Week ending 30 August 2026

The mission launched at 7:26 a.m. EDT Sunday aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket from Launch Complex 39A at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

The ground control team at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, began receiving telemetry data from Roman seven minutes after launch.

The Falcon Heavy rocket performed as expected, separating from the observatory 31 minutes into the flight.

The eligible depositors would be entitled to receive deposit insurance claim amount of their deposits up to a monetary ceiling of ₹5,00,000/- (Rupees Five Lakh only) in the same capacity and in the same right, from the Deposit Insurance and Credit Guarantee Corporation (DICGC), as applicable under the provisions of the DICGC Act, 1961, based on submission of willingness by the depositors concerned and after due verification.

The bank will continue to undertake banking business subject to restrictions specified in the said Directions till its financial position improves.

A study from Jharkhand’s Mahuadanr Wolf Sanctuary found that wolf attacks on livestock occurred most likely at night and early morning, during winter and early summer, and near forest edges.

A new study has now identified when, where and why wolves are most likely to attack livestock, providing insights that could help reduce conflict while also supporting conservation.

To further ensure the accuracy of the data, only respondents who could correctly identify an Indian grey wolf from photographs of similar-looking carnivores were included in the survey.

This is inspired by the idea of implementing directly from the start the principle of holomorphic factorization.

The construction can be described explicitly on generating Dehn twists.

In the special case in which the module category of $V$ is a not necessarily semisimple modular category $\mathcal{A}$, the spaces $Ω_V(Σ)$ are equivalent to the string-net spaces for $\mathcal{A}$ and hence to the modular functor for the Drinfeld center $Z(\mathcal{A})\simeq \bar{\mathcal{A}}\boxtimes\mathcal{A}$.

In contrast to kinematic dynamo bounds, the evolution of the magnetic field is coupled via an inertialess force balance.

The buoyancy-driven part of the flow $\mathbf{u}^{\mathrm{A}}$ in the event of dynamo action must in fact satisfy, for $3\leq p \leq \infty$ $$ Rm\, A_p\| \mathbf{u}^{\mathrm{A}}\|_{L^p} \geq 1 $$ where $A_p$ is an explicit constant, and $Rm$ is the magnetic Reynolds number.

Leatherbacks are found in every ocean except the Arctic and Antarctic and spend most of their lives in open waters.

Particularly in Nicobar, the ₹81,000 crore (₹810 billion) trans-shipment project includes building an international container port on the leatherback turtle nesting site, as well as an airport, gas and solar power plant, and township which will lead to the felling of a million trees.

From left to right: NASA astronauts Victor Glover and Christina Koch, CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Jeremy Hansen, and NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman receive the Congressional Space Medal of Honor from President Donald J.

The Congressional Space Medal of Honor was authorized by Congress in 1969 to recognize an astronaut who in the performance of duties has distinguished himself or herself by exceptionally brave and meritorious efforts, and contributions to the welfare of the nation and humanity.

Abstract: Quantum Fourier transforms (QFT) for general groups were recognized to be fundamental already early in the field.

A canonical example of non-abelian QFT for the symmetric group was outlined by Beals (1997).

Later, a more detailed analysis of this algorithm was carried out by Kawano and Sekigawa (2016).

You can now opt individual plugin marketplaces into automatic updates by setting autoUpdate: true on an extraKnownMarketplaces entry in enterprise managed settings.

Supported clients automatically check the marketplace and update installed plugins sourced from it, reducing manual maintenance for organization customizations.

The marketplace must still be permitted by the effective strictKnownMarketplaces allowlist.

Starting October 1, 2026, checks, workflow runs, and statuses will be governed by the same Actions retention setting that already controls how long artifacts and logs are kept, with a default of 90 days.

Until now, checks, workflow runs, and statuses were retained for 400+ days regardless of your retention configuration.

This change reduces the amount of stale data stored across GitHub Actions, helping keep checks, workflow runs, and statuses fast and reliable for everyone.

Five antennas soak in the summer sun at the Deep Space Network’s Goldstone complex near Barstow, California, in August 2026.

The recently completed Deep Space Station 23, a 34-meter (114-foot) beam-waveguide antenna, can be seen to the right of the frame in the foreground.

The other three 34-meter antennas are, from left, DSS-26, DSS-25, and DSS-24.

Abstract: Quantum Fourier transforms (QFTs) are essential primitives in quantum algorithms.

While abelian groups admit efficient QFT circuits, with circuit size polynomial in the logarithm of the group order, efficient constructions are known for relatively few non-abelian families.

This removes the restriction $|F|=\operatorname{poly}(n)$ required by previous generic constructions and can yield exponential improvements when $F$ itself has an efficient QFT.

On July 30, the Union Ministry of Earth Sciences said in a press release that El Niño had intensified from weak conditions in June to moderate levels in July and could strengthen further to the very strong category during October-December.

On August 13, the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) said in an advisory that there is a more than 90% chance that El Niño will become very strong in the coming months.

As a result, governments in the recent past have sought to expand this traditional approach.

The framework is designed as a general computational implementation in which the solution on each edge of the graph is approximated by a neural network, while a unified graph-based loss function enforces the governing equations together with initial, boundary, and vertex transmission conditions.

The framework is developed for two representative classes of nonlinear models: multi-order fractional elliptic problems and time-fractional evolution equations on quantum graphs.

A CAG audit found India’s Green India Mission achieved only around 5% of its afforestation target and missed more than 97% of its ecosystem-restoration goal, citing poor planning and weak monitoring.

Convergence funding largely failed to materialise, leaving billions in direct central contributions over a decade.

States misreported plantation data and neglected ecologically vulnerable landscapes like grasslands and scrublands, while almost no carbon sequestration assessments were conducted nationwide.

Description: Microsoft SQL Server contains a remote code execution vulnerability that could allow an attacker to execute code in the context of the SQL Server Database Engine service account.

Required action: Apply mitigations in accordance with vendor instructions, ensuring compliance with CISA’s BOD 26-04 Prioritizing Security Updates Based on Risk (see URL in Notes) guidance and CISA’s “Forensics Triage Requirements” (see URL in Notes).

Description: Linux Kernel contains an unspecified vulnerability that can allow for privilege escalation via IPv6 networking subsystem.

This vulnerability can impact multiple products, including but not limited to Suse, Red Hat, and other products using Linux.

Required action: Apply mitigations in accordance with vendor instructions, ensuring compliance with CISA’s BOD 26-04 Prioritizing Security Updates Based on Risk (see URL in Notes) guidance and CISA’s “Forensics Triage Requirements” (see URL in Notes).

Description: Oracle HTTP Server and Oracle Weblogic Server Proxy Plug-in contain an improper access control vulnerability that can result in unauthorized creation, deletion or modification access to critical data as well as unauthorized access to critical data or complete access to all Oracle HTTP Server and Oracle Weblogic Server Proxy Plug-in accessible data.

Required action: Apply mitigations in accordance with vendor instructions, ensuring compliance with CISA’s BOD 26-04 Prioritizing Security Updates Based on Risk (see URL in Notes) guidance and CISA’s “Forensics Triage Requirements” (see URL in Notes).

Saha, however, spotted something distinct and this eventually became one of the most important collections of their field trip in 2024, part of a decades-long survey which began in 1995 when Saha’s mentor, Indian Forest Service Officer Manoj Chandran (now retired), collected an unknown Cynodon species from Tamil Nadu during his botanical explorations.

“At that time, the specimen could not be fully appreciated because of its close resemblance to other Cynodon species,” explains Saha.

Description: Gitea contains a code injection vulnerability that allows an attacker with repository write access to send a malicious patch to the diffpatch API endpoint to plant an executable Git hook and run shell commands as the Gitea service account.

Required action: Apply mitigations in accordance with vendor instructions, ensuring compliance with CISA’s BOD 26-04 Prioritizing Security Updates Based on Risk (see URL in Notes) guidance and CISA’s “Forensics Triage Requirements” (see URL in Notes).

Description: Citrix NetScaler ADC and NetScaler Gateway contain an improper restriction of operations within the bounds of a memory buffer vulnerability which could lead to denial of service.

Required action: Apply mitigations in accordance with vendor instructions, ensuring compliance with CISA’s BOD 26-04 Prioritizing Security Updates Based on Risk (see URL in Notes) guidance and CISA’s “Forensics Triage Requirements” (see URL in Notes).