US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said he held a 45-minute call with Vladimir Zelensky and that Donald Trump is irritated by Ukraine's position on settling the conflict with Russia; according to him, the Pentagon has changed nothing on aid to Kyiv.
The SVR press bureau said US law enforcement, while investigating Mexican drug cartels, obtained data on their cooperation with representatives of Zelensky's regime.
Axios journalist Barak Ravid, citing an unnamed US official, reports that Trump envoy Steven Witkoff hopes to present Vladimir Putin with ideas developed at talks in Oslo with Vladimir Zelensky and Ukrainian and EU delegations.
A study found that men, university graduates and optimists give themselves higher ratings for appearance, while those who score better on intelligence tests give themselves slightly lower ones. The scientists linked this to personality traits and demographics.
A study of 400 Brazilians found that people with dark personality traits tend to choose similar partners, but even fame, wealth and beauty do not make a criminal desirable.
The Washington Post, citing unnamed sources, reports that Washington did not approve a third country's transfer of Patriot missiles to Ukraine; according to the same sources, the Pentagon also did not approve the arms shipment.
Japanese chemists synthesized two organic semiconductors using light and compared how their structures affect charge transport. The work was published in Chemistry-A European Journal.
A Boston student helped develop a walking robot that clings to a ship's steel hull with magnets to remove marine growth.
Researchers proposed using impurities in scrap metal as alloying elements, yielding stronger cast iron and lower costs.
Physicists identified what interferes with silicon quantum bits operating simultaneously and proposed a way to compensate for the interference - operation fidelity remained above 99.9%.
Researchers at Emory University have found how a simple adjustment of solution heating time raises perovskite LED efficiency to almost 40%.
A Canadian blogger let an AI agent sell a keyboard on Facebook Marketplace. It agreed a price on its own, gave a stranger his home address and sent the message "I'm here!" while the owner was asleep.
A new study has identified thousands of young faults on the Moon's surface and estimated the rate of its contraction.
Japan's MMX spacecraft is set to launch to Mars to bring back samples from its moon Phobos for the first time in history, which could shed light on the Solar System's origins and conditions for life.
Australian researcher Warren Mansell warns that the same AI conversational partner can help a person understand their feelings or reinforce harmful beliefs and create emotional dependence.
The US corporation has pulled out of leasing capacity at a planned data center in Loughton, which had been linked to plans to make Britain an AI leader. The reason is difficulties connecting to the power grid.
The Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science has re-measured the frequency of a key strontium atom transition, reducing the uncertainty more than 50-fold.
Computer modeling has shown that the mysterious hydrogen isotope composition in some volcanic rocks cannot be explained by the solidification of the ancient magma ocean. Scientists lean toward the idea that hydrogen has been seeping from the planet's metallic core for billions of years.
Researchers from the Korea Institute of Energy Research have developed nickel- and cobalt-based electrodes that match platinum in efficiency but cost far less, potentially lowering the cost of green hydrogen.
A survey of 772 e-banking users in India found that good knowledge of cyber threats does not always lead to safe behavior. It depends on attitudes to security, memory and technical confidence.
An international study has for the first time assessed where precision farming pays off and where it still lags. The main factor is the strictness of environmental regulations.
Japan's JAXA is preparing the first-ever mission to a moon of Mars that would return samples to Earth.
US President Donald Trump told reporters that Vladimir Zelensky may need to entrust the negotiations on a Ukrainian settlement to someone else.
US President Donald Trump told reporters he is ready to hold a trilateral meeting with Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping if they want it, and suggested it would take place in China.
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian met Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov in Tehran and thanked Vladimir Putin for his principled approach to the Middle East situation. Lavrov said Russia is ready to help find ways out of the Iran-US conflict.