Новости за 21.01.2026

Eternal — the parent company of Zomato and Blinkit — announced in a stock exchange filing on Wednesday that its founder Deepinder Goyal has resigned from his position as CEO. The company has named Blinkit founder and CEO Albinder Dhindsa Goyal’s successor, effective February 1.

Rifaat al-Assad, the brother of the late Syrian President Hafez al-Assad known by critics as the "butcher of Hama" for crushing an Islamist uprising in the city in 1982 before unsuccessfully...

House Democrats remain largely silent on whether they'll support GOP contempt resolutions against the Clintons over alleged Epstein probe defiance in Congress.

David Beckham and Victoria Beckham are spreading the love. Two days after their 26-year-old son Brooklyn Beckham detailed their estrangement in a lengthy social media statement, the couple...

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 21, 2026
An international team of astronomers has developed a new way to extract solar polar magnetic information from more than a century of historical observations, improving prospects for predicting future solar cycle activity. The work combines data from the Kodaikanal Solar Observatory in India with modern measurements to reconstruct the behavior of the Sun's polar magnetic field over more than 100

Berlin, Germany (SPX) Jan 21, 2026
Astronomers have assembled the most detailed view so far of planetary systems in a long elusive stage between their birth and maturity, using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) in Chile. The ALMA survey to Resolve exoKuiper belt Substructures (ARKS) has produced the sharpest images yet of 24 debris discs, the dusty belts that remain once the main phase of planet formation is

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 21, 2026
A Simon Fraser University cosmologist reports that new theoretical work on primordial magnetic fields could move researchers closer to resolving the longstanding Hubble tension, the mismatch in measurements of how fast the universe is expanding today. The Hubble tension arises because two precise approaches to determining the Hubble constant give significantly different results, despite dr

Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Jan 21, 2026
An international team has shown that natural electromagnetic chorus waves, long known in Earths magnetosphere, also occur in Mercurys much weaker magnetosphere with strikingly similar frequency behavior. The work uses coordinated observations from the BepiColombo Mercury Magnetospheric Orbiter Mio during six Mercury flybys between 2021 and 2025, together with decades of data from Earths GEOTAIL

Berlin, Germany (SPX) Jan 21, 2026
New experiments show that key molecular building blocks for life can form spontaneously on icy dust grains in deep space long before planets emerge from collapsing gas clouds. In a laboratory at Aarhus University and at the HUN-REN Atomki facility in Hungary, researchers Sergio Ioppolo and Alfred Thomas Hopkinson reproduced the extreme conditions in giant interstellar dust clouds, where te

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 21, 2026
Quantum mechanics describes a microscopic world in which particles exist in a superposition of states, being in multiple places and configurations at once, encoded in a mathematical object called a wavefunction. But this picture clashes with everyday experience, where objects appear in definite locations and configurations, never in superpositions. To account for this, standard quantum the

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 21, 2026
The giant planet Jupiter has nearly 100 known moons, but none has captured scientific attention quite like Europa, which likely hides a global salty ocean beneath an icy crust that may contain twice as much water as all of Earth's oceans combined. A new modeling study led by Washington University in collaboration with Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) suggests that, despite this ocean,

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 21, 2026
A new geophysics study proposes a mechanism that could move life-sustaining nutrients from the battered surface of Europa down into its buried global ocean, improving the odds that the Jovian moon could support microbial life. Europa, one of Jupiters largest moons, holds more liquid water beneath its frozen shell than all of Earths oceans combined, but the ocean is sealed away under thick

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 21, 2026
While Io, the most volcanically active moon in the solar system, appears completely dry and devoid of water ice, its neighbor Europa is thought to harbor a vast global ocean of liquid water beneath an icy crust. A new international study co-led by Aix-Marseille University and Southwest Research Institute finds that this stark contrast in water content was imprinted at birth as the moons formed a

Boston MA (SPX) Jan 21, 2026
Over the years, passing spacecraft have observed mystifying weather patterns at the poles of Jupiter and Saturn. The two planets host very different types of polar vortices, which are huge atmospheric whirlpools that rotate over a planet's polar region. On Saturn, a single massive polar vortex appears to cap the north pole in a curiously hexagonal shape, while on Jupiter, a central polar vortex

Sydney, Australia (SPX) Jan 21, 2026
ExLabs has partnered with Japan's Chiba Institute of Technology and its Planetary Exploration Research Center to deliver university-led payloads to the surface of asteroid Apophis during its close approach to Earth in 2029. The ApophisExL mission is described as the world's first commercial deep-space rideshare and is supported through mission design and operations collaboration with NASA's Jet

Washington DC (SPX) Jan 20, 2026
A long-standing idea in planetary science proposes that water rich meteorites arriving late in Earth history delivered a major share of the planet's water inventory. A new study led by researchers at Universities Space Research Association and the University of New Mexico uses the Moon's surface record to impose strict limits on that scenario, concluding that impacts over the last 4 billion year

Sydney, Australia (SPX) Jan 21, 2026
Gilmour Space Technologies has raised 217 million Australian dollars in private equity funding to accelerate the next phase of its sovereign space operations in Australia. The Series E round was jointly led by the National Reconstruction Fund Corporation (NRFC) and superannuation fund Hostplus, with participation from Future Fund, Blackbird, Funds SA, HESTA, NGS Super, Main Sequence, QIC,

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 21, 2026
Stratolaunch has completed a significant capital raise to accelerate the growth of its hypersonic test and flight services business, adding Elliott Investment Management L.P. as a new investor alongside existing backer Cerberus Capital Management, L.P. The new funding is intended to rapidly expand Stratolaunch's role in the American defense industrial base through higher production rates and mor

Berlin (AFP) Jan 19, 2026
Germany on Monday reintroduced electric car subsidies as it seeks to accelerate the transition to less polluting vehicles, drawing praise from industry groups but criticism from environmentalists who demanded greater efforts. Sales of electric vehicles (EVs) in Europe's biggest auto market are growing but progress has been patchy, and the government and the struggling auto sector are keen to

Brussels, Belgium (AFP) Jan 20, 2026
The EU is expected on Tuesday to unveil plans to keep "high-risk" Chinese suppliers away from European critical infrastructure, as the bloc ramps up efforts to reduce dependencies on third countries. Relations between Brussels and Beijing are strained as the European Union has taken an increasingly tough line on trade issues with China. The EU in particular takes umbrage at what it descr

Beijing (AFP) Jan 20, 2026
Before DeepSeek shook up the tech world and put Chinese artificial intelligence on the map, Wu Chenglin's own startup had nearly folded three times - but in the past year it has raised $30 million. The January 2025 release of a low-cost generative AI model from DeepSeek that performed at a similar level to ChatGPT and other top American chatbots upended assumptions of US dominance in the se

Moscow (AFP) Jan 20, 2026
Russia said Tuesday the United States has not released two Russian crew members of a tanker seized in the North Atlantic despite promising to do so. The United States took over the Russian-flagged Marinera earlier this month, alleging it was part of a shadow fleet of tankers carrying oil to countries such as Venezuela, Russia and Iran in violation of US sanctions. "We were assured that

Berlin, Germany (SPX) Jan 21, 2026
Tank trucks in Mannheim can now load customized blends of fossil and renewable fuels from a new pilot plant that documents greenhouse gas savings for every delivery. The inline blending facility, located at the tank farm of Exolum Mannheim GmbH, enables flexible mixing of electricity based or biogenic fuels with conventional products and provides immediate, digital verification of their climate

Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Jan 21, 2026
Osaka Metropolitan University scientists have developed a single organic molecule that naturally forms the internal p/n junctions needed for converting sunlight into electricity, offering a potential shortcut to more efficient organic thin film solar cells. The study shows how careful molecular design and self assembly can generate stable nanoscale p/n heterojunctions without the need to physica