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If you're excited by that $1.5B Michigan nuke plant revival, bear in mind it's definitely a fixer-upper

Analysis Activists, ex-insider sound the alarm as operator says all is under control

On-Prem04 Oct 2024 | 15

ULA nears second launch of Vulcan Centaur in pursuit of US Space Force approval

Updated No spaceplane in the payload, but it won't be a wasted mission

Science04 Oct 2024 | 23

NASA switches off Voyager 2 plasma instrument to stretch out juice

Veteran probe set to score a half-century while still doing science

Science03 Oct 2024 | 31

US govt hiding top hurricane forecast model sparks outrage after deadly Helene

Taxpayer-funded data locked behind insurance firm's paywall

Science01 Oct 2024 | 82

Uncle Sam lends $1.5B to reignite Michigan nuclear plant in 2025

Public Sector01 Oct 2024 | 52

Got an idea for dealing with space waste? NASA wants to hear from you

Using a nearby crater as a landfill is not a sustainable way to live on the Moon

Science01 Oct 2024 | 33

Earth's new mini-moon swings by, then ghosts us by late November

No need for farewells, 2024 PT5 may drop in again in 2055

Science01 Oct 2024 | 32

Canon ships first nanoimprint chipmaking machine to R&D lab

Lithography technique does not require a light source, unlike ASML's complex extreme ultraviolet approach

Science01 Oct 2024 | 22

SpaceX Falcon 9 grounded again after second stage hits wrong part of ocean

Updated Otherwise, Crew-9 launch was a complete success

Science30 Sep 2024 | 22

Starfish Space to tackle orbital junk for NASA with SSPICY Otter

Is this a debris inspection mission or an Ubuntu release?

Science26 Sep 2024 | 3

NASA's Astrobees need a new buzz – any ideas for the space-dwelling bots?

Hey Reg readers, what would you do with Honey, Queen, and Bumble?

Science26 Sep 2024 | 26

ESA spending €17M on spacecraft just to watch it go up in flames

DRACO will be born to die in the fires of atmospheric re-entry

Science25 Sep 2024 | 7

NASA, IBM just open sourced an AI climate model so you can fine-tune your own

Prithvi, Prithvi, Prithvi good

Science25 Sep 2024 | 23

India funds Moon lander, space station module, and Venus orbiter

Wants lunar sample return within three years, Venus launch in 2028, orbiting hab in 2035, boots on Luna five years later

Science25 Sep 2024 | 10

Scientists demonstrate X-rays as a way to zap asteroids out of Earth's path

Lab-based proof-of-concept shows how radiation creates explosive plumes to deflect menacing space rocks

Science24 Sep 2024 | 50

Look! About chest high! Is it a pallet? Is it a drone? No, it's a Palletrone

And it's here to carry your not-very-heavy stuff

Science24 Sep 2024 | 30

Musk dreams of launching five Starships to Mars in two years

Just like robotaxis, actual full self-driving, etc etc in just a few years

Science23 Sep 2024 | 90

Axiom Space puts a brave face on claims of dire finances

Losing money on missions, space station delayed, but 'we will not be deterred'

Science23 Sep 2024 | 4

Heart of glass: Human genome stored for 'eternity' in 5D memory crystal

Just in case some aliens, say, come along in a billion years and feel like cloning us from extinction

Science21 Sep 2024 | 100

A huge week for satnav as both China and Europe make generational launches

Upgrades on the way for both, with deep-ocean services and programmable sats on the way

Science20 Sep 2024 | 24

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Cloudflare beats patent troll so badly it basically gives up

Networking giant pockets $225K, foe promises to stop suing and abandons IP

US govt hiding top hurricane forecast model sparks outrage after deadly Helene

Taxpayer-funded data locked behind insurance firm's paywall

AI agent promotes itself to sysadmin, trashes boot sequence

Fun experiment, but yeah, don't pipe an LLM raw into /bin/bash

AT&T claims VMware by Broadcom offered it a 1,050 percent price rise

And that Broadcom has prevented vendors from selling to the telco giant

Rackspace internal monitoring web servers hit by zero-day

Exclusive Intruders accessed machines via tool bundled with ScienceLogic, 'limited' info taken, customers told not to worry

Kyndryl follows in IBM's footsteps with rolling layoffs likely affecting thousands

Special report Underutilized staff get sent to the 'bench' – and seldom return

About a quarter million Comcast subscribers had their data stolen from debt collector

Cable giant says ransomware involved, FBCS keeps schtum

Windows 11 user hurt by the KB5043145 update? Microsoft offers a way out

Might be best to give it a miss for now

Harvard duo hacks Meta Ray-Bans to dox strangers on sight in seconds

'You can build this in a few days – even as a very naïve developer'

Cisco is abandoning the LoRaWAN space, and there's no lifeboat for IoT customers

Support stretches to end of 2029, no more maintenance beyond 2026

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Intuitive Machines shoots for the Moon with NASA's $4.82B lunar relay jackpot

Surely at least one crew will get there in the next ten years?

Science18 Sep 2024 | 3

Hey kids, wanna clock the ISS? ESA's Astro Pi challenge runs your code in space

Send astronauts nice pixel art, or try something a little harder

Science17 Sep 2024 | 1

SpaceX faces $663K FAA fine for Musk's alleged launch impatience

Some good news for Elon – 2,500 planes to be Starlink Wi-Fi ready as United joins the party

Public Sector17 Sep 2024 | 50

ESA and Neuraspace ink 2-year deal for Space Traffic wrangling

Multi-million euro package to control satellite swerving and debris dodging

Science16 Sep 2024 | 5

The Europa Clipper stretches its wings as launch nears

Solar arrays are massive... but it's the transistors onlookers are really worried about

Science13 Sep 2024 | 23

Boeing union workers in US reject contract: 96% vote to strike

Doubtful processes, risky spacecraft, what else could possibly go wrong? Oh...30,000 staff off work

Science13 Sep 2024 | 77

Japan to put a small red Swedish house on the Moon

No, you read that right

Science13 Sep 2024 | 62

SpaceX Polaris Dawn mission completes first commercial spacewalk

More cautious than 1960s efforts, EVA goes off without a hitch

Science12 Sep 2024 | 36

NASA engineers play space surgeon in bid to unclog Voyager 1's arteries

'Brilliant' team performs electrical balancing act to keep probe pointed at Earth

Science12 Sep 2024 | 56

SpaceX blasts being stuck in bureaucratic orbit as Starship approval slips

Toys launched from pram as Musk's rocketeers stamp feet over paperwork

Science11 Sep 2024 | 99

Robot enters Fukushima's nuclear core to retrieve melted-down remains

Video Trying for 3 grams, only 880 tons to go!

Science11 Sep 2024 | 28

SpaceX aims high with Polaris Dawn mission

Altitude record within grasp and in-house spacesuits to be put through their paces

Science10 Sep 2024 | 14

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 | 103

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 | 10

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 | 46

Boeing's Calamity Capsule returns to Earth without a crew

What now for these pod people?

Science07 Sep 2024 | 67

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 | 15

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 | 18

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

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 | 52

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 | 35

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 | 49

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 | 48

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 | 30

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 | 41

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 | 44

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

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