For a carbon-neutral bioeconomy, processes are needed that can efficiently capture CO2 and convert it into valuable products. Formic acid, or more specifically its salt, formate, is considered a promising candidate as it can be produced from CO₂ using renewable electricity. It is also easy to transp…

Escalating pollution and contamination of water and soil are emerging as serious threats to plant growth and its overall health. Plants are exposed to environmental pollutants for extended periods and exhibit changes in their color, texture, and internal structure in response.

FIL dropped to $1.24 as the technical breakdown accelerated on heavy volume, 380% above average.

Providence police have released new video of a "person of interest" in Saturday's deadly Brown University shooting. CBS News' Anna Schecter has more.

Researchers at Touro University Nevada have discovered that tiny particles in the blood, called extracellular vesicles (EVs), are a major player in how a group of hormones are shuttled through the body. Physical exercise can stimulate this process.

arXiv:2512.11167v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Reproducibility remains a cornerstone of scientific progress, yet complex multimodal models often lack transparent implementation details and accessible training infrastructure. In this work, we present a detailed reproduction and critical analysis of…

Plus, Wesley Snipe's Blade gets the Marvel Legends action figure he's long deserved.

The guitarist enlisted Stone Temple Pilots, MJ Lenderman, Daniel Donato, Maggie Rose, and more onstage in Asheville, North Carolina, a year after the region was flooded

Four people are facing conspiracy charges after they were apprehended while planning to test explosives in the desert.

A new study shows that machine-learning models can accurately predict daily crop transpiration using direct plant measurements and environmental data. By training models on seven years of high-resolution lysimeter data, the researchers demonstrate strong performance across tomatoes, wheat, and barle…

Ukrainian leaders said Monday they appreciated White House efforts to reach a deal even as significant gaps appeared to remain between the sides.

Meta revealed that Disney+ was coming to its Quest headsets earlier this year during its Connect event. Now, the streaming app and its vast catalog are finally available to Meta's VR users in the United States.Meta recently overhauled the Quest's entertainment experience with a new Horizon TV hub th…

President Trump said Monday his administration is “considering” reclassifying marijuana as a less dangerous drug, days after The Washington Post reported he is expected to sign an executive order telling agencies to pursue reclassification soon.  Such a move would continue efforts begun by the Biden…

Astronomers from the University of Hawai'i (UH) at Manoa and elsewhere have observed the Taurus star-forming region, which resulted in the discovery of planetary-mass and stellar companions of two ultracool dwarf stars. The new finding was presented in a paper published December 4 on the pre-print s…

China’s new economic model is putting the future of Asia’s Gen-Z at risk.

arXiv:2510.21368v2 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: Estimating reaction rates and chemical stability is fundamental, yet efficient methods for large-scale simulations remain out of reach despite advances in modeling and exascale computing. Direct simulation is limited by short timescales; mac…

Wednesday’s update could debut tokenized assets, onchain AI agents and global Base features as crypto exchange Coinbase aims to redefine its business model.

The movie starts streaming at HBO Max on Dec. 19.

Seaport Research’s negative view of Nvidia’s stock hasn’t panned out thus far, but analyst Jay Goldberg is emphasizing the recommendation as he looks to 2026.

Spain’s grid operator, Red Eléctrica, proudly declared that electricity demand across the country’s peninsular system was met entirely by renewable energy sources for the first time on a weekday, on 16 April 2025.Just 12 days later, at 12.33 p.m. on Monday, 28 April, Spain and Portugal’s grids colla…

The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee alleged that the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) of Washington, D.C., under the leadership of outgoing Chief Police Pamela Smith, manipulated crime statistics.  The new report, released Sunday, accuses Smith of pressuring department employees …

New Gallup research reveals an AI communication gap between employers and employees - with key differences among industries.

Riverside's year-end review is amusing, but it represents a creative culture that's increasingly entwined with AI.

“It's always something that goes wrong,” Jamal Brown, a 41-year-old food stamp participant said, “unfortunately.”

FDA Commissioner Dr. Marty Makary says the agency has no plans to put a black box warning on Covid-19 vaccines. He says a recommendation was made, but it won't be adopted since the vaccines have changed since they first came out. He speaks with Romaine Bostick and Katie Greifeld on "The Close." (Sou…

During Bloomberg's annual flagship ETF event, Bloomberg's Katie Greifeld speaks with Rick Rieder, BlackRock’s global CIO of fixed-income, and Steve Laipply, global co-head of iShares fixed income ETFs. (Source: Bloomberg)

A newly discovered promoter element "start" points to a shared regulatory syntax for controlling transcription initiation in bacteria, archaea, and eukaryotes.

Luke Tennie, Travis Van Winkle, Meta Golding and Christopher Thornton have joined the cast of “The Pitt” Season 2. Tennie (“Shrinking,” “Abbott Elementary”) will play Dr. Crus Henderson, a fourth-year resident who works the night shift at the Pittsburgh Trauma Medical Center. Van Winkle (“You,” “Fub…

When SBI Shinsei Bank Ltd. starts trading this week, one of Japan’s wealthiest women will likely get a ¥10 billion ($64 million) windfall.

The former Duke of York – a former naval helicopter pilot who flew in the Falklands conflict – had his honorary military rank removed over his relationship with convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein.

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In an era where we often have to twiddle our thumbs for three years before a new season of a TV show we enjoy returns to our screens, the second season of Fallout has had a relatively short turnaround. It's set to hit Prime Video 20 months after the first batch of episodes. As it turns out, the seas…

arXiv:2512.11319v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: High-definition (HD) maps are evolving from pre-annotated to real-time construction to better support autonomous driving in diverse scenarios. However, this process is hindered by low-quality input data caused by onboard sensors limited capability and…

Crypto-related stocks suffered far deeper declines as bitcoin slumped well below its recent trading range.

Canada’s WSP Global Inc. reached a deal to buy a US engineering firm from funds controlled by Warburg Pincus LLC with the financial backing of its largest shareholder.

Researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai have developed a first-of-its-kind mRNA system that switches on therapeutic genes preferentially inside targeted cells—an advance demonstrated in studies in mice that could lay the groundwork for safer, more precise treatments for cancer and…

Users are not thrilled.

arXiv:2512.11200v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Current AI code generation systems suffer from significant latency bottlenecks due to CPU-GPU data transfers during compilation, execution, and testing phases. We establish theoretical foundations for three complementary approaches to GPU-native compi…

The holidays are nearly here and if you’re a bit behind on your gift shopping, you’re not alone. The holidays can truly sneak up on you, and this year that’s been more true than ever. Between wrapping things up at work before some well-deserved time off and making sure you have everything you need t…

arXiv:2512.11564v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Text entry in Virtual Reality (VR) is challenging, even when accounting for the use of controllers. Prior work has tackled this challenge head-on, improving the efficiency of input methods. These techniques have the advantage of allowing for relativel…

arXiv:2505.16134v3 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) exhibit position bias systematically underweighting information based on its location in the context but how this bias varies across languages and models remains unclear. We conduct a multilingual study across five typ…

In March, the musician was sued for $100 million by the brand Lost International, which claims her Mayhem designs rip off one of its logos

The weak RC4 for administrative authentication has been a hacker Holy Grail for decades.

B. Riley Financial Inc. said it filed its overdue second-quarter report with US regulators, bringing the firm closer to satisfying demands from Nasdaq that will keep the stock from being delisted. The shares gained more than 20% in extended trading.

arXiv:2511.06634v3 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Cross-domain HVAC energy prediction is essential for scalable building energy management, particularly because collecting extensive labeled data for every new building is both costly and impractical. Yet, this task remains highly challenging due t…

Hedge fund manager plans to build $8bn gambling complex next to Mets baseball stadium in Queens

Hunter Biden was on Monday disbarred in Connecticut after facing complaints about his convictions on gun and tax charges, over which his father, former President Biden, later pardoned him. The former president's son consented to being disbarred and admitted to attorney misconduct as part of an agree…

Attorneys who eventually quit tell LA Times they were pushed to conclude university system had violated lawAttorneys with the US Department of Justice have reportedly said they felt pressured to accuse the University of California of discriminating against Jewish students and faculty, at the urging …

These chaotic calendars actually make great presents for the pickiest person on your list this holiday season

SpaceX's launches page hasn't shown it yet, but per FAA ATC and Celestrak, it looks like this launch has slipped to December 17 at 7:10-11:10 a...

Mirelo AI GmbH, a Germany-based developer of audio generation models, today announced that it has raised $41 million in funding. Index Ventures and Andreessen Horowitz led the seed investment. They were joined by Atlantic.vc and TriplePoint Capital. Mirelo’s flagship AI model, Mirelo SFX 1.5, is des…

The NIN mastermind offers insight into the "drummer swap" with Foo Fighters.
Trent Reznor on What Really Went Down with Josh Freese’s Return to Nine Inch Nails
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Australia’s past gun reform efforts were applauded as a gold standard, until the Bondi Beach attack.

In the wake of an incredible run at The Game Awards last week, during which Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 won a record-breaking nine awards and announced a free DLC out right now, a whole lot of people are purchasing and/or downloading the game to see what all the fuss is about.

€5bn in assets withdrawn by metal and tech workers’ group

Sources tell Rolling Stone that Nick exhibited "anti-social behavior" at Conan O'Brien's Christmas party

Fans pay tribute to When Harry Met Sally and The Princess Bride film-maker and his wife after apparent homicideLos Angeles mourned the death of beloved Hollywood director Rob Reiner and his wife Michelle on Monday morning, as police announced the arrest of their son on suspicion of murder.News of th…

The two Iowa National Guardsmen killed in an ambush attack in Syria Saturday have been identified as 29-year-old Sgt. William Nathaniel Howard of Marshalltown and 25-year-old Sgt. Edgar Brian Torres-Tovar of Des Moines. A civilian interpreter was also killed. CBS News White House reporter Willie Jam…

We are headed for more confrontation, more brinkmanship, more war.

arXiv:2506.00731v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) have emerged as a powerful tool for solving forward and inverse problems involving partial differential equations (PDEs) by incorporating physical laws into the training process. However, the performance of…

The Reiners' troubled 32-year-old son, Nick, has been arrested in conjunction with the killings.

The Shenzhou-21 crew on board China's orbiting space station completed its first extravehicular activities on Tuesday, Dec. 9th, during which they validated the new EVA spacesuits.

It was not immediately clear what charges Nick Reiner would face. A police statement said he was being held without bail.

"They were fired for taking a private recording of me without my consent and sending it off to ex-employees," the "Truth Hurts" singer said.

arXiv:2512.11779v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Evaluating conditional coverage remains one of the most persistent challenges in assessing the reliability of predictive systems. Although conformal methods can give guarantees on marginal coverage, no method can guarantee to produce sets with corre…

A "House of Cards" is a wonderful English phrase that it seems is now primarily associated with a Netflix political drama. However, its original meaning is of a system that is fundamentally unstable. It's also the term Sarah Thiele, originally a Ph.D. student at the University of British Columbia, a…

The pop star said she was "grateful for this victory," while a lawyer for the plaintiffs noted many of the allegations remain intact, "including false imprisonment and harassment"

On this day in 1960, the third and last Atlas-Able took off from LC-14 at Cape Canaveral. The Able adapter apparently produced in-flight vibration sufficient enough to induce loads into the forward section of the Atlas LOX tank, causing its rupture at ...

The word of the year is "Slop," according to the people at Merriam-Webster who decide what words mean.

Nuclear waste continues to be a bottleneck in the widespread use of nuclear energy, so doctoral student Dauren Sarsenbayev is developing models to address the problem.

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“We haven’t prioritized theatrical in the past because that wasn’t our business,” the co-CEOs wrote. “When this deal closes, we will be in that business.”

The agency sent letters to leaders at the companies, saying they continued to sell ByHeart infant formula for days or weeks after the recall.

The K-pop singer's bag charm of choice is currently on sale at Amazon.

The Detroit automaker is refocusing on hybrids and pouring money into battery-energy storage.

The next presidential election may seem a long way off, but current frictions within Trump’s coalition suggest the jockeying to succeed Trump is well under way

Known as a popular Hollywood director, Rob Reiner also had a lengthy record of political and civic activism, especially in California.

Alan M. Garber was appointed after his predecessor resigned under pressure. He has been in the role as Harvard fended off challenges from the Trump administration.

*Stares intently*

Changes aim to build reserves and quell investor concern about President Javier Milei’s economic policy

Several Republican lawmakers publicly rebuked President Trump on Monday for suggesting acclaimed actor and director Rob Reiner was killed alongside his wife, Michele, this weekend because of Reiner’s disdain for the president — what Trump terms “Trump derangement syndrome.” The GOP blowback came lar…

"Everything we've ever assumed about the Upside Down has been dead wrong."

Outgoing New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy (D) on Sunday said he hasn’t taken a 2028 presidential run “off the table,” but suggested the public shouldn’t hold their breath for it, either. “I haven't taken anything off the table ... but I wouldn't put a lot of money on that,” Murphy said during an intervie…

arXiv:2511.20838v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Dissipativity is an input-output (IO) characterization of nonlinear systems that enables compositional robust control through Vidyasagar's Network Dissipativity Theorem (VDNT). However, determining the dissipativity of a system is an involved and,…

Announcement spares British exporters from threat of tariff increases

Government says arrangement will bring in extra £400m on top of more than £15bn of existing annual trade with KoreaThe UK has signed a new trade deal with South Korea designed to increase exports of cars, Scottish salmon and Guinness canned in Britain.Keir Starmer described the deal, which replaces …

An agreement between moderate Republicans and GOP leadership in the House to allow a vote on extending expiring Affordable Care Act (ACA) subsidies is on the rocks as the two sides squabble over the contents of the amendment. Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick (R-Pa.) and other GOP centrists are planning to int…

Dr Roman Raczka says artificial intelligence can’t replace therapist-led care, even though it can offer benefitsIt is absolutely right that children “need a human, not a bot” for mental health support (‘I feel it’s a friend’: quarter of teenagers turn to AI chatbots for mental health support, 9 Dece…

The Senate will not hold a market structure markup hearing this month, pushing any progress toward a new crypto law to next year.

arXiv:2312.04180v3 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: This study investigates how artificial intelligence (AI) influences various online labor markets (OLMs) over time. Employing the Difference-in-Differences method, we discovered two distinct scenarios following ChatGPT's launch: displacement effect…

arXiv:2506.16666v3 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: In this paper, we systematize research on auditing Differential Privacy (DP) techniques, aiming to identify key insights and open challenges. First, we introduce a comprehensive framework for reviewing work in the field and establish three cross-c…

A study has, for the first time, identified minute traces of broomcorn millet consumption directly from human dental calculus, offering an unprecedented window into medieval diets and expanding the toolkit available to archaeologists for reconstructing ancient foodways.

The singer talks about how she found new confidence on her anticipated sophomore album HOTCORE

The ‘Bridging the Swarm’ mission comes two days after the company launched its ‘RAISE and Shine’ flight for JAXA. Liftoff is scheduled for 1:55 p.m. NZDT / 0055 UTC on Dec. 16 (7:45 p.m. EST on Dec. 15).

President Trump torpedoed MAGA influencers' calls for compassion after the killing of director Rob Reiner, mocking the longtime liberal activist as a victim of "Trump derangement syndrome."Why it matters: Many MAGA influencers vowed after the assassination of Charlie Kirk that they would never celeb…

Lawyers representing victims say it is “shocking” there has never been a “full-scale” UK inquiry.

Bungie’s delayed extraction shooter revival, Marathon, has re-emerged with an early 2026 launch window and a $39.99 price point.

Bose's holiday deals are back, giving you up to $300 dollars in savings.

Winter is here, and for those of us in northern New England, so are all of its friends: frigid temperatures, snow, and, of course, cute little Winter Wrens bopping around the forest.

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Former President Barack Obama urged Democrats at a fundraiser with Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries to focus on regaining the House and telling a "better story" to voters.