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Ryugu asteroid: It came from the outer solar system, say scientists

Japanese Hayabusa-2 probe samples reveal coarse-grained phyllosilicates that may have served as 'cradles' for organics and water

Science16 Aug 2022 | 11

World record for strongest steady magnetic field 'broken' by Chinese team

Superconductive hybrid magnet claimed to be 4,500 times stronger than a fridge stick-on

Science16 Aug 2022 | 17

Artemis I will get 3 launch attempts after termination system extension agreed

Rolling back to the pad tomorrow, the SLS might finally take flight in August

Science15 Aug 2022 | 15

Virgin Orbit trims losses, eyes two final launches for the year

Second quarter revenues at zero, though should jump to $12m following successful flights from Cornwall

Science15 Aug 2022 | 21

When will the UK take another giant leap into space?

Feature Tim Peake set to return to ESA as the race to first vertical launch from British soil continues

Science15 Aug 2022 | 36

Nuclear power is the climate superhero too nervous to wear its cape

Opinion Of all the non-carbon energy options we have, this is the only one which can keep the lights on

Science15 Aug 2022 | 442

Scientists find gasses from Earth in rocks from early Moon

The discovery could help scientists further understand the origins of life

Science12 Aug 2022 | 20

Asteroids may shoot pebbles into shallow temporary orbits, boffins believe

OSIRIS-Rex saw this happening. An odd meteorite suggests why and how

Science12 Aug 2022 | 5

US military fuels eVTOL research with $75m contract

The renewed agreement more than doubles the DoD's deal with Joby Aviation

Science12 Aug 2022 | 11

Scientists unveil a physics-defying curved space robot

It can move without anything to push off from, but only via curved spacetime

Science11 Aug 2022 | 53

DoE digs up molten salt nuclear reactor tech, taps Los Alamos to lead the way back

The collaborative effort pits supercomputers against the agency's corrosive reactor research

Science11 Aug 2022 | 102

Intel, Amazon, and SpaceX asked to tuck into DARPA's Space-BACN

Internetwork of satellite networks advances to 'actually building' stuff stage

Science11 Aug 2022 | 12

Microwaved fish could help scientists create sustainable LEDs

Supermaterial created from heated scales. Sorry about the smell

Science10 Aug 2022 | 21

Russian anti-satellite test added to a 'pressing threat to security' in space

Too much junk in the orbital trunk

Science10 Aug 2022 | 36

NASA's six-mile-wide orbital telescope is 1/6th built

Interferometry will be used to turn six toaster-sized satellites into one giant solar observatory

Science10 Aug 2022 | 16

Northrop Grumman to use Firefly Aerospace tech in its de-Russianized Antares

SpaceX to pick up the slack while the rocket is updated yet again

Science09 Aug 2022 | 10

Report slams UK plan to become 'science superpower' by 2030

Lords cite 'frequent' policy changes, lack of metrics, post-Brexit funding as top issues

Science09 Aug 2022 | 103

Clean up orbit first, then we can think about space factories, says FCC

It's hard to make things out there when dust-sized particles can destroy them

Science08 Aug 2022 | 23

India’s latest rocket flies but payloads don't prosper

Satellites end up in 'unusable' orbit

Science08 Aug 2022 | 24

Russia: Hey, don't act surprised if we're still on the ISS in 2030

Yeah, they do have a habit of being in places where they are no longer welcome

Science05 Aug 2022 | 16

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Oh Deere: Farm hardware jailbroken to run Doom

Corn-y demo heralded as right-to-repair win

Nuclear power is the climate superhero too nervous to wear its cape

Opinion Of all the non-carbon energy options we have, this is the only one which can keep the lights on

Linux 6.0 debuts, missing some Rusty bits and a magic mushroom reference

Don't read the diffstat too closely, says Linus Torvalds – it's mostly another massive AMD update

Keep your cables tidy. You never know when someone might need some wine

Who, Me? Brute force and ignorance does not win the day

US bans export of tech used in 3nm chip production on security grounds

Not mentioned: China. Obvious target: China – even if the country hasn't designed advanced chips

Microsoft's Secure Boot fix sends some PCs into BitLocker Recovery

Have your BitLocker key handy when updating, but maybe not on a Post-it stuck to the screen, OK?

Philippines orders fraud probe after paying MacBook prices for slow Celeron laptops

Education Department planned to buy 70,000 laptops, blew its budget and bought just 40,000

Elon Musk wrote article for China's internet regulator, hinted at aged care robots

Asia in Brief PLUS Vietnam's massive infosec push; Philippines telco fight; Australia dumps COVID app; and more

Apple says 2017 MacBooks don't have FlexGate defect. Aussie tribunal orders a fix anyway

Presiding officer was not impressed by Cupertino's arguments or behavior

This tiny Intel Xeon-toting PC board can take your Raspberry Pi any day

Did someone say ECC on an SBC?

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Virgin Galactic delays commercial suborbital flights again

Buys up land to train and entertain space tourists when they do start

Science05 Aug 2022 | 24

US-funded breakthrough battery tech just simply handed over to China

Licencing snafu sends American invention overseas

Science04 Aug 2022 | 59

Pull jet fuel from thin air? We can do that, say scientists

Vid Thanks, we'll take any good news, large or small, right now

Science04 Aug 2022 | 201

The US grid is ready for 100% renewables, says DoE

A $26m chunk of the infrastructure bill set aside to prove it can handle inverter-based energy

Science03 Aug 2022 | 39

ESA declares the Sentinel-1B mission over after payload resuscitation ends

What would you do with an otherwise healthy spacecraft?

Science03 Aug 2022 | 11

SpaceX demonstrates that it too can shower the Earth with debris

Monolith found in Australian field actually a piece of SpaceX vehicle

Science03 Aug 2022 | 57

NASA to send prototype robot surgeon into space

Dammit Jim, I'm a piece of autonomous equipment, not a doctor

Science03 Aug 2022 | 23

Boffins put supercomputer on the scent of a perfect landfill deodorizer

Is this what they mean by garbage collection?

Science03 Aug 2022 | 23

US regulators set the stage for small, local nuclear power stations

What could go wrong? Study finds waste is more reactive, making it more dangerous

Science02 Aug 2022 | 73

Spent Chinese rocket booster splashes down over Southeast Asia

NASA chief slams Beijing for not disclosing Long March 5B trajectory

Science02 Aug 2022 | 15

SpaceX upgrades Starlink to reflect less light, can't launch without its Starship

A dazzling problem

Science01 Aug 2022 | 32

Paper batteries on the cards to power IoT and smart labels

Quest to reduce environmental impact finds pulp solution

Science29 Jul 2022 | 19

Bill Gates venture backs effort to bring aircon startup to market

Supports liquid desiccant tech to store energy to smooth bumps in demand, lower greenhouse gas impact

Science29 Jul 2022 | 63

Preparing for Skylab: The separate 1972 experimental mission that never left the ground

Feature Bags of splashy fun for astronauts in SMEAT's simulation

Science29 Jul 2022 | 25

NASA: Mars rocks won't make it back to Earth until 2033

Cute that they think the human race will still be here when Perseverance's samples arrive

Science28 Jul 2022 | 32

Scientists use dead spider as gripper for robot arm, label it a 'Necrobot'

Videos Our ancestors made tools from bones … so why not freeze a spider instead of 3D printing parts?

Science28 Jul 2022 | 122

Chinese booster rocket tumbles back to Earth: 'Non-zero' chance of hitting populated area

88 percent of the world's population live under the currently estimated footprint of the debris

Science27 Jul 2022 | 63

NASA's Lunar Orbiter spots comfortably warm 'pits' all over the Moon

Shaded bits of lava tubes stay at 17°C all lunar day and all lunar night, a contrast with the rest of Luna's frequent fluctuations

Science27 Jul 2022 | 80

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch: Now 100,000kg smaller

The Ocean Cleanup pulled all that trash in less than a year, and its newest system could collect 10x more

Science26 Jul 2022 | 79

General Motors goes electric with $2.5b US government loan for battery plants

Tesla is not the only biz that can take billions from American taxpayers

Science26 Jul 2022 | 17

Russia's new space chief confirms it will leave ISS after 2024

Updated NASA: First we’ve heard of it

Science26 Jul 2022 | 33

James Webb, Halley's Comet may be set for cosmic dust-up

Comet debris is right in JWST's path, and could further damage its sensitive mirror

Science26 Jul 2022 | 38

Eutelsat and OneWeb to join forces across orbits in $3.4b merger

LEO and GEO orbit covered in satellite broadband handshake

Science26 Jul 2022 | 25

Experts warn transition to private space stations won't happen anytime soon

As NASA launches 11th annual ISS Research and Development Conference

Science26 Jul 2022 | 25

Aviation body wants views on rocket plans of Virgin Orbit

The race for first space launch from UK soil (or airspace) continues

Science25 Jul 2022 | 11

DARPA seeks portable muon-making machine to see through almost anything

We currently make muons at CERN, so this is quite the miniaturization job

Science25 Jul 2022 | 54

SpaceX crewed flight to ISS delayed by damaged rocket

Just as NASA urged to reuse Musk hardware no more than five times

Science23 Jul 2022 | 24

Trees may help power your next electric car

No, we're not reverting to steam power – lignin just makes great cathodes

Science22 Jul 2022 | 24

You're not wrong. The scope for quantum computers remains small

Systems Approach Perhaps a QC can help us work out why we'd want a QC

Science21 Jul 2022 | 15

NASA stalls water-seeking VIPER lunar rover to 2024

Americans need more time rebuilding their Moon sound stage, clearly

Science21 Jul 2022 | 14

ESA kicks ExoMars rover down the road, to 2026 at best

The way forward to Mars is cancelled (you meant the meeting, right?)

Science20 Jul 2022 | 4

UK chemicals multinational to build hydrogen 'gigafactory'

Johnson Matthey receives government backing to scale-up fuel cell production

Science20 Jul 2022 | 100

US Space Development Agency invests $1.3b in missile tracking satellites

Northrop Grumman, L3Harris Technologies to build the 28-satellite constellation for warning, tracking

Science19 Jul 2022 | 5

Hush now: Baby talk has common features across languages and societies

ML study combines with citizen science to show talking and singing to infants may have evolutionary roots

Science19 Jul 2022 | 33

Corporate structures for environmental sustainability

Formal management frameworks and processes are helping ZTE meet its environmental responsibilities

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Is the $10 billion James Webb Space Telescope worth the price tag?

Performs better than expected, which is just as well – as it's going to be pelted with space rocks

Science16 Jul 2022 | 107

Copper shortage keeps green energy, tech ventures grounded

Copper the balloon popper for 2050 net-zero goals according to S&P

Science15 Jul 2022 | 62

Dmitry Rogozin sacked as boss of Russian space agency Roscosmos

Bluster and hot air do not make for a sustainable space program

Science15 Jul 2022 | 19

James Webb Space Telescope looks closer to home with Jupiter snaps

Commissioning pics show spacecraft can peer near as well as far

Science15 Jul 2022 | 40

Mars helicopter to take a breather, recharge batteries

Like a lot of us hope to do, Ingenuity goes on summer break

Science14 Jul 2022 | 52

Panasonic picks Kansas for $4b EV battery plant

Tesla's biggest battery supplier will reportedly hire 4,000 staff

Science14 Jul 2022 | 10

Behold: The first images snapped by the James Webb Space Telescope

Pics Literally galaxies far, far away

Science13 Jul 2022 | 36

These centrifugal moon towers could be key to life off-planet

Vid Spinning skyscrapers might produce about 1G at widest point

Science12 Jul 2022 | 64

SpaceX Starship booster in flames after unexpected ignition

Space oddity definitely not a metaphor for a corporate takeover going down the tubes

Science12 Jul 2022 | 24

NYC issues super upbeat PSA for surviving the nuclear apocalypse

It's the end of the world as we know it, and you'll be fine

Science12 Jul 2022 | 59

First-ever James Webb Space Telescope image revealed

Pic Decades in the making, billions of dollars, all so we can say together: My god, it's full of stars!

Science12 Jul 2022 | 132

NASA's CAPSTONE silence down to a software flaw

There's a code nasty on a spacecraft in deep space... not the first mission to suffer and won't be the last

Science08 Jul 2022 | 49

COO of failed bio-biz Theranos found guilty on all twelve fraud counts

What a prick ... of blood was ever going to work in these machines?

Science07 Jul 2022 | 30

Wash your mouth out with shape-shifting metal

You wanted flying cars and robo-butlers. Instead, we're getting tooth-cleaning morphing nanoparticle bots

Science06 Jul 2022 | 38

Large Hadron Collider experiment reveals three exotic particles

Tetraquarks and other discoveries as CERN revs up for Run 3

Science05 Jul 2022 | 78

ESA's 2030+ roadmap envisions Europeans on the Moon and Mars

But the agency is distinctly aware that it needs more autonomy

Science05 Jul 2022 | 23

CAPSTONE mission is Moon-bound, after less rocketry than expected

Final update China rubbishes NASA suggestion it wants Luna all to itself

Science05 Jul 2022 | 31

2050 carbon emission goals need nuclear to succeed, says International Energy Agency

Without it, $500b more in investments is needed to reach C-neutrality

Science01 Jul 2022 | 88

NASA delays SLS rollback due to concerns over rocky path to launchpad

The road to the Moon is paved with... river rock?

Science01 Jul 2022 | 22

Resurrected Dundee Satellite Station to host quantum Optical Ground Station

Pandemics and university disinterest apparently no match for ingenuity and determination

Science01 Jul 2022 | 11

China says it has photographed all of Mars from orbit

Enjoy the slideshow from Tianwen's orbital adventures

Science30 Jun 2022 | 30

City-killing asteroid won't hit Earth in 2052 after all

ESA ruins our day with some bad news

Science29 Jun 2022 | 29

NanoAvionics satellite pulls out GoPro to take stunning selfie over Earth

Consumer-grade camera was refitted with custom housing and software to survive in the vacuum

Science29 Jun 2022 | 36

Chinese boffins suggest launching nuclear Neptune orbiter in 2030

All these worlds are yours, except Europa. Attempt no landing there. Use them together, use them in peace

Science29 Jun 2022 | 57

Soviet-era tech could change the geothermal industry

Gyrotrons can super heat plasma, maybe vaporize 20km of rock, too

Science28 Jun 2022 | 122

NASA's mini-spacecraft CAPSTONE just launched on its journey to the Moon

25kg CubeSat the size of a bar fridge will plot course for Gateway space station, pave way for human boots on Moon

Science28 Jun 2022 | 5

Returning to the Moon on the European Service Module

Interview Moving to series production and dealing with the US, where things are done slightly differently

Science28 Jun 2022 | 35

Whatever hit the Moon in March, it left this weird double crater

Pic NASA probe reveals strange hole created by suspected Chinese junk

Science25 Jun 2022 | 58

NASA circles August in its diary to put Artemis I capsule in Moon orbit

First steps by humans to recapture planet's natural satellite

Science24 Jun 2022 | 19

NASA wants nuclear reactor on the Moon by 2030

Space boffins task engineers with creating 40kW lunar fission plant that can operate for ten years

Science24 Jun 2022 | 90

Bipolar transistors made from organic materials for the first time

Move over silicon – digital circuits have a flexible new friend

Science23 Jun 2022 | 71

Amazon shows off robot warehouse workers that won't complain, quit, unionize...

Mega-corp insists it's all about 'people and technology working safely and harmoniously together'

Science22 Jun 2022 | 62

NASA ignores InSight's battery woes in pursuit of data

Space boffins: Nevermind ekeing out the battery, let it go out in a blaze of glory!

Science22 Jun 2022 | 7

Mars Express orbiter to get code update after 19 years

And over millions of miles, too. Piece of cake!?

Science22 Jun 2022 | 51

Liftoff at last for South Korean space program

Satellite-deploying rocket finally launches – after a few setbacks

Science22 Jun 2022 | 4

AWS buys before it tries with quantum networking center

Fundamental problems of qubit physics aside, the cloud giant thinks it can help

Science22 Jun 2022 | 5

NASA tricks Artemis launch computer by masking data showing a leak

Plus it aborts ISS reboost. Not the greatest start to the week, was it?

Science21 Jun 2022 | 19

NASA's SOFIA aircraft preps for final flights ahead of mission end

With operations deadline in September, team eager to squeeze more data out of infrared observatory

Science20 Jun 2022 | 12

SpaceX reportedly fires staffers behind open letter criticising Elon Musk

Asked for equitable treatment and a boss that doesn't embarrass them

Science17 Jun 2022 | 105

SpaceX staff condemn Musk's behavior in open letter

Well, it doesn't take a rocket scientist to see why

Science16 Jun 2022 | 84

McKinsey thinks quantum computing could create $80b in revenue ... eventually

Figure is 'value at stake' but 'not the actual value' which itself is a quantum statement

Science16 Jun 2022 | 4

South Korea's space ambitions stuck on the launchpad

Second Nuri rocket stalls with problem similar to those that caused first mission to mostly fail

Science16 Jun 2022 | 6

SpaceX and OneWeb bury the satellite constellation hatchet

Will play nicely in Earth orbit

Science15 Jun 2022 | 4

If you want to launch Starship from Texas, here's some homework, FAA tells SpaceX

Be a good neighbor to folks and the environment, and we'll think that permit over

Science14 Jun 2022 | 22

Astra fails, sends NASA's Tropics weather satellites back to Earth

Orbital success counter stuck at 2 as upper stage of rocket shuts down early and CubeSats lost

Science13 Jun 2022 | 9

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