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Japan successfully propels steam-powered spacecraft

Asia In brief PLUS: Criminal probe of Singapore crypto exchange; Bosch invests in China R&D; $2B APAC datacenter fund formed; and more

Science28 Nov 2022 | 15

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 | 64

ESA names first Parastronaut: paralympian and aspiring surgeon John McFall

23,000 applied, just 17 made the list of potential crew

Science25 Nov 2022 | 27

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

Japanese cubesat sends home pics from the far side of the Moon

JAXA hopes second lost lander can be recovered for radiation experiments

Science24 Nov 2022 | 15

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 | 42

New SI prefixes clear the way for quettabytes of storage

Why I yotta... be happy there's somewhere to ronto when I need to express 10^−27

Science22 Nov 2022 | 51

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 | 178

Orion reaches the Moon, buzzes surface, gets ready to orbit

We're back - for the first of many missions to come

Science21 Nov 2022 | 26

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 | 15

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

Spent Chinese Long 6A rocket spews over 50 pieces of space junk

Tiangong, ISS, and SpaceX satellites will not be affected, according to China's Foreign Ministry

Science16 Nov 2022 | 9

AI analysis of dinosaur tracks suggests 'predator' may have been a herbivore

Human scientists can't agree, but computers … uh … find a way

Science16 Nov 2022 | 22

NASA's cubesat makes it to the Moon to test orbit for human visitors

After a troubled journey CAPSTONE marks Lunar Gateway for humans

Science15 Nov 2022 | 16

You wait for an aurora on Mars and MAVEN spots two arriving at the same time

Boffins baffled: There's, like, zero magnetic field and very little atmosphere. What gives?

Science11 Nov 2022 | 8

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 | 117

Cygnus cargo ship makes it to ISS with blanketed solar panel

'Acoustic blanket' cuts power by 50 percent

Science10 Nov 2022 | 18

Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes's arguments for new trial deemed spurious – just like her tech

Federal judge won't revisit fraud case, sets a date for sentencing instead

Science09 Nov 2022 | 43

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Yandex plans to break up with its Russian motherland

'Geopolitical environment' leads to spin-out of cloud, self-driving and other tech

US bans Chinese telecoms imports – won't even consider authorizing them

Part bureaucratic box ticking, part crackdown that makes even Wi-Fi routers and smartphones off limits

Linus Torvalds to be 'more hard-nosed' as Linux 6.2 merge window meets Christmas

Predicts version 6.1 will need an eighth release candidate

How not to test a new system: push a button and wait to see what happens

Who, me? How to make an IBM engineer hyperventilate, or get a promotion: see above.

Japan successfully propels steam-powered spacecraft

Asia In brief PLUS: Criminal probe of Singapore crypto exchange; Bosch invests in China R&D; $2B APAC datacenter fund formed; and more

Epson zaps lasers into oblivion, in the name of the environment

Inkjet is the future, claims Japanese printer maker

Singapore branches out onto internet of trees

LiDAR, AI and sensors manage millions of plants, and have greatly reduced accidents

Spooky entanglement revealed between quantum AI and the BBC

Opinion QC: Still not actually useful, but it's increasingly intriguing

Telecoms networks could provide next-gen GPS services without the need for satellites

Decimeter-level uncertainty, sub-nanosecond time synchronization – but what happens when there's no signal?

Man wins court case against employer that fired him for not liking boozy, forced 'fun' culture

You gotta fight... for your right... to not be an idiot

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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

With potential hurricane approaching, NASA leaves mega-rocket on launch pad

Just call it the Sad Launch System

Science08 Nov 2022 | 19

NASA reassigns Venus boffins to save short-staffed asteroid interceptor

Need Another Special Artisan? The US space agency does

Science08 Nov 2022 | 11

Sizewell C nuclear plant up for review as UK faces financial black hole

'Every major project' on the table, says government as Autumn Statement looms

Science07 Nov 2022 | 201

Catching a falling rocket with a helicopter more complex than it sounds, says Rocket Lab

And it should know – having just failed to catch one

Science07 Nov 2022 | 58

Boeing's Starliner launch pushed back again... to April 2023

The official word is 'scheduling conflicts,' but NASA's safety panel has expressed concerns too

Science04 Nov 2022 | 22

NASA wheels SLS rocket out to the launchpad for another attempt to get off the ground

After two previous failures, will third time be the charm?

Science03 Nov 2022 | 19

NASA's CAPSTONE satellite is out of safe mode and on track for Moon orbit this month

Artemis orbit tester back in the pipe, five by five

Science03 Nov 2022 | 10

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

SpaceX's Falcon Heavy rocket launches after three-year hiatus with secret US sats

Classified mission will █████████ for ████ in █████████ until ███████████ █████

Science01 Nov 2022 | 43

China's third and final module docks with Tiangong space station

Bets on where the Long March 5B will land now?

Science01 Nov 2022 | 15

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 | 9

UK facing electricity supply woes after nuclear power stations shut, MPs told

Larger and smaller reactors carry risks, island nation failed to keep pace with nuclear fleet closure

Science01 Nov 2022 | 253

Oh, great. By peering into twilight, boffins find 'planet killer' asteroids in our system

One may hit Earth, but unlikely. One could whack Venus. This is good or bad news, depending on your outlook

Science01 Nov 2022 | 17

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

NASA details totally doable, not science fiction plan for sending Mars rocks to Earth

So crazy, it just might work

Science29 Oct 2022 | 79

Origins of mysterious marsquake settled: It was a meteoroid what done it

We've spotted the massive ice-hole it left behind

Science28 Oct 2022 | 13

Calamity capsule: Boeing's Starliner losses approaching $1B

Troubled space capsule cost $195 million this quarter, bringing total losses on it since 2020 to $883m

Science27 Oct 2022 | 34

ISS dodges space junk from satellite Russia blew up

Ground crew raised orbit and carried on like a boss

Science27 Oct 2022 | 28

Bill Gates' green investments to shift from tackling climate change to mitigating impacts

Refocuses on adaption technologies while oil industry continues to receive billions in government subsidies

Science26 Oct 2022 | 28

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

Voyager mission's project scientist retires after 50 years of service

Thank you, Ed Stone – the only person to ever hold the job

Science26 Oct 2022 | 37

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

NASA picks its UFO-hunting – sorry – unidentified aerial phenomena-hunting team

The truth is out there and 16 people have been tasked to find it

Science24 Oct 2022 | 36

To build a better quantum computer, look into a black hole, says professor Brian Cox

The black hole information paradox and quantum error correction codes overlap almost completely

Science24 Oct 2022 | 42

20 years on, physicists are still figuring out anomaly in proton experiment

Anyone got the technical reference manual for this simulation we're living in?

Science23 Oct 2022 | 52

Boffins shatter data transmission speed record

One laser + one optical chip = more than the traffic of the entire internet

Science21 Oct 2022 | 45

Mask gizmo wirelessly transmits data on wearer's health

Ongoing COVID concerns inspire 'cMaSK' tech to monitor breathing, temperature, and fit

Science21 Oct 2022 | 18

We've seen things you people wouldn't believe. A planet, dense as a marshmallow, that would float on water

Weird puffy gas giant circles red dwarf

Science21 Oct 2022 | 20

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

NASA OKs spacewalks, upgrades helmets after fishbowl mishap

Changes follow astronaut's headgear filling with water during seven-hour star trek

Science20 Oct 2022 | 21

Founder of zero-emissions truck venture Nikola found guilty of $1b fraud

Verdict in for trial where promo vid showed gravity rather than batteries or fuel cells keeping electric truck moving

Science19 Oct 2022 | 26

Jim McDivitt, NASA Apollo mission astronaut, dies at 93

Tributes paid to Air Force veteran who helped make first US spacewalk possible

Science18 Oct 2022 | 9

Moon has been drifting away from Earth for 2.4 billion years, rocks reveal

Even our nearest satellite can't stand our gravity

Science18 Oct 2022 | 41

Boffins propose Slinky-like robot that can build stuff in space

E-Walker is a 'seven degrees-of-freedom fully dexterous end-over-end walking robot'

Science18 Oct 2022 | 20

NASA's Lucy probe dodges space traffic around Earth in gravity-assist flyby

Spacecraft coming through, outta the way, watch your step, we're heading to Jupiter

Science17 Oct 2022 | 5

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

Scottish space upstart's rocket crashes into the drink

Never mind, still plenty of time to that 2023 orbital test

Science15 Oct 2022 | 53

SpaceX reportedly fed up with providing free Starlink to Ukraine

How can Elon mess up geopolitics today?

Science14 Oct 2022 | 128

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

Aerobot designed for hell-world Venus first braves something worse: Nevada

And by worse, we mean: The endless casinos

Science14 Oct 2022 | 16

Japan space agency blows up eight satellites aboard Epsilon rocket

This is not why this mission was dubbed the 'Innovative Satellite Technology Demonstration'

Science14 Oct 2022 | 23

Water pipes hold flood of untapped electricity potential

1.41GW, in fact – enough to power around one million homes

Science13 Oct 2022 | 100

NASA sets November date for next SLS Moon rocket delay, er, launch

Heh, prove us wrong, kids. Prove us wrong

Science12 Oct 2022 | 24

GM races after Tesla with battery pack tech and solar deal

Gah, for a few milliseconds there, we were willing a cold, faceless corporation to succeed

Science12 Oct 2022 | 8

Westinghouse sale signals arrival of a new nuclear age

Energy granddad wants in on the next generation of atomic tech

Science12 Oct 2022 | 24

China launches solar observation satellite

Will work from Earth orbit, as opposed to the Sun-grazing paths of US and EU solar probes

Science12 Oct 2022 | 1

Confirmed: Asteroid shoved by Earth crash probe DART

Stand down Bruce Willis, 'first planetary defense test' a success

Science12 Oct 2022 | 39

Self-imposed climate change may have killed Martian life

Hungry microbes blamed for chilling out the party too much

Science11 Oct 2022 | 26

NASA regains control of CAPSTONE lunar orbiter after a tumble

Pinging something missing on a network is frustrating enough, imagine if it's out in space

Science11 Oct 2022 | 8

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

SpaceX gives another four astronauts a lift to International Space Station

Two Americans, a Japanese bloke and a Russian float into a lab. The bartender says...

Science07 Oct 2022 | 4

If someone weaponizes our robots, we'll be really, really sad, says Boston Dynamics

Maybe finally a good use for DRM, eh? Preventing armed modifications

Science06 Oct 2022 | 73

Brexit dividend? 'Newly independent' UK will be world's 'data hub', claims digital minister

Updated Amid inevitable talk of 'red tape' cutting at ruling party conference, data protection experts are concerned

Science06 Oct 2022 | 126

Japan tests probe to land on Martian moon Phobos, bring a chunk of it back to Earth

COVID hiccups be damned, work on instruments and connectivity is under way and space agency JAXA is determined to hit launch window

Science06 Oct 2022 | 20

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 | 194

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

UK politico proposes site for prototype nuclear fusion plant

British minister famed for love of imperial measures picks a spot in center of industrial decline

Science05 Oct 2022 | 229

Waxworm's spit shows promise in puncturing plastic pollution

Scientists believe moth larvae saliva can oxidize, degrade polyethylene

Science05 Oct 2022 | 20

Physics Nobel Prize in a superposition between three quantum physicists

Science05 Oct 2022 | 42

India's Mars Orbiter Mission loses contact, burns all fuel, deemed 'non-recoverable'

Mangalyaan orbiter launched for just $74m, lasted a magnificent 16 times longer than expected

Science04 Oct 2022 | 41

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

China spins up giant battery built with US-patented tech

World's largest VRFB was built with inadvertent help from the Department of Energy

Science30 Sep 2022 | 64

Bitcoin worse for the climate than beef, say economists

Researchers mince 'digital gold' claims with study showing cryptocurrency's impact

Science30 Sep 2022 | 39

NASA, SpaceX weigh invoking Dragon to take Hubble higher

Telescope hasn't been superseded by JWST, so why not try to keep it going?

Science30 Sep 2022 | 51

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 | 31

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

Wind, solar fulfill 10% of global electricity demand for first time

Curb your enthusiasm – coal-fired power went up too

Science29 Sep 2022 | 54

Japan taps industry to build safer, more secure nuclear energy future

Project with Mitsubishi Heavy Industries marks shift in policy since Fukushima disaster over a decade ago

Science29 Sep 2022 | 30

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

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