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Sunday, October 4, 2026
RoboDaily Oct 05, 2026 (SPX)

Four decades of development stand behind Iran drone industry

The drones Iran has launched in the thousands at Gulf states and US bases since the Middle East war began on February 28, 2026 come from an industry that has been under construction since the mid-1980s, according to rese...

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RoboDaily Oct 04, 2026 (AFP)
North Korea's Kim oversaw launch of missile that uses AI

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un oversaw the launch of a missile which allegedly used artificial intelligence to adjust its traject...

RoboDaily Oct 04, 2026 (AFP)
Philippines arrests 244 'mostly Chinese' workers in online scam crackdown

Philippines authorities arrested more than 200 "mostly Chinese" foreign workers in the country's largest crackdown on illegal onli...

RoboDaily Oct 04, 2026 (AFP)
Finnish town braces for change from Google data centres

In the northern Finnish town of Muhos, 36-year-old farmer Joni Pitkanen is preparing for life with a new neighbour -- just kilomet...

SkyNightly Oct 05, 2026 (SPX)
Lunar dust control moves from lab to Moon as crewed landings near

Engineers preparing for long stays on the Moon now have flight data showing that electric fields can clear lunar dust from hardwar...

Network Briefing - Cross-Domain Headlines
SinoDaily Silicone rubber composite seals in tritium and blocks radiation for fusion plants Prussian blue framework steadies perovskite solar cells from lab cells to 30 cm submodules Printed wallpaper harvests indoor humidity to power small electronics
DarwinDaily Sea-level records point to rapid polar wander episodes in the Jurassic and Cretaceous Mongolian microfossils push possible origin of animals back by 200 million years Brazil braces for results of election battle between Lula and Bolsonaro
SkyNightly Roman telescope ground stations on three continents pass full-rate downlink tests Nearby habitable-zone planets probably host microbes, not advanced life, study estimates Four thorium-229 sites mapped in calcium fluoride crystals for nuclear clock design
BeyondLEO Ramses spacecraft powered up for first time ahead of 2029 Apophis encounter Orbiter tracking data expose hot region in mantle beneath southern Mars Momentus tracks NASA CubeSat with low-cost LiDAR and camera suite in orbital proximity test
SolarCell Magenta semi-transparent solar panels let broccoli reach full size in Swedish field trial Biomass aerogel modeled on fish gills keeps solar evaporators free of salt Balloon-borne Sunrise-III finds thread-like magnetic structures above the quiet Sun
BatteryDaily Lignin gel made from paper mill black liquor generates power from waste heat and sunlight Russian drone hits Kyiv nuclear institute grounds, reactor undamaged Bulgaria's battery boom pays off as drought hits power plants
PolicyDaily L3Harris wins seven-year order worth over $6 billion to expand THAAD propulsion output Army chief says Israel must draw lessons from Oct 7 'failures' Iran tells US there is no military solution to Middle East war
DisasterDay Chiba typhoon losses reach 2.6 billion yen as next disaster threatens to outpace recovery CORRECTED: Five quakes rattle south Turkey, no injuries Storms, flooding cause chaos on Greek holiday island of Crete
ForestDaily Brazil's Indigenous back Lula as El Nino fuels forest fires Forest fire threatens tourist town in Colombian Andes Three injured in wildfire on Spain's Costa del Sol
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RoboDaily CAR TECH Oct 03, 2026 (AFP)
Asian carmakers besting US rivals at home, China set to strike

Major US automakers have watched their domestic market share shrink even more thanks to their Asian competitors -- a situation that may worsen if Chinese firms are able to enter th...

RoboDaily HIGHTECH Oct 03, 2026 (AFP)
US regulator finds Boeing 737 MAX software bug 'not a safety concern'

A software bug that delayed the US certification of Boeing's 737 MAX 10 aircraft does not pose a safety concern, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said Friday after an inve...

RoboDaily MOON Oct 02, 2026 (SPX)
NASA picks surface geophysics mission to probe for cave beneath lunar pit

NASA has selected a proposal led by the Planetary Science Institute to find out whether a large underground cave extends beyond the opening of a lunar pit. A cave of that kind coul...

RoboDaily HIGHTECH Oct 02, 2026 (AFP)
Trump expected to name intel chief Clayton as AI czar: reports

President Donald Trump is expected to name Jay Clayton, the US director of national intelligence, as the White House's new AI czar, CNN and other US media reported Friday.

SkyNightly EXTRA SOLAR Oct 04, 2026 (SPX)
Webb data indicate an atmosphere on HD 3167 b, the coolest lava world yet found with one

In the search for life beyond Earth, rocky planets with atmospheres are the natural first targets, since a planet without an atmosphere cannot hold surface water. Yet of the more t...

SolarCell FROTH AND BUBBLE Oct 04, 2026 (SPX)
Solar-activated catalyst in bin lid breaks down odors from rotting food waste

Garbage left outdoors begins to smell quickly, particularly in warm, humid climates that speed up food decay. Writing in the American Chemical Society journal Environmental Science...

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Network Domain Collections
Space & Science
BlackSky imagery to feed SkyFi satellite analytics app for Robinhood retail investors
SkyNightly
Quantum Decoherence Can Lock Cosmological Fields Into False Vacuums
NanoDaily
DAVINCI probe model survives six furnace runs at Venus surface temperature
BeyondLEO
HotSat-3 reaches orbit to give SatVu daily thermal imaging coverage
SkyNightly
Michigan State University Gets 20 Million Dollars to Build Diamond Semiconductor Facility for Space Applications
NanoDaily
Earth & Energy
Tanker damaged after attack in Hormuz: maritime agency
OilGasDaily
Sea levels to rise in California as coastal wave surges up west coast
SeedDaily
US miner KoBold bets on AI to gain edge in DR Congo mineral hunt
AfricaDaily
Standard Cameras Modified to Measure Solar Cell Quantum Efficiency
SolarCell
Flexible Composite Shields Fusion Reactors From Radiation While Sealing Tritium
BatteryDaily
Tech & Industry
Iranian oil minister quits, replaced by oil executive: presidency
PolicyDaily
Moldova summons Russia envoy over drone, missile incursions
RussoDaily
Amazon vows $1 bn for data center towns, decries 'myths'
RoboDaily
Thai Airways sacks CEO after floods flight chaos: reports
DisasterDay
Asian stocks hit as oil spike fans rate hike bets, eyes on US jobs
FiscalDaily
Wire Feed
PolicyDaily Oct 04, 2026 (AFP)
Yemen presidency announces military drive to retake all Houthi territory

Yemen's leader announced on Sunday the start of a new military operation to retake all territory held by the H...

PolicyDaily Oct 04, 2026 (AFP)
Iran airlines resume flights to Iraqi holy city after US exemption

Iranian airlines resumed flights to Iraq's Najaf on Sunday after the United States granted Baghdad an exemptio...

DarwinDaily Oct 04, 2026 (AFP)
Brazil votes in nail-biter polls closely watched by Trump

Brazilians started voting Sunday in a knife-edge race between President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and Flavio B...

PolicyDaily Oct 04, 2026 (AFP)
Houthis target Aramco sites in Saudi capital, Khurais area: statement

Yemen's Houthi military spokesman Yahya Saree on Sunday said the group launched a ballistic missile and drone ...