Analysis: Science & Technology — 04 November 2026 ESA Hera spacecraft resolves Didymos and Dimorphos as separate asteroids Europe’s Hera probe has imaged Didymos and Dimorphos as two distinct objects for the first time. On 18 October its Asteroid Framing Camera recorded the pair from about 1,280 kilometers; they lie some 197 million kilometers from … Read more
Analysis: Global — 03 November 2026 US midterms test Trump as Iran war and prices squeeze GOP seats Americans vote Tuesday in midterm elections that have become a test of President Donald Trump’s Iran war and the energy and food-price shock that followed it. Responsible Statecraft reports that South Carolina’s Senate race, long treated as … Read more
Analysis: Finance & Crypto — 03 November 2026 Bitcoin falls below $77,000 as fifth weekly loss looms ahead of US midterms Bitcoin fell about 2% to just under $77,000 in Tuesday Asian hours, erasing Monday’s rebound, then traded near $76,900 after a dip to about $76,300. A fifth consecutive weekly decline would mark its joint … Read more
Analysis: Europe — 03 November 2026 Tusk-aligned judges suspend Poland’s Constitutional Tribunal president as Nawrocki forces entry On the evening of 30 October, a judge close to Donald Tusk’s government, acting on instructions from Justice Minister Waldemar Żurek, suspended Constitutional Tribunal president Bogdan Święczkowski and vice-president Bartłomiej Sochański and claimed control of the court. Riot … Read more
Analysis: Science & Technology — 03 November 2026 LHC finds quark-gluon plasma in oxygen and neon collisions All four major Large Hadron Collider experiments—ALICE, ATLAS, CMS and LHCb—have now reported signs that quark-gluon plasma can form when oxygen and neon nuclei collide. The results, released a year after the LHC’s first oxygen runs, include jet … Read more
Analysis: Finance & Crypto — 02 November 2026 Binance records $6 billion outflows after reopening withdrawals from $6.3 billion hack Binance restored withdrawals at 06:00 UTC on Sunday, 1 November, after a roughly 45-hour freeze that followed the 29 October theft of about $6.3 billion. In the first nine and a half hours it processed … Read more
Analysis: Europe — 02 November 2026 Spain’s Sánchez calls 29 November snap election after Toledo train crash Spain’s Socialist prime minister Pedro Sánchez has called a snap general election for 29 November, nine months early. The campaign was first built around a housing-affordability crisis, including the televised eviction of 87-year-old Maricarmen Abascal from her Madrid … Read more
Analysis: Science & Technology — 02 November 2026 IBM links two 120-qubit processors with four superconducting cables IBM Research has joined two 120-qubit Nighthawk R1 superconducting processors with four separate quantum links, each an 80-centimeter aluminum cable installed after both chips were already mounted in a cryostat. Across the links, quantum states transferred with an … Read more
Analysis: Global — 31 October 2026 Senator Murphy calls US Iran war plan insane as Hormuz shuttle strains Senator Chris Murphy said on 29 October that he had been briefed on a U.S. war plan against Iran and that, without disclosing classified details, “the plan is insane.” Vice President JD Vance sent a letter to … Read more
Analysis: Finance & Crypto — 31 October 2026 Binance covers $6.3 billion hack tied to North Korea as bitcoin holds near $77,000 Attackers drained an estimated $6.3 billion from Binance hot wallets on Thursday, the largest crypto theft on record. About 18,270 bitcoin, worth roughly $1.4 billion, was split into 19 wallets that cannot be … Read more