Heat can make Li-Ion batteries explode. Or restore their capacity, say Chinese boffins
Future chargers could re-arrange battery chemistry to make them live longer
Science17 Apr 2025 | 20
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20 years on, DART still a masterclass in how not to rendezvous in orbit
Two decades have passed since NASA made two spacecraft collide
Science16 Apr 2025 | 10
White House budget proposal could beam NASA science back decades
Houston, we have a funding problem
Science14 Apr 2025 | 25
UK's answer to DARPA sprouts new ideas, like programmable plants
Updated programs suggest ARIA will keep singing for another year
Science09 Apr 2025 | 29
Laser-cooled chips: Maybe coming soon-ish to a datacenter near you
Public-private partnership zaps photons at hotspots, hopes to ship by 2027
Science09 Apr 2025 | 15
Boffins turn Moon dirt into glass for solar panels, eye future lunar base power
Lugging a solar furnace to melt it could slash the need to launch bulky power gear from Earth
Science08 Apr 2025 | 32
NARROWER TOPICS
Brit universities told to keep up the world-class research with less cash
Government boasts of £14B in R&D spending, but grant body takes £300M hit
Science08 Apr 2025 | 56
From concept to cosmos: Webb engineers on the telescope that changed everything
Interview JWST trio awarded IEEE Simon Ramo medal: 'I'm proud of the whole damn team'
Science28 Mar 2025 | 12
Aardvark beats groundhogs and supercomputers in weather forecasting
PC-size ML prediction model predicted to be as good as a super at fraction of the cost
Science26 Mar 2025 | 31
Boffins 3D-print artificial iris muscle that flexes both ways
If this light-activated stuff works, it could make building robots easier - or make lazing about under the Sun quite a workout
Science19 Mar 2025 | 9
Los Alamos boffins whip up a speedometer for satellites
First license plates, now a way to calculate pace in orbit. Speeding tickets next?
Science17 Mar 2025 | 23
France offers US scientists a safe haven from Trump's war on woke
Aix-Marseille University rolls out welcome mat for American researchers facing funding cuts
Offbeat14 Mar 2025 | 338
Man with artificial heart survives over 100 days outside hospital
Skip the schnitzel with gravy and chips for lunch - this is an experimental device for transplant candidates
Science12 Mar 2025 | 27
From pantyhose to power cells, nylon gives lithium batteries a leg up
Researchers claim efficiency boost plus reduction in environmental harm
Science11 Mar 2025 | 12
Is NASA's science budget heading for a black hole?
COMMENT Dare mighty things ... as long as we can afford it
Science11 Mar 2025 | 111
Things are looking down for cutting-edge cosmic observatories
Opinion Space is the place? Not if you're nuts about neutrinos
Science10 Mar 2025 | 16
More Voyager instruments shut down to eke out power supplies
Veteran probes close in on the half century
Science06 Mar 2025 | 54
Satnav systems built for Earth used by Blue Ghost lander as it approached the Moon
No, your car can't navigate in space. But perhaps colonies can find their way without dedicated lunar GPS
Science06 Mar 2025 | 39
Maybe cancel that ChatGPT therapy session – doesn't respond well to tales of trauma
Great, we've taken away computers' ability to be accurate and given them anxiety
AI + ML05 Mar 2025 | 38
Scientists create woolly ma-mouse by looking at mean genes from the Pleistocene
Eggheads claim breakthrough in step toward making ancient beasts 'de-extinct'
Science04 Mar 2025 | 46
The red color of Mars might have an earlier, wetter origin
Scientists pool data from ESA and NASA spacecraft to come up with a ferrihydrite theory
Science25 Feb 2025 | 9
Here's the ugliest global-warming chart you'll ever need to see
Analysis Earth is running a fever. That's not news. What's surprising is exactly how fast its temperature is rising
Science23 Feb 2025 | 261
National Science Foundation staff axed by Trump fear for US scientific future
Feature An inside tale: Probation extended, tenure revoked, a scramble to merge research portfolios, and more
Science21 Feb 2025 | 141
DARPA skips the lab, will head to orbit to test space manufacturing tech
Previous NOM4D experiments have gone so well, says project leader, that it's time to get real
Science12 Feb 2025 | 5
Eggheads crack the code for the perfect soft boil
For those for whom a runny white or a hard yolk is just not good un œuf
Offbeat06 Feb 2025 | 122
Poland’s 2nd astronaut brings pierogi to the ISS party
Here's hoping freeze-dried Polish dumplings are just as good as ones freshly fried in butter
Science05 Feb 2025 | 14
Blue Origin spins up lunar gravity for New Shepard flight
Bezos' rocketeers tout capability as useful for NASA and other tech providers
Science05 Feb 2025 | 24
Lightsail space tech gets tailwind from Caltech breakthrough
Sci-fi interstellar travel gets another tiny push
Science03 Feb 2025 | 17
Humans brought the heat. Earth says we pay the price
Special report Amid wildfire death and destruction, there are solutions, workable smart solutions, but who wants to talk about that?
Science02 Feb 2025 | 227
What better place to inject OpenAI's o1 than Los Alamos national lab, right?
Tackling disease, tick. High-energy physics, tick. Nuke security, also tick
HPC30 Jan 2025 | 8
And now something fun for a change: Building blocks of life in Bennu asteroid samples
It's a 65-million-year-old space rock stuffed with amino acids, DNA bases, and more, boffins report
Science30 Jan 2025 | 22
Helion bags $425M in fresh funding despite fusion power still being a distant dream
Microsoft-backed startup now valued at $5.4B
On-Prem29 Jan 2025 | 10
NASA spacewalkers to swab the ISS for microbial life
Learning how to deal with the microorganisms hitching a ride with humans
Science22 Jan 2025 | 14
China claims major fusion advance and record after 17-minute Tokamak run
1,066 seconds of steady-state high-confinement plasma operation and all that
Science22 Jan 2025 | 74
Germany unleashes AMD-powered Hunter supercomputer
€15 million system to serve as testbed for larger Herder supercomputer coming in 2027
HPC17 Jan 2025 | 2
NASA's lunar Roomba set to suck up Moon dirt for study
Collecting regolith samples with a blast of gas
Science09 Jan 2025 | 21
DNA sequencers found running ancient BIOS, posing risk to clinical research
Updated Devices on six-year-old firmware vulnerable to takeover and destruction
Research08 Jan 2025 | 24
Twigstats software sheds light on mysteries of Europe's old-school migrators
New tool for genetic analysis promises greater insights from the extraction of ancient DNA
Science05 Jan 2025 | 12
Boffins ponder paltry brain data rate of 10 bits per second
You may not need that high-bandwidth brain-computer interface
Science01 Jan 2025 | 92
Parker Solar Probe set for blisteringly hot date with the Sun on Christmas Eve
Ho-ho-holy heatshield!
Science23 Dec 2024 | 37
Temporary printable tattoos could be the future of EEGs
Boffins' big brainwave of using custom skullcaps to capture, er, more brainwaves
Science05 Dec 2024 | 24
China launches first next-gen Long March 12 rocket, christens private spaceport
Won't scare SpaceX as it's not reusable, but will help Beijing do things like launch broadband sats
Science02 Dec 2024 | 3
NASA's X-59 plane is aiming for a sonic thump, not a boom
Feature Pilot James 'Clue' Less is ready to take to the skies
Science30 Nov 2024 | 66
Chinese boffins find way to use diamonds as super-dense and durable storage medium
Looks better on your beloved's finger than a Blu-ray, too
Storage29 Nov 2024 | 55
'Best job at JPL': What it's like to be an engineer on the Voyager project
Feature 'I love this work. I love what I'm doing. It's so cool'
Science28 Nov 2024 | 34
NASA wants ideas on how to haul injured moonwalkers
$45K says you can do it without a lunar rover
Science18 Nov 2024 | 62
UK's Darpa clone faces tough test next spring as government considers future funding
With plant platforms and neural circuits on the program, Aria's leadership hope cross-party concensus continues
Public Sector13 Nov 2024 | 11
Gang of monkeys escape South Carolina biomedical research facility
Lock your doors and windows, say police, but these should be disease-free
Bootnotes11 Nov 2024 | 61
Astroboffins tune into the wild origins of fast radio bursts
Enigmatic cosmic signals from outside this galaxy could come from collapsed binary stars
Science07 Nov 2024 | 8
Arecibo telescope might have failed because of weak sockets
Electromagnetic radiation contributed to that zincing feeling: analysts
Science06 Nov 2024 | 68
Tardigrade genes may hold secret to radiation treatments for humans
Microscopic 'water bears' can survive blasts that would kill humans
Science29 Oct 2024 | 20
UK sleep experts say it's time to kill daylight saving for good
It turns out morning light beats evening rays for health benefits
Personal Tech27 Oct 2024 | 283
Say hello to the epi-bit, a new approach to DNA data storage
A single gram can hold 215,000 TB. Technique inspired by epigenetics might help unlock that potential
Science25 Oct 2024 | 23
Boffins explore cell signals as potential GPS alternative
Team sends a flying cooler packed with DIY tech 15 miles up for the test
Science23 Oct 2024 | 28
Lab-grown human brain cells drive virtual butterfly in simulation
Could organoid-driven computing be the future of AI power?
Science22 Oct 2024 | 32
Testing spacecraft material the Sandia way: Setting it on fire with mirrors
Who said Archimedes' death ray was a busted myth?
Science16 Oct 2024 | 14
Severe solar storm could disrupt power, communications
On the bright side, auroras may dazzle skies as far south as mid-latitudes
Science09 Oct 2024 | 48
Nobel Chemistry Prize goes to AlphaFold, Rosetta creators - another win for AI
Let’s just hope they don’t give the literature award to a bot, too
Science09 Oct 2024 | 5
UK Regulatory Innovation Office vows to slash red tape – but we've heard it all before
Comment The real issue is a reluctance to invest
Public Sector09 Oct 2024 | 38
NASA switches off Voyager 2 plasma instrument to stretch out juice
Veteran probe set to score a half-century while still doing science
Science03 Oct 2024 | 31
Got an idea for dealing with space waste? NASA wants to hear from you
Using a nearby crater as a landfill is not a sustainable way to live on the Moon
Science01 Oct 2024 | 36
Earth's new mini-moon swings by, then ghosts us by late November
No need for farewells, 2024 PT5 may drop in again in 2055
Science01 Oct 2024 | 32
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