Here's your AnewZ Daily Brief for 18 September 2026. These are the top five stories making headlines in the field of science.
SpaceX said it was preparing to launch its next Starship flight test on or before 22 September, a mission expected to send the vehicle into orbit for the first time and deploy Starlink V3 satellites. Starship's 14th test flight would mark a major leap in the rocket's development over its last test in July.
New research based on satellite data dating back to the 1970s has documented major polar ice losses in Greenland and Antarctica - home to Earth's two great ice sheets, that have contributed to rising global sea levels. Between 1979 and 2023, according to data from 27 satellite missions, Greenland and Antarctica lost a combined 11.3 trillion tons of ice.
NASA says the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope could have a potential operational lifespan of up to 22 years, even before reaching its planned orbit. Ahead of its launch last month, the U.S. space agency had said Roman was designed for a five-year primary mission, plus a five-year extended mission, with a 10-year fuel budget in total.
Augustus, ancient Rome’s first emperor, placed the gilded Milliarium Aureum, or Golden Milestone, in the Roman Forum in 20 BC to mark the symbolic starting point of the empire’s roads. Researchers have now conducted a detailed structural analysis of the network, which stretched roughly 190,000 miles (300,000 km) across Europe, the Middle East and North Africa.
A previously unknown species of tiny wild cat has been identified in Bolivia’s cloud forests, marking the first formal description of a new living cat species in more than a century. Known as Tilcayo by local communities, the tiger cat measures about 46 cm long and weighs around 1.4 kg, making it smaller than an average domestic cat.
Leaders of countries from the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) have agreed to hold coordinated population censuses around 2030. They took t...
Saudi Arabia has restored its vital East-West oil pipeline to near-full capacity, but escalating Houthi attacks on energy facilities, airports and ...
Here's your AnewZ Daily Brief for 9 October 2026 with five key developments from the CIS summit in Turkmenistan....
Leaders of countries from the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) have agreed to hold coordinated population censuses around 2030. They took the decision at the CIS Council of Heads of State meeting in Awaza, Turkmenistan on Friday, media reported.
Russia struck Ukraine overnight in one of the biggest attacks of the conflict, killing at least 19 people, Kyiv's Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday. Around 70 missiles were fired at Ukraine during the attack, as well as drones, the Ministry said.
The Saudi-led coalition says it has carried out a series of military operations against Houthi targets in Yemen after attacks on two Saudi airports left three people dead and dozens injured.
Azerbaijan and the five Central Asian states have signed two key documents at the 8th Consultative Meeting of Heads of State in Turkmenbashi, formalising a broader framework for regional cooperation in transport, trade, energy, digitalisation and security.
It started with classrooms. Too many students, not enough teachers, deteriorating buildings and growing anxiety over what comes after high school. But within weeks, a movement that began outside French lycées had spread across the country.
Microsoft has introduced new tools to stop AI agents from accessing data without permission, alongside a Nvidia-powered Surface laptop that can run advanced AI directly on the device.
Picture three scenarios: a hospital that can spot a disease before the patient feels sick, a power grid that feeds thousands of data centres and a government network that is attacked daily. All three depend on artificial intelligence, and one question matters most: who is really in charge?
OpenAI and Anthropic told Australian parliament on Tuesday they would welcome laws requiring them to report data breaches carried out by their AI agents, acknowledging the decision to notify authorities was currently at their discretion.
Most people meet artificial intelligence (AI) through a phone. It suggests the next word, sorts the photos, flags the odd charge on a bank card. But the technology has been quietly moving into places where mistakes cost more: the systems that run banks, hospitals, businesses and government offices.
A four-person crew aboard SpaceX's Crew-13 mission, consisting of two U.S. astronauts, a Canadian astronaut and a Russian cosmonaut, arrived at the International Space Station (ISS) on Thursday (1 October), for a long-duration science mission focused on human health and performance in orbit.
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