NASA astronaut Anil Menon, who is of Indian origin, completed his second spacewalk in under two weeks on August 18, 2026, working alongside ESA astronaut Sophie Adenot to replace a critical communications antenna on the International Space Station.
The European Union's Women TechEU programme offers up to €75,000 in equity-free grants plus mentoring for women-led deep-tech startups, part of a broader set of EU funding routes aimed at closing the gender gap in hard-science entrepreneurship.
New data shows all-female founding teams captured just 2.3% of global venture capital in 2024, even as female entrepreneurship rises broadly — a gap that highlights how far the venture ecosystem remains from parity.
As sustainability conversations in fashion increasingly turn from materials and recycling toward the industry's underlying production volumes, designers and sustainability advocates are calling for the sector to confront overproduction directly.
Türkiye and Australia, as co-presidents of the upcoming COP31 climate summit in Antalya, are calling for renewed multilateral commitment on climate action, with clean energy and resilient infrastructure at the top of the agenda.
Dutch bank ABN AMRO has committed to developing an absolute emissions backstop by 2030, extending its earlier financed-emissions reduction pledges as European banks face growing pressure to detail climate strategy beyond the current decade.
Wind and solar power have together overtaken natural gas in global electricity generation for the first time, according to new energy-sector data, marking a symbolic turning point in the world's shift toward renewable power.
Nvidia is reportedly preparing to back approximately $100 billion in financing for OpenAI, deepening the chipmaker's financial entanglement with one of its largest customers as the AI infrastructure race accelerates.
Combined AI-related capital commitments among the world's largest technology companies are approaching $1.5 trillion, spanning chips, data centres and long-term power agreements, as the global AI infrastructure build-out accelerates.
Meta has released Glimmer, an open-weight AI model that anyone can download and run on their own hardware, positioning it as an accessible counterpart to Muse Spark, the company's more powerful, API-gated frontier model.