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Rigaku Launches ONYX 3200, a Metrology Instrument for Semiconductor Manufacturing

17 December 2025 at 17:00 PM, via ITWeb

Rigaku Corporation, a global solution partner in X-ray analytical systems and a group company of Rigaku Holdings Corporation (headquarters: Akishima, Tokyo; CEO: Jun Kawakami; hereinafter “Rigaku”) announced the launch of the ONYX 3200, a new semiconductor metrology system to measure film thickness, composition and bump* structures for wafer-level processes.

Warner Bros slams the door on Paramount

17 December 2025 at 14:46 PM, via TechCentral

Warner Bros Discovery has rejected Paramount’s $108-billion bid, citing weak financing assurances and shareholder risk.

New flu strain sweeping across Europe is putting pressure on healthcare, says WHO

17 December 2025 at 14:38 PM, via The Guardian

At least 27 of 38 countries in WHO’s European region are reporting high or very high influenza activity, body says

Europe live – latest updates

An intense surge in flu cases driven by a newly dominant virus strain is sweeping across Europe, placing healthcare systems in several countries under severe pressure, the World Health Organization has said.

The WHO said on Wednesday that at least 27 of...

Beachy Head Woman may be ‘local girl from Eastbourne’, say scientists

17 December 2025 at 12:14 PM, via The Guardian

Exclusive: DNA advances show Roman-era skeleton, once hailed as first black Briton, came from southern England

Beachy Head Woman, a Roman-era skeleton once hailed as the earliest known black Briton and who scientists later speculated could be of Cypriot descent, has now been shown to have originated from southern England.

The mystery of the skeleton’s shifting identity was finally resolved...

Biggest outages of 2025

17 December 2025 at 12:01 PM, via ITWeb

2025 saw major outages across gaming, streaming, and social media services, but none were as impactful as the cloud outages from the likes of AWS, Cloudflare and Du.

Business trends to watch in 2026

17 December 2025 at 11:09 AM, via TechCentral

As 2026 uncertainty grows, Domains insights help SMEs spot the trends that protect growth and competitiveness.

The Divided Mind by Edward Bullmore review – do we now know what causes schizophrenia?

17 December 2025 at 09:00 AM, via The Guardian

A brilliant history of psychiatric ideas suggests we are on the cusp of a transformation in our understanding of severe mental illness

In 1973, an American psychologist called David Rosenhan published the results of a bold experiment. He’d arranged for eight “pseudo-patients” to attend appointments at psychiatric institutions, where they complained to doctors about hearing voices that...

Plantwatch: Pitcher plant’s sweet nectar is laced with toxic nerve agent

17 December 2025 at 08:00 AM, via The Guardian

Nepenthes khasiana oozes an enticing liquid on the rim of its pitchers that tempts its prey into a deadly trap

A carnivorous pitcher plant has recently been found to use a chemical nerve agent to drug its prey and lead them to a deadly end, being consumed in digestive juices at the bottom of the pitcher traps.

The pitcher plant Nepenthes khasiana oozes an enticing sweet nectar on the rim of its...

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