Boffins snap X-ray closeup of single atom – and by closeup we mean nanometres Achievement took 12 years of blood, sweat and science Science01 Jun 2023 | 8
Brits and Yanks join forces to make fusion magnets cool again How cool? About -250°C Science31 May 2023 | 23
CERN spots Higgs boson decay breaking the rules So much for the Standard Model of particle physics? Science30 May 2023 | 45
Neuralink says US OK's human experiments with Elon's brain chips Hopefully this tech works better than his self-driving cars Science26 May 2023 | 36
LIGO cranks up the sensitivity to sniff out gravitational waves The instrument that proved Einstein right is back Science26 May 2023 | 23
Experimental brain-spine computer interface helped a paralyzed man walk Comment Pioneering research effectively reconnects patient's motor cortex with his spinal cord Science26 May 2023 | 42
Encoded 'alien message' will reach Earth today, but relax: It's just a drill SETI encouraging everyone to break out their decoder rings, get in on the simulated first-contact fun Science24 May 2023 | 23
Lightning just as frightening on Jupiter as it is on Earth Juno probe strikes at the similarities despite differences in planets' size and structure Science24 May 2023 | 6
Nearly 1 in 5 academics admit close encounters of the anomalous kind Boffins call for end to UFO stigma Science23 May 2023 | 78
We regret to inform you Earth will not be destroyed by an asteroid within 1,000 years Never mind, there's always nuclear war and climate catastrophe Offbeat17 May 2023 | 38
Supernova peekaboo could provide clues to our universe's age Gravitational lensing technique offers hope in cracking cosmological conundrum Science16 May 2023 | 7
Dyson moans about state of UK science and tech, forgets to suck up his own mess Opinion Brexit-supporting offshore merchant wonders what has happened to all the investment Science15 May 2023 | 417
Boffins interrogate sodium ion battery stability mystery The mechanism still isn't completely understood, but research could help resolve SIB lifespan problems Emerging Clean Energy Tech Week15 May 2023 | 7
Perseverance rover shows up Curiosity with discovery of Martian water park Latest snaps have NASA rethinking scale of rivers on the Red Planet Science12 May 2023 | 23
NASA tests bot built to slither across, and beneath, alien worlds' ice Video Wheels come off plan to explore Enceladus – in a good way Science11 May 2023 | 9
Star Fomalhaut has dusty little secret – two more debris belts and a potential planetary party Nearby system was thought to have an exoplanet, but that was wrong. Now NASA says there may be multiple Science09 May 2023 | 5
Eta Aquariid meteor shower peaks this weekend, and will be one for the ages Dense debris left by Halley's Comet more than 3k years ago will produce more than 100 fireballs per hour Science05 May 2023 | 19
Hubble spots stellar midwife unit pumping out baby planets Young mother only 10 million years old appears to have twins Science05 May 2023 | 20
Four out of five Uranus moons likely to have ocean under crust A preview of what Uranus Orbiter and Probe might find in the 2040s Science05 May 2023 | 32
Ten-day optical burst shows star eating giant planet, scientists say Twelve-year interaction ended with a bang Science04 May 2023 | 10
I've seen things you wouldn't believe, like an atom about to photosynthesize Paper details previously unknown step in process of converting light energy to chemical energy Science04 May 2023 | 21
Universe-mapping Euclid satellite arrives in US ahead of July launch Neither war nor bad sensors nor a nautical journey will keep this probe from building a 3D map of space Science03 May 2023 | 9
Handwritten Einstein essay on theory of relativity goes under the hammer It's not an NFT either! Offbeat03 May 2023 | 22
Boffins claim to create the world's first wooden transistor But don't toss out your silicon chips quite yet Science01 May 2023 | 51
NASA tweaks Voyager 2's power supply to avoid another sensor shutdown By redirecting energy from probe's voltage regulator, NASA buys itself another three years Science27 Apr 2023 | 54
Just what the universe needs right now: A black hole with wind Gusts associated with M87 accretion flow surprises scientists peering into massive ring-like structure Science27 Apr 2023 | 18
NASA InSight lander spills the beans on Mars' core The lander might be dead, but its scientific legacy lives on Science25 Apr 2023 | 8
Balloon-borne telescope returns first photos in search for dark matter Helium is way cheaper than rocket fuel, and the pictures are just as good if you get high enough Science25 Apr 2023 | 45
Boffins think they've decoded mysterious 819-day Mayan calendar Letting the calendar cycle for 45 years gives each planet a chance to complete a synodic cycle Science21 Apr 2023 | 43
Metal-rich stars inhibit chances of life on their planets They give off less UV, but more is absorbed by their planets’ atmospheres, boffins tell life hunters Science19 Apr 2023 | 21
Smallsats + solar sails = Photos of exoplanets at 1970s digital camera resolution Sundiver spacecraft could snap the first surface pics using solar lens Science19 Apr 2023 | 54
Stem cells to be made on orbiting space station to test micrograv manufacturing Kinda feels like living in the future we thought we'd have, for a change Science18 Apr 2023 | 3
Mars Helicopter completes 50th flight, 45 more than NASA planned And sets a Martian height record for good measure Science17 Apr 2023 | 33
Curiosity gets interplanetary software patch for better driving and more on Mars And you thought patching your production environment was stressful Science15 Apr 2023 | 52
Boffins rewrite the book on how Earth's oceans developed You don't need alien asteroids, you just need a hydrogen-rich atmosphere and liquid hot magma Science13 Apr 2023 | 33
Today's old folks set to smash through longevity records Except maybe in America, where life expectancy keeps dropping Science31 Mar 2023 | 117
Boffins: Microgravity impacts cell repair systems in proteins Yeast-based study illuminates understanding of how 'nauts physiology may change in space Science30 Mar 2023 | 15
Scientists speak their brains: Please don’t call us boffins Quirky Brit idiom, or confusing and gendered term that could deter people from studying the field? Offbeat29 Mar 2023 | 218
Boffins claim discovery of the first piezoelectric liquid Move over, magic crystals – electric syrup is here Science29 Mar 2023 | 28
Moon's glass beads contain enough water to support a mission Thought Icelandic glacier water was rare? How about chugging down some Moon water Science28 Mar 2023 | 33
Forget general AI, apparently zebrafish larvae can count Numerical abilities could be a hardwired, ancient feature of the developing vertebrate brain, study suggests Science24 Mar 2023 | 23
Space dust that regularly hits Earth could contain proof of alien life JWST? Whatever, I found ET in my dustpan Science22 Mar 2023 | 13
No reliable way to detect AI-generated text, boffins sigh This article was not written by a computer, not that you could tell for sure either way AI + ML21 Mar 2023 | 59
NASA's space nuclear power program is a hot mess 13 years of research at $40m/year only produced 2 cancelled projects, says oversight arm Science21 Mar 2023 | 8
Potatoes in space: Boffins cook up cosmic concrete for off-world habitats Extraterrestrial regolith biocomposite, you say? I’ll have two Science20 Mar 2023 | 38
Cosmic rays more likely to glitch out water-cooled computers 'Soft errors' caused by neutrons are well known. This study suggests we might be making them more likely Energy Efficient Datacenters17 Mar 2023 | 40
Firefly gets nod from NASA to deliver Lunar Pathfinder to the Moon LuSEE in the sky with ... data Science15 Mar 2023 | 14
MIT researchers propose modular, multi-mission Moon robots Fancy playing with some space Lego? Science14 Mar 2023 | 1
Sandia opens up ultra-fast X-ray cameras to speedy shutterbugs Seriously, this tech makes your phone camera look like it's from the stone age Science14 Mar 2023 | 7
Boffins find 'missing link' between interstellar ice and what comes out of the tap Now drink your space juice Science10 Mar 2023 | 26
Tech demo takes brain scan, creates a picture of what you're looking at Break out the tinfoil hats: Boffins' experimental tech improves computer mind reading Science07 Mar 2023 | 42
Building bits of brain in the lab will change our minds Opinion Wake up and smell the cortex AI + ML06 Mar 2023 | 29
To explore caves on Mars and the Moon, take a hint from Hansel & Gretel, say boffins Robot adventurers drop mesh network 'breadcrumbs' to stay connected Science03 Mar 2023 | 31
Funnily enough, FDA forbids Elon Musk's Neuralink human experiments It's still coming soon ... just like it was in 2019, and 2020, and 2021, and 2022 Science02 Mar 2023 | 25
Now we're building computers from lab-grown brain cells Oi! Organoid Intelligence could be more data- and power-efficient than AI AI + ML02 Mar 2023 | 38
Find pushes back birth of Europe's steel hardware to about 3,000 years ago Iberians were using heavy metal on hard rock way before it was cool Science02 Mar 2023 | 47
Not just you in the night: Tiny bugs use superpropulsion to eject huge volumes of pee This could have practical applications for human technology, say boffins Science01 Mar 2023 | 50
It's getting crowded on the ISS: SpaceX Crew-6 to launch Monday NASA is used to dealing with extra guests: just sleep on the ceiling Science24 Feb 2023 | 4
Light from a long time ago reaches James Webb Space Telescope Galaxies got big much sooner than expected, new observations Science22 Feb 2023 | 27
DNA testing biz vows to improve infosec after criminals break into database it forgot it had Settles lawsuit with two states after wider leak that affected millions Cyber-crime20 Feb 2023 | 13
Intel coughs up for something other than stock buybacks: Avoiding wafer spoilage Defect-detecting Swiss biz inhales a cool $14 mill Systems17 Feb 2023 |
UK prepares to go it alone on post-Brexit science plan Still no deal as new Science and Tech dept head claims Britain has 'global-facing alternative' in the wings Science13 Feb 2023 | 174