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The RBI needs to be ready for a quick policy pivot as it cuts rates
The RBI needs to be ready for a quick policy pivot as it cuts rates
Ann Arbor MI (SPX) Dec 08, 2025
The rapid growth of artificial intelligence and cloud services is driving an enormous appetite for computing power, and with it, a surge in electricity demand from data centers that can rival the needs of tens of thousands of homes or even a small city. To ease that strain, some technology leaders are turning their attention to space, where sunlight is abundant and continuous, and where solar-po
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Dec 08, 2025
NASA and industry partners will fly and operate a commercial robotic arm in low Earth orbit through the Fly Foundational Robots mission set to launch in late 2027. This mission will support development of in space operations that are needed for long duration human activities away from Earth and will help grow a commercial robotics sector that future science and exploration missions can use.
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 08, 2025
Applied Aerospace and PCX Aerosystems have merged to form Applied Aerospace and Defense, a single supplier focused on precision hardware and systems for aircraft, rotorcraft, satellites, launch vehicles, and missile defense programs across military, commercial, and scientific markets.
The combined company draws on more than 120 years of engineering and manufacturing activity in mission cri
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Dec 08, 2025
China has taken delivery of its first sea based platform designed to recover rockets using a net system, adding a key element to national plans for reusable launch vehicles.
The vessel, named Linghangzhe or Pathfinder, has been certified by the China Classification Society, becoming the first sea based rocket recovery platform in the country to receive the required class and statutory appr
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 08, 2025
Astrobotic has secured a NASA Small Business Innovation Research Phase I award to develop Clavius-S, a visible-band imaging sensor designed to detect and track spacecraft in low lunar orbit from the Moon's surface in real time. The modular payload can fly on a range of lunar lander missions and will be integrated into future LunaGrid surface power nodes, creating a networked space domain awarene
London, UK (SPX) Dec 08, 2025
Lodestar Space has secured funding through the UK Space Agency's Space Ecosystem Commercialisation Programme, delivered by Space South Central, to accelerate work on its on-orbit sensing system Mithril.
The SECP Sprint R and D grant of GBP 30,000 will pay for integration and testing of a new LiDAR sensor within Mithril's existing on-orbit sensing suite. Mithril is described as a fully auto
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 09, 2025
Researchers have characterized a bacterium from spacecraft assembly cleanrooms that can enter an extreme dormant state, allowing it to persist where contamination controls are designed to remove nearly all life. The study centers on Tersicoccus phoenicis, a microbe detected in high-grade cleanrooms used by NASA and the European Space Agency to prepare spacecraft hardware.
The team found th
Berlin, Germany (SPX) Dec 04, 2025
Perovskite solar cells are under development as candidates for next generation photovoltaic modules, but commercial use remains limited by long term instability driven in part by migrating ions in the absorber layer. A team from Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB) and the University of Potsdam has now measured ion densities in four widely used perovskite compounds and found substantial differences be
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 05, 2025
MOJAVE, Calif. - Dec. 4, 2025 - Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) unveiled Project Talon, an autonomous aircraft built to fly alongside crewed fighters as a collaborative teammate for combat missions.
The company describes Project Talon as an uncrewed wingman platform developed to contribute to air dominance by working in concert with manned aircraft rather than replacing them.
Northrop G
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 05, 2025
Lockheed Martin Skunk Works has run a live trial of an artificial intelligence driven mission contingency management system on a Stalker XE Block 25 unmanned aerial vehicle and a modified Alta X 2.0 drone, showing how software can replan missions in flight when fuel problems arise.
The demonstration used the Stalker UAV as the primary asset and the Alta X as a secondary platform to receive
Berlin, Germany (SPX) Dec 05, 2025
Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Sustainable Materials report that deep sea manganese nodules could supply large volumes of copper, nickel and cobalt for the energy transition if mining and processing are managed to limit environmental damage.
They note that global demand by 2050 could reach about 60 million tonnes of copper for motors and grids, plus up to 10 million tonnes of
Richland WA (SPX) Dec 05, 2025
Framatome has secured a contract to replace several digital control systems at Energy Northwests Columbia Generating Station in Washington state. The project covers system design, engineering, manufacturing, testing and on-site installation for new digital feedwater level control and feedwater heater vents and drains systems, which are central to thermal performance and plant efficiency.
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Brussels, Belgium (AFP) Dec 8, 2025
The European Union on Monday dismissed online attacks by tech tycoon Elon Musk after his social media platform X was fined 120 million euros ($140 million) by Brussels.
"It's part of freedom of speech to put out even completely crazy statements," EU spokeswoman Paula Pinho said.
Musk hit out at the EU over the weekend saying that it "should be abolished and sovereignty returned to indi
London (AFP) Dec 5, 2025
The number of sea-floor animals fell by 37 percent in a deep-sea mining exploration zone, according to a study published Friday probing the emerging industry's impact on biodiversity.
The five-year research is believed to be the most extensive yet on the possible consequences of modern commercial deep-sea mining machines on oceans already threatened by pollution and overfishing.
The indu
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 08, 2025
Antares has raised $96 million in Series B financing to support development and deployment of its compact nuclear microreactors for defense and space customers. The round, led by Shine Capital with participation from Alt Capital, Caffeinated, FiftyThree Stations, Industrious and other investors, includes $71 million in new equity and $25 million in debt earmarked for equipment purchases, factory
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Dec 04, 2025
Researchers at the Korea Institute of Energy Research report a carbon monoxide driven process that forms metal thin films about 0.3 nanometers thick, enabling faster fabrication of core-shell fuel cell catalysts that reduce platinum usage while maintaining performance. The approach, called CO Adsorption-Induced Deposition, leverages the redox behavior and strong surface affinity of carbon monoxi
Brussels, Belgium (AFP) Dec 8, 2025
A highly-anticipated review of the EU's 2035 ban on new petrol and diesel car sales has been pushed back to next week, the European Commission said Monday.
Europe's embattled auto industry and its backers have lobbied hard for Brussels to relax the ban over the past year - and a decision was expected for Wednesday.
But a commission spokesperson told AFP any announcements would now come
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 05, 2025
A University of Michigan team has analyzed how people living and working around the Agbogbloshie e waste site in Accra, Ghana, depend on informal recycling to earn a living while facing severe toxic exposure and environmental damage. The researchers describe this tension between survival and harm as an "informal paradox," in which unregulated recycling that supports households also undermines he
London, UK (SPX) Dec 08, 2025
Imagine wearable health sensors, smart packaging, flexible displays, or disposable IoT controllers all manufactured like printed newspapers. The same technology could underpin communication circuits, sensors, and signal-processing components made entirely from solution-processed 2D materials.
But until now, finding and developing the 2D materials that could enable such devices was largely
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Sleep deprivation effects harm brain health, impairing memory, attention, and emotion. Chronic loss risks neurodegeneration and cognitive decline.
As the cold season ends in the Southern Hemisphere and we fold away our favorite wool jumpers and silk scarves, some fascinating material science is about to unfold quietly in our wardrobes.