Boffins' beam forming kit opens the door to more realistic holograms
MIT's hardware speeds up light manipulation by a factor of 10
Science30 Nov 2022 | 10
Science
NASA scraps budget-busting GeoCarb greenhouse gas observatory project
Being over budget, behind schedule, becoming obsolete, and impeding other projects isn't a way to get a green light
Science30 Nov 2022 | 10
ISS resupply drops off experiments for life in deep space
If we're going to go beyond the Moon, we'll need food, a way to build stuff, and health diagnostic technology
Science28 Nov 2022 | 17
Orion snaps 'selfie' with the Moon as it prepares for distant retrograde orbit
Insertion burn scheduled to take place today then engineers have six days to see how spacecraft fares in deep space
Science25 Nov 2022 | 76
Bright light from black holes found to be caused by particle shock waves
NASA's IXPE space telescope pays off with 'dazzling' observation of intergalactic X-rays
Science24 Nov 2022 | 26
JWST snaps first chemical profile of an exoplanet atmosphere
We knew Wasp 39b was rich in CO2, but now we have the full molecular picture
Science23 Nov 2022 | 43
NARROWER TOPICS
Locked out of Horizon Europe, UK commits half a billion to post-Brexit research
EU still fixated with Britain keeping its word on trading arrangement
Science22 Nov 2022 | 184
NASA's meteor avoidance plan for James Webb Space Telescope: Turn it around
When a grain of sand moves fast enough to crack a mirror, it's best to put your back to the wind
Science21 Nov 2022 | 16
Boffins are studying Martian clouds to avoid another Opportunity episode
They look and behave a lot like those on Earth – except they're made of dust
Science18 Nov 2022 | 9
Artemis I isn't just a test run – there's science to be done
Amazon and Cisco even managed to sneak Alexa and Webex on board
Science18 Nov 2022 | 33
White dwarf study suggests planets are as old as their stars
Scientists have long been unsure of the 'when' of planetary formation – but that question may have been answered
Science17 Nov 2022 | 16
Look! Up in the sky! Proof of concept for satellites beaming energy to Earth!
They'd need to be a kilometer wide and point at even larger landside targets, so they won't fire up the renewables market
Science10 Nov 2022 | 118
This ancient quasar may be the remains of the first-gen star that started us all
Ah, so now we know who to blame for all of this
Science09 Nov 2022 | 58
Reducing partisan divide alone does not boost support for democracy, study finds
Ending anti-democratic attitudes not so easy stateside, researchers claim
Science02 Nov 2022 | 39
InSight Mars lander has only 'few weeks' of power left
Think I got some dust in my eye
Science02 Nov 2022 | 70
Two Scotts among volunteers helping NASA to track Artemis mission
If we want to launch craft beyond the Moon, we're going to need a better way to know where they are
Science01 Nov 2022 | 7
Signs of sediment-rich ocean lend direction to Mars life search
3D models and maps show similarities in how the planet and Earth share sediment strategies
Science31 Oct 2022 | 7
Spooky Pillars of Creation snap reveals a dark side
Latest James Webb Space Telescope photo looks positively haunting
Science31 Oct 2022 | 19
NASA uses space station dust sensor to map 50 methane 'super-emitters' on Earth
Oh, we don't think we needed science to pinpoint biggest windbags
Science30 Oct 2022 | 41
Martian microbes could survive up to 280 million years buried underground
That is if they're anything like the radiation-resistant 'Conan the Bacterium' here on Earth
Science26 Oct 2022 | 31
Starlink decoded for use as GPS alternative – without Elon Musk's help
Told no by SpaceX, uni eggheads went ahead by themselves
Science24 Oct 2022 | 31
Boffins shatter data transmission speed record
One laser + one optical chip = more than the traffic of the entire internet
Science21 Oct 2022 | 45
California wildfires hit CTRL+Z on 18 years of CO2e removal
Time to start considering forest blazes alongside industrial sources of greenhouse gases, say scientists
Science20 Oct 2022 | 33
Mars rover Curiosity reaches sulfate-rich Mount Sharp after 10-year journey
NASA had been aiming for the region since before landing because there are 'signs of past water'
Science20 Oct 2022 | 13
How did ESA's gamma ray-spotting 'scope make it to 20? They totally overdid it
We speak to the boffins behind the mission about hits, misses, engineering, and that extraordinary near death scrape
Science20 Oct 2022 | 6
Collapsed Arecibo telescope to be replaced by school
Space scientists lament loss, say it won't be the same without actual working instruments
Science17 Oct 2022 | 40
US Dept of Energy injects more particles of cash into tokamak fusion reactors
The funding will continue, until the atoms fuse
Science17 Oct 2022 | 28
How to watch NASA Jupiter probe's flyby of Earth
Lucy in the sky, with good-byes, then
Science16 Oct 2022 | 10
Boffins grow human brain cells to play Pong
Now let’s see what happens when we get it drunk, say researchers
Science14 Oct 2022 | 30
Water pipes hold flood of untapped electricity potential
1.41GW, in fact – enough to power around one million homes
Science13 Oct 2022 | 100
Scientists model turbulence to boost space propulsion
Running direct numerical simulation on 'an industrial scale'
HPC12 Oct 2022 | 10
Self-imposed climate change may have killed Martian life
Hungry microbes blamed for chilling out the party too much
Science11 Oct 2022 | 27
No, no, hear us out, say boffins: Foot fungus to measure your walk
Posture, posture, posture, posture, posture, posture, mushroom, mushroom
Science10 Oct 2022 | 27
Juno what? Jovian moon Europa is looking rugged
Probe takes highest resolution surface shot yet while citizen scientists get busy with their coloring pencils
Science07 Oct 2022 | 42
Micro molten salt reactor can fit on a truck, power 1k homes. When it's built
Small, safer vessels could be 'silicon chip' that ushers in new nuclear age
Science05 Oct 2022 | 193
Charge a future EV in less than five minutes – using literally cool NASA tech
Well, yeah, when the batteries and power supplies can handle it, too
Science05 Oct 2022 | 95
Waxworm's spit shows promise in puncturing plastic pollution
Scientists believe moth larvae saliva can oxidize, degrade polyethylene
Science05 Oct 2022 | 20
Fake vibrating teeth could make great hearing aids
Wait, wait, hear us out
Science01 Oct 2022 | 33
Apropos of nothing, US intel wants to improve low-dose radiation detection
IARPA unleashes TEI-REX to better track nuclear sources
Science30 Sep 2022 | 7
Astroboffins present fresh evidence of moving liquid water on Mars
Pack your bags, we're off to huddle on some alien ice caps. It beats Earth
Science30 Sep 2022 | 30
Scientists, why not simply invent a working fusion plant using $50m from Uncle Sam
You even have until the end of the 2030s to get it done
Science29 Sep 2022 | 97
This rope-laying, ever-growing robot may one day explore your blood vessels
Video You wouldn't make this the butt of any jokes, right?
Science29 Sep 2022 | 12
Post-Brexit 'science superpower' UK still hasn't appointed a science minister
And if and when it does, role lacks Cabinet position, complain Lords
Science28 Sep 2022 | 210
Japanese boffins build solar-powered, remote-controlled cyborg cockroach
Neat idea until you remember that roaches and sunlight, not a good mix
Science22 Sep 2022 | 30
By Jove! Jupiter to make closest approach to Earth in 70 years next Monday
Gas giant to come within just 365 million miles. Viewing conditions will be ideal even if you only have binoculars
Science19 Sep 2022 | 40
Can reflections in eyeglasses actually leak info from Zoom calls? Here's a study into it
About time someone shone some light onto this
Security17 Sep 2022 | 68
Was there life on Mars? Perseverance scrapes up promising samples
Fact organic matter was found in sedimentary rock, which preserves fossils here on Earth, 'important'
Science16 Sep 2022 | 16
Chinese researchers make car glide 35mm above ground in maglev test
Forget self-driving cars, the Middle Kingdom has floating cars now
Offbeat13 Sep 2022 | 75
Academic publishers turn to AI software to catch bad scientists doctoring data
Analysis High level of image duplication in a single paper is a sign of cheating
AI + ML12 Sep 2022 | 17
Scientists pull hydrogen from thin air in promising clean energy move
Could replace fossil fuels in several energy-hungry industries in hot climates without water use
Science07 Sep 2022 | 122
CERN draws up shutdown plans to save energy
Particle accelerators could be next casualty of Russia's war on Ukraine
Science07 Sep 2022 | 74
How this Mars rover used its MOXIE to convert CO2 into precious oxygen
Producing vital gas out of Red Planet's hostile atmosphere? Truly a test of Perseverance
Science01 Sep 2022 | 42
James Webb Space Telescope finds first evidence of CO2 in exoplanet atmosphere
This same tech could someday help us discover strange, new – and habitable – worlds
Science26 Aug 2022 | 23
US plans to open up government-funded science research papers to all
Remembering Aaron Swartz
Science25 Aug 2022 | 15
Compound that 'remembers' phase transitions could have uses in computer memory
Researchers ran a current through vanadium dioxide and were never forgiven
Science25 Aug 2022 | 20
Scientists use supercritical carbon dioxide to power the grid
Sandia has been working on the project for more than a decade – now comes scaling
Science19 Aug 2022 | 140
NASA selects 'full force' for probe into UFOs
'We're placing a high priority on it'
Science19 Aug 2022 | 108
$2.8m gene therapy treatment is America's most expensive drug ever
Sure, it's pricey, but not using it would be more expensive, says drug maker
Science18 Aug 2022 | 57
NASA has MOXIE, but rivals reckon they can do better for oxygen on Mars
Food and fuels, too? Totally not sounding like a Star Trek replicator
Science18 Aug 2022 | 39
SOFIA observatory's last hurrah set back by damage from high winds
Boeing 747-based platform now back in California with almost a month to go before science operations end
Science17 Aug 2022 | 8
UK launches 'consultation' with EU over exclusion from science programs
Billions in funding at stake as PM hopeful Liz Truss says bloc 'in breach of agreement'
Science17 Aug 2022 | 307
Modeling software spins up plans for floating wind turbines
Saaaaandia, where the wind comes sweeping 'cross the sea …
Science17 Aug 2022 | 38
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