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View from above the JT-60SA tokamak during integrated commissioning, showing the newly installed 8-meter in-vessel coils.

The world’s largest operating tokamak, JT-60SA, has begun integrated commissioning after a major 26-foot (8 m) coil upgrade, with teams gathering data ahead of a six-month plasma campaign planned for late 2026

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May 25, 2026 at 6:00 AM

A Russian Su-35S air superiority fighter on patrol, representative of the aircraft involved in the alleged engagement with a Ukrainian F-16.

Russia’s Su-35 is being framed as scoring the first shootdown of a Ukrainian F-16, and the reporting centers on whether new radar-guided missile capability was the difference-maker in a high-stakes matchup

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May 24, 2026 at 12:30 PM

A close-up of Evan Budz’s bionic robotic turtle, BURT, showing the front propulsion flippers and acrylic body housing the AI sensor suite.

A high-schooler built BURT, a bionic “robot turtle” that follows autonomous search patterns and flags replicated coral bleaching with 96% accuracy, letting it monitor fragile waters without the noise and turbulence of propeller drones

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May 24, 2026 at 10:35 AM

A timelapse view of a 26-story residential tower in China being assembled by stacking pre-fabricated stainless-steel modules via crane.

While towers in London or New York can take years, a 26-story residential building in China went up in five days with about 100 workers by stacking factory-built modules, a proof point for a modular market already pegged around $95 billion annually

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May 24, 2026 at 9:30 AM

A visual representation of the MYRRHA accelerator-driven research reactor facility currently under construction in Mol, Belgium.

A billion-euro nuclear reactor driven by a particle accelerator is frozen, and a government decision could decide its fate

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May 23, 2026 at 6:45 PM

An SR-71 pilot recounts the mission when a Soviet MiG-25 launched a missile at the Blackbird, and the story reads like a real-time reminder of how close Cold War “intercepts” could get to becoming an incident

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May 23, 2026 at 9:30 AM

A Lockheed YF-12A interceptor prototype in flight, showcasing its titanium-skinned design built for Mach 3 performance.

A Lockheed YF-12A flying at Mach 3.2 and 75,000 feet fired a missile that struck a target just 500 feet above the ground, a demonstration that still sounds unreal until you remember what that program was built to do

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May 23, 2026 at 6:00 AM

Students from Peru's Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú preparing the Kuntur-1 rocket for a test flight in the Ica region.

A country built a rocket from scratch inside a university, reached 500 meters, and now wants to enter Latin America’s space race

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May 22, 2026 at 12:30 PM

A Swedish Air Force JAS 39 Gripen fighter jet performing aerobatics with a visible smoke trail.

Ukraine could receive a wave of Gripen fighters, and Russia may face a jet built to fight from roads, not just air bases

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May 22, 2026 at 6:00 AM

A shipping container-sized Atoco atmospheric water harvesting machine designed to extract drinking water from arid desert air.

A Nobel Prize chemist is turning dry air into 1,000 liters of water a day, and the machine could redraw the fight against drought

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May 21, 2026 at 12:30 PM

The ALPAGU-B fixed-wing kamikaze drone developed by STM demonstrating its flight capabilities.

Turkey’s ALPAGU-B kamikaze drone now reaches four times farther, and its AI targeting could make operators much harder to find

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May 21, 2026 at 7:45 AM

A laboratory researcher analyzing chemical solutions inside a light-induced singlet fission testing apparatus at Kyushu University.

Japan tests a solar system that gets more power from the same light, and the 130% lab result could break a photovoltaic limit

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May 20, 2026 at 12:30 PM

A satellite radar interferogram map from NASA's NISAR mission showing dark blue zones indicating land subsidence across Mexico City.

NASA detects a major city sinking from space at more than 2 centimeters a month, and the damage is already cracking it open

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May 19, 2026 at 6:45 PM

A landscape view of the remote Stekenjokk mountain area in northern Sweden, the site of a newly approved copper exploration concession.

A country gives the green light to a mine for the “oil of the future,” and Europe’s race for critical metals just got louder

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May 19, 2026 at 9:30 AM

Heavy machinery pulling the first subsea high-voltage direct current export cable from the North Sea onto the beach at the Norfolk coast.

The world’s largest offshore wind farm is taking shape in the North Sea, but one giant cable will decide if it can power Britain

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May 18, 2026 at 6:45 PM

A map graphic illustrating the proposed route of Canal Istanbul running parallel to the natural Bosphorus Strait in Turkey.

Turkey wants to carve an artificial canal beside the Bosphorus, and the move could turn Black Sea traffic into a new toll empire

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May 18, 2026 at 10:35 AM

The massive cutterhead of the Herrenknecht S-880 Mixshield tunnel boring machine during its assembly for the Hong Kong subsea project.

The world’s largest tunnel boring machine is more than 100 meters long, and it is leading one of the most ambitious underground projects

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May 18, 2026 at 6:00 AM

One of the two newly delivered U.S.-backed high-capacity megadrones designed for precision glyphosate aerial spraying over illegal crops in Colombia.

The U.S. Embassy delivered two megadrones for glyphosate strikes on coca fields, and Colombia’s drug war just entered a new phase

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May 17, 2026 at 12:30 PM

A heavy, secure nuclear spent fuel cask being monitored during a high-stakes transport operation from Venezuela.

Venezuela’s only experimental reactor just lost its enriched uranium, and the U.S.-backed operation exposes a nuclear risk near Caracas

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May 17, 2026 at 7:45 AM

China puts the J-35AE on the market as a direct F-35 rival, and the stealth fighter race just stopped being an American monopoly

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May 16, 2026 at 3:45 PM

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The world’s largest operating tokamak, JT-60SA, has begun integrated commissioning after a major 26-foot (8 m) coil upgrade, with teams gathering data ahead of a six-month plasma campaign planned for late 2026

Russia’s Su-35 is being framed as scoring the first shootdown of a Ukrainian F-16, and the reporting centers on whether new radar-guided missile capability was the difference-maker in a high-stakes matchup

A high-schooler built BURT, a bionic “robot turtle” that follows autonomous search patterns and flags replicated coral bleaching with 96% accuracy, letting it monitor fragile waters without the noise and turbulence of propeller drones

While towers in London or New York can take years, a 26-story residential building in China went up in five days with about 100 workers by stacking factory-built modules, a proof point for a modular market already pegged around $95 billion annually

A billion-euro nuclear reactor driven by a particle accelerator is frozen, and a government decision could decide its fate

An SR-71 pilot recounts the mission when a Soviet MiG-25 launched a missile at the Blackbird, and the story reads like a real-time reminder of how close Cold War “intercepts” could get to becoming an incident

A Lockheed YF-12A flying at Mach 3.2 and 75,000 feet fired a missile that struck a target just 500 feet above the ground, a demonstration that still sounds unreal until you remember what that program was built to do

A country built a rocket from scratch inside a university, reached 500 meters, and now wants to enter Latin America’s space race

Ukraine could receive a wave of Gripen fighters, and Russia may face a jet built to fight from roads, not just air bases

A Nobel Prize chemist is turning dry air into 1,000 liters of water a day, and the machine could redraw the fight against drought

Turkey’s ALPAGU-B kamikaze drone now reaches four times farther, and its AI targeting could make operators much harder to find

Japan tests a solar system that gets more power from the same light, and the 130% lab result could break a photovoltaic limit

NASA detects a major city sinking from space at more than 2 centimeters a month, and the damage is already cracking it open

A country gives the green light to a mine for the “oil of the future,” and Europe’s race for critical metals just got louder

The world’s largest offshore wind farm is taking shape in the North Sea, but one giant cable will decide if it can power Britain

Turkey wants to carve an artificial canal beside the Bosphorus, and the move could turn Black Sea traffic into a new toll empire

The world’s largest tunnel boring machine is more than 100 meters long, and it is leading one of the most ambitious underground projects

The U.S. Embassy delivered two megadrones for glyphosate strikes on coca fields, and Colombia’s drug war just entered a new phase

Venezuela’s only experimental reactor just lost its enriched uranium, and the U.S.-backed operation exposes a nuclear risk near Caracas

China puts the J-35AE on the market as a direct F-35 rival, and the stealth fighter race just stopped being an American monopoly

Brazil’s 18-ton Guarani armored vehicle crosses water, carries 11 troops, and shows how wheeled armor is changing battlefield mobility

Morocco’s fog nets turn Atlantic mist into drinking water, and the system is replacing 4-hour walks with taps in desert villages

Earth’s 24-hour day is slowly breaking down, and the Moon’s invisible braking force could eventually stretch clocks to 25 hours

China built Asia’s largest rail station in two years, and its 5.1 million ft.² show how fast infrastructure can become a city engine

Italian architects printed a 60 m² house with local mud in 200 hours, and the result challenges bricks, concrete, and construction waste

It looked like ordinary ground, but acoustic signals under US infrastructure could expose tunnels no one can see

SpaceX’s 408-ft. Starship V3 finally flew, but the real test is refueling in orbit before NASA can bet on the Moon

Russia is lifting air-defense systems onto Moscow rooftops, and the image shows how far the drone war has moved inland

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