Superpowers
EU eyes bases for military training in Ukraine
"We have been discussing the training of the Ukrainian soldiers, also on the soil of Ukraine," Kallas said at a meeting of EU defence ministers.
Civil Nuclear
Japan to restart world’s biggest nuclear plant
Takeyuki Inagaki, the head of the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa plant run by Tokyo Electric Power (TEPCO), told a press conference Friday that they planned "to start up…
Wood Pile
Landsat study maps boreal forest shift north
In a study led by Feng and colleagues and published in Biogeosciences in February 2026, researchers examined how boreal forests have changed by leveraging the longest and highest resolution satellite record of calibrated tree cover to date.
Energy Tech
UCSB scientists bottle the sun with liquid battery
Chemists at UC Santa Barbara have developed a solution that does not require bulky batteries or electrical grids.
Fire Storm
North China factory explosion kills 8
State news agency Xinhua had previously reported that seven people died and one person was missing after the Saturday morning explosion at the Jiapeng biotech company in Shanxi province, citing local authorities.
Bio Fuel
Salt solvent unlocks lignin for next generation biofuel plants
The project, led by postdoctoral research associate Tirath Raj and Integrated Bioprocessing Research Laboratory Executive Director Vijay Singh, focused on the critical preprocessing stage that separates plant cell wall components.
Spacemart
BlackSky expands Gen 3 Assured deals with new defense customer
BlackSky said the contracts give the defense customer guaranteed, priority access to Gen 3 imaging capacity over designated operational areas of interest.
Milplex
Ukraine, Norway, Sweden top destinations for German arms exports
The economy ministry said Ukraine had received around two billion euros ($2.35bn) of arms exports from Germany, which has been Kyiv's most important backer in Europe in its war with Russia.
Taiwan News
Taiwan’s political standoff stalls $40 bn defence plan
Taiwan has spent many billions of dollars upgrading its military in the past decade, but is under intense US pressure to do more to protect itself against the…
Earth Observation
Satellite radar maps reveal rapid delta land loss
Ten of the worlds 34 biggest cities are built on river deltas, making these environments critical hubs for people, infrastructure, trade and ecosystems.
Farm News
Trump administration re-approves twice-banned pesticide
The move comes despite federal courts in 2020 and 2024 striking down the Environmental Protection Agency's previous approvals of the contentious weedkiller.
Tech Space
Astroscale Japan to mature electric refueling for future GEO servicing
The Space Strategy Fund is a multiyear framework that backs ambitious technology development activities by private companies, startups and universities.
Tech Space
Abundant element alloy enables rare earth free cryogenic cooling
Conventional cryogenic cooling used in medical MRI and related systems relies heavily on liquid helium and rare earth elements, which face supply instability and concerns over long term resource depletion.
Africa News
Burkina Faso dissolves all political parties
Under captain Ibrahim Traore, who led a coup in September 2022, the junta has muzzled critics, arresting dissidents or forcing them into fighting jihadists.
Early Earth
Ancient trilobite shells reveal durable chitin and long term carbon storage
Chitin is the primary organic component of modern crab shells and insect exoskeletons and is considered Earths second most abundant naturally occurring polymer after cellulose.
Early Earth
Deep sea wrinkles reveal ancient chemosynthetic microbes
Martindale, an associate professor at the Jackson School of Geosciences, recognized the texture from Early Triassic microbial mat examples she had studied in graduate school.