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Reliable Robotics Pursues FAA Certification for Network-Agnostic UAS Datalink SystemLos Angeles CA (SPX) May 04, 2026 Reliable Robotics is advancing the certifiability of its safety-critical command-and-control datalink system for uncrewed aircraft, using industry collaboration, standards work, and active flight te ... more  
Lockheed Martin Reaches Core Mate Milestone on First GPS IIIF Satellite Slated for LaunchLos Angeles, CA (SPX) May 04, 2026 Lockheed Martin has completed the core mate production phase for GPS IIIF Space Vehicle 11 (SV11), the manufacturing milestone that formally marks a satellite's structural birth. SV11 is the first G ... more  
Ariane 6 Flies Four-Booster Config Again on Amazon Satellite MissionLondon, UK (SPX) Apr May 04, 2026 Ariane 6 is set to fly in its maximum four-booster configuration for the second time, carrying 32 Amazon Leo satellites to low Earth orbit on flight VA268. Liftoff is scheduled for 30 April 2026 bet ... more 
Space Rider Heat Shield and Steering Flaps Pass Plasma Wind Tunnel TrialsBerlin, Germany (SPX) May 04, 2026 Ceramic tiles and control flaps from Europe's Space Rider reentry module have successfully completed high-temperature testing in a plasma wind tunnel, clearing a major qualification hurdle for the r ... more |
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Musk vs OpenAI trial enters second weekOakland, United States (AFP) May 4, 2026 Following high-profile testimony from billionaire Elon Musk last week, one of OpenAI's co-founders will testify Monday in the California lawsuit brought by the world's richest man against the creators of ChatGPT. ... more 
After Artemis II, NASA looks to SpaceX, Blue Origin for Moon landingsWashington, United States (AFP) April 11, 2026 With Artemis II successfully completing its historic lunar mission on Friday, NASA is banking on billionaires Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk for the next step: landing astronauts on the Moon. ... more  
Don't 'loot a charity': Musk takes stand against OpenAIOakland, United States (AFP) April 28, 2026 Billionaire Elon Musk took the stand Tuesday to accuse OpenAI and its boss Sam Altman of betraying the AI company's altruistic origins, in a trial that could have far-reaching consequences for the industry and oblige the ChatGPT maker to profoundly revamp its business. ... more 
Princeton Study Maps Raw Material Risks as Drone and Robot Output Scales Toward Millions of UnitsLos Angeles, CA (SPX) May 01, 2026 A new study published in the Cell Press journal Chem Circularity warns that rapid growth in drone and autonomous robot manufacturing could strain global supply chains for a handful of critical raw m ... more |
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Hezbollah's fibre-optic drones pose new challenge for IsraelJerusalem (AFP) May 2, 2026 Hezbollah's cheap fibre-optic drones are creating new challenges for Israeli troops in southern Lebanon, forcing the military to adapt its tactics against an increasingly lethal threat. ... more  
ESA-SSTL Twin HydroGNSS Satellites Return Water Cycle Data During CommissioningLondon, UK (SPX) ) May 01, 2026 Just three months after launch, the twin HydroGNSS satellites built by Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd for the European Space Agency are producing early science measurements, detecting water-linked ... more 
NISAR Radar Satellite Tracks Mexico City Ground Sinking at Over Half an Inch Per MonthLos Angeles, CA (SPX) ) May 01, 2026 The NISAR satellite has produced detailed radar maps of ground subsidence beneath Mexico City, showing parts of the metropolitan area sinking by more than half an inch - more than 2 centimeters - pe ... more  
Reconstruction of Turkey's quake-hit Antioch sparks anxietyAntakya, Turkey (AFP) April 29, 2026 Selahattin Yogurtcuoglu pulls out his chair to chat with neighbours outside his home in Turkey's Antakya, just as he used to - but nothing is the same since the 2023 earthquake that devastated the ancient city. ... more 
From radiation to invasion: a Chernobyl worker's two warsSlavutych, Ukraine (AFP) April 25, 2026 Nikolay Solovyov was on shift the night of April 26, 1986 when the Chernobyl nuclear power plant exploded. Instead of fleeing, he chose to fight his 'first war' against radiation. ... more |
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Chernobyl, 40 years since disaster: five things to knowChernobyl, Ukraine (AFP) April 26, 2026 Ukraine on Sunday marks the 40th anniversary of the explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant - the worst civilian nuclear disaster in history. ... more  
Fruit flies survive, reproduce and recover under gravitational forces up to 13G in UC Riverside centrifuge studyLos Angeles CA (SPX) May 01, 2026 Fruit flies subjected to gravitational forces many times stronger than Earth's pull not only survived but mated, reproduced, and eventually returned to normal behavior, according to new research fro ... more 
Iowa State Researchers Develop Priority-Ranking Framework To Guide Robot Rule ConflictsLos Angeles, CA (SPX) May 01, 2026 Researchers at Iowa State University have developed a formal framework that allows autonomous robots to rank and reconcile competing rules when following every rule simultaneously is impossible - a ... more 
China Moves To Convert Underused Airspace Into A New Industrial Growth EngineBeijing, China (SPX) May 01, 2026 For decades, China's economic growth has largely unfolded on land - across factory floors, highways and ports. Now the country is turning its gaze upward. What was once empty airspace below co ... more 
Geomagnetic Reversal Trigger Mechanism Study Finds Dipole Field Bi-Stability in Dynamo SimulationsTokyo, Japan (SPX) May 01, 2026 A team at Japan's National Institute for Fusion Science (NIFS) and the Graduate University for Advanced Studies, SOKENDAI, has published new magnetohydrodynamic simulation results demonstrating that ... more |
AI Safety Guardrails Built For Chatbots Fail To Protect Humans From RobotsLos Angeles, CA (SPX) May 01, 2026 Researchers from the University of Pennsylvania, Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Oxford argue in a new Science Robotics paper that the safety frameworks developed for AI chatbots ar ... more  
Sweden arrests Chinese captain of suspected 'shadow fleet' shipStockholm (AFP) May 4, 2026 The Chinese captain of a ship that Sweden boarded this weekend over suspicions it belonged to Russia's 'shadow fleet' has been arrested, the Swedish prosecution authority said on Monday. ... more  
KIT spinoff develops photoreactor panel for direct solar hydrogenBerlin (SPX) May 04, 2026 Photreon, a KIT spin-off, has developed a photoreactor panel that generates hydrogen directly from sunlight and water without electrolyzers or electrical power. 'We avoid the detour through el ... more 
Camera-only navigation system cuts localization drift by up to 95 percent without GPS or LiDARTokyo (SPX) May 04, 2026 Researchers from Wuhan University and Chongqing University have developed a monocular camera localization system that uses prebuilt colored point cloud maps to sharply reduce navigation drift in env ... more |
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Warwick Researchers Find Hidden Intermediate Materials With Uses in Solar Fuels and BatteriesLos Angeles, CA (SPX) May 04, 2026 Chemists at the University of Warwick have identified a series of previously unknown materials formed during the heating of molecular precursors, including a new structural form of bismuth vanadate, ... more  
Voyager 1 Loses Another Instrument As Power Margins Shrink Across Interstellar SpaceLos Angeles CA (SPX) Apr 29, 2026 Engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California sent commands on April 17 to shut down the Low-energy Charged Particles experiment, known as the LECP, aboard Voyager 1. The move ... more 
Deep Learning Reconstructs 32 Years of Global Nighttime Light DataTokyo, Japan (SPX) Apr 29, 2026 A team of researchers from Fuzhou University, East China Normal University, Anhui Normal University, and Yunnan Normal University has developed a deep-learning framework to reconstruct a global, hig ... more 
Freeze-Dried Synthetic Platelets Proven Shelf-Stable for Battlefield and Remote Trauma CareLos Angeles CA (SPX) Apr 29, 2026 Platelets are the blood components that enable clotting and can be decisive in saving patients who are bleeding to death from traumatic injuries. Until now, donated platelets have been confined to h ... more |
Quantum Tunneling Drives Hydrogen Transport in Lanthanum Trihydride Near Practical TemperaturesTokyo, Japan (SPX) Apr 29, 2026 For decades, ion transport in solids has been described as a classical barrier-climbing process, in which an ion must acquire sufficient activation energy to surmount an energy barrier before it can ... more 
US and Europe Lock In Decade-Long Stellarator Fusion Research DealLos Angeles CA (SPX) Apr 29, 2026 A new 10-year project agreement will advance research on the Wendelstein 7-X (W7-X) stellarator, an experimental fusion energy system, paving the way for continued collaboration between the U.S. Dep ... more 
Halter Smart Cattle Collars Go Direct-To-Satellite Expanding Virtual Fencing To Remote RanchesBoulder CO, US (SPX) Apr 29, 2026 Halter has become the first virtual fencing provider to deliver direct-to-satellite connectivity through its smart cattle collars, eliminating the need for cell towers or on-ranch radio infrastructu ... more 
JPL Team Ignites High-Power Lithium-Fed Electric Thruster Aimed at Human Mars FlightsLos Angeles CA (SPX) Apr 29, 2026 A prototype lithium-fed magnetoplasmadynamic thruster was fired for the first time in years at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California, reaching power levels higher than any previous ... more |
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China Breaks Foreign Monopoly with Mass-Produced Fingernail-Sized Atomic ClockTokyo, Japan (SPX) Apr 26, 2026 China has achieved mass production of a chip-scale atomic clock the size of a fingernail that loses just one second every 30,000 years, a development with direct applications in low-Earth-orbit sate ... more 
China's First Commercial Space Standards Aim To Cut Costs and Unify IndustryTokyo, Japan (SPX) Apr 26, 2026 China has released its first set of commercial space standards, marking a shift from an industry characterized by fragmented technical specifications to one with a shared regulatory framework. Yang ... more 
Long March 2D Orbits New Batch of Space-Based Internet Test SatellitesTokyo, Japan (SPX) Apr 26, 2026 China launched another batch of experimental satellites for its space-based internet program on Friday, using a Long March 2D rocket that lifted off from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in Sichu ... more 
NASA Sends Miniaturized IV Fluid Generator to ISS Ahead of Deep Space MissionsLos Angeles CA (SPX) Apr 26, 2026 NASA has delivered a compact device to the International Space Station that can produce sterile medical-grade IV fluid on demand by filtering drinking water already aboard the station, addressing a ... more |
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