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Scientists at the University of Rochester Medicine have found that strengthening the body’s natural daily rhythms to improve sleep may help the brain recover after a stroke. The work points to a possible new way to support brain waste clearance and improve recovery well after the initial injury. Published in the Journal of Clinical Investigation, the study showed that interventions designed to reinforce circadian rhythms improved recovery in mouse models of stroke. These improvements were accompanied by stronger activity in the glymphatic system, the brain’s waste-clearing network, along with lower levels of inflammatory molecules that can persist after a stroke.…

In the foothills of southern Arizona’s Patagonia Mountains, atop so-called critical minerals such as zinc, is South32’s Hermosa project. The first mine added to a federal program designed to speed up permitting, it “set the standard for what the modern federal permitting process should look like” with “clear timelines, real transparency, and comprehensive interagency coordination,” federal officials said after approving it this summer.  Environmental groups called it an illegal rush job that will harm vulnerable species. Now, two are suing the U.S. Forest Service and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service over the approval.  The federal government’s haste to finish environmental…

Welcome to Foreign Policy’s Southeast Asia Brief. The highlights this week: Wildfires are burning vast swaths of rainforest and peatland in Indonesia, Southeast Asian leaders address the U.N. General Assembly, and Bangkok floods displace thousands of people. Indonesia’s Worst-Ever Fires? Indonesia may be on track for its worst-ever year of fires. Wildfires have burned vast swaths of rainforest and peatland in Indonesia in September. The smoke has grown so thick as to drift across borders and oceans to Singapore; Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; and even Manila, Philippines. The fire season will likely continue until November, according to Suharyanto, the head of…

Home Europe Live Issued on: 30/09/2026 – 07:35Modified: 30/09/2026 – 07:51 Ukraine’s air defences are seen in action during a missile and drone strike on Kyiv amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine early on September 30, 2026. © Sergei Supinsky, AFP At least three people, including a child, have died after Russia launched another round of strikes on Kyiv and its surrounding regions overnight to Wednesday, officials said. Several people were also wounded in the attacks. In Poland, two airports, in Lublin and Rzeszow, were briefly shut over “military aviation activity” during Russian attacks on Ukraine. Follow our liveblog for…

“If we do not make sure that these big power consumers are indeed in line with our overall objectives… then they will risk undermining our ability to live up to our own targets,” the EU’s energy chief, Dan Jørgensen, said in an interview with POLITICO. According to the Commission’s figures, Europe’s data centers used 20.7 terawatt-hours of electricity — about as much electricity as the entire nation of Croatia consumes — and more than 8 million cubic meters of water in 2025. That’s a 26% increase in electricity use and 52% in water use from 2024. But those numbers do…

Andy Burnham has said Brexit has “done more harm than good” and pledged to launch a major review of the UK’s relationship with the EU, opening the door to a potential referendum over rejoining the union.He said he would “lay out options” around the time of the next EU-UK summit, due to be held at the end of November or soon after.While he didn’t specify options, he did not explicitly rule out rejoining. Keir Starmer’s red lines of not rejoining the single market or customs union could now also be up for discussion within Labour’s ranks in the coming weeks.“I…

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RemoteThreat emerged from stealth mode on Tuesday with $7 million in pre-seed funding from Osage University Partners and DataTribe for its offensive operations platform. The company was founded by Chris Thompson (CEO) and Shawn Jones (CTO), both IBM X-Force red team leaders. The Nakasone Group, the company launched recently by retired US Army General Paul M. Nakasone, will serve as a strategic advisor to RemoteThreat.  SecurityWeek interviewed Thompson earlier this year for our Hacker Conversations series. RemoteThreat’s O/C/O Platform is built for offensive cyber operations, serving enterprise and critical infrastructure red teams, US government mission teams, and vetted defense partners. …

In brief Cboe Global Markets and S&P Dow Jones Indices extended their exclusive licensing agreement through 2051, and said they may collaborate on new products “beyond traditional index derivatives,” including tokenized options contracts. The tokenization plan is exploratory, not a launch—any tokenized contract would be separate from the SPX options trading today, a market that hit a record 970.6 million contracts in 2025; Cboe shares rose more than 6%. The move follows a wave of institutional tokenization, from NYSE and BlackRock to a new SEC “innovation exemption” for tokenized stocks. Cboe Global Markets and S&P Dow Jones Indices are exploring…

University of Oregon biologists have brought prehistoric proteins back to life, reconstructing molecules that date back as far as 160 million years and naturally attack microbes. The revived proteins could provide scientists with new ideas for treating antibiotic resistant infections, which have become a major global health challenge. The work, described in a paper published in PLOS Biology on Aug. 25, traced the evolutionary history of peptides, short fragments of proteins, back to the earliest placental mammals. This broad group includes humans and nearly all mammals living today. Laboratory experiments showed that some reconstructed peptides from extinct ancestors were more…