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November 03, 2025
TECH SPACE
AI giants turn to massive debt to finance tech race



New York (AFP) Oct 31, 2025
Meta raised $30 billion in debt on Thursday, as tech giants flush with cash turn to borrowing to finance the expensive race to lead in artificial intelligence. On a day when Facebook-parent Meta's share price plunged on the heels of disappointing quarterly earnings, demand for its bonds was reportedly four times greater than supply in a market keen to hold the social networking titan's debt. The $30 billion in bonds scheduled to be repaid over the course of decades is intended to provide money t ... read more

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ENERGY TECH
Scientists unlock new energy potential in iron-based materials
Stanford, CA (SPX) Oct 31, 2025
In his 2018 doctoral thesis, Stanford University alumnus William Gent suggested an advance for an iron-based material that, if attainable, would create a higher energy state for iron - a breakthroug ... more
TIME AND SPACE
Consequences of Undecidability in Physics on the Theory of Everything
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Oct 31, 2025
A collaborative team led by Dr. Mir Faizal at the University of British Columbia Okanagan has mathematically proven that the universe cannot be a computer simulation. Working alongside Drs. Lawrence ... more
TRADE WARS
Xi invites Canada PM to China in first meet in 8 years
Gyeongju, South Korea (AFP) Oct 31, 2025
President Xi Jinping on Friday invited Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney to China, in the first formal talks between the nations' leaders since 2017, before also holding first discussions with Japan's new premier. ... more
INTERNET SPACE
Xi jokes about spying with Chinese phone gift for South Korea's Lee
Seoul (AFP) Nov 3, 2025
Xi Jinping joked about spying on South Korea's president as he gifted him a pair of smartphones, telling him to "check if there is a backdoor" in a rare jest from the Chinese leader that made headlines in Seoul. ... more
CHIP TECH
Germany welcomes 'positive' signs after China Nexperia move
Berlin (AFP) Nov 1, 2025
Berlin welcomed Saturday "positive" signs after China said it will exempt some Nexperia chips from an export ban that was imposed over a row with Dutch officials and which had alarmed German carmakers. ... more
TIME AND SPACE
Using classic physical phenomena to solve new problems
Poornima Apte | Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering
Boston, MA (SPX) Oct 31, 2025 Marco Graffiedi, a doctoral student in nuclear science and engineering, is researching quenching processes to help cool nuclear cores, and NASA craft the next generati ... more
ROBO SPACE
Programmable Soft Robotics Advance via Dynamic Molecular Assembly
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Oct 30, 2025
Researchers at Keio University Global Research Institute have developed molecular strategies enabling materials to move, transform, and self-assemble. This work establishes the field of supramolecul ... more
SOLAR DAILY
Solar research team targets safer future for solar panels and groundwater
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Oct 30, 2025
Researchers at Binghamton University's Thomas J. Watson College of Engineering and Applied Science have received a $254,737 grant from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to examine the long-te ... more

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STELLAR CHEMISTRY
Ultrafast quantum effects discovered in perovskite films open door to rapid photonic advances
London, UK (SPX) Oct 30, 2025
Researchers at the University of Cambridge have demonstrated that halide perovskites, a material group under extensive study for their role in low-cost solar cells, can process light at rates surpas ... more
ROBO SPACE
Ultrasonic Microrobot Achieves Fast Two Way Travel for Pipeline Inspections
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Oct 30, 2025
A research team led by Professor Bin Yang at Shanghai Jiao Tong University has developed an ultrasonic microrobot able to travel rapidly in both directions within narrow pipes. The device, detailed ... more
DISASTER MANAGEMENT
Sinking Indian megacities pose 'alarming' building damage risks
Blacksburg VA (SPX) Oct 29, 2025
Sinking land is quietly destabilizing urban infrastructure in India's largest cities, putting thousands of buildings and millions of people at risk, according to Virginia Tech scientists. Grou ... more
ENERGY TECH
Robotic construction to streamline solar farm builds
Sydney, Australia (SPX) Oct 28, 2025
The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) has awarded up to $4.96 million to Nextracker for the deployment of proprietary robotics and tracker systems at multiple solar sites, including the Gou ... more
TIME AND SPACE
Ultra high resolution quantum sensor network demonstrated by KIST researchers
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Oct 28, 2025
Researchers at the Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST) have developed a distributed quantum sensor network with improved precision and resolution using quantum entanglement. The team ap ... more
TECH SPACE
Sidus Space and Lonestar establish commercial agreement for LizzieSat 5 orbital data storage mission
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Oct 28, 2025
Sidus Space has finalized a mission agreement with Lonestar Data Holdings to deploy Lonestar's high-capacity digital data storage payload with edge processing aboard LizzieSat 5, a low Earth orbit s ... more
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CARBON WORLDS
Turning waste plastics into valuable carbon-based materials for energy and environment
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Oct 28, 2025
Researchers have developed new methods to convert waste plastics into functional carbon materials with multiple high-tech uses. Annually, over 390 million tons of plastics are manufactured, much of ... more
TECH SPACE
Stiff skeletons on demand in Pacific soft coral open path for bio-inspired materials
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Oct 28, 2025
Researchers from the University of Pennsylvania School of Engineering and Applied Science and collaborators have revealed how the soft coral Leptogorgia chilensis, native to the Pacific coast from C ... more
OIL AND GAS
World-first liquid hydrogen aviation tanks refuelled for milestone step in zero-emission flight
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Oct 28, 2025
Fabrum, AMSL Aero, and Stralis Aircraft have completed the filling of newly developed composite liquid hydrogen tanks at Christchurch Airport, using hydrogen produced and stored on-site to prepare f ... more
TECH SPACE
Virtual reality helps people understand and care about distant communities
Stanford CA (SPX) Oct 27, 2025
For many of us, climate change feels like a distant threat - damage that happens in the future somewhere far away to people we know little about. A new Stanford University-led study reveals how virt ... more
WATER WORLD
Plastic waste may persist on ocean surfaces for generations model shows
London, UK (SPX) Oct 27, 2025
A new study from Queen Mary University of London reveals buoyant plastic debris could remain at ocean surfaces for more than a century. Researchers constructed a model to track how these plastics mo ... more
CHIP TECH
Supersolid experiment reveals quantum rhythm in ultracold matter
London, UK (SPX) Oct 27, 2025
A team at the University of Innsbruck has shed light on the behavior of supersolids, a phase of matter that combines crystalline rigidity with frictionless fluidity. Using magnetic fields to rotate ... more
VSAT NEWS
Atheras Analytics launches DESIRISS tool for satellite network design
Berlin, Germany (SPX) Oct 29, 2025
Atheras Analytics SAS has announced the release of its DESIRISS Ground Network Dimensioning tool, intended for satellite operators in the non-geostationary satellite (NGSO) sector. Developed within ... more
CLIMATE SCIENCE
Climate report: Earth on dangerous path but rapid action can avert the worst outcomes
Corvallis OR (SPX) Oct 30, 2025
2024 was the hottest year on record and likely the hottest in at least 125,000 years, according to an annual report issued by an international coalition led by Oregon State University scientists. ... more
CLIMATE SCIENCE
Trump declares victory against climate 'hoax' after Bill Gates comments
Washington (AFP) Oct 29, 2025
US President Donald Trump claimed victory Wednesday over what he called the "hoax" of climate change, after billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates said a warming world would not end civilization. ... more
ENERGY TECH
Floating hydrovoltaic device enables scalable and land-free raindrop energy harvesting
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Nov 01, 2025
Raindrops carry significant untapped energy beyond their role as a source of fresh water. Researchers have worked for years to extract this energy, facing persistent limitations with conventional dr ... more
CIVIL NUCLEAR
Row leaves radioactive shipment stranded off Philippines
Manila (AFP) Oct 31, 2025
More than 20 containers of radioactive zinc have been stranded off the Philippine coast for over than a week and a solution for their disposal is needed "fast", a nuclear official said on Friday. ... more
TIME AND SPACE
Electrons travel losslessly along edges in new topological model
Berlin, Germany (SPX) Nov 01, 2025
Researchers at Julich Research Centre and RWTH Aachen University have introduced a model for detecting ballistic electrons under realistic conditions. Their findings were published as an Editors' Su ... more
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TECH SPACE
Global race for rare earths comes to Kenya's Mrima Hill
Kwale, Kenya (AFP) Oct 31, 2025
Division and suspicion have gripped five villages near Kenya's coast as global powers from the United States to China eye a forest that is rich in rare earths - minerals vital to high-tech and low-carbon industries. ... more
TIME AND SPACE
Cologne scientists confirm new decay path for technetium-98 in nuclear chart
Berlin, Germany (SPX) Nov 01, 2025
Nuclear chemists and physicists at the University of Cologne have experimentally proven a previously suspected atomic decay route involving technetium-98. The recent study published in Physical Revi ... more
TECH SPACE
China's suspension of rare earth controls applies to EU: official
Rome (AFP) Oct 31, 2025
The EU's commissioner for trade on Friday said China's one-year suspension on its restrictions of rare earth materials would apply to the bloc as well as the United States. ... more
TECH SPACE
Risky gold rush drives young into Ivory Coast nature park
Doropo, Ivory Coast (AFP) Oct 31, 2025
Emmanuel knows only too well the allure of illegal gold prospecting in the protected Comoe National Park for the many young without prospects in Ivory Coast's troubled northeast. ... more
TRADE WARS
China's factory activity shrinks for seventh straight month; Hong Kong's third-quarter growth beats forecasts
Beijing (AFP) Oct 31, 2025
China's factory activity shrank for a seventh straight month in October, official data showed Friday, as trade uncertainty ahead of talks between President Xi Jinping and US leader Donald Trump weighed on the economic powerhouse. ... more
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