50 years ago, Skylab's accidental rebels put Mission Control on mute Final mission to space station revolutionized orbital labor management Science16 Nov 2023 | 18
Corduroy is coming to the metaverse with touchy-feely robotic sensors Just what virtual reality needs – an update that brings a bit of texture torture Science14 Nov 2023 | 4
Late Qualcomm cofounder teleports $200M into SETI to bankroll hunt for alien life Someone hit the zero key one too many times? Not that anyone's complaining Science09 Nov 2023 | 13
Rocket Lab mission lost in the Paschen of the moment 'Rare conditions' the culprit for an arc that shorted out the power supply Science09 Nov 2023 | 6
Wanted: Driver for rocket-powered Bloodhound Land Speed Record car Ability to attract sponsorship a bonus as vehicle set to emerge from ashes, attempt to blast past 763mph Offbeat08 Nov 2023 | 63
Boffins detect direct evidence of atomic oxygen on Venus's day side Measures could help future probe mission, plus understanding of why boiling hot atmos so different to Earth's Science08 Nov 2023 | 13
Pharma boffins sharpen hunt for target molecules using graph DB French pharma firm Servier gets Neo4j to help find relationships in 'messy' data Databases08 Nov 2023 | 1
NASA gasping for ideas to extract oxygen from Moon dirt Wants 'tens of metric tons of O2 production per year' on the cheap Science07 Nov 2023 | 11
New orientation assistant to help prevent astronauts getting lost in space Which way is up? Just feel the vibrations, man Science06 Nov 2023 | 10
From Apollo to Space Shuttle, Thomas K Mattingly's stellar journey ends at 87 Obit Dodged Apollo 13 disaster because of rubella, but helped to rescue the crew Science06 Nov 2023 | 9
Rocket Lab sets sights on 2024-2025 window for Venus mission Return to flight followed by a trip to Venus Science02 Nov 2023 | 5
Alien rock remains found not on but deep inside the Earth Scientists offer explanation for origin of two anomalous structures nestled within our world Science02 Nov 2023 | 21
NASA and Boeing try to chase the contrail clouds away The sky isn't the limit when it comes to greener fuel alternatives Science31 Oct 2023 | 24
To prevent 'lost' nukes, scientists suggest storing them in a hall of mirrors Radio bouncing off multiple reflectors is a hard-to-defeat method of monitoring a weapons cache Science31 Oct 2023 | 22
Boffins say their thin film solar cells make space farms viable No word on whether getting that energy from space to Earth will be made any easier, though Science25 Oct 2023 | 27
Astroboffins spot high-power 8b year old radio burst from pre-Earth event Signal could help astronomers suss out the mass of the universe Science20 Oct 2023 | 21
Biotech exec sentenced to eight years for COVID-19 testing finger-stick fraud 100+ diagnostic tests from a single drop of blood – sound familiar? Legal19 Oct 2023 | 15
It's full of stars! Galactic atlas catalogs 400k Milky Way neighbors Public gallery invites you to have a scroll and wonder where the hours went Offbeat19 Oct 2023 | 3
Now we can blame spacecraft for polluting the atmosphere 'My god, it's full of aerosolized metals!' Science18 Oct 2023 | 12
You snooze, you lose? It's not quite as simple as that Actually it might give you a brief edge on those weird morning people Bootnotes18 Oct 2023 | 14
Engineers pave the way for building lunar roads with Moon dust Just melt it with lasers, say researchers in Germany Science12 Oct 2023 | 34
NASA's Psyche asteroid mission suffers another heavenly holdup Dodgy weather results in a launch postponement Science12 Oct 2023 |
Astronomers spot collision between two exoplanets, both feared vaporized Dust blocks light from Sun-like star as far-off worlds meet Science11 Oct 2023 | 24
New information physics theory is evidence 'we're living in a simulation,' says author But why would a simulation create El Reg? Mmm... pizza Offbeat10 Oct 2023 | 168
US govt talks up $2B X-ray photobooth to check its nuke weapon sims are right Sub-critical plutonium implosion to be snapped on nanosecond scale HPC09 Oct 2023 | 18
Beethoven and Brahms move audience members to synchronization symphony Music sets hearts beating in lockstep, researchers find Science07 Oct 2023 | 13
Red Planet roommates have been stuck on 'Mars' together for 100 days Simulation milestone coincides with NASA's 65th birthday – will it manage the real thing before its centenary? Science04 Oct 2023 | 16
CERN swells storage space beyond 1EB for LHC's latest ion-whacking experiments A petabyte or more a day of readings? No problem, pal Storage02 Oct 2023 | 12
NASA awards $1.5m for 'three steps to Mars' astronaut health program One (very) small leap for humanity's future in space Science02 Oct 2023 | 3
NASA's New Horizons probe scores extended vacation in Kuiper Belt Good news: More science. Bad news: Somebody has to pay for it Science02 Oct 2023 | 2
Scandium-based nuclear clocks promise punctuality for next 300 billion years It's about time! Science02 Oct 2023 | 47
Perseverance rover sets a Martian speed record with software controls 347.7 meters in a day - humans could probably do better Science27 Sep 2023 | 7
CERN experiment proves gravity pulls antimatter the way Einstein predicted Why there is not a lot more of it is yet to be explained though Science27 Sep 2023 | 34
China identifies AI, optoelectric semiconductors, as challenges it wants to crack Underwater comms make list of 14 techs at which Beijing hopes to do better Science26 Sep 2023 | 2
NASA's Mars Sample Return mission is in danger of never launching Review board: Mega project is way over budget, needs cash, and senators want it axed Science25 Sep 2023 | 22
That's gas: CO2 found on Europa surface may hint at some possible sign of life Hey, ESA: Can Juice get there any faster? Offbeat22 Sep 2023 | 9
Scientists suggest possible solution to space-induced bone loss Douglas Adams was right! Mice may hold key to exploring the universe Science20 Sep 2023 | 43
DoD hopes $30M BEACONS will light the way to next-gen American battery designs And less than half the cost of a single F-35 – bargain! Science19 Sep 2023 | 8
Textbook publishers sue shadow library LibGen for copyright infringement Yet another attempt at a permanent takedown – but will it stick? Science18 Sep 2023 | 69
Apple's iPhone 12 woes spread as Belgium, Germany, Netherlands weigh in Updated Euro land stunned by French safety findings Personal Tech14 Sep 2023 | 76
UK civil servants – hopefully including those spending billions on tech – to skill up in STEM How about the ministers go next? Science14 Sep 2023 | 56
Scientists spot startlingly close black holes in Hyades star cluster Black hole stun: They're more than 1,400 light years closer than the previous record holder Science14 Sep 2023 | 40
How's this for X-ray specs? Wi-Fi can read through walls... if the letters are solid objects No, miscreants won't be able to use it to read secret printed docs Networks13 Sep 2023 | 12
MOXIE microwaved Mars air into oxygen, but now it's time for a breather Concept will need to be scaled up to keep more than a small dog alive Science11 Sep 2023 | 19
UK rejoins the EU's €100B Horizon sci-tech funding program Two and a half years after Brexit, some cheer for scientists based in Britain. We're... baaaaxit (sorry!) Science07 Sep 2023 | 156
Scientists turn to mid-20th century tech for low-power underwater comms Hat tip to the late Lester Clare Van Atta, whose array is behind the system Science07 Sep 2023 | 19
Germany's wild boars still too radioactive to eat largely due to Cold War nuke tests Scientists one step closer to cracking the case of these atomic swine Science31 Aug 2023 | 137
Meteorite is 4.6 billion years old and still rocking the solar system dating scene Presence of aluminum isotope might help age other objects from space Science30 Aug 2023 | 4
NASA to outdo most Americans on internet speeds, gigabit kit heading to the ISS See hot singles in your area! Well, -453.8 F singles at least Offbeat29 Aug 2023 | 10
Budget satellite drag sail shows space junk how to gracefully exit orbit Students prove $30 device could help declutter Earth's backyard Science22 Aug 2023 | 32
A closer look at Harvard and Google's HPC heart research project That's a massive workload you've got there – how much does it cost? Cloud Infrastructure Week18 Aug 2023 | 3
Cost of gallium goes up after Chinese export restrictions land Measures needed to protect 'national interest,' says Beijing. Rubbish, it's retaliation, scoff critics Systems17 Aug 2023 | 8
Brainwaves rock! Scientists decode Pink Floyd tune straight from the noggin First up: Another Brick in the Wall, Pt. 1 Science17 Aug 2023 | 38
DARPA wants interoperability standard for Moon living Less lunacy? LunA-10 is seeking designs for 'optimized and integrated lunar infrastructure' Science16 Aug 2023 | 5
It's not just spin – boffins give quantum computing a room-temp makeover Another team is harnessing nature's own algorithm to solve problems faster than classical computers Systems16 Aug 2023 | 3
Boffins reckon Mars colony could survive with fewer than two dozen people Taming that unforgiving dust world may be significantly less expensive than anticipated Science16 Aug 2023 | 129
US shovels cash into supercomputers hoping to stoke fusion future $112M for 12 projects announced on heels of LLNL's second successful fusion ignition HPC15 Aug 2023 | 2
Saturn's mega-storms challenge planetary formation models Storms on Saturn last for hundreds of years, leaving long-lasting impacts and raising lots of scientific questions Science15 Aug 2023 | 3
Curiosity finds evidence of wet and dry seasons on ancient Mars Scientists: Martian mud cracked in a manner that only happens after repeated cycles of drying Science12 Aug 2023 | 38
Think International Space Station dust is obviously free of bad chemicals? Wrong No one's in danger but we may need to rethink some cabin materials Science11 Aug 2023 | 29
Researchers discover algorithm to create shapes that roll down pre-determined paths Lopsided solids promise applications in quantum mechanics and medicine Science09 Aug 2023 | 4
Scientists strangely unable to follow recipe for holy grail room-temp superconductor Race to replicate LK-99, and the process used to create it, hits plenty of hurdles Science07 Aug 2023 | 106