.S. National Science Foundation today announced two major advancements in America's AI infrastructure: the launch of the Integrated Data Systems and Services (NSF IDSS) program to build out...

Donald Trump says he and Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky are “getting a lot closer” to an agreement to end the war in Ukraine.

Launched in March, NASA’s SPHEREx space telescope has completed its first infrared map of the entire sky in 102 colors. This map will enable 3D distance measurements to other galaxies and allow astronomers to measure the influence of Cosmic Inflation on the large-scale structure of the Universe.

In a new paper, a team of researchers explores how non-human species (in this case, fireflies) could inform new approaches in the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI).

A team of scientists have created a porous material that keeps windows almost 100 percent transparent while blocking 10 times as much heat as regular glass windows.

Many people rely on the sleep aid melatonin to help them get a more restful night’s sleep. But is it safe? And how much is too much?

This composite image of the Cassiopeia A (or Cas A) supernova remnant, released Jan. 8, 2024, contains X-rays from Chandra (blue), infrared data from Webb (red, green, blue), and optical data from Hubble (red and white). A study by the XRISM (X-ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission) spacecraft has ma…

Questions around the reliability of the US greenback are dulling the luster of what was the world’s currency of trade. New, global alternatives are emerging.

Gerstner’s nine-year tenure as chairman and CEO of the company known as “Big Blue” is often used as a case study in corporate leadership.

Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have imaged the largest protoplanetary disk ever observed circling a young star. For the first time in visible light, Hubble has revealed the disk is unexpectedly chaotic and turbulent, with wisps of material stretching much farther above and below the…

President Trump on Sunday applauded a new ceasefire between Cambodia and Thailand while also taking a swing at the United Nations (UN). “I am pleased to announce that the breakout fighting between Thailand and Cambodia will stop momentarily, and they will go back to living in PEACE, as per our recen…

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.

Legislation would enable factory farm pollution and speed fossil fuel pipeline construction
The post In Attack on Clean Water, House Passes Dangerous PERMIT Act  appeared first on Food & Water Watch.

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.

"Trump has taken it upon himself to do the bidding of the Silicon Valley oligarchs who fueled his political return."
The post Trump’s AI Order Seeks to Strip States’ Rights to Protect Themselves; Will Mean More Polluting Data Centers appeared first on Food & Water Watch.

The SPEED and PERMIT Acts would clear the way for more toxic fossil fuel, PFAS, and factory farm pollution in our water.
The post Congress: Protect Our Water, Oppose SPEED and PERMIT Acts! appeared first on Food & Water Watch.

French film legend Brigitte Bardot has died at 91, the Bardot foundation announced on Sunday (December 28). Bardot starred in more than 50 movies during her career before becoming an animal rights activist and embracing far-right views. FRANCE 24's Manon Kerjean tells us more. "In her later years, B…

Greenlanders react to US President Donald Trump's announcement of the appointment of Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry, a Republican, as US special envoy to Greenland.

Kosovo’s Prime Minister Albin Kurti looked poised to secure another term on Sunday after his Self-Determination party won a snap parliamentary election by a wide margin, preliminary results showed, ending months of political deadlock in the Balkan country.

At least four people were killed and dozens more injured during demonstrations staged by members of the Alawite minority in Syria on Sunday. The rare protests followed Friday’s deadly bombing at an Alawite mosque in the city of Homs.

Sudan get first AFCON win since 2012 despite having to prepare during conflict at home

French film legend Brigitte Bardot has died at 91, the Bardot foundation announced on Sunday (December 28). Bardot starred in more than 50 movies during her career before leaving the film industry to concentrate on animal rights activism. For more on that topic, FRANCE 24 is joined by Elora Thevenet…

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un oversaw the launch of long-range strategic cruise missiles on Sunday, state media said, as Pyongyang stepped up military activity it says is aimed at reinforcing its nuclear deterrent amid what it calls growing security threats.

China mobilised army, naval, air force and artillery units around Taiwan on Monday for its "Justice Mission 2025" exercises. Taipei responded by deploying troops to rehearse repelling a potential Chinese attack, underscoring the island's commitment to defending democracy amid escalating regional ten…

Today saw the final matches of the second round of group stage games. In group E, Equatorial Guinea lost to Sudan after an own goal by the National Thunder's Saul Coco. Algeria meanwhile got their ticket to the knockout stages thanks to a converted penalty in the first half. In group F, Gabon and Mo…

US President Donald Trump is “delusional” if he thinks that his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin is serious about wanting to end the war in Ukraine any time soon, Melinda Haring, a senior analyst at the Atlantic Council’s Eurasia Center, told FRANCE 24.

French film legend Brigitte Bardot has died at 91, the Bardot foundation announced on Sunday (December 28). Bardot starred in more than 50 movies during her career before leaving the film industry to concentrate on animal rights activism.

Tributes to Brigitte Bardot, ‍an icon of French ​cinema, poured in on Sunday (December 28) following the announcement of her death at the age of 91.

Morocco hosted the ongoing Africa Cup of Nations, Russia attacked the Ukrainian capital with more than 650 drones just two days before Christmas, the US carried out strikes against militants linked to the Islamic State group (IS) in Nigeria, and the cinema world paused to remember Brigitte Bardot: F…

French cinema legend Brigitte Bardot, whose death at 91 was announced on Sunday, was well known for her status as a 1960s sex symbol. In later decades, Bardot became a militant animal rights activist and then veered to the far right, making disparaging remarks about the LGBTQ+ community, Muslims and…

French film legend Brigitte Bardot has died at 91, the Bardot foundation announced on Sunday (December 28). Bardot starred in more than 50 movies during her career before leaving the film industry to concentrate on animal rights activism. Bardot became a controversial figure in her later decades, wi…

French film legend Brigitte Bardot has died at 91, the Bardot foundation announced on Sunday (December 28). Bardot starred in more than 50 movies during her career before becoming an animal rights activist.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky will sit down with US President Donald Trump on Sunday (December 28) and seek to secure his stamp of approval for a new proposal to end the nearly four-year conflict with Russia.

Researchers have revealed that so-called “junk DNA” contains powerful switches that help control brain cells linked to Alzheimer’s disease. By experimentally testing nearly 1,000 DNA switches in human astrocytes, scientists identified around 150 that truly influence gene activity—many tied to known …

More screen time among children and teens is linked to higher risks of heart and metabolic problems, particularly when combined with insufficient sleep. Danish researchers discovered a measurable rise in cardiometabolic risk scores and a metabolic “fingerprint” in frequent screen users. Experts say …

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…

UMass Amherst engineers have built an artificial neuron powered by bacterial protein nanowires that functions like a real one, but at extremely low voltage. This allows for seamless communication with biological cells and drastically improved energy efficiency. The discovery could lead to bio-inspir…

New supercomputer simulations hint that dark energy might be dynamic, not constant, subtly reshaping the Universe’s structure. The findings align with recent DESI observations, offering the strongest evidence yet for an evolving cosmic force.

A team of engineers at North Carolina State University has designed a polymer “Chinese lantern” that can rapidly snap into multiple stable 3D shapes—including a lantern, a spinning top, and more—by compression or twisting. By adding a magnetic layer, they achieved remote control of the shape-shiftin…

Scientists at EPFL have unraveled the mystery behind why biological nanopores, tiny molecular holes used in both nature and biotechnology, sometimes behave unpredictably. By experimenting with engineered versions of the bacterial pore aerolysin, they discovered that two key effects, rectification an…

A researcher from the University of Tokyo and a U.S.-based structural engineer developed a new computational form-finding method that could change how architects and engineers design lightweight and free-form structures covering large spaces. The technique specifically helps create gridshells, thin,…

Researchers have directly observed Floquet effects in graphene for the first time, settling a long-running scientific debate. Their ultrafast light-based technique demonstrates that graphene’s electronic properties can be tuned almost instantaneously. This paves the way for custom-engineered quantum…

New research shows that light’s magnetic field is far more influential than scientists once believed. The team found that this magnetic component significantly affects how light rotates as it passes through certain materials. Their work challenges a 180-year-old understanding of the Faraday Effect a…

BISC is an ultra-thin neural implant that creates a high-bandwidth wireless link between the brain and computers. Its tiny single-chip design packs tens of thousands of electrodes and supports advanced AI models for decoding movement, perception, and intent. Initial clinical work shows it can be ins…

Chimps may revise their beliefs in surprisingly human-like ways. Experiments showed they switched choices when presented with stronger clues, demonstrating flexible reasoning. Computational modeling confirmed these decisions weren’t just instinct. The findings could influence how we think about lear…

Laser light can physically distort Janus TMD materials, revealing how their asymmetrical structure amplifies light-driven forces. These effects could power breakthroughs in photonic chips, sensors, and tunable light technologies.

Scientists have discovered how to electrically power insulating nanoparticles using organic molecules that act like tiny antennas. These hybrids generate extremely pure near-infrared light, ideal for medical diagnostics and advanced communications. The approach works at low voltages and surpasses co…

A new AI developed at Duke University can uncover simple, readable rules behind extremely complex systems. It studies how systems evolve over time and reduces thousands of variables into compact equations that still capture real behavior. The method works across physics, engineering, climate science…

Scientists have developed a groundbreaking tool called Effort.jl that lets them simulate the structure of the universe using just a laptop. The team created a system that dramatically speeds up how researchers study cosmic data, turning what once took days of supercomputer time into just a few hours…

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…

The Kubernetes NodeSwap feature, likely to graduate to stable in the upcoming Kubernetes v1.34 release,
allows swap usage:
a significant shift from the conventional practice of disabling swap for performance predictability.
This article focuses exclusively on tuning swap on Linux nodes, where this f…

Join us in the Kubernetes SIG Network community in celebrating the general
availability of Gateway API v1.3.0! We are
also pleased to announce that there are already a number of conformant
implementations to try, made possible by postponing this blog
announcement. Version 1.3.0 of the API was releas…

This article is a mirror of an original that was recently published to the official etcd blog.
The key takeaway?
Always upgrade to etcd v3.5.26 or later before moving to v3.6. This ensures your cluster is automatically repaired, and avoids zombie members.
Issue summary
Recently, the etcd community a…

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…

On behalf of Kubernetes SIG Node, we are pleased to announce the graduation of fine-grained supplemental groups control to General Availability (GA) in Kubernetes v1.35!
The new Pod field, supplementalGroupsPolicy, was introduced as an opt-in alpha feature for Kubernetes v1.31, and then had graduate…

(Note: The Policy Working Group has completed its mission and is no longer active. This article reflects its work, accomplishments, and insights into how a working group operates.)
In the complex world of Kubernetes, policies play a crucial role in managing and securing clusters. But have you ever w…

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…

UPDATE: We’ve received notice from Salesforce that our Slack workspace WILL NOT BE DOWNGRADED on June 20th. Stand by for more details, but for now, there is no urgency to back up private channels or direct messages.
Kubernetes Slack will lose its special status and will be changing into a standard f…

On behalf of the Kubernetes community, I am thrilled to announce that the Pod Level Resources feature has graduated to Beta in the Kubernetes v1.34 release and is enabled by default! This significant milestone introduces a new layer of flexibility for defining and managing resource allocation for yo…

This enhancement separates the responsibility of managing node lifecycle and pod eviction into two distinct components.
Previously, the node lifecycle controller handled both marking nodes as unhealthy with NoExecute taints and evicting pods from them.
Now, a dedicated taint eviction controller mana…

Have you ever made a typo when expanding your persistent volumes in Kubernetes? Meant to specify 2TB
but specified 20TiB? This seemingly innocuous problem was kinda hard to fix - and took the project almost 5 years to fix.
Automated recovery from storage expansion has been around for a while in beta…

The world of cryptography is on the cusp of a major shift with the advent of
quantum computing. While powerful quantum computers are still largely
theoretical for many applications, their potential to break current
cryptographic standards is a serious concern, especially for long-lived
systems. This…

Configuration is one of those things in Kubernetes that seems small until it's not. Configuration is at the heart of every Kubernetes workload.
A missing quote, a wrong API version or a misplaced YAML indent can ruin your entire deploy.
This blog brings together tried-and-tested configuration best p…

In Kubernetes v1.33, the Backoff Limit Per Index feature reaches general
availability (GA). This blog describes the Backoff Limit Per Index feature and
its benefits.
About backoff limit per index
When you run workloads on Kubernetes, you must consider scenarios where Pod
failures can affect the comp…

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…

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…

From the Kubernetes Multicontainer Pods: An Overview blog post you know what their job is, what are the main architectural patterns, and how they are implemented in Kubernetes. The main thing I’ll cover in this article is how to ensure that your sidecar containers start before the main app. It’s mor…

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Today, the European Space Agency’s Argonaut lunar lander programme welcomes new members to its growing family. At ESA’s European Astronaut Centre (EAC) near Cologne, Germany, Thales Alenia Space Italy – the prime contractor for Argonaut’s first lander – signed agreements with Thales Alenia Space in …

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One antenna of ESA's Lunar Link being tested in a cleanroom at Thales Alenia Space in Cannes, France

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Cindy Evans, Artemis lead for geology training, and Juliane Gross, Artemis sample curation lead, joined the PANGAEA training in the Lofoten islands, Norway, in july 2025.From microscopic cosmic dust particles to Apollo-era Moon rocks, these geology nerds take extra care in ho…

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