Hefei, China (AFP) April 27, 2026 - In a sprawling office in Hefei, the eastern Chinese electric vehicle hub, hundreds of employees and several robotic arms sat refining software developed jointly by German behemoth Volkswagen and Chinese EV maker XPeng.
Kyoto, Japan (SPX) Apr 27, 2026 - The Fe Kalpha line, also known as the iron Kalpha line, is a spectral feature widely used in astronomy to probe the physical composition of stars and other objects. It is produced when a K-shell ele
United Nations, United States (AFP) April 27, 2026 - Signatories of the landmark nuclear non-proliferation treaty began a meeting Monday at the United Nations as fears of a renewed arms race escalate, with atomic powers again at loggerheads over safeguards.
Santa Marta, Colombia (AFP) April 27, 2026 - Former Irish President Mary Robinson has had a front-row seat to historic change - and senses another turning point coming at a fossil fuel phaseout meeting in Colombia.
Kyoto, Japan (SPX) Apr 27, 2026 - From birth to death, stars generally slow to between 100 and 1000 times below their initial rotation rates - a process known as spin-down. The Sun's total angular momentum has declined steadily as
Los 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
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Apr 26, 2026 - China's Chang'e 7 spacecraft is undergoing final launch preparations at the Wenchang Space Launch Site in Hainan province, ahead of a planned liftoff in the second half of 2026. The mission will tra
Tokyo, 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
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Apr 26, 2026 - NASA's Dragonfly rotorcraft lander is moving through a busy stretch of hardware assembly and testing at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland, with the primary structure n
Chernobyl, 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.
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Apr 26, 2026 - Trace Systems Inc. has been awarded a five-year, $64 million follow-on task order under the U.S. Army's Global Tactical Advanced Communications Systems and Services (GTACS II) contract vehicle to su
Tokyo, 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
Tokyo, 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
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Apr 26, 2026 - Chinese scientists have identified two new minerals in lunar samples returned by the Chang'e 5 mission in late 2020, bringing the total number of lunar minerals discovered by China to three and the
Berlin, Germany (SPX) Apr 26, 2026 - An international team of scientists is working on Arctic sea ice near Cambridge Bay, Nunavut, in Canada's far north, collecting measurements needed to sharpen the performance of three upcoming Europ
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Apr 25, 2026 - For observers on Earth, the Sun appears as a bright, familiar disk - but what we see is only half the story. Like the Moon, one half of the Sun is permanently hidden from our direct view: the far si
