arXiv:2512.19676v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Background: High-resolution MRI is critical for diagnosis, but long acquisition times limit clinical use. Super-resolution (SR) can enhance resolution post-scan, yet existing deep learning methods face fidelity-efficiency trade-offs. Purpose: To d…

The post Join the 2026 PondNet Spawn Survey: help track the UK’s frogs and toads this spring appeared first on Freshwater Habitats Trust.

Authorities say the actions of Ahmed al Ahmed, a shop owner, saved countless lives.

One of the zodiac’s subtler constellations comes into view on winter evenings, with the moon helping to point the wayYou can track down one of the zodiac’s fainter constellations this week. Aries, the ram, lies between Taurus to the east and Pisces to the west. In the northern hemisphere, it is situ…

Western sanctions have failed to turn the uber-rich into opponents, and Putin's policies have turned them into silent backers.

Fifty years after a fossil skeleton of Australopithecus afarensis was unearthed in Ethiopia, we know so much more about how this iconic species lived and died.

Sadler’s Wells, a top performing arts theatre in London, hired one of the United Kingdom’s biggest public relations agencies — and one with close ties to the oil industry — to help it defend a sponsorship deal with Barclays. Brunswick Group — whose clients have included oil giants BP, Shell, and Ara…

Facing pressure to increase timber harvests, the Forest Service is sidestepping rigorous environmental reviews and limiting public participation.

On the cusp of a December 16 county hearing in Georgia on a proposed law to regulate the booming data center industry, documents uncovered by DeSmog reveal that lobbyists continued to influence county leaders to revise planning regulations in favor of developers. Over the past year, Coweta County, a…

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Recognition of Somalia's breakaway region draws widespread condemnation.

Police say the fire at the Werdha Damai retirement home in the city of Manado killed 16 and wounded three others.

A knife attack outside Suriname’s capital, Paramaribo, has killed at least nine people, including five children

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Three people, including a child, have died after a two-story building collapsed in Soweto, South Africa

South Korean President Lee Jae Myung on Monday commuted to Cheong Wa Dae, the country’s traditional presidential palace, for the first time since taking office in June, more than three years after his ousted predecessor Yoon Suk Yeol moved the presiden...

Preliminary results of a snap parliamentary election in Kosovo shows that the party of Prime Minister Albin Kurti has won by a clear margin

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.

For X11/X.Org fans there is a new Christmas surprise: Phoenix as an in-development X Server written from scratch using the Zig programming language...

The year saw notable deal announcements involving GFL Environmental, Veolia, Enviri, WM, Republic Services, Waste Connections, Casella Waste Systems, FCC Environmental Services, LRS and more.

While superconducting qubits are great at fast calculations, they struggle to store information for long periods. A team at Caltech has now developed a clever solution: converting quantum information into sound waves. By using a tiny device that acts like a miniature tuning fork, the researchers wer…

Attacks by powerful militias against civilians reflect the state’s inaction eight years after a peace accord removed a powerful rebel group from the field.

This giant bubble on the island of Sardinia holds 2,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide. But the gas wasn’t captured from factory emissions, nor was it pulled from the air. It came from a gas supplier, and it lives permanently inside the dome’s system to serve an eco-friendly purpose: to store large amount…

Aid workers estimate as many as 300,000 people are fleeing advances by the Rwandan-backed M23 rebel group, which has taken two strategic towns on the approaches to Goma over the past several days.

Eco-friendly finds at the New England Aquarium for ocean lovers.
The post 10 Sustainable Gifts That Help Protect the Blue Planet appeared first on New England Aquarium.

A small study reveals that cats greet male owners more vocally than female ones. But the findings could be a result of cultural norms among the participants, rather than a universal cat behavior, scientists say.

Mulatu Astatke has been blending jazz influences from home and abroad for the past six decades.

The French actress redefined cinematic allure, captivating the world before championing animal rights.

Police detained the male suspect after shooting him in the leg, while two others are seriously injured.

The woman who was supposed to care for Saabirin Saylaan was found to have beaten and tortured her.

The decisive victory for the Albanian nationalist Vetevendosje party means a third term for leader Albin Kurti.

Forecasting tool predicts when demand will be highest, allowing NHS trusts to better plan staffing and bed spaceHospitals in England are using artificial intelligence to help cut waiting times in emergency departments this winter.The A&E forecasting tool predicts when demand will be highest, allowin…

The French model and actress has died at the age of 91.

Three crew members left the International Space Station and landed back on Earth after 245 days in space.The cosmonaut and station commander, Sergey Ryzhikov, handed over a symbolic key  to the Nasa astronaut Mike Fincke during a change of command ceremony onboard the station.The spacecraft landed a…

The year ahead in numbersUPDATE: Read the solutions hereAs we say goodbye to 2025, let’s delight in its numerical charms one final time. The year was unique this century as being a square number.442 = 1936452 = 2025462 = 2116Five 9sSix 8s.Six 7s.Six 6s.Four 5s.Six 4s.Four 3s.Four 2s.a partridge in a…

We’re sharing how we’ve enabled Dolby Vision and ambient viewing environment (amve) on the Instagram iOS app to enhance the video viewing experience. HDR videos created on iPhones contain unique Dolby Vision and amve metadata that we needed to support end-to-end Instagram for iOS is now the first Me…

From Orion and Taurus to Auriga and Perseus, here are 10 easy sets of stars to find in the Northern Hemisphere’s winter night sky.

The largest supermoon of the year, the so-called ‘beaver’ moon on Wednesday 4 November, was the biggest and brightest of 2025, just 357,000km from EarthWatch November’s ‘beaver’ supermoon rising over Sydney’s Bondi beach – videoGlowing September supermoon lights up the sky – in pictures Continue rea…

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’re introducing Zoomer, Meta’s comprehensive, automated debugging and optimization platform for AI.  Zoomer works across all of our training and inference workloads at Meta and provides deep performance insights that enable energy savings, workflow acceleration, and efficiency gains in our AI infr…

In this James Webb telescope image, the gigantic molecular cloud near our galaxy's center appears as a canvas of pink and purple clouds set against a shadowy backdrop.

By directly communicating with the brain, a new wireless device could someday help restore lost senses or manage pain without medications, its developers say.

A new computational model suggests that Uranus' and Neptune's cores may be less icy than their "ice giant" nickname suggests.

Two rare Celtic gold coins were discovered in a Swiss bog, and they may have been left there as an offering to the gods.

arXiv:2512.21351v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Building on the affective dream-replay reinforcement learning framework of CosmoCore, we introduce CosmoCore-Evo, an extension that incorporates evolutionary algorithms to enhance adaptability and novelty in code generation tasks. Inspired by anthropo…

arXiv:2512.21694v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) is a well-established research area. In contrast, Handwritten Text Generation (HTG) is an emerging field with significant potential. This task is challenging due to the variation in individual handwriting styles. A l…

arXiv:2511.13540v3 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Ensuring fairness in Graph Neural Networks is fundamental to promoting trustworthy and socially responsible machine learning systems. In response, numerous fair graph learning methods have been proposed in recent years. However, most of them assum…

There’s no doubt that 2025 has been one of the most politically chaotic years of the 21st century. Amid the domestic and geopolitical mayhem unleashed by Donald Trump’s return to the White House, powerful interests were busy enacting a radical anti-democratic agenda that has already changed our worl…

Several Canadian media outlets gave prominent coverage in December to a new report arguing that exporting massive amounts of natural gas from British Columbia to Asia will be good for the global fight against climate change. But stories in Canada’s national newspaper of record, The Globe & Mail, as …

arXiv:2512.21644v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: We study the fair allocation of indivisible goods among agents, with a focus on limiting envy. A central open question in this area is the existence of EFX allocations-allocations in which any envy of any agent i towards any agent j vanishes upon the …

Trump reshaped the industry this year, even as it faced opposition from the United Nations, scientists, and Indigenous peoples.

Building a skilled workforce for a sustainable future has been much discussed in climate proposals. Now researchers are figuring out what green jobs actually entail, and how to support them.

Breaking up the National Center for Atmospheric Research would be a "genuinely shocking self-inflicted wound."

In 2025, the list of metals became a top priority under Trump. But what even are they?

The functionality for CSI drivers to update information about attachable volume count on the nodes, first introduced as Alpha in Kubernetes v1.33, has graduated to Beta in the Kubernetes v1.34 release! This marks a significant milestone in enhancing the accuracy of stateful pod scheduling by reducin…

The only thing that is still propping up Gaza's hospitals is the sense of moral duty of the surviving medical workers.

The rise of AI/ML and other high-performance workloads has made specialized hardware like GPUs, TPUs, and FPGAs a critical component of many Kubernetes clusters. However, as discussed in a previous blog post about navigating failures in Pods with devices, when this hardware fails, it can be difficul…

Headlamp is an open‑source, extensible Kubernetes SIG UI project designed to let you explore, manage, and debug cluster resources.
Karpenter is a Kubernetes Autoscaling SIG node provisioning project that helps clusters scale quickly and efficiently. It launches new nodes in seconds, selects appropri…

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…

Kim Keon-hee took more than $200,000 in bribes and illegally intervened in state affairs, South Korean prosecutors say.

An essay about Gaza, about leaving, and about carrying memories.

Coreboot 25.12 is out today as the latest quarterly feature update to this open-source BIOS/firmware solution...

Heavy rains flood Gaza, leaving families struggling to stay dry amid aid shortages and widespread Israeli destruction.

Kosovo’s caretaker Prime Minister Albin Kurti said he will move quickly to form a new government.

These are the key developments from day 1,404 of Russia’s war on Ukraine.

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This February, the first-ever metal part 3D-printed in space landed on Earth. Produced in the European Space Agency’s Metal 3D Printer Technology Demonstrator on the International Space Station, it is now in the hands of ESA’s engineers at ESTEC, the agency’s technical centre in the Netherlands, who…

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,…

Militants of the Islamic State group have opened fire on police during a raid in northwest Turkey, wounding seven officers

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Engineers are using a satellite link between two European Space Agency facilities to advance teleoperated robotics systems that could enable future lunar explorers to study the Moon from afar.

Southern Hungary landowner Oszkár Nagyapáti has been battling severe drought on his land

Announced earlier in December but flying under the radar until now is the initial reoease of a QNX Self-Hosted Developer Desktop. This is a developer environment for the QNX real-time operating system primarily used on embedded systems. With now having this developer desktop option, the hassle of cr…

Revelers take part in the Els Enfarinats festival, a battle using flour, eggs and firecrackers in the Spanish town of Ibi.

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The Arch Linux based CachyOS has been quite popular with Linux gamers and enthusiasts for offering leading out-of-the-box performance, especially following the shutdown of Intel's Clear Linux. CachyOS has developed quite a following on the Linux desktop while looking ahead to 2026 they will be worki…

With the end of the year quickly drawing to a close, here is a look back at the most-viewed Linux kernel news of 2025...

In addition to today's blog post calling out the need for others to takeover the This Week In Plasma series, KDE developer Nate Graham also published another blog post to highlight the successes of the Plasma desktop over 2025. In particular, the KDE Plasma Wayland transition "nears completion" as i…

Adding to the unfortunate engineering setbacks at Intel this year as part of cost-cutting measures, the Intel IWD software development has been on a hiatus for the past three months. Going from previously seeing monthly releases and almost constant activity to now development ceasing up with no acti…

Picture this: You’re just about done with a transoceanic flight, and the tracker in your seat-back screen shows you approaching your destination airport. And then … you notice your plane is moving away. Pretty far away. You approach again and again, only to realize you’re on a long, circling loop th…

Witnesses pressed lawmakers to act on PFAS-related legislation in 2026 to protect “passive receivers” including water utilities and waste facilities. Environmental groups instead pushed for PFAS to be more strictly regulated.

NASA is helping shape the future of urban air travel with a new simulation that will manage how electric air taxis and drones can successfully operate within busy areas.   The demonstration, held at NASA’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley earlier this year, focused on a system cal…

Militias and far-right extremists believed they would be central to Trump’s mass deportation plans. Instead he militarized law enforcement agencies.

Recent research suggests that AI chatbots are not merely passive sources of election information; they can actively shape voter attitudes in measurable and durable ways.
The post AI Chatbots Are Reshaping Political Persuasion appeared first on American Enterprise Institute - AEI.

Called AVIRIS-5, it’s the latest in a long line of sensors pioneered by NASA JPL to survey Earth, the Moon, and other worlds. Cradled in the nose of a high-altitude research airplane, a new NASA sensor has taken to the skies to help geoscientists map rocks hosting lithium and other critical minerals…

The airliner you board in the future could look a lot different from today’s, with longer, thinner wings that provide a smoother ride while saving fuel. Those wings would be a revolutionary design for commercial aircraft, but like any breakthrough technology, they come with their own development cha…

NASA’s X-59 quiet supersonic research aircraft took off for its historic first flight on Oct. 28 at 11:14 a.m. EDT from Lockheed Martin Skunk Works in Palmdale, California. The one-of-a-kind aircraft flew for 67 minutes before landing and taxiing to NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards…

Monitors are cheaper, faster, and more beautiful than ever. Here’s how to choose one that will suit your needs and budget.

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…

Convenience isn’t just for meat eaters anymore. These plant-based meal kits and delivery services bring healthy preprepared meals and meal kits to your door.

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.

Billed as a workstation (and priced accordingly), HP’s Zbook 8 falls short of dazzling.

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.

Simplify AI experimentation with zero-infrastructure MLflow that launches in minutes, scales automatically, and seamlessly integrates with SageMaker's model customization and pipeline capabilities.