The group of rare earth elements (REEs) comprises a total of 17 elements, all of which possess similar chemical properties. In addition to the two lightest elements, scandium and yttrium, the group also includes lanthanum, cerium and neodymium, as well as the radioactive promethium.

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The Atlanta plugg pioneer faced challenges that almost derailed his career, but now, he's back and leading by example

The top Democrat on the Oversight Committee, Representative Robert Garcia has brought aggressive tactics and reality-show flair to investigating Trump.

Experts unpack the reasons audiences keep pressing play on feel-good holiday-themed romantic comedies.

What “unretirements” can tell us about the job market

Roger Ebert said he “hated, hated, hated, hated, hated” Reiner’s 1994 film “North.” The director took it in stride.

A host of figures from the world of sport died in 2025 - BBC Sport remembers some of those sporting names.

The best streaming deals this week (Dec. 18, 2025) include the ESPN Unlimited, Hulu, and Disney+ bundle, Paramount+, Spotify, and more.

The United Kingdom has named a replacement for its former ambassador to the United States, Peter Mandelson, who was removed for links to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. According to a press release from the U.K.’s Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO), Christian Turner, whom th…

Amtrak and a key panel of Union Station leaders on Thursday approved a renegotiated agreement that will officially restore federal control of the Washington, D.C., transportation hub amid efforts to overhaul the facility. Leaders from Amtrak and the Union Station Redevelopment Corporation (USRC) Boa…

arXiv:2511.18929v3 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Recent progress in robotics and embodied AI is largely driven by Large Multimodal Models (LMMs). However, a key challenge remains underexplored: how can we advance LMMs to discover tasks that assist humans in open-future scenarios, where human int…

Exploring every timeline in the Gundam series.

One of SpaceX's Starlink broadband satellites suffered an anomaly in orbit on Wednesday (Dec. 17) that led to its partial breakup, according to the company.

Democrats on the House Oversight Committee released 68 more photos from the estate of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein on Thursday, one day before the Justice Department’s (DOJ) deadline to release all of its information on the disgraced financier on Dec. 19. Some photos show lines from the Vl…

The National Center for Atmospheric Research has played a leading role in providing data, modelling and supercomputing to researchers around the world – but the Trump administration is set to shut it down

Archaeologists from the University of Copenhagen and the University of Bergen have used AI and free digital tools to create a dynamic and educational video game about the Stone Age. According to the researchers, the new technology, which does not require strong technical skills, has the potential to…

Launched in March, NASA's SPHEREx space telescope has completed its first infrared map of the entire sky in 102 colors.

From the KPop Demon Hunters soundtrack to career milestones for the likes of G-DRAGON, SEVENTEEN, JENNIE, MARK, NMIXX and more, enjoy the K-pop scene's best records.

Normally, when liquids solidify, their molecules become locked in place, making it much harder for ions to move and leading to a steep decrease in ionic conductivity. Now, scientists have synthesized a new class of materials, called state-independent electrolytes (SIEs), that break that rule.

The bittersweet comedy about divorce and standup also features stellar acting from Laura Dern.
Will Arnett Delivers a Career-Best Performance in Bradley Cooper’s Is This Thing On?: Review
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Two wireless mice, two external hard drives, and a partridge in a pear tree.

The pop star reveals Easter eggs, outfit secrets, and the inspirations behind the visual for VEVO's Footnotes series

arXiv:2512.14872v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Accelerator control systems often represent relatively complex and safety-sensitive human-machine interfaces within process control industries. These systems are technically robust and reflect the cumulative integration of solutions built and adapte…

arXiv:2512.14902v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Frontier AI developers operate at the intersection of rapid technical progress, extreme risk exposure, and growing regulatory scrutiny. While a range of external evaluations and safety frameworks have emerged, comparatively little attention has been p…

Ruth Wilkinson says good regulation allows business to thrive without risking workers’ health John Fingleton’s claim that health and safety rules are holding UK infrastructure back (Report, 12 December) is not only wrong, it’s dangerous. Stripping back protections in the name of speed is a false eco…

The series is inspired by the country star's music.

Investigators are also examining the possibility that the case is connected to the killing of an M.I.T. professor in his home in Massachusetts.

Convert your TV into a smart TV with a streaming stick and watch all your favorite sci-fi shows and movies in one place, to access your streaming service of choice.

Sharif Osman Bin Hadi was a leading figure during the uprising toppled former prime minister Sheikh Hasina in 2024.

Trump ramps up pressure with major military force deployed.

New update aims to provide a safe experience for teens between the ages of 13 and 17.

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Os repórteres Patricia Xavier e Daniel Carvalho contam os assuntos que marcaram a semana no Brasil. Com edição de Barbara Nascimento e produção de Raphael Almeida.

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-According to touristic agencies notices over the past couple weeks, a Jielong 3 will be launched near Hailing island, off the coast of Yangjiang at the end of the month, possibly around December 26th.-A Jielong 3 was seen yesterday with a Pakistani F...

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Prime Minister Mark Carney has been playing up protecting Canada’s energy sovereignty by expanding fossil fuel extraction. But who owns the oil patch? The reality is that U.S. capital controls the majority of oil and gas companies operating in Canada and that American ownership of the Canadian oil r…

Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt congratulated Trump — and Kennedy — on the change, which Democrats are calling illegal

Liberals should reconcile with America’s oil and gas industry.

Morocco beat Jordan 3-2 as a strike from inside his own half by Oussama Tannane set the tone for a spectacular final.

President Trump signed an executive order Thursday reclassifying marijuana to a schedule three drug, effectively easing federal restrictions. CBS News White House reporter Willie James Inman has more.

arXiv:2512.15274v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) significantly enhances the reasoning capability of Large Language Models (LLMs). Current RLVR approaches typically conduct training across all generated tokens, but neglect to explore which tokens …

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) on Thursday signaled it would be illegal for the Trump administration to rename the Kennedy Center without “legislative action.” “The Kennedy Center Board has no authority to actually rename the Kennedy Center in the absence of legislative action,” Jeff…

arXiv:2512.15483v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Self-driving laboratories (SDLs) are combining recent technological advances in robotics, automation, and machine learning based data analysis and decision-making to perform autonomous experimentation toward human-directed goals without requiring any …

Gov. Kathy Hochul said the state would spend another $77 million on police patrols in the subway, acknowledging that felony assaults remain stubbornly high.

Campaigners welcome plans but say poor funding means Labour’s ambitions unlikely to be metA landmark strategy to protect women and girls from violence and abuse “falls seriously short” of the funding required to realise the government’s ambitions, campaigners have said.The government’s strategy to c…

There's never been a giant dam failure in the US modern era, and a team of researchers is looking to keep it that way.

Federal prosecutors announced new indictments Thursday in the widening Minnesota fraud scandal, this time involving two Philadelphia-based men accused of traveling to the state.

Scrapping of afternoon press conferences could limit scrutiny and transparency, say reportersSweeping changes to Downing Street’s press lobby system have been criticised by journalists.No 10 normally holds two briefings on most days that parliament sits to allow the lobby – political journalists tha…

What looked like a mysterious exoplanet was actually the sparkling debris from a violent collision between massive space rocks. Even more astonishing, astronomers watched a second collision unfold in the same system, revealing a surprisingly chaotic neighborhood where new worlds may be born. In a ra…

For much of human history, weapons were passive instruments that became lethal only through human action. But thanks to, and in part, because of robotics, many modern weapons have taken on a life of their own. It is difficult to provide an exhaustive list of all the robotic technologies currently de…

Prudie says: “Really bringing end-of-the-year holiday-adjacent semi-checked-out energy to this exchange.”

NASA Space Apps announced Thursday 10 winners of the 2025 NASA Space Apps Challenge. During this two-day hackathon, participants gathered at 551 local events across 167 countries and territories to showcase their STEM skills and proposed ways to transform NASA’s open data into actionable tools. More…

In this week's Muni Moment: Nick Gross, son of one-time Bond King Bill Gross, is joining Russell Westbrook in backing a new entertainment district in Oklahoma City that will be anchored by a new soccer stadium. Some funding will come from the sale of $50 million in voter-approved general-obligation …

Tory's Bullseye charthttps://twitter.com/torybruno/status/2001736860016742471QuoteTory Bruno@torybrunoAnother triple bullseye. Leo is right where he wants to be

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arXiv:2509.24832v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: As large language models (LLMs) continue to scale, the memory footprint of key-value (KV) caches during inference has become a significant bottleneck. Existing approaches primarily focus on compressing KV caches within a single prompt or reusing s…

Italy’s digital payment company Nexi SpA rejected an offer by TPG for its digital banking solutions unit, marking a new failed attempt to sell it.

It's now official: Captain America star Chris Evans will be back in Avengers: Doomsday.

Mayer gets the "Archetype" treatment.

Eight percent of the narrowing gender pay gap came from women having fewer children, according to a new study.

Some patients will wait up to 15 years for an appointment, unless improvements are made, the report says.

Rep. Richard Hudson (R-N.C.) on Thursday mourned the loss of famed NASCAR driver Greg Biffle and his family after they died in a jet crash. “I am devastated by the loss of Greg, Cristina, and their children, and my heart is with all who loved them,” Hudson wrote in a post on the social platform...

They're not part of a vast, Marvel-style universe, and neither is a classic. So why are the "Avatar" movies so successful?

arXiv:2507.04346v3 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: This paper aims to improve the action smoothness of a cascaded online learning flight control system. Although the cascaded structure is widely used in flight control design, its stability can be compromised by oscillatory control actions, which p…

People who switched from semaglutide or tirzepatide to orforglipron largely maintained their weight loss.

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"A few minutes of love is so important to them," singer-entrepreneur says of furry family members.

Grandparents are engaging with their grandchildren far more than previous generations, researchers find.

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House Oversight Democrats released a new batch of photos of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and his former associates on Thursday, with photos referencing "Lolita," a novel about the sexual exploitation of a young girl.Why it matters: The new photo drop comes just a day before the public is e…

Alternative investment managers are starting to take a serious interest in catastrophe bonds tied to wildfires, moving into a risk category that just a few years ago was seen as too difficult to model.

The evolutionary history of domesticated cattle in East Asia for the past 5000 years remains largely obscure. Here, we investigated the origins and evolution of cattle genetic diversity in China by analyzing shotgun genome sequences of 166 ancient ...

The board of the performing arts centre voted to name it after President Donald Trump, rebranding it the 'Trump-Kennedy Center', press secretary Karoline Leavitt says.

From populations of multicellular organisms to selfish genetic elements, conflicts between levels of biological organization are central to evolution. Plasmids are extrachromosomal, self-replicating genetic elements that face selective pressures from ...

The last major meteor shower of the year, known as the Ursids, peaks soon, bringing glowing streaks to nighttime and early morning skies. Compared to other meteor showers, it's more subdued, but experts say it's still worth a glimpse.

arXiv:2512.15327v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Capabilities and the number of vision-based models are increasing rapidly. And these vision models are now able to do more tasks like object detection, image classification, instance segmentation etc. with great accuracy. But models which can take acc…

Lovable Labs Inc., the creator of a popular artificial intelligence tool for building websites and applications, today announced that it has raised $330 million in funding. Alphabet Inc.’s CapitalG fund and Menlo Ventures jointly led the Series B round. They were joined by the venture capital arms o…

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Activist David Hogg blasted the Democratic National Committee (DNC) on Thursday for choosing to not release its postmortem of Democrats’ 2024 election losses. “I ran for DNC vice chair after massive losses in 2024 because I believed we needed to change our party,” Hogg said in a post on the social p…

Plaques installed in US President Donald Trump’s ‘Presidential Walk of Fame’ at the White House attack his predecessors.

The materials include photos of women's passports, and Lolita quotes written across a woman's body.

Quote from: Galactic Penguin SST on Today at 05:38 pmQuote from: Jared Isaacman...As I step into this role, I make these personal commitments:...– Integrity: I will serve responsibly, transparently, and with...

With the 60th anniversary and the launch of a new show, 2026 is shaping up to be a vital year for 'Star Trek'—but 2025 was where the steps towards that big year really started.

Europe has some of the world’s most ambitious climate goals, but in recent months it has backtracked on rules governing automobile emissions and deforestation.

Michele Morrow, who was the Republican nominee for North Carolina Superintendent of Public Instruction last cycle, is challenging former Republican National Committee (RNC) Chair Michael Whatley for the state’s open Senate seat next year. “[North Carolina] cannot afford four more years of Roy Cooper…

The National Center for Atmospheric Research helps power weather and wildfire forecasts across the country. Now it’s being targeted in a presidential feud.

The ripples of the auto industry's chip shortage are still being felt, as evidenced by Honda. Bloomberg reported on Wednesday that the automaker will suspend production in Japan on January 5 and 6. (Honda didn't specify the affected factories.) In addition, all three of the automaker's Guangqi Honda…

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Crypto markets swung sharply Thursday following a softer-than-expected U.S. CPI print, which briefly lifted bitcoin above $89,000 during U.S. hours.

The decline occurred on volume that was 35% above the token's 30-day average.

Images, undated and uncaptioned, include Nabokov lines written on woman’s body and show Bill Gates and Noam ChomskyUS politics – live updatesWhat we know so far about the Epstein filesDemocrats on the House oversight committee have released a new batch of photos from the estate of the convicted sex …

President Trump is planning to issue an executive order establishing two new federal holidays: Christmas Eve and the day after Christmas, an administration official tells Axios.Why it matters: It would be an early holiday present for federal workers — a three-day holiday after a rough year. It's not…

This is the all-time lowest price for the latest gen AirPods Pro.

arXiv:2311.13546v2 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: The Early Fault-Tolerant (EFT) era is emerging, where modest Quantum Error Correction (QEC) can enable quantum utility before full-scale fault tolerance. Quantum optimization is a leading candidate for early applications, but protecting thes…

Rachida Dati’s home and offices raided by police on Thursday

Brother of Puka Nacua among two arrested in LA caseVehicle tied to Lakers forward tracked to hotel valetSuspects released same night as investigation continuesTwo men, including the brother of Los Angeles Rams wide receiver Puka Nacua, were arrested over the weekend on suspicion of taking a vehicle …

Since the implementation of China’s Clean Air Action and the Minamata Convention, which aims to mitigate anthropogenic mercury (Hg) emissions to the environment by phasing out Hg usage, China has reduced atmospheric Hg concentrations by approximately 39% (1), primarily by controlling industrial emis…

For the franchise’s third movie, James Cameron throws in new creatures, new landscapes, melodramatic plot lines and big battle sequences. It’s a lot.