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Large iron gyroid (1.3 x 1.0 cm). Credit: ALCHEMY EPFL CC BY SA EPFL scientists have created a breakthrough 3D printing method that uses hydrogels as templates to produce ultra-dense, durable metals and ceramics. The process builds a gel scaffold that is later infused with metal salts and converted into nanoparticles, then heated to reveal the final solid form. The resulting materials are stronger and less prone to warping than those made with traditional methods. Unlocking the Potential of Vat Photopolymerization Vat photopolymerization is a 3D printing process where a liquid resin that reacts to light is poured into a...

LONDON, Oct 8 (Reuters) - How all non-European Union citizens, including British visitors, travel to and from the bloc will start to change from Sunday when its long-delayed new biometric entry-check system starts operations. The Entry/Exit System (EES) will require all non-EU citizens to register their personal details, including fingerprints and facial images, when they first enter the Schengen area - all EU nations apart from Ireland and Cyprus, plus Iceland, Norway, Switzerland and Liechtenstein. The new electronic system will remove the requirement to manually stamp passports at the EU’s external border and instead create digital records that link a...

A state appeals court has blocked Nassau County’s ban prohibiting transgender athletes from competing in women’s sports at county-owned facilities — just days after a previous ruling upheld the controversial law. The preliminary injunction bars Nassau from enforcing the ban while the appeal process plays out — but that doesn’t appear to be stopping county officials, who said they plan on ignoring the Wednesday ruling. “Nassau County will continue to protect the integrity and safety of women’s sports,” Republican County Executive Bruce Blakeman told The Post.

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The Pentagon is telling beat reporters to sign restrictive new rules by Tuesday or surrender their press passes by Wednesday. Many news organizations are rejecting the ultimatum and saying they will not sign. The Pentagon Press Association, a body that represents the beat reporters, says the new policy championed by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth “gags Pentagon employees and threatens retaliation against reporters who seek out information that has not been pre-approved for release.” In a statement on Monday, the association said that “potential expulsion from the Pentagon should be a concern to all.” Last month, Hegseth’s press office outlined new...

Ask the average person who controls America’s energy policy, and the answer you’ll likely receive is “the federal government.” Federal bureaucrats would love that to be so because they could then force their green mandates, green energy scams, and one-size-fits-all edicts onto the fifty states. However, that’s not true. Under our federalist system, energy and environmental regulation, like most bureaucracies, are shared responsibilities between federal and state governments. The EPA and Federal Energy Regulatory Commission set national standards and oversee interstate programs. But states retain authority over their own power generation, energy resource planning, and power station permitting decisions. SNIP...

It’s a small, but mighty sign: “Everyone is welcome here, except I.CE.” Katherine Duncan, owner of Katherine Anne Confections, fastened it proudly on her shop’s front door. “It was a no-brainer for me,” Duncan said on a recent Wednesday afternoon, hours after she put the sign up at the storefront on 3653 W. Irving Park Road. “I feel so helpless. With my business and my kids, I can’t escort students to and from school or other things like that. So it was like, well — what can we do?” In recent weeks, Chicago has seen an increase in Immigration and...

Unidentified drones, equipped with lights, were observed over several Danish airports on the night of September 24, 2025. Flights were disrupted at Aalborg, Billund, and Copenhagen airports for various periods of time. From the BBC, 25 September 2025: Denmark says drones flown over its airports appear to be the work of a “professional actor” but there was no evidence of Russian involvement, after such activity disrupted its airspace for the second time in a week.Aalborg airport was forced to shut down for several hours on Wednesday evening after green lights were spotted overhead, while Billund airport also briefly closed. Three...

I graduated high school in 1971, the same year student deferments ended. That summer I enrolled in a Bible college as a ministerial student. But divinity student deferments had also ended by then. My question has to do with my lottery number. IIRC, my number was 88 and my district went to ~125 for the draft. Yet, I was never called up. I wonder why? What condition was there that they would call up all numbers to 125, except mine? My best friend's number was lower than mine and he wasn't called up because he got a hardship deferment. But...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — As Americans across the country continued to carry on their day-to-day lives without any significant changes, Democrats vowed to keep the federal government shut down until someone notices. Sources on Capitol Hill said that, though congressional Democrats had grown frustrated by the fact that the country seemed to keep existing and flourishing despite the lack of involvement from the federal government, they remained committed to keeping the shutdown in effect until someone acknowledged it. "Sooner or later, it's bound to have some type of effect," House Minority Leader and government shutdown architect Hakeem Jeffries said. "I know...

Former lawman Rudy Giuliani was seen dancing at a “Miami Vice”-themed birthday party in a white blazer and black shirt Saturday — the first time he’s been spotted on his own steam since his car crash over the summer. Giuliani, 81, emerged at Newsmax anchor Bianca de la Garza’s 50th birthday bash at Nikki Beach Miami Beach, where the dress code was “Miami Vice South Beach Chic.”

Monday was a festive day, with the whole world seemingly celebrating the dawn of peace in the Middle East and hailing President Trump for bringing it about. The president himself, while speaking about the release of the hostages in his speech to the Knesset, promised a bright new world unencumbered by past hatred and animosities: “After two harrowing years in darkness and captivity, 20 courageous hostages are returning to the glorious embrace of their families. Twenty-eight more precious loved ones are coming home at last to rest in this sacred soil for all of time. And after so many years...

🇺🇸Pray For The Peace of Jerusalem 🇮🇱(10/14/25)[Prayer]Water, Rivers, and Streams in the BibleZechariah 10:10-1110 I will bring them back from Egypt and gather them from Assyria. I will bring them to Gilead and Lebanon, and there will not be room enough for them. 11 They will pass through the sea of trouble; the surging sea will be subdued and all the depths of the Nile will dry up. Assyria’s pride will be brought down and Egypt’s scepter will pass away.Holy Bible, New International Version®, NIV® Copyright ©1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc.® Used by permission. All rights reserved worldwide.________________________

The CEO of a tech company that is one of the biggest H-1B visa sponsors in the U.S. said they would no longer be hiring applicants on the visa amid a Trump administration visa crackdown. Tata Consultancy Services’ CEO K Krithivasan said that the Indian tech company would reduce the number of H-1B visa holders in its U.S. offices. Krithivasan told the Times of India that the company would “continue to hire more locally,” adding that this was part of a “reduction in dependency on visa-based talent.” -snip- Krithivasan told the Times of India that the company had around 11,000...

… But plenty of questions remain about what lies ahead for peace in the region, particularly the future of Gaza. In the agreement, there is no mention of plans towards a Palestinian State that is recognised by the United States, nor clear plans on Gaza’s future governance. This has somewhat been laid out in Trump’s initial 20-point peace plan. During Gaza’s redevelopment “the conditions may finally be in place for a credible pathway to Palestinian self-determination and statehood,” Trump’s plan states. Advertisement But the President made no mention of a Palestinian state during his remarks at the signing ceremony on...

Global warming hysteria has been cooling off. But it’s not cold-on-the-slab dead yet. So it’s important to continue to roll out the reality. If we don’t, the zealots will rearm and flood the zone with their mendacious narrative. From various sources, here is an update on the facts and the fiction: - Summers are still summer in America – hot, but not as hot as the climatistas want us to believe they are. University of Alabama in Huntsville climate researcher Roy Spencer, who keeps up with this sort of thing, tells us summer’s hottest days in the U.S. “Have Barely...

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Media across the ideological spectrum said they will not sign the Defense Department’s restrictive new press policy by Tuesday’s afternoon deadline. The Washington Post, the New York Times, the Associated Press and CNN said they wouldn’t sign, as did Newsmax and the Washington Times. Matt Murray, The Post’s executive editor, said the policy runs counter to the Constitution’s guarantee of freedom of the press. “The proposed restrictions undercut First Amendment protections by placing unnecessary constraints on gathering and publishing information,” he said in a statement Monday. “We will continue to vigorously and fairly report on the policies and positions of...

An elderly New Yorker was tragically killed when Monday’s nor’easter blew a solar panel from a roof and sent it careening into the streets below. A forceful wind gust ripped the massive solar panel – more than 7-by-3 feet across — from an outdoor parking lot structure on Ocean Parkway near Brighton Beach Avenue, according to the NYPD and the city’s Department of Buildings. The panel was swept up by the wind and flew about 20 feet, then struck 76-year-old Lyudmila Braun, cops and buildings officials said.

14 October 2025 Tuesday of week 28 in Ordinary TimeThe Church of Santa Maria in Trastevere, where Callixtus' relics are housedReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: C(I).First readingRomans 1:16-25These people knew God and failed to honour himI am not ashamed of the Good News: it is the power of God saving all who have faith – Jews first, but Greeks as well – since this is what reveals the justice of God to us: it shows how faith leads to faith, or as scripture says: The upright man finds life through faith. The anger of God is being revealed...