Quantum code breaking? You'd get further with an 8-bit computer, an abacus, and a dog Computer scientist Peter Gutmann tells The Reg why it's 'bollocks' Research17 Jul 2025 | 37
Large Hadron Collider data hints at explanation for why everything exists The universe contains more matter than antimatter, and a paper hints at one reason for that happy disparity Science17 Jul 2025 | 42
JWST peers through dusty curtain to catch young star making baby planets Observations of HOPS-315 align with theories of how our own solar system began to take shape Science16 Jul 2025 | 5
Scientists spot massive black hole collision that defies current theories Off-the-charts gravitational waves ripple out from merged dead stars Science15 Jul 2025 | 43
Apollo-Soyuz at 50: The Cold War space hug that nearly ended in gasping horror First US-Soviet joint mission showed détente in action, but astronauts had a close call on return home Science14 Jul 2025 | 20
Google Indonesia tangled up in $600 million Chromebook corruption probe Asia In Brief PLUS: China’s massive lithium find; Cisco’s new Asia boss; Japan and EU plan satcomms collab; and more Public Sector14 Jul 2025 | 8
Former reality TV star appointed NASA interim administrator Can Sean Duffy embrace the challenge? Science10 Jul 2025 | 62
Lord of the Rings director Peter Jackson backs plan to do a Jurassic Park on extinct birds New Zealand’s Giant Moa stood over three meters tall but were easy prey Science10 Jul 2025 | 59
Eggheads hold science fair on Capitol Hill to decry funding cuts 'The Things We’ll Never Know' show highlights what we'll be missing Science09 Jul 2025 | 26
ESA backs five rockets in Launcher Challenge – only some have exploded Comment Oodles of euros on offer for not accidentally blowing up stuff Science09 Jul 2025 | 13
One Big Brutal Bill: Ex-NASA brass decry Trump's proposed budget cuts 'If this is the priority for our tax dollars, we are doomed' Science08 Jul 2025 | 41
Nuclear reactors smaller than a semi truck to be tested in Idaho Forget small modular reactors. Microreactors are the new hotness Science07 Jul 2025 | 97
Double-detonation supernova could explain why the universe is full of candles Lucy in the sky with calcium Science07 Jul 2025 | 27
'Cyber security' behind decision to end defense satellite sharing of hurricane data Official notice confirms delay to cutoff until the end of July. Not to worry, AI modelling's in the wings Networks07 Jul 2025 | 55
UK puts out tender for space robot to de-orbit satellites Updated Got to be a 'clean space superpower' – right, Brits? Science06 Jul 2025 | 52
Mars was once a desert with intermittent oases, Curiosity data suggests New modeling of carbon cycle shows unsteady but habitable history before liquid water disappeared Science04 Jul 2025 | 42
Cold without the compressor: Boffins build better ice box A thermoelectric material called CHESS is pretty cool Science03 Jul 2025 | 42
MethaneSAT 'likely not recoverable' after losing contact with Earth Methane monitoring satellite managed just over a year in orbit before its sudden demise Science02 Jul 2025 | 27
23andMe's new owner says your DNA is safe this time Nonprofit TTAM assures everything is BAU. Whether that makes customers feel better is another matter Cyber-crime02 Jul 2025 | 18
Trump's One Big Beautiful Bill bankrolls $85M Space Shuttle shuffle NASA science might be cut, but cash can be found to move a 'space vehicle' from museum to museum Science02 Jul 2025 | 98
VMware reboots its partner program again – and it looks like smaller players are out Exclusive Second major change in 18 months will be most unwelcome for many - as will critical flaws announced today
Curl creator mulls nixing bug bounty awards to stop AI slop Maintainers struggle to handle growing flow of low-quality bug reports written by bots
Ukrainian hackers claim to have destroyed major Russian drone maker's entire network 'Deeply penetrated' Gaskar 'to the very tonsils of demilitarization'
Open, free, and completely ignored: The strange afterlife of Symbian It did get sourced, but nobody cared
If you want a picture of the future, imagine humans checking AI didn't make a mistake – forever Column CEOs will chase illusory profits as workers are left to pick defective items from an agentic production line
Cloudflare fesses up to config change that borked internet access for all Down and out for hour, claims CDN biz. No, say users, more like three
Turbulence at Air Serbia, the latest airline under cyber siege Exclusive Attack enters day 11 and still no public disclosure of what insider claims to be 'deep breach' of Active Directory
Google's Android boss suggests ChromeOS could be on borrowed time Gentoo derivative is the most popular Linux distro, but its days are apparently numbered
Ex-OpenAI engineer pulls the curtain back on a chaotic hot mess 'Everything breaks when you scale that quickly'
Ex-US soldier who Googled 'can hacking be treason' pleads guilty to extortion File this one under what not to search if you've committed a crime
NASA tests shrinking metals to help it find more exoplanets Mysterious ‘Alloy 30’ gets smaller when heated, which could help stabilize super-sensitive space telescopes Science02 Jul 2025 | 28
NASA gives Lunar Trailblazer a few more weeks to pick up the phone Stricken probe giving US space agency the silent treatment Science01 Jul 2025 | 2
China successfully tests hypersonic aircraft, maybe at Mach 12 America recently extended tech export bans specifically to stop Beijing building this sort of thing Science01 Jul 2025 | 62
Google to buy power from fusion energy startup Commonwealth - if they can ever make it work Someday, my prince will come Science30 Jun 2025 | 13
Northrop Grumman shows SpaceX doesn't have a monopoly on explosions video NASA's future Artemis booster sputters during test Science30 Jun 2025 | 11
China claims breakthroughs in classical and quantum computers Chipmaker Loongson says server CPUs on par with 2021’s Ice Lake, as local press tout kit to manage 1,024-qubit systems Systems30 Jun 2025 | 8
Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter learns new trick at the age of 19: ‘very large rolls’ Now play dead, like a lot of NASA science programs if the White House gets its way Science27 Jun 2025 | 15
US Department of Defense will stop sending critical hurricane satellite data updated No replacement in the wings for info streamed from past their prime rigs, 'termination will be permanent' Science27 Jun 2025 | 78
There's no international protocol on what to do if an asteroid strikes Earth Or so hear members of Parliament in the UK Science27 Jun 2025 | 99
NICER science not so nice as ISS telescope pauses operations Cosmic research on hold while engineers investigate a problematic motor Science26 Jun 2025 | 2
Don't look up: NASA is struggling to execute its planetary defense plan Audit finds budget uncertainties and tiny staff make it hard to mount a fight against killer space rocks Science25 Jun 2025 | 28
Axiom Mission 4 finally set for launch June 25 Fifth and final Crew Dragon ready for first flight to the ISS tomorrow Science24 Jun 2025 | 4
Bezos beams up batch two as Project Kuiper plays catch-up with Starlink ULA's Atlas V deploys second load of Amazon's broadband satellites Networks24 Jun 2025 | 6
World's largest camera shows galaxy in 3,200 megapixel glory as Rubin telescope goes online 20TB of galactic shots a day, backed by Microsofties Science24 Jun 2025 | 26
Eutelsat seeks €1.35B to boost LEO network and take the fight to Starlink French satellite operator plans capital raise backed by state and key investors including Bharti Science20 Jun 2025 | 9
ESA's XMM-Newton finds huge filament of missing matter Veteran X-ray telescope discovery shows that... phew, current model of the cosmos still works Science19 Jun 2025 | 20
SpaceX's Starship explodes again ... while still on the ground Test fire trouble means Musk's rocketeers reset the 'days since Starship had a major anomaly' counter to zero Science19 Jun 2025 | 215
Space manufacturing company Varda gets clearance to launch more uncrewed capsules UPDATED Startup has already shown how to make drugs in space Science19 Jun 2025 | 2
Nvidia bets on Gates-backed nuclear startup to keep its AI ambitions from melting down $650M funding round aims to bring TerraPower's Natrium power plant in Wyoming online by 2030 Science18 Jun 2025 | 14
Brit space sector struggles to compete with £90K graduate banking salaries UK needs skills task force to get slice of $1.8 trillion pie, Lords told Science18 Jun 2025 | 116
Japan set to join the re-usable rocket club after Honda sticks a landing France announced its own effort to build re-usable engines on the same day Science18 Jun 2025 | 31
Atlas V glitch delays second Project Kuiper launch Amazon's satellite constellation hits another snag as ULA rocket aborts on pad Science17 Jun 2025 | 12
Penn State boffins create silicon-free two-dimensional computer Clock speed of 25 kHz means 2D CMOS system won't run Doom quite yet Science16 Jun 2025 | 34
Japan builds near $700M fund to lure foreign academic talent For researchers yearning to earn some yen and escape Trump 2.0 Science16 Jun 2025 | 13
ISS leaks push Axiom Mission 4 launch to no earlier than June 19 Evaluation of latest repairs to Russian segment ongoing Science16 Jun 2025 | 9
Researchers claim spoof-proof random number generator breakthrough Combining quantum entanglement with hash chains promises randomness which can be relied on Science14 Jun 2025 | 70
UK dumps £2.5 billion into fusion pipe dream that's already cost millions UPDATED STEP sucked up £220 million in 2022, and it's still not apparent what that accomplished Science13 Jun 2025 | 102
Falcon 9 leaks keep Axiom private astronaut mission on the ground Weather and propulsion system problems conspire to keep astronauts away from the ISS Science12 Jun 2025 | 3
Behold! Humanity has captured our first look at the Sun's South Pole Confusingly, the magnetic north and south poles are both down there, where the Solar Orbiter can see them Science12 Jun 2025 | 46
DARPA is testing a device soldiers can swallow to make them less stressed Not that kind of edible - this one's electronic Science11 Jun 2025 | 28
NASA to silence Voyager's social media accounts All about consolidation as mission mouthpieces archived in pursuit of 'improving the experience' Science11 Jun 2025 | 50
Tug reaches flaming ship carrying electric cars off Alaska coast It's still smoking, but help is on hand Science11 Jun 2025 | 36
Probability of Asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting the Moon increases Scientists improve knowledge by 20% thanks to James Webb Space Telescope data Science10 Jun 2025 | 28
China orders trial of aged care robots that can cook, clean, and provide emotional support Elon Musk suggested this to Beijing years ago AI + ML10 Jun 2025 | 28
1.5 TB of James Webb Space Telescope data just hit the internet Online catalog gives open science access to data from early universe Science09 Jun 2025 | 15
US lawmakers fire back a response to Trump's NASA cuts Big expensive Moon rockets = good. Science = yeah, whatever Science09 Jun 2025 | 20
China's asteroid-and-comet hunter probe unfurls a 'solar wing' Asia in brief Plus: Hitachi turns graybeards into AI agents, Tiananmen anniversary censorship, AWS in Taiwan, and more! Science09 Jun 2025 | 4
£127M wasted on failed UK nuclear cleanup plan Don't worry, only 100 more years of Sellafield nuclear site cleansing to go Science07 Jun 2025 | 78
Trump lifts US supersonic flight ban, says he's 'Making Aviation Great Again' It's boom time for the next generation of fast travel Science07 Jun 2025 | 170
Ex-NASA Admin pick blames Musk ties for pulled nomination Jared Isaacman reveals how space agency might have looked under his watch Science06 Jun 2025 | 60
Japan's latest Moon landing written off as a failure after ispace probe goes dark UPDATED Rangefinder broke during descent so lander didn't slow down Science05 Jun 2025 | 51
Ship abandoned off Alaska after electric cars on board catch fire Water, water everywhere, but it would just make it worse Science05 Jun 2025 | 284
60 years ago the US took its first walk in space with Gemini 4 Four years later, Apollo 11 landed on the Moon Science04 Jun 2025 | 14
Meta just saved an Illinois nuclear plant that was set to be mothballed The 20-year deal with Constellation will slake Zuckercorp's thirst for energy to power AI datacenters Science03 Jun 2025 | 29
Engineers bring Psyche's thrusters back online Diagnosing a borkage from a million miles away Science03 Jun 2025 | 18
NASA boss-to-be gets spaced as proposed budget cuts detailed White House withdraws Isaacman pick amid potential $6B funding drop Science02 Jun 2025 | 28
Odd homage to '2001: A Space Odyssey' sees 'Blue Danube' waltz beamed at Voyager 1 Birthdays for ESA (50) and Johann Strauss (200) marked with music of the spheres Science02 Jun 2025 | 73
American science put on starvation diet National Science Foundation FY 2026 budget cut by more than 60% Science30 May 2025 | 81
Astroboffins analyzed old data and found a candidate dwarf planet in the Oort cloud Thank whoever decided to make the Dark Energy Camera Legacy Survey public for this discovery Science30 May 2025 | 23
China to visit Earth’s ‘quasi-moon’ and bring a chunk of it back home Tianwen 2 probe launched Thursday and will also get up close with a comet Science29 May 2025 | 14
MIT boffins claim liquid sodium battery could one day power aircraft while sucking up CO2 Prototype packs triple the energy density of lithium-ion, they claim Science28 May 2025 | 55
SpaceX resets 'Days Since Last Starship Explosion' counter to zero, again Musk’s rocket co fails to deploy any dummy satellites either Science28 May 2025 | 79
FAA gives SpaceX the nod for Starship Flight 9 but doubles the danger zone Updated Aircraft Hazard Area now stretches 1,600 nautical miles Science23 May 2025 | 25
Space Force tech mission threatened by staff and funding black hole Budget slashing has 'outsized impact' on us, says commander who fears branch not ready for orbital war Public Sector22 May 2025 | 17
China finds a previously unknown microbe on its space station Don’t panic! It's related to an earthly bug, eats gelatin, not astronauts, and may have adapted to life in space Science22 May 2025 | 17
Microsoft-backed AI out-forecasts hurricane experts without crunching the physics LLM trained on decades of weather data claimed to be faster, and cheaper European Supercomputing21 May 2025 | 24
Estimating AI energy usage is fiendishly hard – but this report took a shot And it gets even harder when you try to estimate CO2 emissions AI + ML21 May 2025 | 11
NASA was eyeing ISS crew cutbacks before Trump's budget landed Will the US President take credit for that one as well? Science21 May 2025 | 3
UK 'extremely dependent' on US for space security After 60 years+ cooperation on space and military ops, worrying 'rhetoric' from Team Trump has Brits examining options Security21 May 2025 | 108
DARPA zaps popcorn with laser power beamed 5.3 miles through air 800-watt demo breaks distance record for optical energy transmission Science19 May 2025 | 37
When LLMs get personal info they are more persuasive debaters than humans Large-scale disinfo campaigns could use this in machines that adapt 'to individual targets.' Are we having fun yet? AI + ML19 May 2025 | 17
No-boom supersonic flights could slide through US skies soon Feature As long as you're quiet about it Science17 May 2025 | 94
NASA keeps ancient Voyager 1 spacecraft alive with Hail Mary thruster fix Failure could've triggered a small explosion Science15 May 2025 | 80
Next week's SpaceX Starship test still needs FAA authorization Aiming for the stars, but sometimes hitting the Caribbean Science15 May 2025 | 62
Intuitive Machines blames dim lighting and dodgy data for second lunar faceplant Touchdown with no topple? Company aims for third time lucky Science14 May 2025 | 23
Saudi CubeSat gets golden ticket on doomed SLS rocket Trump greenlights slot for Riyadh as NASA's pricey booster teeters on the brink Science14 May 2025 | 14
NSF director memo to staff: Don't worry about those job cuts, at least for now Court orders halt to layoffs – as folks steering American innovation wonder how long injunction will last Science14 May 2025 | 8
Boffins warn that AI paper mills are swamping science with garbage studies Research flags rise in one-dimensional health research fueled by large language models AI + ML13 May 2025 | 78
After more than half a century, the voyage of Kosmos 482 is over The Soviet Union aimed for Venus, but hit the Indian Ocean instead Science13 May 2025 | 25
Mars may have vast underground oceans and enough H2O to make it a water world Chinese and Australian boffins ask what else could be slowing down seismic waves as they pass through the Red Planet? Science13 May 2025 | 28
Fusion eggheads claim modeling fix for particle escape - at least in stellarators One problem down, x - 1 problems go Science12 May 2025 | 14
CERN boffins turn lead into gold for about a microsecond at unimaginable cost So alchemists had the right idea – they just lacked a 27 km particle accelerator Science12 May 2025 | 39
Yolk's on you – eggs break less when they land sideways MIT research team proves pop science eggsplanation wrong Offbeat10 May 2025 | 65
US govt's science foundation purges 37 divisions, equity unit among casualties DEI another day: Trump priorities bite as $1B in grants vanish, layoffs loom Science09 May 2025 | 81
VIPER rover banished to storage as moonshot plan sputters NASA cancels solicitation to get a partner to launch, land, and operate the bot for free Science09 May 2025 | 12
Microsoft wants us to believe AI will crack practical fusion power, driving future AI This BS ends at some point, right? AI Infrastructure Month09 May 2025 | 48
As US scientists flee Trump, MP urges Britain to do more to nab them One concrete suggestion: Looser visa requirements Science09 May 2025 | 140
NASA JPL boss bails for 'personal reasons' as budget cuts bite Updated Laurie Leshin to leave in June Science08 May 2025 | 16
ESA feeling weightless and unwanted amid proposed NASA cuts Euro space agency insists it's reliable and desirable in face of 'abusive spouse' Science08 May 2025 | 15