Caltech claims to have beamed energy to Earth from satellite
Tech has potential to power war-torn spots and remote regions
Science07 Jun 2023 | 34
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Whistleblower claims Uncle Sam is sitting on hoard of alien vehicles and tech
Ex-UAP analyst reckons he was harassed for telling Congress
Science07 Jun 2023 | 64
Scientists think they may have cracked life support for Martian occupation
Outdated ISS system will need an upgrade if we're to go further into space
Science07 Jun 2023 | 80
NASA's heavy metal Psyche asteroid trip is a go for October
Team problems found last year seem to have been resolved
Science07 Jun 2023 | 4
James Webb smells someone having barbecue in galaxy 12 billion light years away
Most distant smoke and smog discovery could help explain star formation in the early universe
Science06 Jun 2023 | 12
This ain't Boeing very well: Starliner's first crewed flight canceled yet again
Flammable tape and unreliable parachutes ground craft this time around
Science02 Jun 2023 | 82
Boffins snap X-ray closeup of single atom – and by closeup we mean nanometres
Achievement took 12 years of blood, sweat and science
Science01 Jun 2023 | 8
NASA experts looked through 800 UFO sightings and found essentially nothing
Video We need better data! If only everyone could carry a high-quality camera and apps to share pics...
Science01 Jun 2023 | 77
Brits and Yanks join forces to make fusion magnets cool again
How cool? About -250°C
Science31 May 2023 | 23
Airline puts international passengers on the scales pre-flight
An aircraft mass properties engineer and an eating disorder therapist weigh in on Air New Zealand's plan
Science31 May 2023 | 121
CERN spots Higgs boson decay breaking the rules
So much for the Standard Model of particle physics?
Science30 May 2023 | 46
Mars helicopter went silent for six sols, imperilled Perseverance rover
Ingenuity's still setting records, but waking it up and chatting are getting harder
Science30 May 2023 | 40
Neuralink says US OK's human experiments with Elon's brain chips
Hopefully this tech works better than his self-driving cars
Science26 May 2023 | 36
LIGO cranks up the sensitivity to sniff out gravitational waves
The instrument that proved Einstein right is back
Science26 May 2023 | 23
IR35 costs UK Research and Innovation £36M – the same it spent funding tech projects
Quango tax blunder follows similar payments from Defra and MoJ
Science26 May 2023 | 26
Experimental brain-spine computer interface helped a paralyzed man walk
Comment Pioneering research effectively reconnects patient's motor cortex with his spinal cord
Science26 May 2023 | 42
After network glitch, South Korea's commercial sat-slinger succeeds
Nuri rocket has done the business – now to get into the business
Science26 May 2023 | 3
Virgin Galactic flies final test before opening for business
$450k buys you about 90 minutes of space adventure and a sub-orbital glimpse of Earth
Science26 May 2023 | 38
Encoded 'alien message' will reach Earth today, but relax: It's just a drill
SETI encouraging everyone to break out their decoder rings, get in on the simulated first-contact fun
Science24 May 2023 | 23
Virgin Orbit-uary: Beardy Branson's satellite launch biz shutters
Rocket Lab, Stratolaunch, and Vast pick at the corpse
Science24 May 2023 | 25
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GitHub accused of varying Copilot output to avoid copyright allegations
Copilot code-cloning case clarifies claims
Google changes email authentication after spoof shows a bad delivery for UPS
Google's blue tick proves untrustworthy
FBI: FISA Section 702 'absolutely critical' to spy on, err, protect Americans
No protection without surveillance?
Germans beat Tesla to autonomous L3 driving in the Golden State
Oh Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz, my friends all have Teslas...
Will Flatpak and Snap replace desktop Linux native apps?
Opinion Actually, the better question is: When will they replace most desktop Linux programs?
Robot can rip the data out of RAM chips with chilling technology
'The more important a thing is for the world, the less security it has' says inventor
Boss put project on progress bar timeline: three months … four … actually NOW!
On Call Change approval board signed off as soon as it heard it was BT's fault
File Explorer gets facelift in latest Windows 11 build
Nips and tucks aim to give decades-old app a more modern vibe
Chinese chipmaker insists it has Intel on-side, not inside
Home-grown CPU looks suspiciously like a Core i3, but local firm insists it's a collab not a copy
BOFH: Good news, everyone – we're in the sausage business
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Lightning just as frightening on Jupiter as it is on Earth
Juno probe strikes at the similarities despite differences in planets' size and structure
Science24 May 2023 | 6
Nearly 1 in 5 academics admit close encounters of the anomalous kind
Boffins call for end to UFO stigma
Science23 May 2023 | 78
China seeks space cargo launches well below prices NASA pays SpaceX
Asia In Brief Plus: ChatGPT hallucinates Japan's PM; Infosys scores huge BP deal; Grab on the way to becoming a bank; and more
Science22 May 2023 | 8
Astronomers spot Earth-sized exoplanet probably 'carpeted' by volcanoes
The floor is lava. Literally. But at least there might be water
Science18 May 2023 | 16
Elizabeth Holmes is going to prison – with a $500m bill
'Liz' learns you don't screw over rich people
Science17 May 2023 | 70
Stratolaunch takes hypersonic flight dreams to new heights with mid-air release success
Paul Allen must be smiling up there ahead of test flight in summer
Science17 May 2023 | 9
North Korea shows off surveillance satellite it claims it can launch
To counter the 'US imperialists and the South Korean puppet villains'
Science17 May 2023 | 13
Supernova peekaboo could provide clues to our universe's age
Gravitational lensing technique offers hope in cracking cosmological conundrum
Science16 May 2023 | 7
NASA freezes ice-hunting cubesat Moon mission for good after thruster fail
Lunar Flashlight's innovative hardware worked ... other than its engines. Let's call it a draw
Science15 May 2023 | 6
Dyson moans about state of UK science and tech, forgets to suck up his own mess
Opinion Brexit-supporting offshore merchant wonders what has happened to all the investment
Science15 May 2023 | 417
Astronomers say they've seen the largest explosion yet – and we just had to talk to them
The culprit: A supermassive black hole, a billion times more massive than the Sun, feeding on a giant gas cloud
Science13 May 2023 | 27
Perseverance rover shows up Curiosity with discovery of Martian water park
Latest snaps have NASA rethinking scale of rivers on the Red Planet
Science12 May 2023 | 23
Microsoft signs up to buy electricity produced by fusion, perhaps in 2028
How complicated can fusion be, really?
Science12 May 2023 | 18
NASA tests bot built to slither across, and beneath, alien worlds' ice
Video Wheels come off plan to explore Enceladus – in a good way
Science11 May 2023 | 9
The Hubble Space Telescope is sinking! Two startups want to save it for free
But it's up to NASA to approve a rescue mission. Cue Aerosmith
Science11 May 2023 | 27
This upstart is selling tickets for a SpaceX trip to the world's first private space station
30 days with three other people in a double-width shipping container built by a crypto billionaire. What's not to like?
Science10 May 2023 | 19
Star Fomalhaut has dusty little secret – two more debris belts and a potential planetary party
Nearby system was thought to have an exoplanet, but that was wrong. Now NASA says there may be multiple
Science09 May 2023 | 5
China lands mysterious reusable spacecraft after 276-day trek
Asia In Brief PLUS: Smartphone sales slump in India, China; Singapore's Temasek denies crypto investment; Dyson's new battery plant; and more
Science08 May 2023 | 25
Eta Aquariid meteor shower peaks this weekend, and will be one for the ages
Dense debris left by Halley's Comet more than 3k years ago will produce more than 100 fireballs per hour
Science05 May 2023 | 19
Hubble spots stellar midwife unit pumping out baby planets
Young mother only 10 million years old appears to have twins
Science05 May 2023 | 20
Four out of five Uranus moons likely to have ocean under crust
A preview of what Uranus Orbiter and Probe might find in the 2040s
Science05 May 2023 | 32
Ten-day optical burst shows star eating giant planet, scientists say
Twelve-year interaction ended with a bang
Science04 May 2023 | 10
I've seen things you wouldn't believe, like an atom about to photosynthesize
Paper details previously unknown step in process of converting light energy to chemical energy
Science04 May 2023 | 21
Universe-mapping Euclid satellite arrives in US ahead of July launch
Neither war nor bad sensors nor a nautical journey will keep this probe from building a 3D map of space
Science03 May 2023 | 9
Saturn's rings are shrinking and boffins will use the Webb 'scope to find out why
They go down, down, down, with the burning pull of gravity ... or do they?
Science03 May 2023 | 16
Eco warriors sue FAA over Starship fallout, claim watchdog is lost in space
NEPA was violated by letting SpaceX do its own impact study, suit alleges
Science02 May 2023 | 29
How Sandia hopes to accelerate US hypersonic weapons development
You want this to go faster? OK, send in the contractors. That'll do the trick
Science01 May 2023 | 10
Boffins claim to create the world's first wooden transistor
But don't toss out your silicon chips quite yet
Science01 May 2023 | 51
Space: The final frontier, or the next venture capital gold rush
Book review Ashlee Vance's When the Heavens Went on Sale paints an inside view of orbital startups
Science01 May 2023 | 3
China's Mars rover finds signs of 'modern' water
Asia In Brief AWS adds Korean support; Singtel creates InfraCo; Philippines SIM registration drive extended
Science01 May 2023 | 4
Ashlee Vance spills the beans on the secret exciting life of space startups
Interview Reg-turned-Bloomberg journo talks rockets, satellites, and more
Science29 Apr 2023 | 10
ESA's Jupiter-bound Juice spacecraft has a sticky problem with its radar
Time to shake, rattle, and roll the probe to remove pesky antenna pin
Science29 Apr 2023 | 29
NASA tweaks Voyager 2's power supply to avoid another sensor shutdown
By redirecting energy from probe's voltage regulator, NASA buys itself another three years
Science27 Apr 2023 | 54
Brit fusion magnets set for US gamma ray bombardment test
Tokamak Energy off to Albuquerque desert to douse kit in radiation
Emerging Clean Energy Tech Week27 Apr 2023 | 10
Just what the universe needs right now: A black hole with wind
Gusts associated with M87 accretion flow surprises scientists peering into massive ring-like structure
Science27 Apr 2023 | 18
China space agency reckons Zhurong Mars rover has probably been done in by dust
Hopes it might wake during the Martian solstice, but not with much confidence
Science27 Apr 2023 | 4
US watchdog grounds SpaceX Starship after that explosion
Musk loyalists said launch wasn't a failure. Tell that to folks, wildlife covered in dust, ash, debris
Science26 Apr 2023 | 157
Elizabeth Holmes is not going to prison – for the moment
Yes, launch another appeal, that'll do the trick
Science26 Apr 2023 | 47
First attempt by Japan's ispace biz to land on Moon ends in awkward silence
Comms lost to Hakuto-R after apparent crash landing
Science25 Apr 2023 | 18
NASA InSight lander spills the beans on Mars' core
The lander might be dead, but its scientific legacy lives on
Science25 Apr 2023 | 8
China joins US and Europe in considering 3D-printed Moon bases
Chang'e 8 missions will check whether regolith harbors appropriate materials
Science25 Apr 2023 | 2
Balloon-borne telescope returns first photos in search for dark matter
Helium is way cheaper than rocket fuel, and the pictures are just as good if you get high enough
Science25 Apr 2023 | 45
NASA solar satellite burns up over the Sahara desert
Goodbye RHESSI, thanks for all the data
Science22 Apr 2023 | 9
Boffins think they've decoded mysterious 819-day Mayan calendar
Letting the calendar cycle for 45 years gives each planet a chance to complete a synodic cycle
Science21 Apr 2023 | 43
Hyundai to develop a Moon rover (to launch, not because the roads are so bad down here)
Japan's Toyota, Honda, and Nissan, are already pondering what it takes to make a MoonMobile
Science21 Apr 2023 | 11
Pentagon shoots down UFO rumors but says 650 cases are still pending
Has found no evidence of alien tech or objects that defy the known laws of physics
Science21 Apr 2023 | 18
SpaceX's second attempt at orbital Starship launch ends in fireball
'Rapid unscheduled disassembly' could apply to much of Musk's world
Science20 Apr 2023 | 234
Chinese company claims it's built batteries so dense they can power electric airplanes
But Dr Rachid Yazami, one of the key minds behind lithium-ion batteries, thinks this could be hot air
Science20 Apr 2023 | 146
Metal-rich stars inhibit chances of life on their planets
They give off less UV, but more is absorbed by their planets’ atmospheres, boffins tell life hunters
Science19 Apr 2023 | 21
ESA's Aeolus wind-measuring satellite takes terminal trip into Earth's atmosphere
Weather forecasting mission to end on April, but Aeolus-2 is on the drawing board
Science19 Apr 2023 | 3
Smallsats + solar sails = Photos of exoplanets at 1970s digital camera resolution
Sundiver spacecraft could snap the first surface pics using solar lens
Science19 Apr 2023 | 54
Stem cells to be made on orbiting space station to test micrograv manufacturing
Kinda feels like living in the future we thought we'd have, for a change
Science18 Apr 2023 | 3
SpaceX feels the pressure, scraps first orbital launch of Starship
Another attempt is possible later this week, depending on how the troubleshooting goes
Science17 Apr 2023 | 37
Mars Helicopter completes 50th flight, 45 more than NASA planned
And sets a Martian height record for good measure
Science17 Apr 2023 | 33
Curiosity gets interplanetary software patch for better driving and more on Mars
And you thought patching your production environment was stressful
Science15 Apr 2023 | 52
ESA's Juice blasts off to squeeze secrets from Jupiter's moons
Few orbital boosts and we'll get the snaps in eight years
Science14 Apr 2023 | 6
Boffins rewrite the book on how Earth's oceans developed
You don't need alien asteroids, you just need a hydrogen-rich atmosphere and liquid hot magma
Science13 Apr 2023 | 33
Launching soon: ESA's Juice to probe Jupiter's moons for signs of possible life
Feature We speak to professor deeply involved in multi-year, billion-plus-euro mission
Science13 Apr 2023 | 31
Goddard Space Flight Center's new boss swears in on holy Pale Blue Dot
Some brilliant toys await Dr Makenzie Lystrup in mega space facility
Science12 Apr 2023 | 15
Theranos founder Holmes ordered to jail after appeal snub
Decade or so in the clink begins April 27
Science11 Apr 2023 | 67
Starlink opens final frontier for radio astronomers
Opinion Is it wrong to wish on space hardware?
Science11 Apr 2023 | 37
SpaceX calendar marked with big red circle for 'first Starship launch' this month
Waits for pen-pushers to sign off debut orbital mission
Science11 Apr 2023 | 42
Astronomers clock runaway black hole leaving trail of fresh stars
Move fast, make things
Science09 Apr 2023 | 33
Move over, Google Earth. Caltech's here with a fresh 3D tour of Mars
Alien dust world globe took three years of hand-stitching images to create
Science08 Apr 2023 | 18
Virgin Obit: Launch company files for bankruptcy in US
Just as namesake ISP Virgin Media* falls silent out of respect
Science04 Apr 2023 | 21
NASA names astronauts picked for next Artemis Moon test flight
First for women, people of color, Canucks
Science03 Apr 2023 | 46
India flies – and lands – reusable autonomous spaceplane
Asia In Brief PLUS Japanese PM grilled by ChatGPT; Singapore slams bank outage; WeChat adds paid tier; and more
Science02 Apr 2023 | 8
Astronomers (re)discover never-before-seen phenomenon on Saturn
Rain of icy and rocky debris from rings was initially dismissed as bad data
Science31 Mar 2023 | 11
Virgin Orbit lays off 85% of staff as funding deal falters
Expenses slashed as hopes dashed for UK space pioneer
Science31 Mar 2023 | 61
Today's old folks set to smash through longevity records
Except maybe in America, where life expectancy keeps dropping
Science31 Mar 2023 | 117
Boffins: Microgravity impacts cell repair systems in proteins
Yeast-based study illuminates understanding of how 'nauts physiology may change in space
Science30 Mar 2023 | 15
Boeing's first-ever crewed mission in Starliner ISS spacecraft delayed to late July
Still hundreds of components, verification checks to complete before test flight
Science30 Mar 2023 | 17
Boffins claim discovery of the first piezoelectric liquid
Move over, magic crystals – electric syrup is here
Science29 Mar 2023 | 28
Moon's glass beads contain enough water to support a mission
Thought Icelandic glacier water was rare? How about chugging down some Moon water
Science28 Mar 2023 | 33
Is Neuralink ready for human brain implants? Allegedly so
We're sure Elon will be first in line as a test subject
Science27 Mar 2023 | 30
Boeing Starliner's 1st crewed trip to the ISS delayed again over battery overheating risk
May fly in the summer, with some presumably pretty nervous pilots
Science26 Mar 2023 | 26
Forget general AI, apparently zebrafish larvae can count
Numerical abilities could be a hardwired, ancient feature of the developing vertebrate brain, study suggests
Science24 Mar 2023 | 23
Terran 1, world's first (mostly) 3D printed rocket, lifts off ... and fails to reach orbit
Mission named 'Good Luck Have Fun' needed more of both
Science23 Mar 2023 | 12
First-known interstellar Solar System visitor 'Oumuamua a comet in disguise – research
Strange appearance and behavior perplexed astronomers, led some folks to believe it was alien spaceship
Science23 Mar 2023 | 42
Japanese outfit's private Moon mission enters Lunar orbit
Now all it has to do is land
Science23 Mar 2023 | 16
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