Student satellite demonstrates drag sail to de-orbit old hardware
65 AA batteries and $10 Arduino processor power space debris solution
Science21 Mar 2023 |
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Earth is running out of places for stargazers to do dark deeds in the name of science
A 'new deal for the night' needed
Science20 Mar 2023 | 14
Potatoes in space: Boffins cook up cosmic concrete for off-world habitats
Extraterrestrial regolith biocomposite, you say? I’ll have two
Science20 Mar 2023 | 33
Capital crunch: Virgin Orbit confirms all ops on pause until Tuesday
Staff reportedly furloughed as firm scrambles to find funding after failed launch
Science16 Mar 2023 | 24
NASA spots first evidence of an active volcano on Venus – in a big pile of CD-ROMs
Disc-trawling expedition of 30-year-old data turns up trumps
Science16 Mar 2023 | 10
Reg fashion: Here's what the well-dressed astronaut will wear on the Moon in 2025
Charcoal gray with orange highlights – so chic, and so deliberately fake
Science16 Mar 2023 | 61
Firefly gets nod from NASA to deliver Lunar Pathfinder to the Moon
LuSEE in the sky with ... data
Science15 Mar 2023 | 14
Anyone want an International Space Station? Slightly used
NASA expects to spend about $1 billion to bring it down safely
Science15 Mar 2023 | 132
China debuts bonkers hybrid electric trolley-truck
Mutant offspring of a semi and a trolleybus suggested as emission-cutting future of commercial transport
Science15 Mar 2023 | 82
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
NASA wants a telescope on the far side of the Moon
Aims to look at the universe's dark ages without interference from Earth
Science14 Mar 2023 | 51
Hold off on that 2046 Valentine's date, asteroid might hit Earth
Luckily this rock is only about the size of the Arc de Triomphe, let alone the 600-to-1 chance
Science12 Mar 2023 | 30
Boffins find 'missing link' between interstellar ice and what comes out of the tap
Now drink your space juice
Science10 Mar 2023 | 26
The Moon or bust, says NASA, after successful SLS/Orion test flight
Heat shield sustained more damage than expected, but this shouldn't discourage astronauts
Science09 Mar 2023 | 68
Inaugural flight of first (mostly) 3D-printed rocket aborted
Relativity Space relatively grounded
Science09 Mar 2023 | 10
Wannabe space 'superpower' UK tosses £1.6M at eight research projects
Very world-beating funding
Science08 Mar 2023 | 64
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
NASA fixes solar observation spacecraft by turning it off and turning it on again
'Firemode reset' sees Interstellar Boundary Explorer back on the job
Science07 Mar 2023 | 41
Japan's next-gen H3 satellite launch vehicle fails on debut
Destroyed after second stage failed to ignite, making the mission impossible
Science07 Mar 2023 | 6
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Vessels claiming to be Chinese warships are messing with passenger planes
Australian airline Qantas warns pilots to keep calm and carry on amid reports of satnav and altimeter jamming
BianLian ransomware crew goes 100% extortion after free decryptor lands
No good deed goes unpunished, or something like that
IT phone home: How to run up a $20K bill in two days and get away with it by blaming Cisco
Who, Me? Badly configured routers ended up costing a bundle
OpenAI CEO warns that GPT-4 could be misused for nefarious purposes
In brief ALSO: Discord quietly edited its privacy policy after rolling out new generative AI features, and more
AWS delivers a – rather late – major release of its homebrew Linux distribution
2023 is only one more than 2022, right?
TikTok cannot be considered a private company, says Australian report
Asia In Brief ALSO: Japan ends chip supply crimp on South Korea, APAC infosec spending surges; Philippines SIM registration stalls
How the Internet Archive faces potential destruction at the hands of Big Four publishers
Digital lending is only fine when we do it
Stanford sends 'hallucinating' Alpaca AI model out to pasture over safety, cost
Meta-made small language model can produce misinformation, toxic text
BBC to staff: Uninstall TikTok from our corporate kit unless you can 'justify' having it
Those with 'sensitive' work-related information told to contact Beeb's security team
Google Cloud's US-East load balancers are lousy with latency
Monday morning rush job, anyone? Asking 'cos there's no ETA for a fix other than moving to another region
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The cause of last December's failed satellite launch? Nozzle material, says ESA
Arianespace Vega-C rocket failure sent two Airbus satellites into the Atlantic Ocean
Science06 Mar 2023 | 8
China accelerates drive for scientific self-sufficiency
Asia In Brief PLUS: Grab's custom GitOps; Alipay's RISC-V payments push; NTT Data's solar wrap plan; and more
Science06 Mar 2023 | 20
Why our solar-storm sats corrode – and probably not what you expected
My dear, I do believe I have the vapors ... in spaaace
Science04 Mar 2023 | 17
Hubble images photobombed by space hardware on the up
Big brains worry investment explosion could hit astronomy
Science03 Mar 2023 | 25
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
China leads the world in tech research, could win the future, says think tank
US comes in second, rest of the world is a distant third in fields from biotech to batteries
Science03 Mar 2023 | 27
Space. The eventual frontier. This is the delayed journey of Crew-6 astronauts en route to the ISS
SpaceX overcomes ground systems issue that halted previous launch attempt
Science03 Mar 2023 |
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
UK space faces cash freeze unless watchdogs step up
'Toxic' environment requires reboot to restore confidence following failed satellite launch
Science02 Mar 2023 | 17
NASA finds crashing spacecraft into asteroids is a viable defence strategy
Recoil from DART impact changed Dimorphos's orbit more than expected
Science02 Mar 2023 | 37
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
Double trouble for NASA with two spacecraft on the fritz
Interstellar Boundary Explorer isn't listening and Surface Water Ocean Topography mission off to unlucky start
Science01 Mar 2023 | 3
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
If we plan to live on the Moon, it's going to need a time zone
For one thing, lunar satnav isn't gonna work with Earth's systems
Science01 Mar 2023 | 136
Ground equipment failure scrubs latest ISS SpaceX launch
Crew-6 will have to wait to go to space, and everyone in orbit will have to wait that much longer to come home
Science27 Feb 2023 |
Chinese defence boffins ponder microwaving Starlink satellites to stop surveillance
Beijing has filed the paperwork for its LEO constellation, but SpaceX is already there
Science27 Feb 2023 | 91
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
China's Zhurong rover may be dead: NASA images show no sign of life
Pic Or maybe it's just resting and pining for the fjords
Science23 Feb 2023 | 11
Light from a long time ago reaches James Webb Space Telescope
Galaxies got big much sooner than expected, new observations
Science22 Feb 2023 | 27
NASA: Yup, thousand-pound meteorite exploded over Texas
As good time as any for Europe to announce a 2030 asteroid-spotting mission
Science22 Feb 2023 | 52
ISS rescue Soyuz launches this week, won't return crew until September
Leaving another Russian craft in orbit for months ... what could go wrong?
Science21 Feb 2023 | 5
Research raises questions: Are instruments taken to Mars sensitive enough to find life?
Study in Chile desert finds NASA Mars mission instruments unlikely to detect signs of life in Earth's most arid regions
Science21 Feb 2023 | 18
The second dust bowl cometh for America, supercomputer warns
Droughts, flash floods the future for the Midwest ... probably
Science18 Feb 2023 | 90
SpaceX threatened with $175,000 fine for Starlink crash risk paperwork blunder
Video Looks like Musketeers jumped the gun, launched mission too early
Science18 Feb 2023 | 24
Smile! South Korea's moon orbiter sends back first snaps of Earth
Danuri probe is ready to spend its planned year testing space internet, spotting radiation and/or water
Science14 Feb 2023 | 5
Second Soyuz springs a leak, astronauts stuck on ISS for an extra month
Trust us tovarishch, we're just going to do a few more checks
Science14 Feb 2023 | 11
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
Water-hunting NASA cubesat won't reach Moon after total thruster fail
ASCENT propulsion system just didn't work
Science10 Feb 2023 | 21
Amazon convinces FCC it can avoid space junk chaos
We wanted robot butlers and flying Deloreans ... and got internet-from-orbit instead
Science10 Feb 2023 | 36
Elon Musk's Neuralink probed over pathogen transport
Surely this is how at least one Michael Crichton novel starts
Science10 Feb 2023 | 30
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 | 9
Ring system discovered around dwarf planet Quaoar leaves astronomers puzzled
Structure appears to be so far out, the Roche limit may need revising
Science09 Feb 2023 | 55
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
Could 2023 be the year SpaceX's Starship finally reaches orbit?
Meanwhile, no one is thinking of the horrible emissions coming out of all these rockets, say scientists
Science06 Feb 2023 | 64
Private company set up to oversee UK's prototype fusion reactor
STEP won't be complete until 2040, but here's a 'delivery body' in the meantime
Science06 Feb 2023 | 35
Field trip! European Space Agency sends astronauts abroad to learn about rocks
Astronauts need better autonomy as ground control gets further away
Science06 Feb 2023 | 12
Fossil brain undoes 350 million years of scientific understanding
'Stunning' scans reveal how ray-finned fish diverged from other vertebrates
Science02 Feb 2023 | 23
Wind, solar power outstrip fossil fuel generation for EU
Coal cooked, gas dissipating as renewables power up
Science02 Feb 2023 | 141
DARPA's quantum computing is powered by ... FOMO
Microsoft and friends happy to assuage Uncle Sam's anxiety — for a price
Science02 Feb 2023 | 6
NASA Geotail spacecraft's 30-year mission ends after last data recorder fails
Also, JunoCam malfunctioned again, time to get new kit up there
Science31 Jan 2023 | 23
Renewables are cheaper than coal in all but one US location
Thanks in large part to the Inflation Reduction Act, the dirty fuel has even fewer things going for it now
Science30 Jan 2023 | 121
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
Truck-size asteroid makes one of the tightest fly-bys of Earth ever recorded
What a tease
Science27 Jan 2023 | 39
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
James Webb Space Telescope suffers another hitch: Instrument down
Second system to be knocked offline
Science26 Jan 2023 | 57
Watch Rocket Lab lift off from US for first time, put radio-sniffing sats into orbit
Video Nice of someone to give SpaceX a little competition
Science26 Jan 2023 | 5
NASA, DARPA to go nuclear in hopes of putting boots on Mars
Fission reactor rocket should get them going quite fast
Science25 Jan 2023 | 44
Space dust reveals Earth-killer asteroids tough to destroy
Good luck blowing up a pile of rubble. Boffins suggest we'll need to create a diversion instead
Science25 Jan 2023 | 50
Uncle Sam greenlights first commercial nuclear small modular reactor design
NuScale plants could begin construction as soon as February 21, when new rule goes into effect
Science24 Jan 2023 | 38
Lucy asteroid probe forced to limp on without full solar array
Attempts to fix glitch ditched – but never give up, never surrender
Science24 Jan 2023 | 2
It's been 230 years since British pirates robbed the US of the metric system
Feature How did the world's largest economy get stuck with retro measurement?
Science22 Jan 2023 | 701
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
Three billion objects, 10TB+ of data – yup, it's the largest-yet survey of our galaxy
And not even close to mapping it all
Science20 Jan 2023 | 12
Plugging end-of-life EV batteries into the grid could ease renewables transition
Study says this would give old power units years of useful life once unsuitable for cars
Science18 Jan 2023 | 33
Laser-wielding boffins bend lightning to their will
Video Discovery could provide better protection for power stations, airports and launchpads
Science18 Jan 2023 | 30
Artificial pancreas successful in type 2 diabetes tests
Cambridge researchers say 89 percent of study patients reported spending less time managing their condition
Science18 Jan 2023 | 29
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
Space startup ABL emulates Virgin Orbit failure by crashing
Second time this week a satellite-ferrying vehicle has failed
Science12 Jan 2023 | 22
Stranded ISS astronauts are getting a new Soyuz to ride home
The coolant-deprived vessel that got them there will return to Earth alone
Science11 Jan 2023 | 14
Virgin Orbit doesn't
First sat launch from UK soil experienced 'anomaly' after entering space, did not deploy payloads
Science10 Jan 2023 | 135
Remember the Ozone hole? The satellite that spotted it just caused a space junk scare
South Korean authorities warned locals to avoid falling space junk, which probably splashed down harmlessly
Science09 Jan 2023 | 10
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
First satellite to be launched from European soil leaves Cornwall tonight
Virgin Orbit set to help UK county put pasty-munching image behind it
Science09 Jan 2023 | 30
China's Mars rover hibernates for a scarily long time
Zhurongs don't make a right and suggest the mission may not have survived winter
Science09 Jan 2023 | 19
Mixing an invisible laser and a fire alarm made for a disastrous demo
Who, Me? Dark deeds are no way to close a deal
Science09 Jan 2023 | 60
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
Japan lacks the expertise for renewed nuclear power after Fukushima
No staff and no equipment ready after over a decade of nuclear denial
Science04 Jan 2023 | 43
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 boss says US may lose latest space race with China
Beijing could dent Yank efforts to colonize Moon if it gets there first
Science04 Jan 2023 | 42
NASA may tap SpaceX to rescue ISS 'nauts in Soyuz leak
And Elon's still distracted by Twitter, yes? OK, that's probably for the best
Science30 Dec 2022 | 49
Perseverance rover drops off first sample tube on surface of Mars
Woohoo! Cameras on robot's belly confirm it isn't going to drive over it
Science22 Dec 2022 | 30
License to launch: UK space regulator gives Virgin Orbit satellites the go-ahead
First satellite to be launched into orbit from western Europe... when it takes off
Science22 Dec 2022 | 61
NASA retires Mars InSight mission after it enters ‘dead bus’ condition
So long and thanks for all the science
Science22 Dec 2022 | 19
India schedules first crewed space mission for Q4, 2024
Two test missions fly first, before Gaganyaan makes India just the fourth nation to put people into orbit
Science22 Dec 2022 | 15
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