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Three reasons why UK electricity prices are so high
The government has announced it will cut VAT on domestic electricity to zero but Britons still pay more for power than many other European nations. Newsil...
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Brazil's Amazon sees sharp decline in size of area burned in 2025
The amount of land burned in the world's largest rainforest was the smallest since MapBiomas records began in 1985. Newsiline summarises this report from...
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Can airport really go carbon neutral amid plans to expand flights?
Campaigners say people just need to fly less amid unbearable heat and wildfires. Newsiline summarises this report from BBC News - Business and links reade...
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DW correspondent Alican Uludag re-arrested in Turkey
The latest arrest comes two months after he was released from detention on charges including "insulting" President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Newsiline summari...
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French lawmakers approve social media ban for children
Lawmakers in France gave the green light to a social media ban that could come into effect by the start of the new school year in September, becoming the...
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French lawmakers vote on social media ban for children
Lawmakers in France voted on a social media ban which could come into effect by the start of the new school year in September. Newsiline summarises this r...
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India: Police forcibly remove Rahul Gandhi from protest outside Modi residence
Rahul Gandhi and other leaders of the main opposition Congress party have been dragged away by police from a rally outside PM Narendra Modi's residence, a...
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Lindt's Easter chocolate sales fall after price hike
The Swiss chocolate maker adjusts its strategy in response to weaker demand after its price rises. Newsiline summarises this report from BBC News - Busine...
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NIAC 2026 Selections
Phase I Saptarshi BandyopadhyayDimming the Sun (DimSun) Using Controllable Dust Cloud to Reduce Solar InsolationNASA Jet Propulsion LaboratoryPasadena, CA...
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'Antifa' song climbs to top of charts after TV show cancellation
German rapper Danger Dan and pianist Igor Levitt had been invited to play a song for the 100th episode of a political satire show on public TV. Newsiline...
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Andy Burnham's (un)funded tax cut
Prime Minister Andy Burnham plans for a “cost of living government”. Newsiline summarises this report from BBC News - Top Stories and links readers to the...
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'Pressure is intense and scrutiny constant' - referee Taylor retires
Anthony Taylor announces his retirement from refereeing with immediate effect - ending a 20-year career. Newsiline summarises this report from BBC News -...
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Precision Astrometry Using Optically Independent Spacecraft for Graviational Wave Detection
Paul StankusBrookhaven Science Associates The scientific goal is to enable a new method for observing gravitational waves at low frequencies, based on the...
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Mapping Alien Continents: Achieving Optical VLBI for Exoplanet Imaging
Paul StankusBrookhaven Science Associates The scientific goal of the proposed work will be reconstructing the image, ie resolving surface features, of an...
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Interworld Slingshot Resource Surveys
Pablo SobronSETI Institute This proposal explores a new class of reconnaissance spacecraft that map minerals from orbit using Raman spectroscopy during hi...
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Robotically Assembled Electromagnetic Metamaterials for Long-Range Space Situational Awareness
David SmithDuke University The increasing population of spacefaring vehicles and satellites motivates increasingly powerful technologies for space situati...
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Photophoretic Tracers for Near-Space Remote Sensing at 30-100 km Altitudes
Benjamin SchaferRarified Technologies, Inc. Newsiline summarises this report from NASA - Recently Published and links readers to the original publisher fo...
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Actively Steerable Femtosat Constellations for In-situ Exploration of Saturn’s Rings, Atmosphere, and Magnetosphere
Michael RubensteinNorthwestern University, Chicago We propose a mission to use ~10,000 actively steerable femtosats to map the ring composition, atmospher...
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PRAXIS: Planetary Rings Autonomous EXploration with In-situ Sampling
Marco QuadrelliNASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Humanity has never touched the particles of a planetary ring, but if we were able to get close enough and sa...
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ECLIPSE – Efficient variable Conductivity Lunar Insulator for Passive Surveyor Environmental control
Austin Phoenix Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State A disaggregated lunar infrastructure requires novel thermal management methods to enable future...
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Plasmon-Enhanced Radioisotope Thermophotovoltaic (PRTPV) Power Generation for Interstellar Missions
Keunhan ParkUniversity of Utah This proposal seeks to develop a transformative energy system — the plasmon-enhanced radioisotope Thermophotovoltaic (PRTPV...
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Coilable Stacked Solar Sails for Very High delta-V Missions
Artur Davoyan University of California, Los Angeles The goal of the proposed program is to enable the next generation of solar sails featuring very high c...
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WATCH LIVE: Trump meets with Lebanese President Joseph Aoun in the Oval Office
Lebanon's president will meet with President Donald Trump on Tuesday to wrap up a four-day visit to Washington, in a bid for long-term calm after months o...
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B&M fined £2m over serious food hygiene failings at Birmingham shops
Mouse droppings and gnawed food are found after inspections at three stores in the city. Newsiline summarises this report from BBC News - Business and lin...
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'Irresponsible': Russia conducts live-fire weapons exercise off English coast
A UK minister has confirmed that a Russian naval vessel conducted a "live-fire weapons exercise" in international waters off the coast of Plymouth in sout...
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Is the internet broken?
75% of the world is online, and in many ways it makes all our lives better. Newsiline summarises this report from BBC News - Business and links readers to...
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A former Democratic Party chair's plan to save democracy
Ben Wikler chaired the Democratic Party of Wisconsin for six years, leading to victories in numerous key contests in the battleground state. Newsiline sum...
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The fallout from Pauline Hanson’s Euro Summer – podcast
There has been no end to the negative headlines generated in response to comments made by Pauline Hanson on her trip overseas – and it has forced members...
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Speed, skill and strategy: BMX racing world championships – in pictures
Australians Jesse Asmus and Olympic champion Saya Sakakibara make the podium as Brisbane hosts 3,000 riders from 41 nations for the global event The best...
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Ads call ovarian cancer a ‘silent killer’. But does urging women to undergo early detection testing do more harm than good? | Antiviral
Website offering blood check is aimed at people with a higher risk of disease – and false positives can create fear Read more in the Antiviral series “Ear...
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RBA now twice as likely to hike interest rate as US-Iran war drives fuel prices higher
Experts warn global energy market at a ‘critical juncture’ with escalating Middle East crisis expected to further drag on a slowing Australian economy Fol...
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Kate Ellis is back – and the heat of political debate is higher than ever, incoming Labor president says
The former Rudd/Gillard government minister has a plan for fighting back against populists including Pauline Hanson Follow our Australia news live blog fo...
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The Queensland government promised to put victims first. Instead it buried a report from domestic violence survivors
Exclusive: Report from LNP-convened panel heavily criticises police responses to family violence and calls for civilian oversight Get our breaking news em...
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Organised crime, cost and the CFMEU: why Victoria’s construction scandal is threatening to derail a government
The $100bn ‘Big Build’ promised to transform the state’s transport infrastructure. Newsiline summarises this report from The Guardian Australia and links...
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Historic $350m NSW funding boost helps launch new Aboriginal family program to help children ‘tell their own stories’
Holistic approach to care which preserves children’s identities part of Minns government reforms to broader child protection system Get our breaking news...
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WATCH LIVE: House Oversight hearing examines how the Smithsonian presents U.S. history, under attack by Trump
In President Donald Trump's second term, his administration has sought to clamp down on how American history is framed in public spaces. Newsiline summari...