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 | 44
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
Curiosity finds clearest evidence yet for water on Mars A rippled rocky ridge suggests the presence of lakes and waves, all at a higher elevation than expected Science09 Feb 2023 | 10
UK PM splits govt department in 4, creates dedicated 'Science and Tech' bit GDPR rejig and Online Safety Bill concerns, semiconductor strategy basically sorted then. Right? Right? Science08 Feb 2023 | 98
MIT Press to trial open access journals, so long as someone else pays for it Great: Fewer paywalls. Not great: Long-term funding is still a question Science07 Feb 2023 | 17
It's your human hubris holding back AI acceptance Boffins find Dunning-Kruger effect makes us think we know better AI + ML03 Feb 2023 | 52
Fossil brain undoes 350 million years of scientific understanding 'Stunning' scans reveal how ray-finned fish diverged from other vertebrates Science02 Feb 2023 | 23
Boffins deploy machine learning in search for intelligent ET Model developed using TensorFlow and Keras sifts through data for 'technosignatures' from alien worlds AI + ML30 Jan 2023 | 13
You there, boffins and tech giants, take this $50m and figure out better chips Yes, the Chinese will never think of doing something like this, muhaha Systems27 Jan 2023 | 23
AI cannot be credited as authors in papers, top academic journals rule Work isn't original if it was taken from a plagiarism engine like ChatGPT Science27 Jan 2023 | 38
Scientists conclude cats only have three personalities after YouTube clip binge Insight could lead to better conflict resolution between our feline overlords Bootnotes27 Jan 2023 | 90
Space mining startup prepping to launch 'demo' refinery... this April Last (failed) attempts at such an endeavor happened a decade ago, but AstroForge thinks it can do better Science26 Jan 2023 | 39
Lockheed Martin demos 50kW anti-aircraft frickin' laser beam Updated Looks like a reboot of SWIV Science26 Jan 2023 | 108
8K? That’s cute. This display has 600 million pixels My god, it's full of TVs Systems24 Jan 2023 | 37
If we have self-healing bio robots in 2053, it started here with mouse muscle cyborgs Updated Light-powered droids are coming, one fraction of a millimetre at a time Science21 Jan 2023 | 3
Laser-wielding boffins bend lightning to their will Video Discovery could provide better protection for power stations, airports and launchpads Science18 Jan 2023 | 30
Boffins say their protective satellite paint job could harvest power from the Sun How does Multifunctional Nanobarrier Structure sound for the bathroom wall? Science17 Jan 2023 | 8
The years fly by on first exoplanet confirmed by James Webb Space Telescope LHS 475 b same size as Earth, rocky, but hotter, and so close to its star it orbits in 2 days Science12 Jan 2023 | 7
The balmy equator of Mars looks rich in opal-bound water The poles have ice but it's freezing up there, so why not grind gems for cocktails? Science09 Jan 2023 | 10
Disruptive innovation's like a party. It's always happening elsewhere Opinion Citation needed? Personal Tech09 Jan 2023 | 13
Quantum entanglement discovery could enable futuristic comms tech, Nuclear physicists say So that must be why the Russians might have hacked the DoE, right? Science07 Jan 2023 | 47
Uncle Sam OKs vaccine that protects honeybees against hive-destroying bacterium Maybe humans could learn a thing or two about how modern medicine can prevent the spread of disease Science06 Jan 2023 | 35
Move over, graphene. There's a new super-material in town: Graphullerene New family of carbon super-structures discovered for futurologists to fizz over Science06 Jan 2023 | 28
Rate of disruptive tech and science discoveries has slowed over the decades, claims study Makes the repetitive strain injury you got from hours of pipetting all worth it, hey lab scientists? Science05 Jan 2023 | 42
Literally, look who's back: A comet that last swung by Earth 50,000 years ago All right, C/2022 E3, we know what you're thinking – and we can explain everything, kinda Science04 Jan 2023 | 13
NASA's latest AI will navigate the Moon using landmarks Compass, protractor and map not required to triangulate lunar coordinates Science20 Dec 2022 | 13