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 | 4
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 | 121
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 | 16
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 | 226
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 | 25
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 | 59
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
ESA spending €17M on spacecraft just to watch it go up in flames DRACO will be born to die in the fires of atmospheric re-entry Science25 Sep 2024 | 7
Scientists demonstrate X-rays as a way to zap asteroids out of Earth's path Lab-based proof-of-concept shows how radiation creates explosive plumes to deflect menacing space rocks Science24 Sep 2024 | 50
Look! About chest high! Is it a pallet? Is it a drone? No, it's a Palletrone And it's here to carry your not-very-heavy stuff Science24 Sep 2024 | 30
Starlink's new satellites emit 30x more radio interference than before, drowning cosmic signals V2 sats beam 10M times brighter noise, hampering telescopes Networks19 Sep 2024 | 112
China claims Starlink signals can reveal stealth aircraft – and what that really means If this really was that useful, they wouldn't be telling us Security17 Sep 2024 | 98
Homing pigeon missiles, dead trout swimming, butt breathing honored with Ig Nobel Prize Mad science award ceremony returns to MIT after four years online Bootnotes14 Sep 2024 | 71
Boeing to launch quantum comms satellite testbed in 2026 After Starliner stumbles, the aerospace giant eyes a new frontier - entanglement swapping in space Networks12 Sep 2024 | 12
NASA engineers play space surgeon in bid to unclog Voyager 1's arteries 'Brilliant' team performs electrical balancing act to keep probe pointed at Earth Science12 Sep 2024 | 56
The Great Pacific Garbage Patch could be gone in ten years – for chump change Video $7.5 billion needed, the kind of cash Apple makes without trying Science10 Sep 2024 | 104
Scientists find a common food dye can make a live mouse's skin transparent Do try this one at home, using a chicken breast and a recipe Science09 Sep 2024 | 46
Blood boffins build billions of nanobots to battle brain aneurysms without surgery Good news for rabbits, maybe great news soon for humans? Science07 Sep 2024 | 34
ESA prints 3D metal shape in space for first time Tech demo paves way to producing spare parts and tools during missions Science06 Sep 2024 | 15
Atomic clocks are so last epoch, it's time someone nailed down the nuclear clock 'Giant step' in research could unlock a bunch of crazy science stuff Science04 Sep 2024 | 29
Mercury probe BepiColombo thrusters are acting up, but science marches on Trajectory tweak means a delay of almost a year, though 165 km flyby should produce eye candy Science03 Sep 2024 | 8
Magnetic personalities at Tokamak Energy form separate division Fusion biz wants to break superconducting tech into other sectors Science03 Sep 2024 | 17
SETI boldly looks beyond the Milky Way in latest alien hunt Civilizations detectable at galactic distances could harness all of a star's energy output, boffins reckon Science29 Aug 2024 | 49
Dr Helen Fisher, MRI maven who showed just how love works, dies at 79 It's all about your chemistry Science27 Aug 2024 | 11
First of ESA's Cluster satellites prepares for fiery finale over South Pacific Over 20 years into a 2-year mission, but all good things come to an end Science23 Aug 2024 | 17
Juice probe scores epic fuel save after snapping selfies with Earth and Moon Onward to Venus! Science21 Aug 2024 | 32
Console yourself – research finds gaming may actually boost mental health Digital athletes enjoy positive effects in Japan study, but too much screentime sees diminishing returns Offbeat20 Aug 2024 | 14
Stargazing with the Beaverlab Finder TW2 Hands On Good for beginners, but a few missing features will annoy Personal Tech17 Aug 2024 | 55
InSight data suggests plentiful water lies beneath Mars' surface There's water in them thar hills, but it'll be really hard to get to Science13 Aug 2024 | 22
Second patient receives the Neuralink implant Almost half the electrodes are working... for now Networks05 Aug 2024 | 18