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SkyNightly Sep 28, 2026 (SPX)

HF radar proposed as a wide area sensor for US Navy operations in a changing Arctic

Rising temperatures and shrinking sea ice are opening Arctic waters to more shipping, and an Australian physicist argues that high-frequency (HF) radar could help navies and governments keep watch over the region as acti...

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SkyNightly Sep 24, 2026 (SPX)
JWST Finds Early Galaxies Were Already Seeding the Universe with Heavy Elements

When the universe was only 500 million years old, about 3 percent of its current age, some of its earliest stars and galaxies had ...

SkyNightly Sep 23, 2026 (SPX)
NYU Study Reveals Gravity's Subtle Effects on the Human Genome

The Human Genome Project was launched in 1990, preceded by decades of breakthroughs in genetics, and eventually produced a full se...

SkyNightly Sep 23, 2026 (SPX)
New Trajectory Design Cuts Fuel Costs for Retrograde Geosynchronous Satellites

The retrograde geosynchronous orbit, known as RGSO, offers unique advantages for space surveillance and space situational awarenes...

PolicyDaily Oct 02, 2026 (AFP)
Battle in Yemen's Taiz kills scores of combatants: sources to AFP

Yemen's Houthis and Saudi-backed forces fought over an area near a waterway crucial to global energy flows, killing 80 combatants ...

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DarwinDaily Latin America campaigners unveil model 'ecocide' law Petrobras discovers more oil off Brazil's Amazon coast After hottest summer, weeds turn historic Belgian canals green
RoboDaily Trump expected to name intel chief Clayton as AI czar: reports Amazon vows $1 bn for data center towns, decries 'myths' Effective Altruism: the philosophy behind Silicon Valley's AI fears
PolicyDaily Drone strikes on dormitory, shelter kill 10 in Sudan's El-Obeid Tanker attacked in Strait of Hormuz: UK maritime agency Iraq says gets US exemption for Iranian flights to and from holy city
SinoDaily China a more positive influence than US in Latin America: poll Novartis in $575 mn deal with China's Abogen for RNA drugs US arrests man over alleged smuggling of $300 million worth of computer servers to China
DisasterDay Thai Airways sacks CEO after floods flight chaos: reports New islands appear after Indonesia's Anak Krakatau volcano erupts Rescuers pull nine bodies from landslide in flood-hit Myanmar
FiscalDaily Asian stocks hit as oil spike fans rate hike bets, eyes on US jobs Asian tech firms stand out on mixed day for stocks Asian stocks mixed as positive US data offset by elevated oil, bond yields
AfricaDaily US miner KoBold bets on AI to gain edge in DR Congo mineral hunt Mali army, Russian paramilitaries committed 'war crimes': Amnesty S.Sudan government dissolved ahead of December vote
IndoDaily Nepal's grim DNA puzzle to identify flood dead Myanmar airstrike death toll hits 50 as families gather bodies Thailand floods affect hundreds of thousands, eight dead in Myanmar
BeyondLEO Four-member crew docks at International Space Station Seoul says no decision on Alaska gas investment announced by Trump Bezos space firm Blue Origin says raising outside funds, a first
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SkyNightly MOON Sep 23, 2026 (SPX)
ETH Zurich Study Points to Strong Ancient Magnetic Field on the Moon

Unlike the Earth, the Moon no longer has a core-generated magnetic field today. On our planet, the movement of liquid iron in the outer core generates a global magnetic field, a me...

SkyNightly IRON AND ICE Sep 23, 2026 (SPX)
ETH Zurich Solves Mystery of Asteroid Bennu's Origin

The asteroid Bennu orbits the Sun once every 1.2 years and passes within about 300,000 kilometres of Earth every six years. NASA took advantage of one such approach to collect mate...

SkyNightly SKYNIGHTLY Sep 23, 2026 (SPX)
Duke Quantum Simulator Recreates Matter Formation from the Early Universe

A research team led by faculty at the Duke Quantum Center has observed string-breaking dynamics related to particle-antiparticle formation on a quantum simulator, one of the first ...

SkyNightly EARLY EARTH Sep 22, 2026 (SPX)
Study Pinpoints When Early Earth Became Ready for Life's Chemistry

Conditions on the early Earth may have become stable enough to sustain the chemistry associated with the origins of life around 4.33 billion years ago, according to new research co...

DarwinDaily ENVIRONMENT Oct 02, 2026 (AFP)
US Supreme Court to hear high-stakes climate case

The US Supreme Court hears a climate case Monday that could upend dozens of lawsuits aimed at making polluters pay for their role in global warming and allegedly deceiving the publ...

DarwinDaily ENVIRONMENT Oct 02, 2026 (AFP)
Sea levels to rise in California as coastal wave surges up west coast

Sea levels in California are set to rise by as much as a foot (30 centimeters) in the coming days as an enormous wave washes up the US West Coast.

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Space & Science
Michigan State University Gets 20 Million Dollars to Build Diamond Semiconductor Facility for Space Applications
NanoDaily
Standard Cameras Modified to Measure Solar Cell Quantum Efficiency
SkyNightly
SpaceX puts Starship megarocket in orbit for first time
BeyondLEO
Silicon Solar Cells Could Cut Satellite Power Costs by Up to 90 Percent
NanoDaily
Juno Mission Reveals Jupiter Bow Shock Uses Harmonic Plasma Waves and Shocklets to Tame Solar Wind
SkyNightly
Earth & Energy
UN worried about impact of latest Lebanon war on agriculture
SeedDaily
Russian drone hits Kyiv nuclear institute grounds, reactor undamaged
BatteryDaily
Trump unveils $200 bn in US energy investments by South Korea
OilGasDaily
Niger jails lawyer for relaying unrest within army
AfricaDaily
Fire threatening Colombian tourist gem partially under control: governor
ForestDaily
Tech & Industry
CORRECTED: Detailed plan led to Hong Kong model murder, court hears
SinoDaily
Anthropic's Dario Amodei: AI's most visible CEO and enigma
RoboDaily
Russia summons Danish envoy over helicopter incident
RussoDaily
Most equities rise after oil price plunge, US data in focus
FiscalDaily
Mystery over UK airbase scare as police find petrol not explosives
DisasterDay
Wire Feed
PolicyDaily Oct 02, 2026 (AFP)
China widens military footprint with Laos air base

When China opened its first overseas air force base this week, a joint facility in isolated Laos, it was sendi...

PolicyDaily Oct 02, 2026 (AFP)
Lebanon PM says scale of war recovery beyond state's capacity

Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam said Friday that rebuilding regions destroyed in the latest Israel-Hezboll...

SinoDaily Oct 02, 2026 (AFP)
Taiwan receives its first US-made F-16V fighter jets

Taiwan received its first F-16V fighter jets made by the United States on Friday, as the island democracy upgr...

DarwinDaily Oct 02, 2026 (AFP)
World powers gather in Pacific to chart climate battle

World powers are flying delegates to the Pacific to haggle over the fight against global warming, and to see t...