SpaceX aims high with Polaris Dawn mission
Altitude record within grasp and in-house spacesuits to be put through their paces
Science10 Sep 2024 | 13
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The Great Pacific Garbage Patch could be gone in ten years – for chump change
Video $7.5 billion needed, the kind of cash Apple makes without trying
Science10 Sep 2024 | 82
Cluster II spacecraft reenters and burns up with a nod to its controllers
Salsa's final act: Reminding us it was the humans all along
Science09 Sep 2024 | 6
Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin waves bye bye to October 13 ESCAPADE
Mars adventure postponed to 2025. Perhaps
Science09 Sep 2024 | 8
Scientists find a common food dye can make a live mouse's skin transparent
Do try this one at home, using a chicken breast and a recipe
Science09 Sep 2024 | 44
Boeing's Calamity Capsule returns to Earth without a crew
What now for these pod people?
Science07 Sep 2024 | 65
Blood boffins build billions of nanobots to battle brain aneurysms without surgery
Good news for rabbits, maybe great news soon for humans?
Science07 Sep 2024 | 34
ESA prints 3D metal shape in space for first time
Tech demo paves way to producing spare parts and tools during missions
Science06 Sep 2024 | 13
NASA's solar sailing spacecraft is tumbling – but that's part of the plan
Who needs fuel – or even engines – when you could use the sun to push a spacecraft along?
Science06 Sep 2024 | 16
US tightens export controls on quantum kit and chips for China, Iran, Russia
Alloys make the list too, as allies try to ensure foes can't weaponise tech
Public Sector06 Sep 2024 | 4
Vega rocket's last blast hurls Sentinel-2C satellite into orbit
ESA and Arianespace now twiddling thumbs until Vega-C returns to flight
Science05 Sep 2024 | 1
Atomic clocks are so last epoch, it's time someone nailed down the nuclear clock
'Giant step' in research could unlock a bunch of crazy science stuff
Science04 Sep 2024 | 29
Do look up! NASA unfurls massive shiny solar sail in orbit
60 years after Arthur C Clarke wrote Sunjammer, space agency catches up
Science04 Sep 2024 | 55
WHO-backed meta-study finds no evidence that cellphone radiation causes brain cancer
The signal may not rot your mind, we can't say the same for the content
Science04 Sep 2024 | 105
US govt halts medical study into Havana Syndrome, cites 'coercion' of participants
What was screwing with minds of US diplomats – wait, is that a black helicopt...
Science04 Sep 2024 | 49
Mercury probe BepiColombo thrusters are acting up, but science marches on
Trajectory tweak means a delay of almost a year, though 165 km flyby should produce eye candy
Science03 Sep 2024 | 8
Magnetic personalities at Tokamak Energy form separate division
Fusion biz wants to break superconducting tech into other sectors
Science03 Sep 2024 | 17
NASA confirms who is flying and who is not on SpaceX Crew Dragon
Meanwhile, strange noises emanate from Starliner
Science02 Sep 2024 | 21
Chinese boffins advocate nuking nearby asteroids – it’s the only way to be sure
ASIA IN BRIEF Plus: Alibaba exits regulatory purgatory; India slows CBDC rollout; China creates eight new datacenter hubs
Science02 Sep 2024 | 19
Starliner's not-so-grand finale is a thump in the desert next week
An ignominious, uncrewed end to Boeing's misfire
Science30 Aug 2024 | 104
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1.7M potentially pwned after payment services provider takes a year to notice break-in
Criminals with plenty of time on their hands may now have credit card details
Malaysia's plan to block overseas DNS dies after a day
Minister orders regulator to slow down following immediate backlash
We're in the brute force phase of AI – once it ends, demand for GPUs will too
Gartner thinks generative AI is right for only five percent of workloads
Russia's top-secret military unit reportedly plots undersea cable 'sabotage'
US alarmed by heightened Kremlin naval activity worldwide
Upgrading Linux with Rust looks like a new challenge. It's one of our oldest
Opinion From the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever built. Not even a kernel
Python script saw students booted off the mainframe for sending one insult too many
Who, Me? Come and see the violence inherent in the system!
OneFileLinux: A tiny recovery distro that fits snugly in your EFI system partition
The kind of thing the big names should be doing instead of working with proprietary vendors
Huawei debuts triple-folding Mate XT smartphone
Asia In Brief Plus: 550MW more DCs for India; Australia poised to use decryption powers; Indonesia creates cyber warfare unit
Thanks, Edward Snowden: You propelled China to quantum networking leadership
Beijing aimed research at immediate needs – like blocking leaks – while the US sought abstract knowledge
MI6 and CIA using generative AI to combat tech-driven threat actors
Spook bosses use first-ever joint article to bemoan how Russia and China use tech to mess with the world
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SpaceX grounded after fumbling Falcon 9 landing for first time in years
Updated Failure has become rare, but the FAA needs to look into it regardless
Science30 Aug 2024 | 48
Faulty valve sent Astrobotic's Peregrine lander straight back to Earth's atmosphere
What goes up must come down – just not always on the Moon
Science30 Aug 2024 | 24
Have we stopped to think about what LLMs actually model?
Claims about much-hyped tech show flawed understanding of language and cognition, research argues
AI + ML30 Aug 2024 | 151
China is beating the world at scientific research, think tank finds
Could monopolise 24 key techs if current trends continue
Science30 Aug 2024 | 25
SETI boldly looks beyond the Milky Way in latest alien hunt
Civilizations detectable at galactic distances could harness all of a star's energy output, boffins reckon
Science29 Aug 2024 | 48
Astronomers back call for review of bonkers rule that means satellite swarms fly without environment checks
Space boffins want pollution from the likes of Starlink regulated
Science29 Aug 2024 | 46
HP secures $50M CHIPS Act boost to adapt inkjet tech for life sciences
Major funding backs printer giant's microfluidics work as market waits to see if regular printing revs recover
Personal Tech28 Aug 2024 | 10
NASA's billion-dollar launcher is behind schedule and burning cash
Stop us if you've heard this one before
Science28 Aug 2024 | 15
Rocket Factory Augsburg breaks down the SaxaVord blowout
'Enjoy the footage. It has cost us quite some money to generate'
Science28 Aug 2024 | 19
Blue Origin sets October 13 for first New Glenn EscaPADE to Mars
Must launch to catch the red planet alignment window despite occasional testing 'anomalies'
Science27 Aug 2024 | 12
Dr Helen Fisher, MRI maven who showed just how love works, dies at 79
It's all about your chemistry
Science27 Aug 2024 | 11
Japan abandons SLIM hopes its lunar lander will revive, ends Moon mission
Lasted longer than expected, but hasn't been heard from since late April
Science26 Aug 2024 | 2
NASA will fly Boeing Starliner crew home with SpaceX, Calamity Capsule deemed too risky
+Comment Eight days going on eight months for pilots stuck on orbiting space station
Science25 Aug 2024 | 102
To crew, or not to crew – that is the question facing Boeing's stricken Starliner
Decision time arrives for NASA bigwigs
Science23 Aug 2024 | 57
First of ESA's Cluster satellites prepares for fiery finale over South Pacific
Over 20 years into a 2-year mission, but all good things come to an end
Science23 Aug 2024 | 17
India delays planned space station and moon base by five years
As results from 2023's Chandrayaan-3 mission suggest south pole Moon magma
Science23 Aug 2024 | 29
Juice probe scores epic fuel save after snapping selfies with Earth and Moon
Onward to Venus!
Science21 Aug 2024 | 32
Atlassian CEO's idea to build 4,000-kilometer extension cord plugged in
Giant solar farm in Australia will make 'leccy that flows under the ocean to Singapore
Offbeat21 Aug 2024 | 40
SpaceX set to surpass Gemini 11's altitude record with Polaris Dawn mission
Let's hope the spacesuits hold up for extravehicular activity
Science20 Aug 2024 | 31
Rocket Factory Augsburg engine test ends in explosion at SaxaVord spaceport
First stage destroyed during hot fire in Scotland
Science20 Aug 2024 | 41
Nvidia's latest AI climate model takes aim at severe weather
That tornado warning couldn't possibly be a hallucination... could it?
Science19 Aug 2024 | 8
ESA's Juice probe dances with Earth and Moon before shooting off to Jupiter
Gravity assist flybys planned for tonight and tomorrow
Science19 Aug 2024 | 11
Japan's Astroscale wins contract for space junk harvesting robotic arm
The plan is to do away with an H-IIA rocket upper stage – and prove it's possible
Science19 Aug 2024 | 9
NASA pushes decision on bringing crew back in Starliner to the end of August
When is a mishap not really a mishap?
Science15 Aug 2024 | 146
NASA's VIPER rover might still reach the lunar surface after all
Intuitive Machines tosses hat into the ring for NASA's canceled trundlebot
Science14 Aug 2024 | 13
InSight data suggests plentiful water lies beneath Mars' surface
There's water in them thar hills, but it'll be really hard to get to
Science13 Aug 2024 | 22
SpaceX tries to wash away Texas pollution allegations
Updated Elon Musk: Aiming for Mars, but sometimes ends up with Mercury?
Science13 Aug 2024 | 42
US standards body proposes atomic clocks in lunar orbit to keep Moon time
Knowing precise time on satellite essential if we want accurate GPS-like system for exploration
Science13 Aug 2024 | 17
Before we put half a million broadband satellites in orbit, anyone want to consider environmental effects?
SpaceX 'WasteX' Starlink said to make up 60% of sats circling Earth
Networks12 Aug 2024 | 80
In celebration of Curiosity's successful landing on Mars
Forget the woes of Starliner with an audacious NASA landing on another planet that went very very right
Science12 Aug 2024 | 5
Chinese satellite broadband launch rocket breaks up into space junk
Asia In Brief Plus: Vietnam's PM leads chips push; Tesla backs out of Thailand; Drones fly trash off Everest; and more
Science12 Aug 2024 | 25
NASA's NEOWISE asteroid spotter turned off for the final time
A mission that was supposed to last for less than a year went on for more than a decade
Science09 Aug 2024 | 14
Report slams Boeing and NASA over shoddy quality that's delayed SLS blastoff
Space Launch System project overspent, under-built, and is overdue, government probe finds
Science09 Aug 2024 | 51
Anaconda puts the squeeze on data scientists now deemed to be terms-of-service violators
Updated Academic, non-profit organizations told to start paying up – or else
Applications08 Aug 2024 | 22
NASA mulls using SpaceX in 2025 to rescue Starliner pilots stuck on space station
Officials may overhaul next year's Dragon mission if Boeing's Calamity Capsule proves too risky to return with crew
Science07 Aug 2024 | 90
NASA pushes back missions to the ISS to buy time for Starliner analysis
Next SpaceX crew trip moves deep into September while engineers agonize over the Calamity Capsule
Science07 Aug 2024 | 35
Freighter bound for the ISS suffers engine abort
Are the woes of the Calamity Capsule catching?
Science05 Aug 2024 | 13
Second patient receives the Neuralink implant
Almost half the electrodes are working... for now
Networks05 Aug 2024 | 18
Bugging out: 53 years since humans first drove a battery-powered car on the Moon
Feature And you thought you had range anxiety
Science03 Aug 2024 | 17
Boeing's Starliner proves better at torching cash than reaching orbit
Perhaps those thrusters actually burn dollars after all
Science02 Aug 2024 | 53
NASA pops repair kit in the mail so astronauts can fix leaky ISS telescope
Upcoming spacewalk should help NICER see more nicely
Science01 Aug 2024 | 23
Beetle mania: How bugs are inspiring the next gen of robot aviators
Deploying and folding wings without power might be useful in a tight spot
Science01 Aug 2024 | 8
It is 60 years since a US spacecraft first took a close-up of the Moon
Ranger 7 finally gets its shot. Five years later, humans would follow
Science31 Jul 2024 | 17
NASA gives Falcon 9 thumbs-up to launch Crew-9
1. Undock, bring Butch and Suni home on Starliner, 2. Launch Crew-9, 3. Do the handover, 4. Bring Crew-8 home
Science29 Jul 2024 | 29
Silicon, stars, and sulfur make Apollo's unlikely legacy
Opinion Neil stepped on a rock. We're surfing an interstellar wave 9,000 light years long. Go us
Science29 Jul 2024 | 57
The secret to better weather forecasts may be a dash of AI
Google adds machine learning to climate models for 'faster forecasts'
Science27 Jul 2024 | 93
SpaceX Falcon 9 set for comeback after upper-stage failure
Cracked line blamed for leak
Science26 Jul 2024 | 19
Boeing Starliner crew get their ISS sleepover extended
Bosses regret talking up mission duration as Capsule's lifetime extended to 90 days
Science26 Jul 2024 | 51
Shuttle Columbia's near-miss: Why we should always expect the unexpected in space
The eventful launch of STS-93 and the Chandra X-Ray Observatory
Science26 Jul 2024 | 36
AI models face collapse if they overdose on their own output
Recursive training leads to nonsense, study finds
AI + ML25 Jul 2024 | 140
Tim Peake joins Axiom Space as an astronaut advisor
A new mission: Securing funding for Brits in orbit
Science24 Jul 2024 | 2
Engineers fix ESA's Gaia observatory from 1.5M kilometers away
And you thought rolling back a borked update on a server down the hall was hard?
Science22 Jul 2024 | 10
Curiosity rover is crushing it: Ran over a rock and found pure sulfur
An unexpected splash of yellow on the red planet
Science22 Jul 2024 | 22
Chinese researchers create four-gram drone that might fly forever
Asia in brief Plus: Former Samsung worker jailed for leaking secrets; Robo-cabs reach Shanghai airport; and more
Science22 Jul 2024 | 8
EU's renewable hydrogen plan needs a 'reality check'
Member nations aren't on the same page, investors are confused, and nobody understands the real costs
CxO19 Jul 2024 | 78
Pi goes to spaaaaace... for a bit longer than planned
Ariane 6 might have had some APU problems, but the well-Armed hardware on YPSat worked well
Science18 Jul 2024 | 5
NASA swings budget axe, kills $400M+ VIPER lunar trundlebot
Creeping costs, launch delays mean almost completed rover 1) will never see Moon, 2) will be stripped for parts
Science18 Jul 2024 | 18
Here we go again. And again. Musk threatens to pull Twitter, SpaceX out of California
Comment Over here, look at me, Donald, I'm over here, don't you want to tweet again? Woke! Trans! Antifa! Immigration!
Science17 Jul 2024 | 121
SpaceX asks the FAA: 'Can we launch our rockets again, please?'
Company keen to get back on the horse before the investigation is complete
Science17 Jul 2024 | 43
ESA starts work on planetary defence mission, because Bruce Willis is retired
Asteroid Apophis will come within 32,000km of Earth in 2029, which makes it very much worth a visit
Science17 Jul 2024 | 20
Evidence for Moon caves emerges as humans hunt for hospitable hideaway under lunar surface
Lava tubes promise shelter in future Moon missions
Science15 Jul 2024 | 33
SpaceX's Falcon anomaly could have serious implications for the space industry
Comment Musk firm to work with the FAA on why the second stage leaked liquid oxygen
Science15 Jul 2024 | 60
SpaceX hit by inflight Falcon 9 failure
Upper stage engine suffers a Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly, leaving Starlink satellites too low
Science12 Jul 2024 | 35
Boeing's Starliner set for extended stay at the ISS as engineers on Earth try to recreate thruster issues
We all know the pain of reproducing that one pesky problem in test
Science11 Jul 2024 | 48
Astroscale space janitor attempts fly-around of derelict upper stage
ADRAS-J avoids adding to debris problem with autonomous collision avoidance
Science10 Jul 2024 | 7
Glass rain, supersonic winds, and Eau de Rotten Egg – just another day on HD 189733 b
Sounds better than a British summer
Science10 Jul 2024 | 18
Europe blasts back into the heavy launch biz with first Ariane 6 flight
Everything went fine, except the experimental re-ignition
Science10 Jul 2024 | 54
Time Lords decree: No leap second needed in 2024
Let's not get ahead of ourselves, even if Earth is spinning out
Science05 Jul 2024 | 45
ITER delays first plasma for world's biggest fusion power rig by a decade
Who could have guessed that giant magnets capable of constraining mini-suns would be hard to build?
Science04 Jul 2024 | 105
EV world in serious trouble if China cuts off rare earth materials
Comment 'We're not there yet' on development of motors without them
Personal Tech03 Jul 2024 | 74
Oak Ridge boffins twist exotic metal into eco-friendly, solid-state cooler
Chill out, no fridge required
Science03 Jul 2024 | 17
MIT's bionic leg upgrade leaves amputees walking like the wind
Researchers expect treatment to be available clinically in around 5 years
Science02 Jul 2024 | 18
Trouble in space as Boeing's not going, and China's back from the Moon
Kettle Vultures chew over a busy few days in orbit with a transatlantic chat
Science02 Jul 2024 | 15
China working on standard for brain-computer interfaces
This is more than a thought bubble: Beijing aspires to dominate international standards
Science02 Jul 2024 | 8
Chinese space company accidentally launches rocket in test gone wrong
10, 9, 8 ... hang on, did anyone check we bolted this thing down properly?
Science01 Jul 2024 | 50
Mars is slam-dunked by hundreds of basketball-sized meteorites every year
Impact studies crucial for accurately determining Red Planet's age
Science29 Jun 2024 | 19
ISS 'nauts told to duck and cover after dead Russian sat sprays space junk
This has happened before after Moscow made a mess with a missile
Science28 Jun 2024 | 18
Perseverance pays off as Mars rover's SHERLOC brought back from the brink
Bot's arm used to free instrument's dust cover and return to science
Science27 Jun 2024 | 12
Elon Musk to destroy the International Space Station – with NASA's approval, for a fee
SpaceX wins contract for 'deorbit vehicle' at a pleasing price
Public Sector27 Jun 2024 | 150
Resource burden of electric vehicles set to triple by 2050
Experts say 'circular economy strategies' could keep demand at 2015 levels
Science26 Jun 2024 | 50
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