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Armed police have begun patrolling Sydney in a heightened security response to last year’s deadly shooting at a Hanukkah festival near Bondi Beach. The new unit is intended to reassure the public while signalling that authorities are treating the threat to major communal gatherings as a long-term security concern.
Warhound, a stealthy new venture backed by Ben Lamm and Palmer Luckey, has raised $200 million to genetically engineer dogs for military and law enforcement use. The company is positioning itself at the intersection of frontier biotechnology, defense procurement, and autonomous systems, with Anduril technology expected to play a central role in the platform.
Scientists have probed a carbonyl compound of seaborgium, one of the heaviest known elements, and found that its chemical bond is weaker than conventional theory would predict. The result strengthens the case that relativistic effects materially reshape chemistry at the far edge of the periodic table, with implications for how researchers model exotic materials and nuclear-scale elements.
A new photo-illustrated essay book, Reel Duniya, Real Duniya: Cinema, Memory, and Leisure in Laggere, examines how film culture is lived in a working-class neighbourhood of Bengaluru rather than merely consumed on screen. Created by Eshwari and Mahima under the India Foundation for the Arts’ Project 560 programme, the book blends visual storytelling and local memory to document cinema as a social practice shaped by class, access and everyday leisure.
New research highlighted by Phys.org suggests scandium’s unusual electron behavior could help explain why some materials are predicted to superconduct at room temperature. If confirmed, the finding would sharpen the search for practical superconductors that could transform power grids, transport, and industrial energy use.
At Art Basel Miami Beach 2025, three of fashion's most influential houses used the fair's global spotlight to present collaborations that read less like seasonal launches than permanent cultural statements. Louis Vuitton, Balenciaga and Fendi each unveiled artist-led projects that fused collectible design, technical craft and gallery-calibre presentation, underscoring luxury's deepening alliance with the contemporary art market.
Costa Rican authorities are searching for a woman of interest after a 74-year-old American man was found dead in Playas del Coco, a popular beach destination on the country’s Pacific coast. The case has drawn attention because of the victim’s age, the tourist setting, and the limited public details released so far, leaving investigators to piece together the final hours before his death.
Hurricane Simon is crawling along Mexico’s Pacific coast, bringing heavy rain, dangerous surf and the risk of flooding to beach resorts and low-lying communities. Authorities have moved to evacuations and emergency preparations as the storm’s slow pace raises the threat of prolonged impacts across a broad stretch of shoreline.
A developing El Niño pattern could bring a costly mix of higher tides, stronger coastal impacts and ecological strain to Washington’s shoreline communities, according to regional reporting and climate experts. The risk extends beyond beach erosion to salmon, steelhead and the broader marine economy that depends on stable ocean conditions.
A Mexican judge has sentenced three men to 159 years in prison each for the killings of an Australian and an American surfer, a case that drew international attention and underscored the risks faced by foreign visitors in parts of Mexico. The ruling closes a high-profile trial involving the dumping of the victims’ bodies in a well, but it also highlights persistent concerns over violent crime, impunity, and the strain such cases place on Mexico’s tourism image.
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