In the last decade, the drive to understand who we are and where we've come from has been accelerated by DNA testing.

Uber is under fire after a damning New York Times investigation into how many times the company let violent felons drive.

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope captured two nearby dwarf galaxies interacting with each other in this image released on Dec. 2, 2025.

arXiv:2512.19643v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Numerical simulation of time-dependent partial differential equations (PDEs) is central to scientific and engineering applications, but high-fidelity solvers are often prohibitively expensive for long-horizon or time-critical settings. Neural operator…

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While Australia is one of the most biodiverse countries in the world, we also have some of the highest extinction rates.

You may have noticed people out and about with little stickers on their faces. Perhaps you've seen moons, stars, clouds or even smiley faces adorning people's cheeks and chins. Maybe you wear them yourself. While some people do wear them as accessories, these colorful stickers are medicated "pimple …

Senator Richard Blumenthal is requesting information from an architect hired to oversee the ballroom design and people invited to a donor dinner with the president.

Over a dozen Jeffrey Epstein survivors shared a letter with Congress on Monday, urging lawmakers to hold the Justice Department accountable for delays in releasing all the Epstein files.The big picture: They slammed the DOJ for failing to redact some survivors' identities as required by law and for …

arXiv:2512.19258v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: In this paper, we address the multiconsensus problem in networked systems, where agents are partitioned into disjoint subgroups and the states of agents within a subgroup are driven to consensus. Our objective is to present a distributed control law t…

Violence erupted after Turkish FM Fidan said SDF was not honouring commitment to integrate into state's armed forces.

arXiv:2505.06646v2 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: Deep learning for radiologic image analysis is a rapidly growing field in biomedical research and is likely to become a standard practice in modern medicine. On the publicly available NIH ChestX-ray14 dataset, containing X-ray images that ar…

arXiv:2512.17213v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Medical Vision-Language Models (VLMs) are prone to hallucinations, compromising clinical reliability. While reinforcement learning methods like Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO) offer a low-cost alignment solution, their reliance on sparse, ou…

Did you know Amazon's Rufus AI tool can alert you to price drops and even snag deals for you? That's just one of several game-changing features.

Finding greener ways to keep giant new data centres cool is a challenge.

Wheat prices hovered near a one-week high as fresh tensions between Russia and Ukraine raised the risk of supply disruptions from the Black Sea region.

The actor stepped away from the Broadway production of Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club following his diagnosis in September

The choicest European and Asian regal jewels from the Al Thani Collection are on show in Paris

Despite concerns, politicians continue to use Elon Musk’s platform in search of a ‘civilised debate’ with constituents

George Conway, the prominent Republican lawyer-turned-prolific critic of President Trump, filed paperwork Monday to run for an open U.S. House seat in New York as a Democrat.Why it matters: Conway is one of several candidates with a large online presence and national profile running to succeed retir…

arXiv:2408.09030v4 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: NLP-assisted solutions have gained considerable traction to support qualitative data analysis. However, there does not exist a unified evaluation framework that can account for the many different settings in which qualitative researchers may emplo…

Luxury pet pampering packages at hotels, menus with dog-friendly roast dinners and £6,000 animal-friendly charter flights. Pet travel isn't just a trend, it's something of a transformation. This is the "pawprint economy"—and it's booming.

Carr used to insist on FCC independence. Now he uses FCC to fight Trump's battles.

arXiv:2509.16187v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Code translation transforms source code from one programming language (PL) to another. Validating the functional equivalence of translation and repairing, if necessary, are critical steps in code translation. Existing automated validation and repa…

China’s domestic price for liquefied natural gas fell to a five-year low as inventories grew and demand for heating during winter months remained short of expectations.

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Citigroup Inc. has upgraded its recommendation on Taiwan equities, while cutting its view on China, citing stronger links to global artificial-intelligence supply chains and a more favorable earnings outlook.

China Vanke Co.’s woes are posing a growing risk for investors holding $1.3 billion of the embattled developer’s dollar bonds, as a temporary reprieve this week on local debt still leaves it lurching toward eventual default or restructuring in the absence of any rescue.

TikTok’s Chinese owner set to increase capital expenditure next year in effort to further build AI infrastructure

Pro-Palestine and Indigenous activist groups say Minns government ‘trying to strip away the right to peacefully protest for everyone’ in wake of Bondi attackFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThree groups who regularly org…

The Mexican Navy said it was carrying out a medical support mission with a foundation that assists Mexican children with severe burns.

arXiv:2512.17605v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Robust mammography registration is essential for clinical applications like tracking disease progression and monitoring longitudinal changes in breast tissue. However, progress has been limited by the absence of public datasets and standardized benchm…

A new study led by researchers at UH Mānoa Hawaiʻi Institute of Marine Biology (HIMB) ToBo Lab has revealed that giant clam populations in American Sāmoa are far more stable and abundant than previously thought, demonstrating the effectiveness of traditional, community-based resource management.

See the moon phase expected for December 23, 2025 as well as when the next full moon is expected.

She was a white actress, he was a popular Black entertainer, and their relationship elicited racist reactions in 1960, including from John F. Kennedy’s presidential campaign.

Representative Joyce Beatty, Democrat of Ohio, argues that only Congress is authorized to rename the D.C. performing arts institution.

People scrambled to safety as the ferry sank on the Mekong River, with a local woman and two children feared dead.

This time of year, dozens of familiar songs end up on our playlists or they're often heard over the radio. But if you're lucky, you can hear them performed live -- by carolers. Jericka Duncan has the story.

arXiv:2412.12667v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: This article identifies and addresses a fundamental bottleneck in data-driven 360-degree image quality assessment (IQA): the lack of intelligent, sample-level data selection. Hence, we propose a novel framework that introduces a critical refinemen…

Jenny Evans funnelled her anger into training to become a journalist and uncover the truth.

The second lady was subjected to a torrent of racist abuse from far-right podcaster Nick Fuentes.

Written by Lucy Thompson, Planetary Scientist and APXS team member, University of New Brunswick, Canada Earth planning date: Monday, Dec. 22, 2025 As we all prepare for the holiday season here on Earth, we have been planning a few last activities before Curiosity and the team of scientists and engin…

The Justice Department released more of its files on convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein over the weekend. But the partial release, full of redactions, came after a deadline Congress set for releasing all of the files. Scott MacFarlane has the latest.

Despite its tropical climate and floodplain location, Bangladesh—one of the world's most densely populated nations—seasonally does not have enough freshwater, especially in coastal areas. Shallow groundwater is often saline, a problem that may be exacerbated by rising sea levels.

Florida's first statewide black bear hunt in a decade is more than halfway over but state wildlife leaders have offered no information on its progress, not even a death count.

arXiv:2512.17601v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Video Anomaly Detection (VAD) aims to locate events that deviate from normal patterns in videos. Traditional approaches often rely on extensive labeled data and incur high computational costs. Recent tuning-free methods based on Multimodal Large Langu…

The baby joins 8-year-old twins Nicholas and Lucy & 5-year-old daughter Mary.

arXiv:2512.18194v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Disaggregated LLM serving improves resource efficiency by separating the compute-intensive prefill phase from the latency-critical decode phase. However, this architecture introduces a fundamental bottleneck: key/value (KV) tensors generated during pr…

Amid claims of AudioBoom share price manipulation, a judge found Bonnier lied to secure investment from Nick Candy

A new method could enable users to design portable medical devices, like a splint, that can be rapidly converted from flat panels to a 3D object without any tools.

Mexico's Navy says the plane crashed in the waters off the US state of Texas while carrying out a medical transfer.

India has not opened its market to GM soya or corn, one of the sticking points in US trade talks.

Scientists are beginning to understand that ageing is not simply a linear process and we age, according to recent research, in three accelerated bursts: at about 40, 60 and 80 years old. In this episode from July, Ian Sample talks to Stanford University’s Prof Michael Snyder, who explains what the d…

Tax fraud charges escalate schism within Agnelli dynasty as troubles mount across billionaire’s business empire

The political point scoring that has erupted after the terror attack last week is unusual in Australia, where leaders tend to unite after catastrophes.

Overharvesting has raised conservation concerns for a widely foraged plant, but researchers say that better genetic insights could support more effective protection efforts. For years, the wild ramp community has disagreed about how many kinds there really are. Some have insisted the plant is just a…

After years of planning for cars that would let drivers take their hands off the wheel and eyes off the road, China’s regulators have become more cautious.

arXiv:2512.17267v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Evaluating user-facing AI applications remains a central challenge, especially in open-ended domains such as travel planning, clinical note generation, or dialogue. The gold standard is user feedback (e.g., thumbs up/down) or behavioral signals (e.g.,…

arXiv:2512.17593v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: In this paper we consider the limiting case of neural networks (NNs) architectures when the number of neurons in each hidden layer and the number of hidden layers tend to infinity thus forming a continuum, and we derive approximation errors as a funct…

arXiv:2512.17722v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: This paper introduces a standardized model card framework specifically designed for digital and web forensics. Building upon established model card methodologies and recent work on abstract models for digital forensic analysis, this paper presents a w…

When you walk around the Groupama Stadium in Lyon (France), you can't miss them. Four majestic lions in the colors of Olympique Lyonnais stand proudly in front of the stadium, symbols of the influence of a club that dominated French football in the early 2000s.

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Trump again called for Venezuela’s president to leave power and said the US would keep or sell the oil it had seizedChina and Russia have expressed support for Venezuela as it confronts a US blockade of sanctioned oil tankers, while Donald Trump continues to ramp up his pressure campaign on the Sout…

In his first comments since the release, the president expressed sympathy for high-profiles figures, including Bill Clinton, who have come under scrutinyDonald Trump has broken his silence on the release of the Jeffrey Epstein files, complaining that people who “innocently met” the convicted paedoph…

The judge said the administration had to decide by Jan. 5 whether it wanted to “facilitate” the men’s return to the United States or let them contest their initial removals in the federal courts.

Experts say cracker jokes are more about the sharing of a moment than the quality of the gag.

arXiv:2409.03735v3 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: As large language models (LLMs) are integrated into sociotechnical systems, it is crucial to examine the privacy biases they exhibit. We define privacy bias as the appropriateness value of information flows in responses from LLMs. A deviation betw…

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Danish company will be first to market with oral obesity treatment but rival Eli Lilly is not far behind

While the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 7 remained my favorite gadget throughout the year, there were some surprising entries on my list.

arXiv:2512.17313v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Despite the impressive zero-shot capabilities of Vision-Language Models (VLMs), they often struggle in downstream tasks with distribution shifts from the pre-training data. Few-Shot Adaptation (FSA-VLM) has emerged as a key solution, typically using P…

arXiv:2512.08350v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: In the Small Cuts Cover problem we seek to cover by a min-cost edge-set the set family of cuts of size/capacity $

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People escaping fighting, lack of essential supplies in Heglig area faced with tough conditions in search for safety.

New Zealand companies will get more opportunities to invest in India under the terms of the two nations’ new free-trade accord, Trade Minister Todd McClay tells Bloomberg. (Source: Bloomberg)

The political point scoring that has erupted after the terror attack last week is unusual in Australia, where leaders tend to unite after catastrophes.

arXiv:2512.18991v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Dominant paradigms for 4D LiDAR panoptic segmentation are usually required to train deep neural networks with large superimposed point clouds or design dedicated modules for instance association. However, these approaches perform redundant point proce…

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Trading volume surged to 721 million tokens, indicating active repositioning rather than thin price movement.

Vince Zampella, a video game developer known for pioneering iconic franchises like "Call of Duty," died in a car crash on the Angeles Crest Highway in Los Angeles County on Sunday afternoon.

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As the UK government launches its violence against women and girls strategy, the situation it is seeking to remedy makes for hard reading.

At least six people were killed when a Mexican Naval plane crashed in Galveston Bay off the Texas coast on Monday afternoon, the U.S. Coast Guard said. The office of the Secretary of the Mexican Navy said on X Monday evening that the aircraft, with eight people on board, was conducting a medical sup…

President Trump has responded to the release of the Epstein files, saying Monday that the release of photos risked ensnaring "highly respected" people with no connection to Epstein's crimes.

arXiv:2512.17560v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Ensuring human safety in collaborative robotics can compromise efficiency because traditional safety measures increase robot cycle time when human interaction is frequent. This paper proposes a safety-aware approach to mitigate efficiency losses witho…

A union representing career diplomats said such a mass recall had never happened in the history of the U.S. Foreign Service.

"After years of war, no one could stand between my men and home. Not even me."

Moon-bound astronauts rehearse their launch-day activities with a repurposed ride.

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…

Here's the answer for "Wordle" #1647 on December 23 as well as a few hints, tips, and clues to help you solve it yourself.

Connections is a New York Times word game that's all about finding the "common threads between words." How to solve the puzzle.

arXiv:2512.17310v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Pseudorandom error-correcting codes (PRC) is a novel cryptographic primitive proposed at CRYPTO 2024. Due to the dual capability of pseudorandomness and error correction, PRC has been recognized as a promising foundational component for watermarking A…

Team director Rob Key has ‘no issue’ with Noosa trip after second TestBut tourists will investigate claims some players spent six days drinkingRob Key has defended England’s mid-tour break in Noosa but confirmed he will look into reports that excessive drinking by players in between the second and t…

Amazon's chief security officer said North Koreans tried to apply for remote working IT jobs using stolen or fake identities.

The yen outperformed its Group-of-10 peers on Tuesday, strengthening after Japan’s Finance Minister Satsuki Katayama said in an interview that the government has a “free hand” to take bold action against the currency if its moves are out of line with fundamentals.

One of Google's most critical features is hidden behind a single toggle - turn it on to protect against theft, scams, spam, and more.

arXiv:2512.17251v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Large language models are exposed to risks of extraction, distillation, and unauthorized fine-tuning. Existing defenses use watermarking or monitoring, but these act after leakage. We design AlignDP, a hybrid privacy lock that blocks knowledge transfe…

Donald Trump is on a naming spree; Schumer asks Senate to back legal action over partial Epstein files release – key US politics stories from Monday 22 December at a glanceDonald Trump has announced plans for the US navy to build a new generation of warships – known as “Trump-class”.The ships will b…

arXiv:2512.17080v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Synthetic medical image data can unlock the potential of deep learning (DL)-based clinical decision support (CDS) systems through the creation of large scale, privacy-preserving, training sets. Despite the significant progress in this field, there is …