US President Donald Trump demanded immediate talks on acquiring Greenland in a hardline speech at Davos, but said that while the United States possessed "unstoppable force" it would not use it to take...

Meanwhile, back in the world of research, I see that Maynooth University has issued a news item about a new paper by colleagues in the Department of Physics, Daxal H. Mehta, John A. Regan and Lewis Prole. The story has also been picked up by the Irish media, e.g. here. You may find the paper behind a paywall, as it is published in Nature Astronomy, so here is the abstract: And here's a pretty picture from one of the simulations used in the paper:

Another judge corrected a Tusla solicitor who used a child’s preferred pronouns, telling them that the child in “biological reality” was a girl.

By Thomas Montandon, Enea Di Dio & 2 more. The first full-sky computation of the angular bispectrum in second-order perturbation theory, offering insights into the Universe's initial conditions, gravi...

By Anna J. G. O'Grady. The study uses updated data to confirm that HV 11417, a potential Thorne-Żytkow Object, is probably part of the Small Magellanic Cloud and qualifies as a runaway star.

Big tech boss tells delegates at Davos that broader global use is essential if technology is to deliver lasting growth

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ALT: three women are playing xylophones in a black and white photo

Country’s largest local authority undertakes review of social media platform use as others sign out for good

Beim dänischen Digitalministerium sollen alle Angestellten ohne Microsoft auskommen. Stattdessen werde man Linux und LibreOffice nutzen, sagt die Ministerin.

One reason this track caught my eye is probably obvious given current events, but another is that the tune was written by another superb yet largely forgotten pianist from the 1950s, Dick Twardzik. Sadly Twardzik died of a drug overdose just a few days after this was recorded, in October 1955 at the age of just 24. Chet Baker…

Greenland’s prime minister said the Arctic island’s population and its authorities need to start preparing for a possible military invasion, even as it remains an unlikely scenario, as President Donal...

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Donohoe’s warning has been criticised by Friends of the Earth, who said he should have shown this ‘level of clarity’ on the issue when he sat at Cabinet.