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The world added 605 GW of new PV capacity in 2025, says IEA

Global Solar Additions Hit 605 Gigawatts in 2025 as PV Output Surges, IEA Says

The world added 605 GW of new solar PV capacity in 2025, according to the IEA.
Solar generation rose by 600 TWh, the biggest one-year increase for any source outside rebound periods.
Solar now accounts for more than 8% of global electricity generation.

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DT Editorial Team·Apr 22, 2026·via pv-magazine.com

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Air Force eyes massive boost for F-15EX fleet - Breaking Defense

Air Force Plans Major Expansion of F-15EX Fleet as Defense Spending Rises

The Air Force now plans to buy 267 F-15EX fighters, up from a previous plan for 129.
Fiscal 2027 would include 24 F-15EXs and 38 F-35As under a much larger Air Force budget.
Sustainment and flying hour accounts would also rise sharply, supporting readiness alongside procurement.

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DT Editorial Team·Apr 22, 2026·via breakingdefense.com

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Wearing a camouflaged uniform and helmet, Marine Corps Cpl. Calvin Burke holds his arm outstretched as he activates a small drone to survey the defensive line for opposing forces during a simulated assault and seizure at Glen Airfield, Queensland, Australia, July 2025.

Pentagon Seeks $53.6 Billion for Drones in Historic Autonomous Warfare Push

The Defense Department wants $53.6 billion for drone and counter-drone programs in fiscal 2027.
The request sits under the Defense Autonomous Warfare Group, which had only about $226 million in fiscal 2026.
An additional $20.6 billion would support one-way attack drones and collaborative combat aircraft programs.

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DT Editorial Team·Apr 22, 2026·via arstechnica.com

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Analog computing from waste heat

Waste Heat Becomes a Computing Medium in New Analog Chip Research

Researchers encoded information as temperature rather than electrical bits inside microscopic silicon structures.
The system performed a simple matrix-vector multiplication with more than 99% accuracy in many cases.
Near-term uses may include thermal sensing and heat-source detection rather than large-scale AI computation.

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DT Editorial Team·Apr 22, 2026·via technologyreview.com

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A Trusted Adult Can Blunt the Lifelong Health Toll of Childhood Abuse, Study Finds

Childhood physical or sexual abuse was linked to worse adult physical and mental health outcomes.
Feeling consistently safe with a protective adult reduced the strength of many of those associations.
The study highlights resilience and protective factors among American Indian and Alaska Native adults.

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Pentagon details funding strategy behind Trump’s proposed $1.45 trillion defense budget

Space Force Budget Proposal More Than Doubles as Pentagon Seeks Rapid Military Buildout in Orbit

The U.S. Space Force would rise to a proposed $71.2 billion in fiscal 2027, more than double 2026 enacted funding.
Nearly $50 billion is aimed at R&D and procurement, alongside 31 national security launches.
Part of the defense increase would rely on congressional reconciliation, an unusual path for military spending.

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Sea Stars Show Early Immune Failure Before Wasting Disease Turns Lethal

Researchers detected immune and neurological disruption in sunflower sea stars before visible wasting symptoms.
The work adds early biomarkers to a disease that has killed billions of sea stars since 2013.
Sunflower sea stars are key predators of sea urchins, so their loss can destabilize kelp forest ecosystems.

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NASA on Track for Future Missions with Initial Artemis II Assessments (via nasa.gov)

NASA Begins Post-Flight Assessments After Artemis II Splashdown

Artemis II successfully splashed down on Earth, according to the supplied source text.
NASA engineers have begun detailed post-flight data analysis.
The assessment includes key systems and subsystems on Orion and SLS.
The review is intended to inform future Artemis missions.

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Building agent-first governance and security

Agentic AI Is Forcing Enterprises to Rethink Governance and Security Controls

Nearly 74% of companies plan to deploy agentic AI within two years, according to the cited Deloitte report.
Only 21% report mature governance for autonomous agents.
Executives cite privacy, security, legal, IP, regulatory, and oversight concerns.
The article argues for a centralized control plane for agents, tools, permissions, policies, and models.

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Natural Antioxidant Research Expands Toward Kidney Stone Patients

The research began with cystinuria, a rare genetic disorder affecting about 1 in 7,000 people.
Cystinuria causes recurrent cystine stone formation.
The work focuses on the therapeutic potential of a natural antioxidant.
The supplied source text does not establish the antioxidant as an approved or proven treatment.

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Shared Leaf-Growth Rules Link Mosses and Thale Cress Across 400 Million Years

A Science Advances study compared mosses and Arabidopsis thaliana.
The organisms have evolved separately for about 400 million years.
The study reports similar cellular dynamics during leaf formation.
The finding points to shared developmental principles across distant plant lineages.

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Rare T Cells Implicated in Inflammatory Cascade Behind Liver Fibrosis

A Julius Maximilian University of Wurzburg study examined immune cell networks in liver disease.
The study links a rare T cell type to signaling that amplifies inflammation.
The inflammatory cascade is reported to contribute to liver fibrosis.
The supplied source text supports a mechanistic finding, not a new treatment.

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How to operate PV-driven residential heat pumps under time-varying tariffs

Dynamic Heat-Pump Scheduling Could Cut Costs for Homes With Rooftop Solar

Cranfield University researchers built a scheduling model for residential heat pumps.
The system accounts for dynamic tariffs and uncertain rooftop PV generation.
It optimizes use of grid power, solar power, and building thermal storage.
The goal is to lower electricity costs while maintaining indoor comfort.

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Digging for clues about the North Pole’s past

Arctic Seafloor Cores Could Clarify When the North Pole Last Lost Its Summer Ice

Researchers traveled to the central Arctic in 2025 aboard the Kronprins Haakon.
The expedition collected seafloor sediment cores up to 22 meters long.
The work aims to determine whether the North Pole was ice-free during recent Earth history.
Findings could improve understanding of sea-ice loss, ecosystems, circulation, and global climate.

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Personalizing ChatGPT

OpenAI Pushes a More Personalized ChatGPT Through Custom Instructions and Memory

OpenAI says ChatGPT works better when users provide stable context and preferences
Custom instructions are positioned as a default working-style layer for new chats
Memory is framed as a user-managed way to carry recurring context across conversations

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European electricity prices increase despite falling gas prices

European Power Prices Rise Even as Gas Falls, With Solar Records Softening the Blow in Three Markets

Weekly electricity prices rose across most major European markets despite lower TTF gas futures
France, Portugal and Spain posted lower averages and each set new April daily solar generation records
The divergence highlights how renewable output is increasingly reshaping Europe's power price dynamics

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Some thinkers say that technological civilizations could grow to the point where they can build Dyson Spheres around stars, capturing a star's energy output for their own use. But new research says that it depends on how they govern themselves, how they use resources, and how they recover from collapse. Sadly, some types of civilization appear to be doomed. Image Credit: Kevin Gill/ Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.0).

New Modeling Study Asks Which Technological Civilizations Can Survive Collapse

A new preprint examines 10 types of technological civilizations and their collapse-recovery dynamics
The study links civilization endurance to governance, resource use and resilience after breakdown
Its findings feed into astrobiology debates about the Fermi paradox and why advanced civilizations may be hard to detect

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The Ioniq 3 is a sexy supermini that shouts: I am not a emission-free utility vehicle

Hyundai’s Ioniq 3 Arrives as a Design-Led Electric Supermini for Europe

Hyundai says the Ioniq 3 offers up to 308 miles of range and 29-minute 10% to 80% charging
The compact EV uses a 400-volt system and comes with 133-bhp or 145-bhp front-drive powertrains
Hyundai is using design and cabin packaging to stand out in Europe's crowded small-EV market

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Internal emails show how Amazon raises prices across the Internet, lawsuit says

California Case Against Amazon Gains Force With Newly Unsealed Pricing Emails

California says newly unsealed emails show Amazon influenced prices beyond its own storefront
The lawsuit describes three ways Amazon allegedly pushed vendors or rivals toward higher prices
The case is becoming a broader test of how antitrust law applies to platform power in online retail

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ATLAS Uses Proton-Oxygen Collisions to Recreate Cosmic-Ray Showers in the Lab

The LHC ran proton-oxygen collisions for the first time in July 2025
ATLAS measured charged-particle production to test models used by cosmic-ray observatories
The data could improve simulations of atmospheric particle showers caused by space-borne high-energy particles

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