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Clean Energy & Climate Transition 24 Oct 2026, 02:00 PM IST

KiCad Moves Toward the Browser, Signaling a New Front in Open-Source Hardware Design

Hackaday’s report on KiCad in the browser points to a potentially important shift in how open-source electronics design tools are accessed, shared, and deployed. If the project matures, it could lower barriers for engineers, students, and distributed hardware teams while preserving the workflow advantages that made KiCad a standard in the open-source ecosystem.

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Clean Energy & Climate Transition15 Oct 2026, 08:09 AM IST

Kirigami-Inspired Designs Point to New Paths for Functional Clean-Tech Materials

A Hackaday feature on kirigami-based design is drawing attention to a deceptively simple idea with broad implications for clean energy and climate technology: cutting and folding thin materials to make them stronger, more flexible, and more useful. The technique could help engineers build lighter solar arrays, adaptable sensors, and deployable structures that reduce material use while improving performance.

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Clean Energy & Climate Transition07 Oct 2026, 11:01 PM IST

Scientists Report Hexagonal Ice Under Extreme Pressure, Opening New Clues on Water in Planetary Interiors

Researchers have identified a hexagonal-packed form of ice produced under extreme pressure, a finding that sharpens scientific understanding of how water behaves far beyond everyday conditions. The result is relevant to climate and clean-energy science because high-pressure ice phases shape models of planetary interiors, cryogenic systems, and the physics of water in extreme environments.

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Defence, Intelligence & Aerospace07 Oct 2026, 09:51 PM IST

War Department Moves to Shield U.S. Midterms From Foreign Interference

The War Department is preparing to support efforts to protect the Nov. 3 U.S. midterm elections from foreign interference, as voters across all 435 House seats and a third of the Senate head to the polls in roughly 470 contests. The move underscores growing concern that hostile actors could seek to exploit the political and information environment surrounding one of the country’s largest electoral events.

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World Politics & Diplomacy06 Oct 2026, 08:54 PM IST

Kenya Confirms First Ebola Death as Regional Outbreak Deepens

Kenya has confirmed its first Ebola-related death, marking a troubling escalation as the disease continues to spread across East and Central Africa. The patient had been living in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where Ebola has already killed more than 4,000 people this year, underscoring the cross-border nature of the public health threat.

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World Politics & Diplomacy06 Oct 2026, 04:10 PM IST

Oleshky Faces Hunger as War Turns the City into a Kill Zone

The Russian-occupied Ukrainian city of Oleshky is sliding deeper into a humanitarian emergency as food shortages intensify, movement is constrained by drones and landmines, and aid access remains severely restricted. Reports from the area describe a population trapped between military control, destroyed infrastructure and a tightening blockade that is pushing civilians toward starvation.

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Global Health & Biotech06 Oct 2026, 08:29 AM IST

AstraZeneca CEO Says Summit Drug Could Anchor Next Wave of Cancer Combinations After $2 Billion Bet

AstraZeneca Chief Executive Pascal Soriot said Summit Therapeutics’ cancer drug could become a foundation for the next generation of combination therapies, underscoring why the Anglo-Swedish drugmaker has committed about $2 billion to the biotech. The comments come as AstraZeneca and Daiichi Sankyo move to test Summit’s ivonescimab alongside Datroway, a sign that large pharmaceutical groups are racing to secure the most promising assets in oncology.

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World Politics & Diplomacy05 Oct 2026, 04:06 PM IST

Nobel Medicine Prize Honors Brain Research as Global Scientific Prestige Takes Center Stage

The 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to three scientists for research that deepens understanding of brain activity, according to the Nobel committee and major international outlets. The recognition underscores how neuroscience remains one of the most consequential frontiers in modern science, with implications for medicine, aging, and disorders of cognition and perception.

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Clean Energy & Climate TransitionJust now (04:23 PM IST)

Open-Source Tricorder Pushes Science-First Sensing Into the Climate Era

A new open-source tricorder project highlighted by Hackaday underscores how low-cost, modular sensing tools are moving from hobbyist curiosity toward practical scientific instrumentation. In a clean-energy and climate-transition context, the device points to a broader shift: communities, researchers, and makers are increasingly building their own measurement platforms rather than waiting for proprietary systems to arrive.

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Clean Energy & Climate TransitionJust now (07:57 AM IST)

Open-Source Tricorder Pushes Climate Science Toward the Edge

A new open-source tricorder project highlighted by Hackaday is drawing attention for its science-first approach to portable environmental sensing. In a sector increasingly shaped by climate monitoring, citizen science, and low-cost instrumentation, the device underscores how maker-built hardware can broaden access to data without waiting for proprietary platforms.

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Clean Energy & Climate TransitionJust now (02:17 PM IST)

First Radio Signals From an Exoplanet Open a New Window on Habitability

Astronomers have reported the first direct detection of radio signals from an exoplanet, a finding that could reshape how scientists study alien worlds and their magnetic environments. The result does not confirm life, but it strengthens the case that radio astronomy may become a crucial tool in the search for habitable planets beyond the solar system.

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