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BUDGET 2026-27 : Multiple risks looms over next-year budget, finance ministry warns

Dawn

BUDGET 2026-27 : Multiple risks looms over next-year budget, finance ministry warns

• $40 price spike per oil barrel risks adding 0.8pc to deficit • Natural disasters threaten 1.5pc fiscal hit • Tax exemptions, concessions risk a 1.3pc budget hole • 10pc tax collection shortfall costs 0.7pc of GDP • Loss-making state…

Dawn

Crypto token’s 50% wipeout shows magnitude of AI-hacking threat

Crypto token’s 50% wipeout shows magnitude of AI-hacking threat

The same AI tools helping developers audit code are also lowering the barriers for attackers, creating an arms race across the industry, researchers say.

The waste-to-sand plant that could pave the way for China’s zero waste coal goal

South China Morning Post

The waste-to-sand plant that could pave the way for China’s zero waste coal goal

In China’s premier coal province Shanxi, a massive project that converts ultra-hard coal waste into high-value industrial materials – has begun operations, bringing the country’s zero waste goal for the fossil fuel industry a step closer…

South China Morning Post

NDLEA arrests businessman with 6kg cocaine at Lagos airport

Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have arrested a Brazil-based Nigerian businessman, Abugu Oliver Ikechukwu, for allegedly attempting to smuggle 6.10 kilograms of liquid cocaine into the country through the…

‘Why Nigerian agric products get rejected in foreign markets’

Mr. Kudzai Gumunyu, FCMB Divisional Head of Agribusiness and Non-Oil Exports in this interview highlighted how FCMB is transforming agribusinesses in Nigeria and empowering smallholder farmers to improve on Nigeria’s food security. N…

SpaceX’s $1.75 Trillion Gamble

“Only when the tide goes out do you discover who’s been swimming naked.” — Warren Buffett You’ve probably heard of SpaceX—the company launching rockets, sending astronauts to space, and running the Starlink satellite internet service. Now…

How AI is revealing the secret lives of animals from hummingbirds to pumas

Nature, Published online: 15 June 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-01887-w Advances in machine learning and other technologies are helping researchers to trace the movements, landmarks and social practices of wildlife.

‘Every box has been opened’: London botanic gardens digitizes 7 million specimens

Nature, Published online: 15 June 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-01917-7 As Kew Botanic Gardens completes a scan of its collections, AI tools could help in the fight against biodiversity loss.

The latest benefit of obesity drugs: boosting testosterone and sperm quality

Nature, Published online: 15 June 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-01867-0 Preliminary study finds that testosterone levels increase or stabilize in people taking GLP-1 medications.

SpaceX’s unlikely journey from far-out idea to $2 trillion juggernaut

ScienceJun 14, 2026 · 1 min

SpaceX’s unlikely journey from far-out idea to $2 trillion juggernaut

SpaceX's success has never been a sure thing, and the company has alternated between eye-catching failures and resounding successes.

ScienceJun 14, 2026 · 1 min

Globally significant volcanic event formed Giant’s Causeway, scientists find

The Guardian

Globally significant volcanic event formed Giant’s Causeway, scientists find

Geochronologists say Antrim coastline’s basalt columns developed over 5.5m years – 8m less than thought For centuries, the tale has been passed from generation to generation: how the Irish giant Finn McCool built the Giant’s Causeway in…

The Guardian