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Organic geochemical evidence for life in Archean rocks identified by pyrolysis–GC–MS and supervised machine learning: #life in ancient rocks: https://gizmodo.com/ai-uncovers-evidence-of-life-in-3-3-billion-year-old-rocks-2000687539 / https://www.reuters.com/science/new-method-spots-signs-earths-primordial-life-ancient-rocks-2025-11-18/ - a machine-learning-enhanced approach to chemical analysis is drastically expanding the chemical record of life on Earth, and it could help us find evidence of life on other planets too.

LIVE: Israel opens Rafah crossing in Gaza as dozens killed in attacks
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2026/2/1/live-israel-to-partially-open-rafah-in-gaza-as-dozens-killed-in-attacks

LIVE: Thousands wait for evacuation from Gaza as Rafah crossing reopens
Gaza’s Health Ministry says 20,000 desperately need medical treatment abroad as details from Israel remain slim.

CBS faced a technical snafu that knocked the live broadcast of "New Year's Eve Live: Nashville's Big Bash" off the air for about 12 minutes on December 31 (Cynthia Littleton/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/cbs-na…

'Nashville's Big Bash' Live Telecast Interrupted by Technical Problems
CBS' 'Nashville's Big Bash' live New Year's Eve special faced a lengthy interruption Wednesday night due to technical problems.

I wrote a blog post about how easy it was to clean up a blob on the Bambu Lab A1 mini 3D printer...
https://rasterweb.net/raster/2026/01/31/bambu-lab-a1-mini-gets-messy/

Bambu Lab A1 mini Gets Messy
We've come a long way, Mr. Blob...

🫧 Ancient seafloor lava rubble stores vast amounts of carbon dioxide, researchers discover
#geology

Ancient seafloor lava rubble stores vast amounts of carbon dioxide, researchers discover
Sixty-million-year-old rock samples from deep under the ocean have revealed how huge amounts of carbon dioxide are stored for millennia in piles of lava rubble that accumulate on the seafloor.