Sci-Tech

October 22, 2025 11:27 AM

Musk, NASA chief Duffy jostle over space agency leadership

Acting NASA chief Sean Duffy and billionaire Elon Musk on Tuesday traded barbs online over who should lead the space agency, a day after Duffy invited companies to compete with Musk's SpaceX for a moon landing mission. The spat involving the U.S. space program and the SpaceX CEO, which have ...

October 21, 2025 6:53 PM

Black holes and cosmic jets found to play key role in shaping galaxy evolution

A new study by Indian astronomers has revealed that supermassive black holes and the powerful jets they emit work in tandem to drive out gas from the centers of galaxies, effectively stalling the formation of new stars and influencing the overall evolution of galaxies. The study, conducted by a tea...

October 21, 2025 12:55 PM

Scientists discover rare meteorite relics in Chang’e-6 lunar samples

Chinese scientists studying lunar samples returned by the Chang'e-6 mission have identified rare meteorite relics that could reshape our understanding of mass transfer in the Solar System. The study, published in the latest issue of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, was led by a rese...

October 20, 2025 2:24 PM

Many websites, apps go dark as Amazon’s cloud unit reports global outage

Amazon's cloud services unit AWS was hit by an outage on Monday, causing connectivity issues for many companies around the world and disrupting services for several popular websites and apps including Fortnite and Snapchat. "We can confirm increased error rates and latencies for multiple AWS Servic...

October 19, 2025 11:51 AM

China accuses US of cyber breaches at national time centre

China has accused the U.S. of stealing secrets and infiltrating the country's national time centre, warning that serious breaches could have disrupted communication networks, financial systems, the power supply and the international standard time. The U.S. National Security Agency has been carrying...

October 19, 2025 8:50 AM

ISRO’s Chandrayaan-2 detects solar impact on Moon’s atmosphere

In a landmark scientific breakthrough, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) announced that its lunar orbiter Chandrayaan-2 has made the first-ever observation of the effects of Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs) from the Sun on the Moon’s exosphere. The observation was made using the Chandraâ...

October 18, 2025 1:50 PM

Hand and foot fossils found in Kenya for ancient human relative

Researchers have unearthed near Lake Turkana in northern Kenya fossils of hand and foot bones belonging to an extinct human relative dating to 1.52 million years ago, revealing that this species would have been able to grasp and manipulate objects such as stone tools and was fully bipedal. The foss...

October 17, 2025 3:00 PM

South Korea kicks off arms fair to showcase unmanned, AI weapons

South Korea kicked off its largest-ever arms fair on Friday, with firms expected to show off new unmanned and artificial intelligence-enhanced weapons from howitzers to suicide drones, as Seoul seeks to strengthen its military and pursues more global defence sales. Organisers said a record 600 comp...