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<title>Embark on a visual voyage of art inspired by black holes</title>
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<![CDATA[Jennifer Ouellette]]>
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<pubDate>Fri, 26 Dec 2025 16:40:40 +0000</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[Art and science converge in Lynn Gamwell's book, <em>Conjuring the Void: The Art of Black Holes</em>]]>
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<![CDATA[<p>Black holes have long captured the imagination of both scientists and the general public. These exotic objects—once thought to be merely hypothetical—have also conceptually inspired countless artists all over the world. A generous sampling of such work is featured in <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Conjuring-Void-Art-Black-Holes/dp/0262049961"><em>Conjuring the Void: The Art of Black Holes</em></a>.</p>
<p>Author Lynn Gamwell spent ten years as director of the New York Academy of Science's Gallery of Art and Science. She has an extensive background writing about the intersection of math, art, and science. So she was a natural choice to speak at the annual conference of Harvard's interdisciplinary <a href="https://bhi.fas.harvard.edu">Black Hole Initiative</a> a few years ago. Gamwell focused her talk on the art of black holes, and thus the seeds for what would become <em>Conjuring the Void </em>were sown.</p>
<p>"I was just astounded at how much art there is [about black holes], and I was specifically interested in Asian art," Gamwell told Ars. "There's just something about the concept of a black hole that resonates with the Eastern tradition. So many of the themes—the science of black holes, void, nothingness, being inescapable—relate to the philosophy of Buddhism and Taoism and so on."</p><p><a href="https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/12/embark-on-a-visual-voyage-of-art-inspired-by-black-holes/">Read full article</a></p>
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<title>In the ’90s, Wing Commander: Privateer made me realize what kind of games I love</title>
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<![CDATA[Samuel Axon]]>
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<pubDate>Fri, 26 Dec 2025 13:35:38 +0000</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[Most things <em>Privateer</em> did have been done better, but it's still a classic.]]>
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<p>Ever since 1993, I think I've unconsciously judged almost every game by how well it can capture how <a href="https://www.kqzyfj.com/click-8984087-15232592?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gog.com%2Fen%2Fgame%2Fwing_commander_privateer"><em>Wing Commander: Privateer</em></a> made me feel.</p>
<p>Steam and PlayStation (the two platforms I use the most) have been doing a year-in-review summary akin to the wildly popular Spotify Wrapped for the past few years. Based on these, I can report that my most-played games in 2025 were, from most hours down:</p>
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<li><em>No Man's Sky</em></li>
<li><em>Civilization VII</em></li>
<li><em>Assassin's Creed Shadows</em></li>
<li><em>The Elder Scrolls IV Oblivion Remastered</em></li>
<li><em>The Lord of the Rings: Return to Moria</em></li>
<li><em>The Elder Scrolls III Morrowind</em></li>
<li><em>World of Warcraft</em></li>
<li><em>Meridian 59</em></li>
<li><em>Tainted Grail: Fall of Avalon</em></li>
<li><em>Unreal Tournament</em></li>
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<p>With the exceptions of <em>Civilization VII</em> and <em>Unreal Tournament</em>, every one of those games is some kind of open-world experience that's all about immersing you in a far-flung land (or galaxy).</p><p><a href="https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2025/12/in-the-90s-wing-commander-privateer-made-me-realize-what-kind-of-games-i-love/">Read full article</a></p>
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<title>Ars Technica’s Top 20 video games of 2025</title>
<link>https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2025/12/ars-technicas-top-20-video-games-of-2025/</link>
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<![CDATA[Kyle Orland]]>
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<pubDate>Fri, 26 Dec 2025 12:00:09 +0000</pubDate>
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<category><![CDATA[hollow knight silksong]]></category>
<category><![CDATA[kingdom come 2]]></category>
<category><![CDATA[mario kart world]]></category>
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<![CDATA[A mix of expected sequels and out-of-nowhere indie gems made 2025 a joy.]]>
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<![CDATA[<p>When we put together our top 20 games of last year, we specifically called out <em>Civilization 7</em>, <em>Avowed</em>, <em>Doom: The Dark Ages</em>, and <em>Grand Theft Auto 6</em> as big franchise games we were already looking forward to for 2025. While one of those games has been delayed into 2026, the three others made this year's list of Ars' favorite games as expected. They join a handful of other highly anticipated sequels, ranging from big-budget blockbusters to long-gestating indies, on the "expected" side of this year's list.</p>
<p>But the games that really stood out for me in 2025 were the ones that seemed to come out of nowhere. Those range from hard-to-categorize roguelike puzzle games to a gonzo, punishing mountainous walking simulation, the best G<em>eometry Wars</em> clone in years, and a touching look at the difficulties of adolescence through the surprisingly effective lens of mini-games.</p>
<p>As we look toward 2026, there are plenty of other big-budget projects that the industry is busy preparing for (the delayed <em>Grand Theft Auto VI</em> chief among them). If next year is anything like this year, though, we can look forward to plenty more games that no one saw coming suddenly vaulting into view as new classics.</p><p><a href="https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2025/12/ars-technicas-top-20-video-games-of-2025/">Read full article</a></p>
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<title>Being Santa Claus is a year-round calling</title>
<link>https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/12/being-santa-claus-is-a-year-round-calling/</link>
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<![CDATA[Jennifer Ouellette]]>
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<pubDate>Wed, 24 Dec 2025 16:23:35 +0000</pubDate>
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<![CDATA["You're Santa Claus 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 52 weeks a year." Acting out may shatter "the magic."]]>
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<![CDATA[<p>Tis the season when professional Santas are in peak demand, but many who choose this line of work often view it as a higher calling and maintain some aspects of the identity all year round—even those who don't fit the stereotypical popular image of Santa, according to <a href="https://journals.aom.org/doi/10.5465/amj.2023.1161">a paper</a> published in the Academy of Management Journal.</p>
<p>Co-author <a href="https://haslam.utk.edu/people/profile/christina-hymer/">Christina Hymer</a> of the University of Tennessee <a href="https://journals.aom.org/doi/full/10.5465/amj.2023.1161.summary">got the idea</a> for the study during the COVID pandemic, when she spent a lot of time watching Christmas movies with her toddler. One favorite was 2003's <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elf_(film)"><em>Elf</em></a>, starring Will Farrell as a full-sized human raised among elves who goes to New York City to find his biological father. The film prompted her to wonder about why someone would want to be Santa Claus and what their experiences in that role would be.</p>
<p>Hymer and her co-authors partnered with the leader of a "Santa school" to analyze archival surveys of 849 professional Santas, and conducted a new survey of another 382 Santas. They also did over 50 personal interviews with professional Santas. (One subject showed up in full costume for his zoom interview, with a North Pole background, and signed off with a merry "ho! ho! ho!")</p><p><a href="https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/12/being-santa-claus-is-a-year-round-calling/">Read full article</a></p>
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<title>SPEED Act passes in House despite changes that threaten clean power projects</title>
<link>https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/12/speed-act-passes-in-house-despite-changes-that-threaten-clean-power-projects/</link>
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<![CDATA[Aidan Hughes, Carl David Goette-Luciak, Inside Climate News]]>
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<pubDate>Wed, 24 Dec 2025 13:30:59 +0000</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[The bill would significantly curtail scope of the federal environmental review process.]]>
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<![CDATA[<p>The House of Representatives cleared the way for a massive overhaul of the federal environmental review process last Thursday, despite last-minute changes that led clean energy groups and moderate Democrats to pull their support.</p>
<p>The Standardizing Permitting and Expediting Economic Development Act, or <a href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/4776">SPEED Act</a>, overcame opposition from environmentalists and many Democrats who oppose the bill’s sweeping changes to a bedrock environmental law.</p>
<p>The bill, introduced by Rep. Bruce Westerman (R-Ark.) and backed by Rep. Jared Golden (D-Maine), passed the House Thursday in a 221-196 vote, in which 11 Democrats joined Republican lawmakers to back the reform effort. It now heads to the Senate, where it has critics and proponents on both sides of the aisle, making its prospects uncertain.</p><p><a href="https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/12/speed-act-passes-in-house-despite-changes-that-threaten-clean-power-projects/">Read full article</a></p>
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<title>TV Technica: Our favorite shows of 2025</title>
<link>https://arstechnica.com/culture/2025/12/tv-technica-our-favorite-shows-of-2025/</link>
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<![CDATA[Jennifer Ouellette]]>
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<pubDate>Wed, 24 Dec 2025 13:00:53 +0000</pubDate>
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<category><![CDATA[Features]]></category>
<category><![CDATA[best of 2025]]></category>
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<![CDATA[Netflix and Apple TV dominate this year's list with thrillers, fantasy, sci-fi, and murder.]]>
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<![CDATA[<p><em><strong>Editor’s note</strong>: Warning: Although we’ve done our best to avoid spoiling anything major, please note this list does include a few specific references to several of the listed shows that some might consider spoiler-y.</em></p>
<p>This was a pretty good year for television, with established favorites sharing space on our list with some intriguing new shows. Streaming platforms reigned supreme, with Netflix and Apple TV dominating our list with seven and five selections each. Genre-wise, we've got a bit of everything: period dramas (<em>The Gilded Age</em>,<em> Outrageous</em>), superheroes (<em>Daredevil: Born Again</em>), mysteries (<em>Ludwig</em>,<em> Poker Face</em>,<em> Dept. Q</em>), political thrillers (<em>The Diplomats</em>,<em> Slow Horses</em>), science fiction (<em>Andor</em>, <em>Severance</em>,<em> Alien: Earth</em>), broody fantasy (<em>The Sandman</em>), and even an unconventional nature documentary (<em>Underdogs</em>).</p>
<p>As always, we’re opting for an unranked list, with the exception of our “year’s best” selection at the very end, so you might look over the variety of genres and options and possibly add surprises to your eventual watchlist. We invite you to head to the comments and add your own favorite TV shows released in 2025.</p><p><a href="https://arstechnica.com/culture/2025/12/tv-technica-our-favorite-shows-of-2025/">Read full article</a></p>
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<title>How AI coding agents work—and what to remember if you use them</title>
<link>https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2025/12/how-do-ai-coding-agents-work-we-look-under-the-hood/</link>
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<![CDATA[Benj Edwards]]>
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<pubDate>Wed, 24 Dec 2025 12:00:27 +0000</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[From compression tricks to multi-agent teamwork, here's what makes them tick.]]>
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<![CDATA[<p>AI coding agents from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google can now <a href="https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/12/the-ars-technica-ai-coding-agent-test-minesweeper-edition/">work on</a> software projects <a href="https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/09/anthropic-says-its-new-ai-model-maintained-focus-for-30-hours-on-multistep-tasks/">for hours</a> at a time, writing complete apps, running tests, and fixing bugs with human supervision. But these tools are not magic and can complicate rather than simplify a software project. Understanding how they work under the hood can help developers know when (and if) to use them, while avoiding common pitfalls.</p>
<p>We'll start with the basics: At the core of every AI coding agent is a technology called a large language model (LLM), which is a type of neural network trained on vast amounts of text data, including lots of programming code. It's a pattern-matching machine that uses a prompt to "extract" compressed statistical representations of data it saw during training and provide a plausible continuation of that pattern as an output. In this extraction, an LLM can <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interpolation">interpolate</a> across domains and concepts, resulting in some useful logical inferences when done well and <a href="https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/04/why-ai-chatbots-are-the-ultimate-bs-machines-and-how-people-hope-to-fix-them/">confabulation errors</a> when done poorly.</p>
<p>These base models are then further refined through techniques like fine-tuning on curated examples and reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF), which shape the model to follow instructions, use tools, and produce more useful outputs.</p><p><a href="https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2025/12/how-do-ai-coding-agents-work-we-look-under-the-hood/">Read full article</a></p>
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<title>China just carried out its second reusable launch attempt in three weeks</title>
<link>https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/12/china-just-carried-out-its-second-reusable-launch-attempt-in-three-weeks/</link>
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<![CDATA[Stephen Clark]]>
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<pubDate>Tue, 23 Dec 2025 21:22:38 +0000</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[<p>For the second time this month, a Chinese rocket designed for reuse successfully soared into low-Earth orbit on its first flight Monday, defying the questionable odds that burden the debuts of new launch vehicles.</p>
<p>The first Long March 12A rocket, roughly the same height and diameter of SpaceX's workhorse Falcon 9, lifted off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center at 9:00 pm EST Monday (02:00 UTC Tuesday).</p>
<p>Less than 10 minutes later, rocket's methane-fueled first stage booster hurtled through the atmosphere at supersonic speed, impacting in a remote region about 200 miles downrange from the Jiuquan spaceport in northwestern China. The booster failed to complete a braking burn to slow down for landing at a prepared location near the edge of the Gobi Desert.</p><p><a href="https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/12/china-just-carried-out-its-second-reusable-launch-attempt-in-three-weeks/">Read full article</a></p>
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<title>Leaked Avengers: Doomsday teaser is now public</title>
<link>https://arstechnica.com/culture/2025/12/steve-rogers-returns-in-avengers-doomsday-teaser/</link>
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<![CDATA[Jennifer Ouellette]]>
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<pubDate>Tue, 23 Dec 2025 19:45:32 +0000</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[It's purportedly the first of four planned teasers, one per week, showing before <em>Avatar: Fire and Ash</em>.]]>
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<p>You've no doubt heard some version of the <a href="https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43816/to-a-mouse-56d222ab36e33">Robert Burns adage</a> about the best-laid plans. Marvel Studios had an elaborate marketing plan in place to introduce four teaser trailers for <em>Avengers: Doomsday</em> as previews prior to screenings of <em>Avatar: Fire and Ash</em>, with one teaser rolling out each successive week. But the first one leaked online a few days early, revealing that (as rumored) Steve Rogers/Captain America (Chris Evans) will appear and will have a newborn baby, presumably with Hayley Atwell's Peggy Carter.</p>
<p>So maybe you've seen a bootleg version floating around the Internet, but Marvel has now released the HD version to the public. Merry Christmas! And we can look forward to three more: one focused on Thor, one on Doctor Doom, and the final one is purportedly a more traditional teaser trailer.</p>
<p>As <a href="https://arstechnica.com/culture/2024/07/robert-downey-jr-returns-to-mcu-as-doctor-doom-in-two-new-avengers-movies/">previously reported</a>, Marvel Studios originally planned to build its Phase Six Avengers arc (<em>The Kang Dynasty</em>) around Jonathan Majors’ Kang the Conqueror (and associated variants), introduced in <em>Loki</em> and <em>Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania</em>. But then Majors was convicted of domestic violence, and Marvel fired the actor soon after. That meant the studio needed to retool its Phase Six plans, culminating in the announced return of the Russo brothers, who directed four of the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s most successful films, which brought in more than $6 billion at the global box office.</p><p><a href="https://arstechnica.com/culture/2025/12/steve-rogers-returns-in-avengers-doomsday-teaser/">Read full article</a></p>
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<title>FCC’s import ban on the best new drones starts today</title>
<link>https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/12/djis-new-drones-will-not-be-available-in-the-us-as-fcc-ban-takes-effect/</link>
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<![CDATA[Scharon Harding]]>
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<pubDate>Tue, 23 Dec 2025 17:29:57 +0000</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[US drone makers are happy—US drone hobbyists, not so much. ]]>
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<![CDATA[<p>Americans will be unable to buy the latest and greatest drones because the <a href="https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/12/no-one-loves-president-trump-more-than-fcc-chairman-brendan-carr/">Federal Communications Commission</a> (FCC) has banned foreign-made drones as of today.</p>
<p>On Monday, the FCC added drones to its <a href="https://www.fcc.gov/supplychain/coveredlist">Covered List</a>, which it says are communications equipment and services “that are deemed to pose an unacceptable risk to the national security of the United States or the security and safety of United States persons.” The list was already populated by Kaspersky, ZTE, Huawei, and others.</p>
<p>An FCC fact sheet <a href="https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/DOC-416839A1.pdf">[PDF] </a>about the ban released on Monday says:</p><p><a href="https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/12/djis-new-drones-will-not-be-available-in-the-us-as-fcc-ban-takes-effect/">Read full article</a></p>
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<title>OpenAI’s child exploitation reports increased sharply this year</title>
<link>https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/12/openais-child-exploitation-reports-increased-sharply-this-year/</link>
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<![CDATA[Maddy Varner, WIRED.com]]>
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<pubDate>Tue, 23 Dec 2025 17:02:26 +0000</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[Incident reports spiked during the first six months of 2025.]]>
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<![CDATA[<p>OpenAI sent 80 times as many child exploitation incident reports to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children during the first half of 2025 as it did during a similar time period in 2024, according to a <a href="https://cdn.openai.com/trust-and-transparency/2025-h1-child-safety.pdf" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" data-offer-url="https://cdn.openai.com/trust-and-transparency/2025-h1-child-safety.pdf" data-event-click='{"pattern":"ExternalLink"}' data-event-boundary="click" data-in-view='{"pattern":"ExternalLink"}' data-include-experiments="true">recent update</a> from the company. The NCMEC’s CyberTipline is a Congressionally authorized clearinghouse for reporting child sexual abuse material (CSAM) and other forms of child exploitation.</p>
<p>Companies are required by law to report <a href="https://www.wired.com/story/people-are-using-sora-2-to-make-child-fetish-content/">apparent child exploitation</a> to the CyberTipline. When a company sends a report, NCMEC reviews it and then forwards it to the appropriate law enforcement agency for investigation.</p>
<p>Statistics related to NCMEC reports can be nuanced. Increased reports can sometimes indicate changes in a platform’s automated moderation, or the criteria it uses to decide whether a report is necessary, rather than necessarily indicating an increase in nefarious activity.</p><p><a href="https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/12/openais-child-exploitation-reports-increased-sharply-this-year/">Read full article</a></p>
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<title>“Yo what?” LimeWire re-emerges in online rush to share pulled “60 Minutes” segment</title>
<link>https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/12/yo-what-limewire-re-emerges-in-online-rush-to-share-pulled-60-minutes-segment/</link>
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<![CDATA[Ashley Belanger]]>
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<pubDate>Tue, 23 Dec 2025 16:18:22 +0000</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[<p>CBS cannot contain the online spread of a "60 Minutes" segment that its editor-in-chief, Bari Weiss, tried to block from airing.</p>
<p>The episode, "Inside CECOT," featured testimonies from US deportees who were tortured or suffered physical or sexual abuse at a notorious Salvadoran prison, the Center for the Confinement of Terrorism. "Welcome to hell," one former inmate was told upon arriving, the segment reported, while also highlighting a clip of Donald Trump praising CECOT and its leadership for “great facilities, very strong facilities, and they don’t play games."</p>
<p>Weiss controversially pulled the segment on Monday, claiming it could not air in the US because it lacked critical voices, as no Trump officials were interviewed. She claimed that the segment "did not advance the ball" and merely echoed others' reporting, NBC News <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/cbs-news-el-salvador-cecot-prison-sharyn-alfonsi-bari-weiss-rcna250618">reported</a>. Her plan was to air the segment when it was "ready," insisting that holding stories "for whatever reason" happens "every day in every newsroom."</p><p><a href="https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/12/yo-what-limewire-re-emerges-in-online-rush-to-share-pulled-60-minutes-segment/">Read full article</a></p>
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<link>https://arstechnica.com/cars/2025/12/f1s-new-engines-are-causing-consternation-over-compression-ratios/</link>
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<![CDATA[Jonathan M. Gitlin]]>
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<pubDate>Tue, 23 Dec 2025 15:25:38 +0000</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[A loophole in the rules might have given Mercedes and Red Bull a big advantage.]]>
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<![CDATA[<p>There's still another couple of months before the 2026 crop of F1 cars takes to the track for the first preseason test. It's a year of big change for the sport, which is adopting new power unit rules that place much more emphasis on the electric motor's contribution. The switch to the new power units was meant to attract new manufacturers to the sport, and in that regard, it has succeeded. But controversy has erupted already as loopholes appear and teams exploit them.</p>
<p>Since 2014, F1 cars have used 1,000 hp (745 kW) power units that combine a turbocharged 1.6 L V6 gasoline engine with a pair of hybrid systems. One is the MGU-H, which recovers energy from (or deploys it to) the turbocharger's turbine; the other is a 160 hp (120 kW) MGU-K that harvests and deploys energy at the rear wheels. Starting next year, the MGU-H is gone, and the less-powerful 1.6 L V6 should generate about 536 hp (400 kW). That will be complemented by a 483 hp (350 kW) MGU-K, plus a much larger battery to supply it.</p>
<p>And the new rules have already attracted new OEMs to the sport. After announcing its departure at the end of 2021—sort of— Honda changed its mind and <a href="https://arstechnica.com/cars/2025/02/perfecting-hondas-2026-f1-powertrain-is-not-so-easy-says-racing-boss/">signed on to the 2026 regs</a>, supplying Aston Martin. <a href="https://arstechnica.com/cars/2025/11/audi-goes-full-minimalism-for-its-first-ever-formula-1-livery/">Audi signed up</a> and bought the Sauber team. Red Bull decided to build its own internal combustion engines, hiring heavily from the Mercedes program, but <a href="https://arstechnica.com/cars/2023/02/ford-will-return-to-f1-in-2026-as-an-engine-builder/">Ford is providing Red Bull</a> with the MGU-K and the rest of the hybrid system. And <a href="https://arstechnica.com/cars/2024/11/cadillac-f1-will-be-able-to-race-from-2026-despite-previous-snub/">Cadillac</a> has started an engine program, albeit one that won't take the grid until 2029.</p><p><a href="https://arstechnica.com/cars/2025/12/f1s-new-engines-are-causing-consternation-over-compression-ratios/">Read full article</a></p>
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<title>The Splay is a subpar monitor but an exciting portable projector </title>
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<![CDATA[Scharon Harding]]>
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<pubDate>Tue, 23 Dec 2025 12:30:06 +0000</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[Splay can be a monitor and takes a lot of the stress out of projectors, too. ]]>
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<![CDATA[<p>Since I’m fascinated by <a href="https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/08/samsungs-micro-rgb-tv-proves-the-value-of-rgb-backlights-for-premium-displays/">new</a> display <a href="https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/11/hdr10-advanced-joins-dolby-vision-2-in-trying-to-make-you-like-motion-smoothing/">technologies</a> and by improving image quality, I’ve never been a fan of home projectors. Projectors lack the image quality compared to good TVs and monitors, and they’re pretty needy. Without getting into the specific requirements of different models, you generally want a darker room with a large, blank wall for a projector to look its best. That can be a lot to ask for, especially in small, densely decorated homes like mine.</p>
<p>That said, a projector can be a space-efficient alternative to a big-screen TV or help you watch TV or movies outside. A projector can be versatile when paired with the right space, especially if that projector makes sure the “right space” is included in the device.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.arovia.com/products/splay-the-ultimate-2-in-1-expandable-display-ultra-short-throw-projector-solution?srsltid=AfmBOorUqjtA0JXHkKaNhYH1bz9oPH3SfFEfMBbSuXndKI3LSj5-JlPR">The Splay </a>was <a href="https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/splaydisplay/splay-display">crowdfunded in 2021</a>, and its maker, Arovia, describes it as the “first fully collapsible monitor and projector.” In short, it’s a portable projector with an integrated fabric shroud that can serve as a big-screen (24.5 or 34.5 inches diagonally, depending on the model) portable monitor. Or, you can take off the fabric shroud and use the Splay as an ultra-short-throw projector and cast a display that measures up to 80 inches diagonally onto a wall.</p><p><a href="https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/12/the-splay-is-a-subpar-monitor-but-an-exciting-portable-projector/">Read full article</a></p>
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<title>In a surprise announcement, Tory Bruno is out as CEO of United Launch Alliance</title>
<link>https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/12/in-a-surprise-announcement-tory-bruno-is-out-as-ceo-of-united-launch-alliance/</link>
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<![CDATA[Stephen Clark]]>
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<pubDate>Mon, 22 Dec 2025 23:51:44 +0000</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[<p>Tory Bruno, a veteran engineer and aerospace industry executive, has resigned from the top job at United Launch Alliance after more than a decade competing against the growing dominance of SpaceX, the company announced Monday.</p>
<p>The news of Bruno's sudden resignation was unexpected. His tenure was marked by a decline in ULA's market share as rival SpaceX competed for and won ever-larger US government launch contracts. More recently, Bruno oversaw the <a href="https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/01/ulas-vulcan-rocket-shot-for-the-moon-on-debut-launch-and-hit-a-bullseye/">successful debut of ULA's Vulcan rocket</a>, followed by <a href="https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/11/ula-aimed-to-launch-up-to-10-vulcan-rockets-this-year-it-will-fly-just-once/">struggles to ramp up</a> the new rocket's launch cadence.</p>
<p>Bruno had a 30-year career as an engineer and general manager for Lockheed Martin's ballistic missile programs before taking over as president and CEO of United Launch Alliance in August 2014. He arrived as SpaceX started making inroads with its partially reusable Falcon 9 rocket, and ULA's leading position in the US launch market looked to be in doubt.</p><p><a href="https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/12/in-a-surprise-announcement-tory-bruno-is-out-as-ceo-of-united-launch-alliance/">Read full article</a></p>
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<title>Call of Duty co-creator and Battlefield lead Vince Zampella dies in car crash</title>
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<![CDATA[Samuel Axon]]>
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<pubDate>Mon, 22 Dec 2025 21:35:51 +0000</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[<p>Vince Zampella, a video game developer who has co-created or helmed some of the most popular franchises in the world, died in a car crash on a Los Angeles highway at 12:45 pm Pacific time on Sunday, December 21. He was 55 years old.</p>
<p>According to the California Highway Patrol, Zampella was in a car on Angeles Crest Highway when the vehicle veered off the road and crashed into a concrete barrier. No other vehicles were reported to be part of the crash.</p>
<p>A passenger was ejected from the vehicle, while the driver was trapped inside after the vehicle caught fire. The driver died at the scene, and the passenger died after being taken to the hospital. The report did not indicate whether Zampella was the passenger or the driver.</p><p><a href="https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2025/12/vince-zampella-developer-of-call-of-duty-and-battlefield-games-dies-at-55/">Read full article</a></p>
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<title>Safety panel says NASA should have taken Starliner incident more seriously</title>
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<![CDATA[Stephen Clark]]>
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<pubDate>Mon, 22 Dec 2025 21:11:11 +0000</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[<p>For the better part of two months last year, most of us had no idea how serious the problems were with Boeing's Starliner spacecraft docked at the International Space Station. A safety advisory panel found this uncertainty also filtered through NASA's workforce.</p>
<p>On its first Crew Test Flight, Boeing's Starliner delivered NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams to the space station in June 2024. They were the first people to fly to space on a Starliner spacecraft after more than a decade of development and setbacks. The astronauts expected to stay at the ISS for one or two weeks, but ended up remaining in orbit for nine months after NASA officials determined it was too risky to return them to Earth in the Boeing-built crew capsule. Wilmore and Williams flew back to Earth last March on a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft.</p>
<p>The Starliner capsule was beset by problems with its maneuvering thrusters and pernicious helium leaks on its 27-hour trip from the launch pad to the ISS. For a short time, Starliner commander Wilmore <a href="http://arstechnica.com/space/2025/04/the-harrowing-story-of-what-flying-starliner-was-like-when-its-thrusters-failed/">lost his ability to control</a> the movements of his spacecraft as it moved in for docking at the station in June 2024. Engineers determined that some of the thrusters were overheating and eventually recovered most of their function, allowing Starliner to dock with the ISS.</p><p><a href="https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/12/safety-panel-says-nasa-should-have-taken-starliner-incident-more-seriously/">Read full article</a></p>
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<title>World’s largest shadow library made a 300TB copy of Spotify’s most streamed songs</title>
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<![CDATA[Ashley Belanger]]>
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<pubDate>Mon, 22 Dec 2025 19:34:22 +0000</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[<p>The world's largest shadow library—which is increasingly funded by AI developers—shocked the Internet this weekend by <a href="https://annas-archive.li/blog/backing-up-spotify.html">announcing</a> it had "backed up Spotify" and started distributing 300 terabytes of metadata and music files in bulk torrents.</p>
<p>According to Anna's Archive, the data grab represents more than 99 percent of listens on Spotify, making it "the largest publicly available music metadata database with 256 million tracks." It's also "the world’s first 'preservation archive' for music which is fully open," with 86 million music files, the archive boasted.</p>
<p>The music files supposedly represent about 37 percent of songs available on Spotify as of July 2025. The scraped files were prioritized by popularity, with Anna's Archive weeding out many songs that are never streamed or are of poor quality, such as AI-generated songs.</p><p><a href="https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/12/worlds-largest-shadow-library-brags-it-scraped-300tb-of-spotify-music-metadata/">Read full article</a></p>
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<title>US blocks all offshore wind construction, says reason is classified</title>
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<![CDATA[John Timmer]]>
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<pubDate>Mon, 22 Dec 2025 18:29:42 +0000</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[<p>On Monday, the US Department of the Interior <a href="https://www.doi.gov/pressreleases/trump-administration-protects-us-national-security-pausing-offshore-wind-leases">announced</a> that it was pausing the leases on all five offshore wind sites currently under construction in the US. The move comes despite the fact that these projects already have installed significant hardware in the water and on land; one of them is nearly complete. In what appears to be an attempt to avoid legal scrutiny, the Interior is blaming the decisions on a classified report from the Department of Defense.</p>
<p>The second Trump administration announced its animosity toward offshore wind power <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/temporary-withdrawal-of-all-areas-on-the-outer-continental-shelf-from-offshore-wind-leasing-and-review-of-the-federal-governments-leasing-and-permitting-practices-for-wind-projects/">literally on day one</a>, issuing an executive order on inauguration day that called for a temporary halt to issuing permits for new projects pending a re-evaluation. Earlier this month, however, a judge <a href="https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/12/trumps-order-blocking-wind-development-thrown-out-by-court/">vacated that executive order</a>, noting that the government has shown no indication that it was even attempting to start the re-evaluation it said was needed.</p>
<p>But a number of projects have gone through the entire permitting process, and construction has started. Before today, the administration had attempted to stop these in an erratic, halting manner. Empire Wind, an 800 MW farm being built off New York, was <a href="https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/04/us-interior-secretary-orders-offshore-wind-project-shut-down/">stopped by the Department of the Interior</a>, which alleged that it had been rushed through permitting. That <a href="https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/09/judge-lets-construction-on-an-offshore-wind-farm-resume/">hold was lifted</a> following lobbying and negotiations by New York and the project developer Orsted, and the Department of the Interior never revealed why it changed its mind. When the Interior Department blocked a second Orsted project, Revolution Wind offshore of southern New England, the company took the government to court and <a href="https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/09/judge-lets-construction-on-an-offshore-wind-farm-resume/">won a ruling</a> that let it continue construction.</p><p><a href="https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/12/us-government-finds-new-excuse-to-stop-construction-of-offshore-wind/">Read full article</a></p>
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<title>Odyssey trailer brings the myth to vivid life</title>
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<![CDATA[Jennifer Ouellette]]>
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<pubDate>Mon, 22 Dec 2025 17:43:42 +0000</pubDate>
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<p>Director Christopher Nolan won two well-deserved Oscars for 2023's <em>Oppenheimer</em>, and Hollywood was soon buzzing about what his next project might be. A vampire period piece, perhaps? Or maybe a reboot of 1983's <em>Blue Thunder</em> or British 1960s spy series <em>The Prisoner</em>? Instead, Nolan chose to adapt one of the greatest epic sagas in history: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odyssey">Homer's <em>Odyssey</em></a>. At long last, Universal has released the first official trailer for Nolan's <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Odyssey_(2026_film)"><em>The Odyssey</em></a>, starring Matt Damon as the wandering Ithacan king. Frankly, it looks appropriately epic.</p>
<p>Most of us read some version of <em>The Odyssey</em> in high school, so we're familiar with the story: Odysseus, legendary Greek king of Ithaca, begins the long journey home after 10 years of fighting in the Trojan War. (We actually catch a glimpse of the famous Trojan horse in the trailer.) But the journey does not go smoothly, as Odysseus and his men encounter the cyclops Polyphemus, the Sirens, and an enchantress named Circe, among other obstacles. Meanwhile, his long-suffering wife Penelope is warding off hundreds of suitors eager to usurp Odysseus' position.</p>
<p>It's difficult to overestimate the tremendous influence Homer's epic has had on global culture. Nolan himself recalled seeing the <em>Odyssey</em> performed as a school play when he was just 5 or 6 years old. "I remember the Sirens and him being strapped to the mast and things like that," he recently told Empire. "I think it's in all of us, really. And when you start to break down the text and adapt it, you find that all of these other films—and all the films I've worked on—you know, they're all from the <i>Odyssey</i>. It's foundational."</p><p><a href="https://arstechnica.com/culture/2025/12/odyssey-trailer-brings-the-myth-to-vivid-life/">Read full article</a></p>
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<title><![CDATA[UK restricts DR Congo visas over migrant return policy]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The Home Office says Kinshasa has failed to agree to measures allowing the return of illegal immigrants and foreign national offenders. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[UK to offer military 'gap year' to boost recruitment]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The paid 12-month course is aimed at under-25s, with plans for the scheme to grow to 1,000 young people a year.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 27 Dec 2025 07:47:34 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Don't rule out EU customs union, TUC boss tells Starmer]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Trade unionist Paul Nowak says he wants to see the "closest possible" economic relationship with the EU.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 27 Dec 2025 01:44:39 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Starmer backs down in farm tax row - but why now?]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[A U-turn on inheritance tax plans for farmers raises more questions about political judgement in government.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Government waters down inheritance tax plan for farms]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The government has now said it will lift the intended threshold from £1m to £2.5m.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 23 Dec 2025 17:29:09 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Tributes as UK's first female Asian lord mayor dies]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Councillor Manjula Sood, who served Leicester throughout her political career, dies aged 80.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 26 Dec 2025 11:25:54 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Scrap non-crime hate incidents, police leaders to recommend]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[College of Policing chair says a "sensible" new approach is needed, focused on the most serious incidents.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[English councils warned against adopting four-day week]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Local Government Secretary Steve Reed has told council leaders to not introduce four-day working weeks.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Justice secretary's grooming gang comments probed for code breach]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Angela Constance has been accused of misrepresenting Prof Alexis Jay's position on public inquiries into child sexual abuse and exploitation.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Lib Dems write to human rights watchdog over election delays ]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The government has indicated it would postpone elections if requested by local authorities.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Hen cages and pig farrowing crates face ban]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The government says its animal welfare strategy will bring "the biggest reforms in a generation".]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[UK lacks 'coherent' social mobility plan, top government adviser says]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The chair of the Social Mobility Commission has called on the prime minister to set out a clearer strategy.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Call for time limits on public inquiries as costs soar]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[MSPs have recommended changes as they revealed almost £260m has been spent on Scotland's public inquiries since 2007.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[King's Foundation chair and nominee peer admits 'misleading' doctorate claim]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Dame Ann Limb tells the Sunday Times she did not complete a doctorate previously listed on her CV.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Labour MSP to quit Holyrood over links to sex offender]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Pam Duncan-Glancy stood down as the party's education spokeswoman earlier this month after admitting a "serious error of judgement".]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Plymouth elections go ahead but Exeter undecided]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Elections due to be held in Exeter in May could still be cancelled.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 22 Dec 2025 16:30:29 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[No evidence Reform broke electoral law, watchdog says]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The Electoral Commission says it had not identified evidence of rule-breaking in Nigel Farage's campaign in Clacton.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 21 Dec 2025 13:12:58 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Foreign prison officers exempted from stricter visa rules]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[It follows warnings some jails were facing a staffing crisis after salary requirements were raised.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 19 Dec 2025 18:22:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[UK to ban deepfake AI 'nudification' apps]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[A new offence looks to build on existing rules outlawing sexually explicit deepfakes and intimate image abuse.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 18 Dec 2025 17:43:14 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Ex-BNP leader Nick Griffin accused of stirring up racial hatred with cartoon]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Nick Griffin appeared in court via video link in a private prosecution by the Campaign Against Antisemitism.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Michelle Mone-linked PPE firm liquidated and unlikely to repay £148m]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The firm led by Baroness Mone's husband Douglas Barrowman breached a contract to supply surgical gowns during the Covid pandemic.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 19 Dec 2025 10:50:37 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Inquiry ongoing after UK government hacked, says minister]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Trade minister Sir Chris Bryant says information was accessed and an investigation has been launched.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 19 Dec 2025 17:32:17 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Farmers 'bewildered and frightened' over inheritance tax, report finds ]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[A government-commissioned report into farm profitability says farmers fear what the future might hold.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Farage will not face police inquiry into spending]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[It comes despite a former aide claiming Reform UK overspent on Farage's election campaign.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA['Secret bugging' of SNP MSP unacceptable - Swinney]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The first minister has responded to reports of a staff member recording an SNP member they worked for.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Track UK's latest migration numbers - including asylum, visas and small boats]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Use our interactive tracker to explore the latest migration statistics for the UK]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[How is Keir Starmer getting on with his pledges to deliver change?]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[At the end of 2024, Keir Starmer announced key government targets including on NHS waiting lists and building new homes, how is he getting on?]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[The 'fed up' Scottish town that voted for Reform UK]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Why did the people of Whitburn - and nearby Blackburn - choose Nigel Farage's party over others?]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[How did the courts backlog get so bad?]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[There are now 79,600 outsanding criminal cases in England and Wales - a record high. BBC Verify looks at how we got here. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[What's happening with the assisted dying bill?]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[It's more than a year since MPs first backed the proposed legislation but it still needs to be approved by peers.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Charities welcome new law banning puppy smuggling]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[But some are worried that the ban will have consequences for rare dog breeders and those who rescue dogs from overseas.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Henry Zeffman: Less than meets the eye to Starmer's words on Brexit]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[This week, the PM was trying to set the scene for what is to come on the UK-EU relationship, sources say.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Is Scottish Labour on the brink of Westminster revolt?]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The prime minister is set to visit Scotland later, but there are murmurings of discontent among his MPs.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Feuds, boycotts and the birth of Your Party]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The path to this weekend's founding conference has been overshadowed by splits in the party.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Budget 2025: Key points at a glance]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Changes to tax, pensions and welfare - here’s what you need to know from Rachel Reevesher second Budget.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Who is Rachel Reeves?]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[It has been a turbulent year for Rachel Reeves, who before winning power had promised to be an "iron" chancellor.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Lockdown could have been avoided - key findings from Covid inquiry]]></title>
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<title><![CDATA[Could the Budget help turn Generation Z into generation debt?]]></title>
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<title><![CDATA[Who is Starmer's chief of staff Morgan McSweeney?]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Morgan McSweeney is credited with masterminding Labour's landslide election victory.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Who is new deputy Labour leader Lucy Powell?]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[A Labour activist since the age of nine, the Manchester MP has promised to be a voice for party members.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Chris Mason: Why, in my judgement, Reeves was misleading on one specific point]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The Chancellor chose not to share some information on tax receipts in an unusual press conference, given before the Budget.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Rachel Reeves will be hoping this Budget buys her some time]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Deep unpopularity in the country and jittery Labour MPs is the prism through which both the countdown to this Budget and its aftermath should be seen.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[MP's aide reported suspected China LinkedIn approach]]></title>
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<title><![CDATA[Where does mudslinging over leadership leave Starmer's government?]]></title>
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<title><![CDATA[The justice system is failing - the buck stops with Lammy]]></title>
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<title><![CDATA[2025 was a crazy year in politics. But 2026 could be wild]]></title>
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<title><![CDATA[Young people are getting a 'raw deal', and that's good news for the Greens and Reform]]></title>
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<title><![CDATA[Budget 2025: What's the best and worst that could happen for Labour?]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Three days in, after a tax U-turn and partial climbdown on workers' rights, Laura Kuenssberg looks at what impact Budget week might have.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Has Britain's budget watchdog become too all-powerful?]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 25 Nov 2025 00:00:03 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Fear and scepticism as Reeves prepares for her big Budget moment]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The chancellor faces her toughest challenge yet in a Budget that will define the government's future, writes Laura Kuenssberg.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[Dame Jacinda Ardern talks about empathetic leadership in the time of populism]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Acting Reform UK council leader says it is time to 'move on']]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Former leader Ian Cooper had his membership of Reform UK revoked after being accused of making racist comments on social media.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[PMQs: Starmer dismisses 'caretaker PM' label as Badenoch attacks government's record]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Starmer dismisses 'caretaker PM' label from Badenoch at PMQs]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 26 Dec 2025 22:30:58 +0000</pubDate>
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<pubDate>Fri, 26 Dec 2025 22:30:21 +0000</pubDate>
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<pubDate>Fri, 26 Dec 2025 22:00:17 +0000</pubDate>
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<pubDate>Fri, 26 Dec 2025 21:30:15 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Deepfakes Leveled up in 2025—Here’s What’s Coming Next</title>
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<dc:creator><![CDATA[Siwei Lyu, University at Buffalo, The Conversation]]></dc:creator>
<pubDate>Fri, 26 Dec 2025 21:10:56 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Fake images, videos, and audio files crossed the “indistinguishable threshold" this year. Where do we go from here?]]></description>
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<title>‘Stranger Things’ Star Jamie Campbell Bower on Playing Vecna’s Variations</title>
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<dc:creator><![CDATA[Cheryl Eddy]]></dc:creator>
<pubDate>Fri, 26 Dec 2025 20:30:06 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[The actor behind Vecna, Henry, and Mr. Whatsit breaks down his complex role in season five.]]></description>
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<title>Oracle’s AI Push Is Leading to Its Worst Quarter Since 2001</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 26 Dec 2025 20:20:26 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Delayed AI infrastructure projects, rising debt, and weaker-than-expected earnings are reviving dot-com-era fears on Wall Street.]]></description>
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<title>LG’s Monstrous 52-Inch 5K Gaming Monitor Will Swallow Up Your Desk</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 26 Dec 2025 20:20:19 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Bigger is better, right?]]></description>
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<title>Starlink Rival Launches Its Largest Satellite Yet for Space-Based Cellular Network</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 26 Dec 2025 20:00:34 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[AST SpaceMobile wants to launch up to 60 of its satellites in 2026.]]></description>
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<title>How the ‘Demon Slayer’ Studio Broke Laws of Anime Physics to Bring ‘Infinity Castle’ Fights to Life</title>
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<dc:creator><![CDATA[Isaiah Colbert]]></dc:creator>
<pubDate>Fri, 26 Dec 2025 19:30:51 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Ufotable digs into the technical and artistic magic that propelled the film's generational battle between Tanjiro and Akaza.]]></description>
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<title>Elon Musk Says He’s Removing ‘Sustainable’ From Tesla’s Mission</title>
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<dc:creator><![CDATA[AJ Dellinger]]></dc:creator>
<pubDate>Fri, 26 Dec 2025 19:10:50 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>‘Zombie Stars’ Might Be a Beacon in Our Search for Dark Matter</title>
<link>https://gizmodo.com/zombie-stars-might-be-a-beacon-in-our-search-for-dark-matter-2000703512</link>
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<dc:creator><![CDATA[Gayoung Lee]]></dc:creator>
<pubDate>Fri, 26 Dec 2025 19:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[To answer odd questions, physicists have odd ideas.]]></description>
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<title>South Park Writer Snagged ‘Trump-Kennedy Center’ Web Domains Months Ago</title>
<link>https://gizmodo.com/south-park-writer-snagged-trump-kennedy-center-web-domains-months-ago-2000703562</link>
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<dc:creator><![CDATA[Tom Hawking]]></dc:creator>
<pubDate>Fri, 26 Dec 2025 18:30:48 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>The Truth About the ‘Stranger Things’ Upside Down Was in Place Back in Season 1</title>
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<dc:creator><![CDATA[Germain Lussier]]></dc:creator>
<pubDate>Fri, 26 Dec 2025 18:30:07 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>How does Santa do it all? Quantum physics, that's how, says scientist</title>
<description>Every year, Santa Claus races around the globe in a matter of hours to bring presents to children all over the world.</description>
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<title>Anything-goes 'anyons' may be at the root of surprising quantum experiments</title>
<description>In the past year, two separate experiments in two different materials captured the same confounding scenario: the coexistence of superconductivity and magnetism. Scientists had assumed that these two quantum states are mutually exclusive; the presence of one should inherently destroy the other.</description>
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<category>Condensed Matter Quantum Physics </category>
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<title>Kolmogorov-Arnold networks bridge AI and scientific discovery by increasing interpretability</title>
<description>AI has successfully been applied in many areas of science, advancing technologies like weather prediction and protein folding. However, there have been limitations for the world of scientific discovery involving more curiosity-driven research. But that may soon change, thanks to Kolmogorov-Arnold networks (KANs).</description>
<link>https://phys.org/news/2025-12-kolmogorov-arnold-networks-bridge-ai.html</link>
<category>General Physics </category>
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<title>Who was Amelia Frank? The life of a forgotten physicist</title>
<description>In 1977, an American physicist named John H. Van Vleck won the Nobel Prize for his work on magnetism. In his Nobel lecture, amid a discussion of rare earth elements, one sentence leaps out:</description>
<link>https://phys.org/news/2025-12-amelia-frank-life-forgotten-physicist.html</link>
<category>Quantum Physics </category>
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<title>AI uncovers double-strangeness: A new double-Lambda hypernucleus</title>
<description>Researchers from the High Energy Nuclear Physics Laboratory at the RIKEN Pioneering Research Institute (PRI) in Japan and their international collaborators have made a discovery that bridges artificial intelligence and nuclear physics. By applying deep learning techniques to a vast amount of unexamined nuclear emulsion data from the J-PARC E07 experiment, the team identified, for the first time in 25 years, a new double-Lambda hypernucleus.</description>
<link>https://phys.org/news/2025-12-ai-uncovers-strangeness-lambda-hypernucleus.html</link>
<category>General Physics </category>
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<title>Controlling exciton flow in moiré superlattices: New method leverages correlated electrons</title>
<description>Excitons are pairs of bound negatively charged electrons and positively charged holes that form in semiconductors, enabling the transport of energy in electronic devices. These pairs of charge carriers also emerge in transition metal dichalcogenides, thin semiconducting materials comprised of a transition metal and two chalcogen atoms.</description>
<link>https://phys.org/news/2025-12-exciton-moir-superlattices-method-leverages.html</link>
<category>Condensed Matter Optics & Photonics </category>
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<title>Quantum entanglement could connect drones for disaster relief, bypassing traditional networks</title>
<description>Any time you use a device to communicate information—an email, a text message, any data transfer—the information in that transmission crosses the open internet, where it could be intercepted. Such communications are also reliant on internet connectivity, often including wireless signal on either or both ends of a transmission.</description>
<link>https://phys.org/news/2025-12-quantum-entanglement-drones-disaster-relief.html</link>
<category>Quantum Physics </category>
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<title>First beta-delayed neutron emission observed in rare fluorine-25 isotope</title>
<description>A research team at the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB) is the first ever to observe a beta-delayed neutron emission from fluorine-25, a rare, unstable nuclide. Using the FRIB Decay Station Initiator (FDSi), the team found contradictions in prior experimental findings. The results led to a new line of inquiry into how particles in exotic, unstable isotopes remain bound under extreme conditions. Led by Robert Grzywacz, professor of physics at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville (UTK), the team included Jack Peltier, undergraduate student at UTK, Zhengyu Xu, postdoctoral researcher at UTK, Sean Liddick, professor of chemistry at FRIB and interim chairperson of MSU's Department of Chemistry, and Rebeka Lubna, scientist at FRIB.</description>
<link>https://phys.org/news/2025-12-beta-delayed-neutron-emission-rare.html</link>
<category>General Physics </category>
<pubDate>Sat, 20 Dec 2025 08:14:08 EST</pubDate>
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<title>New 'cloaking device' concept shields electronics from disruptive magnetic fields</title>
<description>University of Leicester engineers have unveiled a concept for a device designed to magnetically "cloak" sensitive components, making them invisible to detection.</description>
<link>https://phys.org/news/2025-12-cloaking-device-concept-shields-electronics.html</link>
<category>Condensed Matter Superconductivity </category>
<pubDate>Fri, 19 Dec 2025 14:00:11 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Measuring how materials hotter than the sun's surface conduct electricity</title>
<description>Warm dense matter is a state of matter that forms at extreme temperatures and pressures, like those found at the center of most stars and many planets, including Earth. It also plays a role in the generation of Earth's magnetic field and in the process of nuclear fusion.</description>
<link>https://phys.org/news/2025-12-materials-hotter-sun-surface-electricity.html</link>
<category>Plasma Physics </category>
<pubDate>Fri, 19 Dec 2025 10:32:24 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Machine learning and microscopy solve 170-year-old mystery of premelting ice</title>
<description>Through a novel combination of machine learning and atomic force microscopy, researchers in China have unveiled the molecular surface structure of "premelted" ice, resolving a long-standing mystery surrounding the liquid-like layer which forms on icy surfaces.</description>
<link>https://phys.org/news/2025-12-machine-microscopy-year-mystery-premelting.html</link>
<category>Condensed Matter Soft Matter </category>
<pubDate>Fri, 19 Dec 2025 09:33:54 EST</pubDate>
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<title>A cryogenic winter for tomorrow's accelerator</title>
<description>Behind every particle collision generated at the Large Hadron Collider is a multitude of technical feats. One of these is refrigeration on an industrial scale. To guide the particles, the thousands of superconducting magnets in the accelerator must be cooled to a temperature of close to absolute zero. This makes the LHC the largest cryogenic installation in the world: 23 of its 27 kilometers are maintained at 1.9 Kelvin (-271°C) using refrigerators in which superfluid helium circulates.</description>
<link>https://phys.org/news/2025-12-cryogenic-winter-tomorrow.html</link>
<category>General Physics </category>
<pubDate>Fri, 19 Dec 2025 09:17:20 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Why quantum computers have memory problems over time</title>
<description>A team of Australian and international scientists has, for the first time, created a full picture of how errors unfold over time inside a quantum computer—a breakthrough that could help make future quantum machines far more reliable.</description>
<link>https://phys.org/news/2025-12-quantum-memory-problems.html</link>
<category>Superconductivity Quantum Physics </category>
<pubDate>Fri, 19 Dec 2025 07:00:02 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Private donors pledge $1 billion for world's largest particle accelerator</title>
<description>Europe's physics lab CERN on Thursday said private donors had pledged $1 billion toward the construction of a new particle accelerator that would be by far the world's biggest.</description>
<link>https://phys.org/news/2025-12-private-donors-pledge-bn-cern.html</link>
<category>General Physics </category>
<pubDate>Thu, 18 Dec 2025 16:18:48 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Hybrid excitons: Combining the best of both worlds</title>
<description>Faster, more efficient, and more versatile—these are the expectations for the technology that will produce our energy and handle information in the future. But how can these expectations be met? A major breakthrough in physics has now been made by an international team of researchers from the Universities of Göttingen, Marburg, the Berlin Humboldt in Germany, and Graz in Austria.</description>
<link>https://phys.org/news/2025-12-hybrid-excitons-combining-worlds.html</link>
<category>Condensed Matter Quantum Physics </category>
<pubDate>Thu, 18 Dec 2025 16:06:36 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Bazinga! Physicists crack a 'Big Bang Theory' problem that could help explain dark matter</title>
<description>A professor at the University of Cincinnati and his colleagues have figured out something two of America's most famous fictional physicists couldn't: how to theoretically produce subatomic particles called axions in fusion reactors.</description>
<link>https://phys.org/news/2025-12-bazinga-physicists-big-theory-problem.html</link>
<category>General Physics Plasma Physics </category>
<pubDate>Thu, 18 Dec 2025 15:50:32 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Physicists bring unruly molecules to the quantum party</title>
<description>Scientists have made leaps and bounds in bending atoms to their will, making them into everything from ultraprecise clocks to bits of quantum data. Translating these quantum technologies from obedient atoms to unruly molecules could offer greater possibilities. Molecules can rotate and vibrate. That makes molecules more sensitive to certain changes in the environment, like temperature.</description>
<link>https://phys.org/news/2025-12-physicists-unruly-molecules-quantum-party.html</link>
<category>General Physics Quantum Physics </category>
<pubDate>Thu, 18 Dec 2025 14:10:03 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Flat Fermi surface in altermagnets enables quantum limit spin currents</title>
<description>The key feature of spintronic devices is their ability to use spin currents to transfer momentum, enabling low-energy, high-speed storage and logical signal control. These devices are usually manipulated by electric currents and fields. The charge-to-spin conversion efficiency (CSE) is a key metric for evaluating their performance.</description>
<link>https://phys.org/news/2025-12-flat-fermi-surface-altermagnets-enables.html</link>
<category>Condensed Matter Quantum Physics </category>
<pubDate>Thu, 18 Dec 2025 12:26:21 EST</pubDate>
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