You wait for an aurora on Mars and MAVEN spots two arriving at the same time
Boffins baffled: There's, like, zero magnetic field and very little atmosphere. What gives?
Science11 Nov 2022 | 7
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Look! Up in the sky! Proof of concept for satellites beaming energy to Earth!
They'd need to be a kilometer wide and point at even larger landside targets, so they won't fire up the renewables market
Science10 Nov 2022 | 114
Cygnus cargo ship makes it to ISS with blanketed solar panel
'Acoustic blanket' cuts power by 50 percent
Science10 Nov 2022 | 15
Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes's arguments for new trial deemed spurious – just like her tech
Federal judge won't revisit fraud case, sets a date for sentencing instead
Science09 Nov 2022 | 41
This ancient quasar may be the remains of the first-gen star that started us all
Ah, so now we know who to blame for all of this
Science09 Nov 2022 | 56
With potential hurricane approaching, NASA leaves mega-rocket on launch pad
Just call it the Sad Launch System
Science08 Nov 2022 | 18
NASA reassigns Venus boffins to save short-staffed asteroid interceptor
Need Another Special Artisan? The US space agency does
Science08 Nov 2022 | 11
Sizewell C nuclear plant up for review as UK faces financial black hole
'Every major project' on the table, says government as Autumn Statement looms
Science07 Nov 2022 | 196
Catching a falling rocket with a helicopter more complex than it sounds, says Rocket Lab
And it should know – having just failed to catch one
Science07 Nov 2022 | 56
Boeing's Starliner launch pushed back again... to April 2023
The official word is 'scheduling conflicts,' but NASA's safety panel has expressed concerns too
Science04 Nov 2022 | 22
NASA wheels SLS rocket out to the launchpad for another attempt to get off the ground
After two previous failures, will third time be the charm?
Science03 Nov 2022 | 19
NASA's CAPSTONE satellite is out of safe mode and on track for Moon orbit this month
Artemis orbit tester back in the pipe, five by five
Science03 Nov 2022 | 10
Reducing partisan divide alone does not boost support for democracy, study finds
Ending anti-democratic attitudes not so easy stateside, researchers claim
Science02 Nov 2022 | 39
InSight Mars lander has only 'few weeks' of power left
Think I got some dust in my eye
Science02 Nov 2022 | 69
SpaceX's Falcon Heavy rocket launches after three-year hiatus with secret US sats
Classified mission will █████████ for ████ in █████████ until ███████████ █████
Science01 Nov 2022 | 43
China's third and final module docks with Tiangong space station
Bets on where the Long March 5B will land now?
Science01 Nov 2022 | 14
Two Scotts among volunteers helping NASA to track Artemis mission
If we want to launch craft beyond the Moon, we're going to need a better way to know where they are
Science01 Nov 2022 | 7
UK facing electricity supply woes after nuclear power stations shut, MPs told
Larger and smaller reactors carry risks, island nation failed to keep pace with nuclear fleet closure
Science01 Nov 2022 | 251
Oh, great. By peering into twilight, boffins find 'planet killer' asteroids in our system
One may hit Earth, but unlikely. One could whack Venus. This is good or bad news, depending on your outlook
Science01 Nov 2022 | 17
Signs of sediment-rich ocean lend direction to Mars life search
3D models and maps show similarities in how the planet and Earth share sediment strategies
Science31 Oct 2022 | 7
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NSA urges orgs to use memory-safe programming languages
C/C++ on the bench, as US snoop HQ puts its trust in Rust, C#, Go, Java, Ruby, Swift
Cygnus cargo ship makes it to ISS with blanketed solar panel
'Acoustic blanket' cuts power by 50 percent
Go ahead, be rude. You don't know it now, but it will cost you $350,000
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Twitter CISO flies the coop
As social media giant grapples with Musk takeover, a safe pair of hands reaches for the door
OpenPrinting keeps old printers working – even on Windows
Ubuntu Summit Or, how to make an unsupported printer work on Windows 11 with Ubuntu and WSL2
I'm happy paying Twitter eight bucks a month because price isn't the same as value
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Windows breaks under upgraded IceXLoader malware
We're the malware of Nim!
Musk sows more Twitter chaos, now with Official policy snafu
Today's messes: a possible crypto venture; blue tick blackflips; advertiser assurances; and a promise to try dumb things
Look! Up in the sky! Proof of concept for satellites beaming energy to Earth!
They'd need to be a kilometer wide and point at even larger landside targets, so they won't fire up the renewables market
Microsoft's grand unified theory of .NET advances a little
More support for multiple platforms, Arm architecture, and the cloud in release 7
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Spooky Pillars of Creation snap reveals a dark side
Latest James Webb Space Telescope photo looks positively haunting
Science31 Oct 2022 | 19
NASA uses space station dust sensor to map 50 methane 'super-emitters' on Earth
Oh, we don't think we needed science to pinpoint biggest windbags
Science30 Oct 2022 | 39
NASA details totally doable, not science fiction plan for sending Mars rocks to Earth
So crazy, it just might work
Science29 Oct 2022 | 79
Origins of mysterious marsquake settled: It was a meteoroid what done it
We've spotted the massive ice-hole it left behind
Science28 Oct 2022 | 13
Calamity capsule: Boeing's Starliner losses approaching $1B
Troubled space capsule cost $195 million this quarter, bringing total losses on it since 2020 to $883m
Science27 Oct 2022 | 34
ISS dodges space junk from satellite Russia blew up
Ground crew raised orbit and carried on like a boss
Science27 Oct 2022 | 28
Bill Gates' green investments to shift from tackling climate change to mitigating impacts
Refocuses on adaption technologies while oil industry continues to receive billions in government subsidies
Science26 Oct 2022 | 28
Martian microbes could survive up to 280 million years buried underground
That is if they're anything like the radiation-resistant 'Conan the Bacterium' here on Earth
Science26 Oct 2022 | 31
Voyager mission's project scientist retires after 50 years of service
Thank you, Ed Stone – the only person to ever hold the job
Science26 Oct 2022 | 37
Starlink decoded for use as GPS alternative – without Elon Musk's help
Told no by SpaceX, uni eggheads went ahead by themselves
Science24 Oct 2022 | 31
NASA picks its UFO-hunting – sorry – unidentified aerial phenomena-hunting team
The truth is out there and 16 people have been tasked to find it
Science24 Oct 2022 | 36
To build a better quantum computer, look into a black hole, says professor Brian Cox
The black hole information paradox and quantum error correction codes overlap almost completely
Science24 Oct 2022 | 42
20 years on, physicists are still figuring out anomaly in proton experiment
Anyone got the technical reference manual for this simulation we're living in?
Science23 Oct 2022 | 52
Boffins shatter data transmission speed record
One laser + one optical chip = more than the traffic of the entire internet
Science21 Oct 2022 | 45
Mask gizmo wirelessly transmits data on wearer's health
Ongoing COVID concerns inspire 'cMaSK' tech to monitor breathing, temperature, and fit
Science21 Oct 2022 | 18
We've seen things you people wouldn't believe. A planet, dense as a marshmallow, that would float on water
Weird puffy gas giant circles red dwarf
Science21 Oct 2022 | 20
California wildfires hit CTRL+Z on 18 years of CO2e removal
Time to start considering forest blazes alongside industrial sources of greenhouse gases, say scientists
Science20 Oct 2022 | 33
Mars rover Curiosity reaches sulfate-rich Mount Sharp after 10-year journey
NASA had been aiming for the region since before landing because there are 'signs of past water'
Science20 Oct 2022 | 13
How did ESA's gamma ray-spotting 'scope make it to 20? They totally overdid it
We speak to the boffins behind the mission about hits, misses, engineering, and that extraordinary near death scrape
Science20 Oct 2022 | 6
NASA OKs spacewalks, upgrades helmets after fishbowl mishap
Changes follow astronaut's headgear filling with water during seven-hour star trek
Science20 Oct 2022 | 21
Founder of zero-emissions truck venture Nikola found guilty of $1b fraud
Verdict in for trial where promo vid showed gravity rather than batteries or fuel cells keeping electric truck moving
Science19 Oct 2022 | 26
Jim McDivitt, NASA Apollo mission astronaut, dies at 93
Tributes paid to Air Force veteran who helped make first US spacewalk possible
Science18 Oct 2022 | 9
Moon has been drifting away from Earth for 2.4 billion years, rocks reveal
Even our nearest satellite can't stand our gravity
Science18 Oct 2022 | 41
Boffins propose Slinky-like robot that can build stuff in space
E-Walker is a 'seven degrees-of-freedom fully dexterous end-over-end walking robot'
Science18 Oct 2022 | 20
NASA's Lucy probe dodges space traffic around Earth in gravity-assist flyby
Spacecraft coming through, outta the way, watch your step, we're heading to Jupiter
Science17 Oct 2022 | 5
Collapsed Arecibo telescope to be replaced by school
Space scientists lament loss, say it won't be the same without actual working instruments
Science17 Oct 2022 | 40
US Dept of Energy injects more particles of cash into tokamak fusion reactors
The funding will continue, until the atoms fuse
Science17 Oct 2022 | 28
How to watch NASA Jupiter probe's flyby of Earth
Lucy in the sky, with good-byes, then
Science16 Oct 2022 | 10
Scottish space upstart's rocket crashes into the drink
Never mind, still plenty of time to that 2023 orbital test
Science15 Oct 2022 | 53
SpaceX reportedly fed up with providing free Starlink to Ukraine
How can Elon mess up geopolitics today?
Science14 Oct 2022 | 128
Boffins grow human brain cells to play Pong
Now let’s see what happens when we get it drunk, say researchers
Science14 Oct 2022 | 30
Aerobot designed for hell-world Venus first braves something worse: Nevada
And by worse, we mean: The endless casinos
Science14 Oct 2022 | 16
Japan space agency blows up eight satellites aboard Epsilon rocket
This is not why this mission was dubbed the 'Innovative Satellite Technology Demonstration'
Science14 Oct 2022 | 23
Water pipes hold flood of untapped electricity potential
1.41GW, in fact – enough to power around one million homes
Science13 Oct 2022 | 100
NASA sets November date for next SLS Moon rocket delay, er, launch
Heh, prove us wrong, kids. Prove us wrong
Science12 Oct 2022 | 24
GM races after Tesla with battery pack tech and solar deal
Gah, for a few milliseconds there, we were willing a cold, faceless corporation to succeed
Science12 Oct 2022 | 7
Westinghouse sale signals arrival of a new nuclear age
Energy granddad wants in on the next generation of atomic tech
Science12 Oct 2022 | 24
China launches solar observation satellite
Will work from Earth orbit, as opposed to the Sun-grazing paths of US and EU solar probes
Science12 Oct 2022 | 1
Confirmed: Asteroid shoved by Earth crash probe DART
Stand down Bruce Willis, 'first planetary defense test' a success
Science12 Oct 2022 | 39
Self-imposed climate change may have killed Martian life
Hungry microbes blamed for chilling out the party too much
Science11 Oct 2022 | 26
NASA regains control of CAPSTONE lunar orbiter after a tumble
Pinging something missing on a network is frustrating enough, imagine if it's out in space
Science11 Oct 2022 | 8
No, no, hear us out, say boffins: Foot fungus to measure your walk
Posture, posture, posture, posture, posture, posture, mushroom, mushroom
Science10 Oct 2022 | 27
Juno what? Jovian moon Europa is looking rugged
Probe takes highest resolution surface shot yet while citizen scientists get busy with their coloring pencils
Science07 Oct 2022 | 42
SpaceX gives another four astronauts a lift to International Space Station
Two Americans, a Japanese bloke and a Russian float into a lab. The bartender says...
Science07 Oct 2022 | 4
If someone weaponizes our robots, we'll be really, really sad, says Boston Dynamics
Maybe finally a good use for DRM, eh? Preventing armed modifications
Science06 Oct 2022 | 73
Brexit dividend? 'Newly independent' UK will be world's 'data hub', claims digital minister
Updated Amid inevitable talk of 'red tape' cutting at ruling party conference, data protection experts are concerned
Science06 Oct 2022 | 126
Japan tests probe to land on Martian moon Phobos, bring a chunk of it back to Earth
COVID hiccups be damned, work on instruments and connectivity is under way and space agency JAXA is determined to hit launch window
Science06 Oct 2022 | 20
Micro molten salt reactor can fit on a truck, power 1k homes. When it's built
Small, safer vessels could be 'silicon chip' that ushers in new nuclear age
Science05 Oct 2022 | 194
Charge a future EV in less than five minutes – using literally cool NASA tech
Well, yeah, when the batteries and power supplies can handle it, too
Science05 Oct 2022 | 95
UK politico proposes site for prototype nuclear fusion plant
British minister famed for love of imperial measures picks a spot in center of industrial decline
Science05 Oct 2022 | 229
Waxworm's spit shows promise in puncturing plastic pollution
Scientists believe moth larvae saliva can oxidize, degrade polyethylene
Science05 Oct 2022 | 20
Physics Nobel Prize in a superposition between three quantum physicists
How apt
Science05 Oct 2022 | 42
India's Mars Orbiter Mission loses contact, burns all fuel, deemed 'non-recoverable'
Mangalyaan orbiter launched for just $74m, lasted a magnificent 16 times longer than expected
Science04 Oct 2022 | 41
Fake vibrating teeth could make great hearing aids
Wait, wait, hear us out
Science01 Oct 2022 | 33
Apropos of nothing, US intel wants to improve low-dose radiation detection
IARPA unleashes TEI-REX to better track nuclear sources
Science30 Sep 2022 | 7
China spins up giant battery built with US-patented tech
World's largest VRFB was built with inadvertent help from the Department of Energy
Science30 Sep 2022 | 64
Bitcoin worse for the climate than beef, say economists
Researchers mince 'digital gold' claims with study showing cryptocurrency's impact
Science30 Sep 2022 | 39
NASA, SpaceX weigh invoking Dragon to take Hubble higher
Telescope hasn't been superseded by JWST, so why not try to keep it going?
Science30 Sep 2022 | 51
Astroboffins present fresh evidence of moving liquid water on Mars
Pack your bags, we're off to huddle on some alien ice caps. It beats Earth
Science30 Sep 2022 | 31
Scientists, why not simply invent a working fusion plant using $50m from Uncle Sam
You even have until the end of the 2030s to get it done
Science29 Sep 2022 | 97
Wind, solar fulfill 10% of global electricity demand for first time
Curb your enthusiasm – coal-fired power went up too
Science29 Sep 2022 | 54
Japan taps industry to build safer, more secure nuclear energy future
Project with Mitsubishi Heavy Industries marks shift in policy since Fukushima disaster over a decade ago
Science29 Sep 2022 | 30
This rope-laying, ever-growing robot may one day explore your blood vessels
Video You wouldn't make this the butt of any jokes, right?
Science29 Sep 2022 | 12
Post-Brexit 'science superpower' UK still hasn't appointed a science minister
And if and when it does, role lacks Cabinet position, complain Lords
Science28 Sep 2022 | 210
Hurricane Ian blows NASA Artemis Moon launch into October or November
Fun fact: The mission is named after the Latin word for 'delayed'
Science27 Sep 2022 | 22
Scientists overjoyed after DART smashes into asteroid Dimorphos, contact lost
Video Task failed successfully
Science27 Sep 2022 | 48
California to phase out gas furnaces, water heaters by 2030
It'll reduce emissions a bunch, but stress the grid even more
Science26 Sep 2022 | 124
NASA battens down another Artemis launch window as hurricane approaches
Updated Agency watching forecast before making decision to rollback the SLS, but not doing so would be risky
Science26 Sep 2022 | 7
This hero probe will smash into an asteroid to see if we can deflect future killer rocks
Feature We chat to the scientists involved in first-of-its-kind mission
Science24 Sep 2022 | 48
Teams of aerial drones might one day help to build houses
Wasp-like technique could be used to 3D-print structures in that remote place you plan to retire in
Science23 Sep 2022 | 19
Japanese boffins build solar-powered, remote-controlled cyborg cockroach
Neat idea until you remember that roaches and sunlight, not a good mix
Science22 Sep 2022 | 31
The years were worth the wait. JWST gives us an amazing view of Neptune's rings
Pic But uh-oh, friction faults already starting on distant probe
Science22 Sep 2022 | 29
China to launch space tourism by 2025, says industry veteran
Asserts Beijing can achieve parity with US capabilities within a decade, thanks to burgeoning private sector
Science20 Sep 2022 | 8
NASA to live-stream SLS rocket fuel leak repair test
For those on tenterhooks over this Moon mission
Science20 Sep 2022 | 13
By Jove! Jupiter to make closest approach to Earth in 70 years next Monday
Gas giant to come within just 365 million miles. Viewing conditions will be ideal even if you only have binoculars
Science19 Sep 2022 | 40
White House puts $50m into floating wind turbine projects
Government wants access to the 60% of offshore wind potential stuck in deep waters
Science16 Sep 2022 | 46
Was there life on Mars? Perseverance scrapes up promising samples
Fact organic matter was found in sedimentary rock, which preserves fossils here on Earth, 'important'
Science16 Sep 2022 | 16
Queen's shooting star was actually meteor, not SpaceX junk
Video Expert tells El Reg: 'It was unusual, a geometrical curiosity'
Science16 Sep 2022 | 37
Biden administration to dole out $900m for electric vehicle infrastructure
34 states and Puerto Rico sharing pot to fund chargers along interstate highways
Science15 Sep 2022 | 21
Boffins spot baby planet forming around young star – and that's rather cool
In dust, we trust
Science15 Sep 2022 | 20
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