Student satellite demonstrates drag sail to de-orbit old hardware 65 AA batteries and $10 Arduino processor power space debris solution Science21 Mar 2023 |
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
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
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