World’s smallest remote-controlled robots are smaller than a flea
Video So small, you can't feel it crawl
Science27 May 2022 | 28
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Boeing's Starliner CST-100 on its way to the ISS 2 years late
A couple of thruster failures shouldn't affect the Calamity Capsule's second attempt at reaching space station
Science20 May 2022 | 64
Voyager 1 space probe producing ‘anomalous telemetry data’
Engineers debugging at 160 bits per second, with 41 hours latency
Science19 May 2022 | 116
NASA's InSight doomed as Mars dust coats solar panels
The little lander that couldn't (any longer)
Science18 May 2022 | 57
Rocket Lab is taking NASA's CAPSTONE to the Moon
Mission to lunar orbit is further than any Photon satellite bus has gone before
Science17 May 2022 | 8
Lithium production needs investment to keep pace with battery demand
Report says $42b will need to be poured into industry over next decade
Science16 May 2022 | 17
D-Wave deploys first US-based Advantage quantum system
For those that want to keep their data in the homeland
Science15 May 2022 | 10
Pictured: Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way
We speak to scientists involved in historic first snap – and no, this isn't the M87*
Science14 May 2022 | 55
BMW looks to quantum computers to speed R&D
Pasqal to provide compute based on approaches by Qu&Co acquisition
Science12 May 2022 | 16
The future is unwritten, but here’s how you can start preparing for it right now
Shivvy Jervis kicks off Lenovo’s futurist keynote series this month
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Aerospace biz Orbex shows off a prototype Prime on its Scottish stand
What goes up will also come down. The question is... how?
Science11 May 2022 | 5
Astra Space to launch satellites from Shetland
Rockets could fly from the UK as soon as next year
Science10 May 2022 | 11
Mars Ingenuity helicopter and Perseverance are talking again
NASA drops heater temp to boost batteries as dust hits solar supply
Science09 May 2022 | 33
Human-made hopper out-leaps rival robots in artificial jumping contest
Applications in lunar exploration and Earth-bound locomotion are possible
Science01 May 2022 | 29
Quantum-tunneling memory could boost AI energy efficiency by 100x
Boffins get excited about building better machine synapses
Science01 May 2022 | 2
Worried about being replaced by a robot? Become a physicist
Scientists develop algorithm that decides if your job can just be an algorithm
Science30 Apr 2022 | 56
NASA's modified Boeing 747 SP SOFIA to be grounded for good
Final flight of Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy will be in 2022
Science29 Apr 2022 | 25
MIT's thin plastic speakers fall flat. And that's by design
Video The walls are alive with the sound of music
Science29 Apr 2022 | 35
Rocket Lab to attempt mid-air recovery of descending booster
Doing anything Friday night? Fancy watching someone try to catch a rocket with a helicopter?
Science28 Apr 2022 | 29
Could a leaky capacitor be at fault on ESA's Sentinel-1B?
Prepare your 'turn it off and on' jokes as engineers get ready to flip the heaters
Science25 Apr 2022 | 27
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Broadcom to 'focus on rapid transition to subscriptions' for VMware
Offers comforting vision for core customers, products, channel – though warns efficiencies are coming
Minimal, systemd-free Alpine Linux releases version 3.16
A widespread distro that many of its users don't even know they have
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Ex-spymaster and fellow Brexiteers' emails leaked by suspected Russian op
A 'Very English Coop (sic) d'Etat'
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Entrepreneur now looking at $33.5b bill if he wants to complete $44b purchase
Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 splashes down on Win Server 2022
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US Space Force unit to monitor region beyond Earth's geosynchronous orbit
Team America: Solar System Police
Science23 Apr 2022 | 84
Take this $15m and make us some ultra-energy-efficient superconductor chips, scientists told
A fair price to get everyone to stop talking about Moore's Law for good
Science22 Apr 2022 | 21
Engineers up the torque to get Lucy's solar array latched
Nobody wants flappy bits during an engine burn of Trojan asteroid explorer
Science22 Apr 2022 | 14
Space Launch System dress rehearsal canceled for repairs
If at first you don't succeed... you're probably NASA
Science19 Apr 2022 | 30
ESA: Fly me to the Moon, just not on a Russian rocket
Payloads pulled as Europe eyes alternatives
Science14 Apr 2022 | 16
Intel ships mystery quantum hardware to national lab
Argonne boffinry nerve-center is building a qubit computer with x86 giant Inside
Science13 Apr 2022 | 9
The Register gets up close and personal with ESA's JUICE spacecraft
Feature Next stop, French Guiana. Then Jupiter
Science11 Apr 2022 | 14
Scientists make spin ice breakthrough
Artificial spin ice with smallest features ever created could be part of novel low-power HPC
Science09 Apr 2022 | 10
SpaceX launches first totally private mission to the International Space Station
Saturday rendezvous planned for historic commercial orbit ride
Science08 Apr 2022 | 29
Newly released Space Force data could save life on Earth
Goodness, gracious, lots of insights on great balls of fire
Science08 Apr 2022 | 13
Direct lithium extraction technique for greener batteries gains traction
Special method for production gets cash injection from govt, vendors
Science08 Apr 2022 | 37
First Light says it's hit nuclear fusion breakthrough with no fancy lasers, magnets
We talk to CEO about projectile-based implosion design
Science07 Apr 2022 | 148
DARPA says US hypersonic missile is ready for real world
A new arms race emerges
Science06 Apr 2022 | 67
ESA's Sentinel-1A satellite narrowly dodges debris
Who left that bit of rocket there? It's getting a bit crowded in orbit
Science04 Apr 2022 | 31
Boston Dynamics' latest robot is a warehouse workhorse
When does this thing get to unionize?
Science02 Apr 2022 | 37
Scientists repurpose hoverfly vision to detect drones by sound
Video It's a bug's life
Science02 Apr 2022 | 18
Terra Quantum nets $75m for cryptography, security work
Ferroelectric devices key for this qubit-slinging startup
Science01 Apr 2022 | 2
NASA astronaut returns to Earth on a Russian Soyuz
Mission launched during a pandemic, returned during... oh God, what now?
Science30 Mar 2022 | 11
Wozniak startup to share orbital space junk data
Privateer to help avoid collisions and more debris around our planet
Science28 Mar 2022 | 15
NASA will award contract for second lunar lander to a biz that's not SpaceX
'Competition is critical to our success,' says US agency boss
Science26 Mar 2022 | 37
Russia's Mir space station returned to Earth 21 years ago
The project lives on as part of the ISS – but for how much longer?
Science23 Mar 2022 | 8
Oxidation-proof copper could replace gold, meaning cheaper chips, says prof
One hopes this won't hike the price of Cu
Science22 Mar 2022 | 46
Take this $715,000 and find security gaps in quantum computers, says NSF
Yes, the ones that don't exist yet
Science18 Mar 2022 | 24
Hear us out: Smartphone lidar can test blood, milk
Using tiny samples, too, a claim we're sure you haven't heard before
Science18 Mar 2022 | 34
ExoMars rover launch axed over Russia tensions
ESA will need to source a different rocket, lander, and descent stage in time for next window in 2024
Science17 Mar 2022 | 32
UK space firm Skyrora opens rocket testing site in Scotland
Brit rocketeers get ever closer to that first launch from UK soil
Science17 Mar 2022 | 10
Ukraine's nuclear plants: Chernobyl off diesel power, explosions explained
To the satisfaction of the International Atomic Energy Agency, at least
Science16 Mar 2022 | 27
Software upgrades help Mars helicopter keep flying
Ingenuity's Earth-side coding team has expanded, and so has its rover-assistance mission
Science16 Mar 2022 | 14
Pioneer 10 turns 50: Remembering humankind's first jaunt to Jupiter
Feature We sent it off 'to tweak a dragon's tail, and it did that and more'
Science15 Mar 2022 | 28
Microsoft claims breakthrough in quantum computer system
If true, Redmond is capable sustaining a stable working environment somewhere after all
Science14 Mar 2022 | 35
Congress earmarks cash for fusion energy development
When it comes to smashing atoms, things are really starting to heat up
Science14 Mar 2022 | 8
Next-gen Moon buggy FLEX conquers California desert, seeks lunar speed record
Astrolab up against competition but has secret weapon: Cosmic crooner Chris Hadfield
Science12 Mar 2022 | 23
Germany bankrolls effort to build home-grown quantum systems
With millions of euros, we'll do you a QSolid, say scientists
Science11 Mar 2022 | 12
NASA awaits approval of $24bn 2022 budget
A billion here, a billion there, after a while it starts adding up to real money
Science10 Mar 2022 | 14
Risk-based algorithm could improve cancer screenings
This time the intelligence is not artificial
Science09 Mar 2022 | 9
PsiQuantum envisions a datacenter-sized quantum computer
We're promised less science fiction, more contemporary hardware
Science08 Mar 2022 | 11
Chinese rocket junk may have just smashed into Moon
Details still up in the air, unlike whatever hit our natural satellite
Science04 Mar 2022 | 46
Fujitsu claims world leadership in headache management
For actual headaches, not tech messes, but hasn't said why its staff have a problem that needed tackling
Science04 Mar 2022 | 14
Europe's largest nuclear plant on fire after Russian attack
Updated What to know and what not to panic about
Science04 Mar 2022 | 131
OneWeb drops launches from Russia's Baikonur spaceport
One day after Roscosmos said 'hostile' UK govt should withdraw stake in satellite firm
Science03 Mar 2022 | 58
Harvard, MIT, Berkeley are still fighting over genome-editing patents. Now another ruling
Who says organic chemistry doesn't have its drama?
Science02 Mar 2022 | 7
ESA-Russia Mars rover launch on ice after Ukraine invasion
Rosalind Franklin can't catch a break
Science01 Mar 2022 | 6
Plans for UK rival to Silicon Valley ditched
Government said to be looking further north than the Oxford-Cambridge Arc
Science28 Feb 2022 | 91
Watchdog rejects complaint over NASA IT contract
$1.8bn deal not tainted by ex-agency consultant, auditor finds
Science24 Feb 2022 | 5
Gas cloud around galactic nucleus reveals unified view of center
It's all about perspective
Science16 Feb 2022 | 8
NASA's InSight probe emerges from Mars dust storm
Plucky probe exceeded expectations. What's your excuse for that keyboard?
Science10 Feb 2022 | 47
Joint European Torus more than doubles fusion record with 59 megajoules
Next stop, ITER?
Science09 Feb 2022 | 123
Geomagnetic storm takes out 40 of 49 brand new Starlink satellites
SpaceX launched even though the space weatherman predicted tricky conditions could follow a solar flare
Science09 Feb 2022 | 119
NASA taps Lockheed Martin to build Mars parcel pickup rocket
The chances of anything coming from Mars are a million to one, they said – but Perseverance samples just might make it
Science08 Feb 2022 | 53
UK science stuck in 'holding pattern' on EU funding by Brexit, says minister
This may be time for plan B
Science07 Feb 2022 | 254
Photon fantastic: James Webb Space Telescope spies its first starlight
Three months of mirror alignment gets under way
Science05 Feb 2022 | 72
UK to splash another £1.4bn on protecting non-existent 'national interests in space'
Updated But what of the domestic launchers?
Science02 Feb 2022 | 12
Second Trojan asteroid confirmed to be leading our planet around the Sun
Good candidate for fly-by, say scientists, and we’ve got 4,000 years to do it
Science02 Feb 2022 | 46
UK government told to tighten purse strings or public will have to foot the bill for nuclear decommissioning
Reverse this trend of overspending, says watchdog
Science01 Feb 2022 | 35
Shazam! Two world-record lightning events recognised
One streaked across 750km of sky, the other set a duration record
Science01 Feb 2022 | 22
Earth to Voyager 2: Standby for connection – after we tip this water out of the dish
Video Deep Space Network scope tilts to find its targets, or to dispose of the effects of recent rain
Science31 Jan 2022 | 44
UK government responds to post-Brexit concerns and of course it's all the fault of those pesky EU negotiators
'Incalculable cost' of non-participation in Horizon programme 'continues to rise'
Science28 Jan 2022 | 183
Burning plasma signals step forward in race for nuclear fusion as researchers get bigger capsule for their 192-laser experiment
But work at US security-linked lab falls short of true ignition. 'This is physics,' they say
Science27 Jan 2022 | 40
Something 4,000 light years away emitted strange radio bursts. This is where we talk to scientists for actual info
'This experience has taught me that it's worth trying out looking at the sky in entirely new ways'
Science27 Jan 2022 | 51
ESA's Solar Orbiter sneaks in bonus science by choking on the dust of a comet tail (again)
Plucky probe due to make closest pass to the Sun in March
Science26 Jan 2022 | 3
It's more than 20 years since Steps topped the charts. It could be less than that for STEP's first fusion energy
Anyone fancy a spherical tokamak in their backyard?
Science26 Jan 2022 | 70
James Webb Space Telescope has arrived at its new home – an orbit almost a million miles from Earth
Funnily enough, that's where we want to be right now, too
Science25 Jan 2022 | 54
Rolls-Royce consortium shopping for factory sites to build mini-nuclear reactors
Hunt follows £210m government funding in small modular reactor model
Science24 Jan 2022 | 138
IBM forges entanglement to double quantum simulations by 'cutting up a larger circuit into smaller circuits'
Littler circuits executing on smaller hardware and tolerating 'a lot more noise'
Science24 Jan 2022 | 6
A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away... a massive black hole spewed out gases that probably helped make stars
As it destroys so it creates
Science24 Jan 2022 | 19
Almost there: James Webb Space Telescope frees its mirrors and prepares for insertion
Freed of launch restraints, mirror segments can waggle at will
Science21 Jan 2022 | 68
Joint European Torus celebrates 100,000 pulses: Neither Brexit nor middle age has stopped '80s era experiment
Fusion energy projects nearing 40th anniversary
Science21 Jan 2022 | 39
NASA's gamma-ray-burst alert satellite put into safe mode after suspected reaction wheel failure
To be fair, this is after 17 years of service in space
Science21 Jan 2022 | 6
SpaceX Starlink sat streaks now present in nearly a fifth of all astronomical images snapped by Caltech telescope
Annoying, maybe – but totally ruining this science, maybe not
Science20 Jan 2022 | 26
NASA's Curiosity finds signs of ancient life on Mars. Or maybe not. More data needed
Rover heats up samples, sniffs carbon signature associated with biological processes on Earth
Science19 Jan 2022 | 27
ESA boss gives update on stricken Sentinel-1B imaging satellite: All is not lost yet
Still borked, 1C and 1D are waiting in the wings
Science19 Jan 2022 | 5
European Space Agency whittles wannabe astronauts down from 23,000 to 1,391
Could there be a South Korean TV show somewhere in this?
Science18 Jan 2022 | 10
Move over exoplanets, exomoons are the next big thing
Is that an extremely large moon we see outside the solar system, astro-boffins ask themselves
Science17 Jan 2022 | 23
Alien life on Super-Earth can survive longer than us due to long-lasting protection from cosmic rays
Laser experiments show their magnetic fields shielding their surfaces from radiation last longer
Science15 Jan 2022 | 83
Virgin Orbit's LauncherOne rocket deploys seven satellites with third successful mission
Paperwork needs sorting for a launch from the UK
Science14 Jan 2022 | 14
NASA's Mars InSight trips into safe mode and ESA's Sentinel-1B gives scientists the silent treatment
Space is hard
Science12 Jan 2022 | 22
North Korea says it's launched a third hypersonic missile, this time reaching Mach 10
South Korea piqued as FAA grounds west coast aircraft
Science12 Jan 2022 | 27
Massive rugby ball-shaped planet emerges from scrum of space 'scope sightings
It was worth a try
Science12 Jan 2022 | 41
European Space Agency: Come on, hack our satellite if you think you're hard enough
Space: The final frontier for cybersecurity
Science11 Jan 2022 | 16
Perseverance on the rocks: Pebbles clog up the rover's Martian sample collection
Engineers try to clear material so Mars bot can continue drilling
Science11 Jan 2022 | 34
