A French launch startup that recently closed a funding round is seeking defense applications for its hybrid propulsion technology.
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Gaming on Linux has come a long way; PikaOS is one such distro that offers a user-friendly, out-of-the-box experience.

Leading X-ray space telescopes XMM-Newton and XRISM have spotted a never-seen-before blast from a supermassive black hole. In a matter of hours, the gravitational monster whipped up powerful winds, flinging material out into space at eye-watering speeds of
60,000 km per second.

Which phone deserves your hard-earned money going into 2026, the Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra or the OnePlus 15? Here's my verdict.

Troubles at Vanke raise questions about the continued spread of the property crisis and whether the Chinese state will step in.

Google’s new building is on one side, ‘Post No Bills’ on the other.

From Apple gifting a gold statue to the US taking a stake in Intel.

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Sentinel-1D encapsulated inside Ariane 6 fairing

Lawmakers, union leaders and education officials say shifting programs out of the department risks losing expertise, adding bureaucracy and weakening support for students and families.

Scientists have created a perovskite-based gamma-ray detector that surpasses traditional nuclear medicine imaging technology. The device delivers sharper, faster, and safer scans at a fraction of the cost. By combining crystal engineering with pixelated sensor design, it achieves record imaging reso…

The molluscs are decimating food chains in Switzerland, have devastated the Great Lakes in North America, and this week were spotted in Northern Ireland for the first timeLike cholesterol clogging up an artery, it took just a couple of years for the quagga mussels to infiltrate the 5km (3-mile) high…

An AirTag battery failure at the wrong time can leave your gear vulnerable. Elevation Lab's Time Capsule fixes that.

The Trump administration on Monday announced the distribution of the first payments from a new $50 billion rural health fund — but not all states are getting equal payouts.

In recent years, the evolution of artificial intelligence (AI) has extended its boundaries from cloud computing to the edge, which has profoundly changed the role of embedded microcontrollers (MCUs). We are not just talking about classification or pattern recognition algorithms, but generative model…

NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover is continuing its mission to collect samples despite uncertainty about how, when or even if those samples will be returned to Earth.
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New research shows soil carbon decomposition varies widely. The finding has implications for climate change models.

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.

In 2014 the Malaysian Airlines jet vanished over the Indian Ocean. Now the team that located Shackleton’s Endurance is looking again with the latest undersea robotsSearch for Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 expected to resume on TuesdayMore than a decade after Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 went miss…

As part of the Guardian’s Against the tide series, readers aged 18 to 30 share what they love about living in their coastal town, the challenges and why they often choose to leaveMegan, a 24-year-old from the Isle of Wight, is very familiar with saying goodbye. She decided university wasn’t for her …

Action began in January, before an all-out strike in March. For locals, the flytipping, vermin, maggots and mess are taking a huge environmental and emotional tollIt’s an icy cold winter morning, and 80-year-old Mohammed Bashir is armed with a broom, tackling the large pile of rubbish that has accum…

This year there was a lot of going on in the NVIDIA Linux world from their official driver stack seeing better Wayland support to a lot on the open-source scene from NVIDIA engineers contributing a lot directly to the Rust-based Nova open-source driver that continues taking shape, the Mesa NVK Vulka…

Linus Torvalds just released Linux 6.19-rc3 to ship this week's fixes. Linux 6.19-rc3 is coming in light as expected due to the Christmas week with many corporate developers getting paid time off and others taking part in year-end festivities...

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...

With survey operations set to begin this fall, the Rubin control room at SLAC will serve as a key hub for training and remote observing support for the NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory.

In 2023, the ALICE experiment was ready for their best year yet, until a mysterious signal threatened everything. As the LHC wraps up its 2025 lead-ion run, physicists recall how they worked together to solve the puzzle.

Days after a bombing at a mosque in a predominantly Alawite area, members of the religious minority in Syria demonstrated for better protections.

Here we go again. An obscure, methodologically poor, paper published with little to no review makes a convenient point and gets elevated into supposedly ‘blockbusting’ science by the merchants of bullshit, sorry, doubt. Actual scientists drop everything to respond, but not before the (convenient) no…

See smarter in 2026 with Meta Ray-Ban Gen 1 glasses for over $70 off at Best Buy and Amazon.

Three million years ago the fault regions of the Sierra Nevada and White Mountains began their thunderous rise. Their...
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The president has made immigration an early priority to start second term, with ICE making more than 900 arrests Sunday.

The U.K., Italy and Japan have already partnered on the Global Combat Air Programme, which aims to put a new stealth fighter with supersonic capability in the skies by 2035.

Yakisugi, a Japanese technique of burning wood surfaces, creates a protective carbonized layer

How can we respond to the climate crisis in a way that creates hope, while also being realistic and truthful as to the current state of this world? Yes, we…

COMMENTARY | OPM's plan to corral inflated performance ratings should also be mindful not to undercut employee excellence with arbitrary limits on recognition.

The senators worry that the planned intake of applicant data at the Labor Department will create "grievous economic and privacy risks for millions of Americans.”

The president also tasked OPM Director Scott Kupor with analyzing whether to provide federal law enforcement officers with a 3.8% pay increase, in line with what military service members are set to receive next month.

Defense firms will be notified of potential links to blacklisted Chinese-military companies a year before the contracting ban goes into effect, the assistant defense secretary for industrial policy said.

President Trump said after his Sunday meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky that Ukraine and Russia are "closer than ever" to a peace deal and that 95% of the issues have been settled. Why it matters: The meeting comes at the height of Trump's diplomatic push to reach a peace agreement…

CBS News' new editor-in-chief Bari Weiss is planning to create a masthead for the broadcaster as part of a broader overhaul of standards and procedures, according to a source familiar with her plans. Why it matters: The masthead is meant to drive a more streamlined hierarchy and set of processes acr…

President Trump's overnight crackdown on diversity visas is the latest use of his 2025 strategy to scale down legal immigration.Why it matters: The Trump administration is leveraging collective punishment by halting or trying to scuttle entire legal immigration programs after high-profile incidents.…

Physicists have unveiled a new superconducting detector sensitive enough to hunt dark matter particles smaller than electrons. By capturing faint photon signals, the device pushes the search into uncharted territory.

A response to “Israel’s Vision of Victory”

In 2026, Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s health policy changes will start playing out on GLP-1s, dietary guidelines, and rural health initiatives.

Several pharmaceutical companies that struck drug pricing deals with the White House said they're exempt from the Medicare demonstrations.

This is the web edition of STAT's D.C. Diagnosis newsletter.

Democratic-led states and D.C. have sued HHS, calling an RFK Jr. declaration that rejected gender-affirming care an overreach of its authority.

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View from above: Ariane 6 for Sentinel-1D on the launch pad

Halafian pottery shows that early agricultural societies practiced advanced mathematical thinking through plant-based art long before writing. Researchers report that the Halafian culture of northern Mesopotamia (c. 6200–5500 BCE) created the earliest known systematic plant imagery in prehistoric ar…

Japan’s flagship H3 rocket suffered an issue with its second stage late Sunday resulting in the loss of the Michibiki 5 (QZS-5) navigation satellite.
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