Robo Space
UN touts panel for ‘human control’ of AI as leaders weigh message
The flip side of the gold rush surrounding AI is the risk of job disruption, online abuse and the heavy electricity consumption of data centres.
Space Medicine
NASA astronaut who required evacuation from ISS ‘doing very well’
Mike Fincke, 58, said he's "doing very well and continuing standard post-flight reconditioning" at NASA's center in Houston.
Uav News
Poland wants EU nations to increase defence spending: minister to AFP
"I would like Spain to heed this call, I would like Italy and France to hear it even more strongly, this call to increase defence spending, as Poland, Germany and the Scandinavian countries have done," Kosiniak-Kamysz said in an interview.
Pillaging Pirates
Oil extends gains on US-Iran tensions, stocks retreat
On stock markets, a rally across Asia following gains by US tech heavyweights failed to bolster indices in Europe and the United States, where traders focussed on a string of corporate results.
Shake And Blow
Poland urges Paris, Rome, Madrid to spend more on defence, minister tells AFP
"I would like Spain to heed this call, I would like Italy and France to hear it even more strongly, this call to increase defence spending, as Poland, Germany and the Scandinavian countries have done," Kosiniak-Kamysz said in an interview.
Spacewar
AST SpaceMobile wins SDA HALO Europa contract for direct to device tactical links
The agreement calls for AST SpaceMobile to use its BlueBird low Earth orbit satellite constellation to demonstrate resilient, low latency tactical satellite communications delivered directly to government end user devices.
Physics News
Rare lensed supernova offers new route to measure cosmic expansion
The event, nicknamed SN Winny and officially designated SN 2025wny, is a superluminous stellar explosion about 10 billion light years away and far brighter than typical supernovae.
Spacewar
Trump ‘Board of Peace’ opens with money and troops for Gaza
Trump brought together allies from around the world -- many authoritarians, with few Western democrats who traditionally ally with the United States -- to hail his peacemaking just as he sends US military might near Iran and threatens war.
Miltech
StormBreaker smart weapon cleared for Navy Super Hornet operations
StormBreaker is designed to engage both moving and stationary targets on land or at sea in fair or adverse weather, giving aircrews a flexible weapon for complex missions.
Tech Space
India chases ‘DeepSeek moment’ with homegrown AI models
But analysts said the country was unlikely to have a "DeepSeek moment" -- the sort of boom China had last year with a high-performance, low-cost chatbot -- any time soon.
Rocket Science
NASA delivers harsh assessment of botched Boeing Starliner test flight
The US space agency labeled the 2024 test flight of the Starliner capsule a "Type A" mishap -- the same classification as the deadly Challenger and Columbia shuttle disasters -- a category that reflects the "potential for a significant mishap," it said.
Rocket Science
NASA rolls Moon rocket off launchpad for repairs
The US space agency said it would roll its 322-foot (98-meter) SLS rocket off the launchpad in Cape Canaveral, Florida after teams detected issues with helium flow.
Marsdaily
Perseverance rover now self-locates precisely on Mars
Until this upgrade, Perseverance depended on a combination of inertial measurements and visual odometry to track its movements, with operators on Earth periodically correcting its position based on orbital imagery.
Time And Space
Illinois team outlines emit-then-add route to photonic graph states
Photonic graph states are central resources for measurement-based quantum computing and a range of quantum communication and sensing protocols.
Rocket Science
Lithium trace in upper air linked to Falcon 9 rocket breakup
Defunct satellites and spent rocket stages are generally expected to break apart and burn up as they descend through the atmosphere.
Time And Space
Quantum team reads information from robust Majorana qubits using quantum capacitance
Topological qubits based on Majorana zero modes are designed to protect quantum information by storing it non locally rather than at a single point in a device.