"Additional details regarding Sunday’s incident remain under investigation, but the drone appears to be Russian," a spokesperson for NATO's military headquarters said.
LELYSTAD (ANP) - In een woning aan de Groene Velden in Lelystad is zaterdagavond een overleden persoon aangetroffen. De politie heeft "reden om rekening te houden met een misdrijf", bevestigt een woordvoerder na berichtgeving hierover van Omroep Flevoland. Over wat die reden dan precies is, wil de woordvoerder nog niks zeggen.
Volgens Omroep Flevoland stonden er ook meerdere politieauto's bij een nabijgelegen volkstuinencomplex aan de straat Hondsdraf en vloog er zaterdagavond een politiehelikopter rond. Mogelijk werd daar gezocht naar een persoon, schrijft de omroep. Een woordvoerder van de politie bevestigt dat de inzet onderdeel was van het onderzoek naar de overleden persoon, maar wil verder geen informatie delen. "Wij zitten ook nog met veel vragen. Het onderzoek is in volle gang."
Mannen zijn gemiddeld langer dan vrouwen door een samenspel van erfelijke aanleg, hormonen en verschillen in de puberteit. Het gaat nadrukkelijk om gemiddelden: individuele vrouwen kunnen langer zijn dan individuele mannen.
Puberteit en groei
Meisjes komen gemiddeld eerder in de puberteit dan jongens. De groeispurt begint daardoor eerder, maar de groeischijven in de lange botten sluiten ook eerder. Na het sluiten van die groeischijven is verdere lengtegroei vrijwel niet meer mogelijk.
Jongens beginnen gemiddeld later aan de puberteit en kunnen daardoor langer doorgroeien. In die periode spelen androgenen, waaronder testosteron, een belangrijke rol bij de ontwikkeling van botten en spieren. Oestrogenen dragen bij meisjes mede bij aan het eerder sluiten van de groeischijven.
Erfelijke aanleg
Lichaamslengte is voor een groot deel erfelijk bepaald. Veel genen beïnvloeden onder meer botgroei, hormoonhuishouding en de timing van de puberteit. Die genetische aanleg werkt samen met omgevingsfactoren, zoals voeding, gezondheid en leefomstandigheden.
Evolutie als mogelijke verklaring
Wetenschappers denken dat seksuele selectie en fysieke competitie in de menselijke evolutie mogelijk hebben bijgedragen aan het gemiddelde lengteverschil tussen mannen en vrouwen. Grotere lichaamsomvang kan mannen in sommige historische omstandigheden voordeel hebben gegeven bij onderlinge competitie of partnerkeuze. Dit is echter geen verklaring die voor alle samenlevingen, perioden en individuele mensen hetzelfde opgaat.
Invloed van leefomstandigheden
Wie voldoende gezonde voeding krijgt, weinig ernstige infecties doormaakt en toegang heeft tot goede zorg, heeft meer kans om zijn of haar genetische lengtepotentieel te bereiken. In welvarende landen zijn mensen daarom gemiddeld langer geworden. De mate waarin jongens en meisjes van verbeterde omstandigheden profiteren, kan verschillen.
Nederlandse context
Nederland behoort tot de landen met de langste bevolking. Volgens Radboudumc zijn Nederlandse mannen gemiddeld ongeveer 184 centimeter lang en vrouwen ongeveer 170,6 centimeter. Het gemiddelde verschil is dus circa 13 tot 14 centimeter.
Kort samengevat
Dat mannen gemiddeld langer zijn, komt vooral doordat zij gemiddeld later in de puberteit komen en daardoor langer kunnen doorgroeien. Genen, hormonen, voeding, gezondheid en evolutionaire processen bepalen samen hoe groot dat verschil in een bevolking uiteindelijk is.
Bronnen
- R adboudumc, Wanneer spreken we van een grote lengte?
- NEMO Kennislink, Waarom wij Nederlanders de langsten zijn!
- Quest, Waarom zijn Nederlanders zo lang?
De bouwers van de praalwagens voor de jaarlijkse Bloemencorso in Leersum hebben het gemerkt: door de aanhoudende droogte zijn de bloemen kleiner dan normaal. Niettemin zijn de praalwagens indrukwekkend.
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An anonymous reader shares this report from Space.com:
On Saturday evening (Aug. 15), SpaceX set another mark, for the shortest time between orbital flights: It launched two Falcon 9 rockets just 38 minutes apart, besting its old mark — set on Aug. 31, 2024 with two Starlink missions — by 27 minutes.
The first liftoff, from Florida's Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, occurred Saturday at 9:12 p.m. EDT (0112 GMT on Aug. 16) and carried eight satellites to low Earth orbit (LEO) for Louisiana-based telecom company Globalstar. All eight spacecraft were deployed successfully, separating over a six-minute span beginning 56.5 minutes after liftoff, SpaceX announced via social media. While that Falcon 9 was powering its way to low Earth orbit, another one launched from Vandenberg Space Force Base, on California's central coast. That liftoff, at 9:50 p.m. EDT (6:50 p.m. local time; 0150 GMT on Aug. 16), kicked off a mission for the U.S. Space Force called USSF-366...
Both of Saturday's missions featured successful rocket landings. The Falcon 9 first stage that launched the Globalstar mission came back for a touchdown at Cape Canaveral about eight minutes after launch. It was the 14th flight for that particular booster. The USSF-366 Falcon 9 first stage, meanwhile, came back to Earth about 8.5 minutes after its launch, touching down in the Pacific Ocean on the SpaceX droneship "Of Course I Still Love You." That booster now has 18 missions under its belt.
Saturday's doubleheader brought the tally of Falcon 9 launches in 2026 to 96. The vast majority of those — about 75% — have been Starlink missions.
On Saturday evening (Aug. 15), SpaceX set another mark, for the shortest time between orbital flights: It launched two Falcon 9 rockets just 38 minutes apart, besting its old mark — set on Aug. 31, 2024 with two Starlink missions — by 27 minutes.
The first liftoff, from Florida's Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, occurred Saturday at 9:12 p.m. EDT (0112 GMT on Aug. 16) and carried eight satellites to low Earth orbit (LEO) for Louisiana-based telecom company Globalstar. All eight spacecraft were deployed successfully, separating over a six-minute span beginning 56.5 minutes after liftoff, SpaceX announced via social media. While that Falcon 9 was powering its way to low Earth orbit, another one launched from Vandenberg Space Force Base, on California's central coast. That liftoff, at 9:50 p.m. EDT (6:50 p.m. local time; 0150 GMT on Aug. 16), kicked off a mission for the U.S. Space Force called USSF-366...
Both of Saturday's missions featured successful rocket landings. The Falcon 9 first stage that launched the Globalstar mission came back for a touchdown at Cape Canaveral about eight minutes after launch. It was the 14th flight for that particular booster. The USSF-366 Falcon 9 first stage, meanwhile, came back to Earth about 8.5 minutes after its launch, touching down in the Pacific Ocean on the SpaceX droneship "Of Course I Still Love You." That booster now has 18 missions under its belt.
Saturday's doubleheader brought the tally of Falcon 9 launches in 2026 to 96. The vast majority of those — about 75% — have been Starlink missions.
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Relief for marine experts as whale helped out of shallow estuary.
A juvenile southern right whale has been saved by a pod of dolphins after it was stranded in an estuary in Western Australia's south for two weeks.
Corma CEO Alon Pluda says his AI security startup aims to close the "defense gap," where models are better at offensive security. He tells the story of one customer, a security executive who was walking his dog when he received a notification on his watch from a Corma agent. “It said, 'I just caught a live attack. I need your permission to block it,'” Pluda told The Register in an interview. The security boss approved the agent’s action; the agent blocked the malware and the attacker from moving across the company’s network and mitigated the intrusion in under 10 minutes, Pluda said. The customer later described "walking outside with his dog, and blocking a real-live attack with his AI coworker" as "one of the most magical moments of his year," Pluda recalled. Pluda founded Corma about a year ago. And yes, all you Lord of the Rings nerds, the company gets its name from the Elven word for “ring.” “We’re building the one ring to rule them all, but this time for the defenders to have this power.” Earlier this week, the company announced $60 million in seed funding led by Sequoia Capital, alongside Khosla Ventures and Coatue. He told us that his startup is working with Fortune 100 companies, and training models to achieve “superintelligence for defensive cybersecurity.” Models from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google are “amazingly good” at coding and language, and this includes finding and fixing bugs, and orchestrating tools across multi-step workflows, he explained. “When you combine it with agentic capabilities, they move from being incredible vulnerability researchers to end-to-end attackers,” Pluda said. “So inherently, what we’ve seen in the last few months is the models getting exponentially better at offensive security, like we saw with the OpenAI and Hugging Face incident.” But these same models aren’t as skilled at carrying out defensive security tasks that don’t involve scanning code for vulnerabilities and misconfigurations, he said. “The vast majority of defensive security tasks don’t have anything to do with code.” Corma recently tested four frontier models - Claude Opus 4.8, GPT-5.5, Grok 4.3, and DeepSeek V4 - as both attackers and defenders across the same fake company and its networks, built to closely mirror a multi-business enterprise. The attacker’s task was to plant a backdoor and the defender’s task was to find it and stop the attack. Closing the defensive gap Corma ran all four models against each other in every attacker and defender pairing, including each model against itself, with 15 independent engagements per pairing for 241 scored engagements. Across all of these, the models successfully implanted a persistent backdoor in 85 percent of their runs. However, these same models only detected 19 percent of attacks. “That speaks to the inherent imbalance we are trying to solve,” Pluda said. “The general foundation models are getting exponentially better at offensive security, but haven't been able to improve on the same rate on defensive security. So our mission is to close this gap, and make sure the defenders win in this intelligence-versus-intelligence game - or war.” Corma calls this the defensive gap, and says it has to do with the data these models are trained on and the objectives they are trained against, which lend themselves to offensive security. Defensive security, however, involves reading logs, events, configurations, audit trails, and on-disk state. This is “structured machine data that is neither prose nor source, and a small share of what these models see in training,” according to Corma’s research. “They appear to read it less reliably.” Plus, defensive reasoning is more open-ended, while offense has a straightforward goal - like “make this work” or “break this” and a checkable finish. Agentic defenders “Defensive security,” according to Pluda, “is about finding needles in the haystack.” Corma’s models power its AI agents, which organizations can deploy like “team members” who then operate across defensive security tasks. “It’s a generalized workforce, and you can assign it to whatever security tasks you want.” Fortune 100 and 500 organizations across healthcare, financial services, energy, critical infrastructure, retail, and other sectors have deployed Corma’s AI workforce across their environments, according to the startup. These early deployments, we’re told, have reduced threat response times by more than 94 percent, expanded security coverage by 15 times across different security functions, and uncovered multi-stage attack campaigns. “If you can get AI that is smart enough, intelligent enough, knows the domain enough, optimizes for the right things enough, and you can actually trust it, end to end, all the way to responding to real-live attacks, you can reduce all of these metrics significantly,” Pluda said. “And you can cover way more ground than what is possible with just human intelligence.”®
Na een voortvarende competitiestart tegen Sparta, staat voor Feyenoord vandaag de eerste thuiswedstrijd van het eredivisieseizoen op het programma. Go Ahead Eagles, traditioneel geen gemakkelijke ploeg, is de tegenstander. Kunnen de Rotterdammers ook in de tweede wedstrijd van deze jaargang foutloos blijven? Rijnmond is erbij!
Na een voortvarende competitiestart tegen Sparta, staat voor Feyenoord vandaag de eerste thuiswedstrijd van het eredivisieseizoen op het programma. Go Ahead Eagles, traditioneel geen gemakkelijke ploeg, is de tegenstander. Kunnen de Rotterdammers ook in de tweede wedstrijd van deze jaargang foutloos blijven? Rijnmond is erbij!
Na een voortvarende competitiestart tegen Sparta, staat voor Feyenoord vandaag de eerste thuiswedstrijd van het eredivisieseizoen op het programma. Go Ahead Eagles, traditioneel geen gemakkelijke ploeg, is de tegenstander. Kunnen de Rotterdammers ook in de tweede wedstrijd van deze jaargang foutloos blijven? Rijnmond is erbij!
Na een voortvarende competitiestart tegen Sparta, staat voor Feyenoord vandaag de eerste thuiswedstrijd van het eredivisieseizoen. Go Ahead Eagles, traditioneel geen gemakkelijk ploeg, is de tegenstander. Kunnen de Rotterdammers ook in de tweede wedstrijd van deze jaargang foutloos blijven? Rijnmond is erbij!
In Bleiswijk is een auto zondag volledig uitgebrand. Dat gebeurde op de Jadestraat. de bestuurder reed met de auto toen zij een lichte brandlucht rook. Vervolgens zette ze haar auto stil op een parkeerplaats, melden 112-fotografen.
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The Guardian has talked to three naval families who have been following the physical and mental stresses bearing down on their relatives with mounting alarm. The families, with loved ones on board the USS Abraham Lincoln and USS Tripoli, all spoke anonymously for fear of retribution against their active duty relatives.
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