The Smoot – How an MIT prank became a lasting unit of measurement
Interview We spoke to the smoot's namesake
Science18 Jul 2025 | 53
Science
Quantum code breaking? You'd get further with an 8-bit computer, an abacus, and a dog
Computer scientist Peter Gutmann tells The Reg why it's 'bollocks'
Research17 Jul 2025 | 90
Large Hadron Collider data hints at explanation for why everything exists
The universe contains more matter than antimatter, and a paper hints at one reason for that happy disparity
Science17 Jul 2025 | 69
JWST peers through dusty curtain to catch young star making baby planets
Observations of HOPS-315 align with theories of how our own solar system began to take shape
Science16 Jul 2025 | 6
Scientists spot massive black hole collision that defies current theories
Off-the-charts gravitational waves ripple out from merged dead stars
Science15 Jul 2025 | 43
Apollo-Soyuz at 50: The Cold War space hug that nearly ended in gasping horror
First US-Soviet joint mission showed détente in action, but astronauts had a close call on return home
Science14 Jul 2025 | 20
Google Indonesia tangled up in $600 million Chromebook corruption probe
Asia In Brief PLUS: China’s massive lithium find; Cisco’s new Asia boss; Japan and EU plan satcomms collab; and more
Public Sector14 Jul 2025 | 8
Former reality TV star appointed NASA interim administrator
Can Sean Duffy embrace the challenge?
Science10 Jul 2025 | 62
Lord of the Rings director Peter Jackson backs plan to do a Jurassic Park on extinct birds
New Zealand’s Giant Moa stood over three meters tall but were easy prey
Science10 Jul 2025 | 59
Eggheads hold science fair on Capitol Hill to decry funding cuts
'The Things We’ll Never Know' show highlights what we'll be missing
Science09 Jul 2025 | 26
ESA backs five rockets in Launcher Challenge – only some have exploded
Comment Oodles of euros on offer for not accidentally blowing up stuff
Science09 Jul 2025 | 13
One Big Brutal Bill: Ex-NASA brass decry Trump's proposed budget cuts
'If this is the priority for our tax dollars, we are doomed'
Science08 Jul 2025 | 41
Nuclear reactors smaller than a semi truck to be tested in Idaho
Forget small modular reactors. Microreactors are the new hotness
Science07 Jul 2025 | 97
Double-detonation supernova could explain why the universe is full of candles
Lucy in the sky with calcium
Science07 Jul 2025 | 27
'Cyber security' behind decision to end defense satellite sharing of hurricane data
Official notice confirms delay to cutoff until the end of July. Not to worry, AI modelling's in the wings
Networks07 Jul 2025 | 55
UK puts out tender for space robot to de-orbit satellites
Updated Got to be a 'clean space superpower' – right, Brits?
Science06 Jul 2025 | 52
Mars was once a desert with intermittent oases, Curiosity data suggests
New modeling of carbon cycle shows unsteady but habitable history before liquid water disappeared
Science04 Jul 2025 | 42
Cold without the compressor: Boffins build better ice box
A thermoelectric material called CHESS is pretty cool
Science03 Jul 2025 | 44
MethaneSAT 'likely not recoverable' after losing contact with Earth
Methane monitoring satellite managed just over a year in orbit before its sudden demise
Science02 Jul 2025 | 27
23andMe's new owner says your DNA is safe this time
Nonprofit TTAM assures everything is BAU. Whether that makes customers feel better is another matter
Cyber-crime02 Jul 2025 | 18
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As companies race to add AI, terms of service changes are going to freak a lot of people out
Analysis WeTransfer added the magic words 'machine learning' to its ToS and users reacted predictably
Coldplay kiss-cam flap proves we’re already our own surveillance state
Comment And we’re the ones building it
China proves that open models are more effective than all the GPUs in the world
Comment OpenAI delayed its promised open-weights model since GPT-2, leaving the Middle Kingdom clearly in the lead
Backup tool Rescuezilla resurrects itself across six Ubuntus
2.6.1 adds Plucky Puffin and Firefox actually works this time
Foundry competition heats up as Japan’s Rapidus says 2nm chip tech on track for 2027
That's just... checks notes... two years behind everyone else
Ex-IDF cyber chief on Iran, Scattered Spider, and why social engineering worries him more than 0-days
Interview Keep It Simple, Stupid
Meta declines to abide by voluntary EU AI safety guidelines
GPAI code asks for transparency, copyright, and safety pledges
YouTuber leaked iOS secrets via friend spying on dev's phone, Apple lawsuit claims
Jon Prosser and alleged accomplice accused of stealing trade secrets from development device
Not so SaaSy now: Oracle sugars BYOL deals as AWS database tie-in goes live
Big Red incentivizes perpetual licenses with 76% savings as it parks racks in hyperscaler datacenters
Time for Britain's CMA to strike hard – or risk losing the cloud competition fight
Comment With watchdog set to publish report into health of market next month, will it hold AWS and Microsoft's feet to the fire?
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Trump's One Big Beautiful Bill bankrolls $85M Space Shuttle shuffle
NASA science might be cut, but cash can be found to move a 'space vehicle' from museum to museum
Science02 Jul 2025 | 98
NASA tests shrinking metals to help it find more exoplanets
Mysterious ‘Alloy 30’ gets smaller when heated, which could help stabilize super-sensitive space telescopes
Science02 Jul 2025 | 28
NASA gives Lunar Trailblazer a few more weeks to pick up the phone
Stricken probe giving US space agency the silent treatment
Science01 Jul 2025 | 2
China successfully tests hypersonic aircraft, maybe at Mach 12
America recently extended tech export bans specifically to stop Beijing building this sort of thing
Science01 Jul 2025 | 62
Google to buy power from fusion energy startup Commonwealth - if they can ever make it work
Someday, my prince will come
Science30 Jun 2025 | 13
Northrop Grumman shows SpaceX doesn't have a monopoly on explosions
video NASA's future Artemis booster sputters during test
Science30 Jun 2025 | 11
China claims breakthroughs in classical and quantum computers
Chipmaker Loongson says server CPUs on par with 2021’s Ice Lake, as local press tout kit to manage 1,024-qubit systems
Systems30 Jun 2025 | 8
Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter learns new trick at the age of 19: ‘very large rolls’
Now play dead, like a lot of NASA science programs if the White House gets its way
Science27 Jun 2025 | 15
US Department of Defense will stop sending critical hurricane satellite data
updated No replacement in the wings for info streamed from past their prime rigs, 'termination will be permanent'
Science27 Jun 2025 | 78
There's no international protocol on what to do if an asteroid strikes Earth
Or so hear members of Parliament in the UK
Science27 Jun 2025 | 99
NICER science not so nice as ISS telescope pauses operations
Cosmic research on hold while engineers investigate a problematic motor
Science26 Jun 2025 | 2
Don't look up: NASA is struggling to execute its planetary defense plan
Audit finds budget uncertainties and tiny staff make it hard to mount a fight against killer space rocks
Science25 Jun 2025 | 28
Axiom Mission 4 finally set for launch June 25
Fifth and final Crew Dragon ready for first flight to the ISS tomorrow
Science24 Jun 2025 | 4
Bezos beams up batch two as Project Kuiper plays catch-up with Starlink
ULA's Atlas V deploys second load of Amazon's broadband satellites
Networks24 Jun 2025 | 6
World's largest camera shows galaxy in 3,200 megapixel glory as Rubin telescope goes online
20TB of galactic shots a day, backed by Microsofties
Science24 Jun 2025 | 26
Eutelsat seeks €1.35B to boost LEO network and take the fight to Starlink
French satellite operator plans capital raise backed by state and key investors including Bharti
Science20 Jun 2025 | 9
ESA's XMM-Newton finds huge filament of missing matter
Veteran X-ray telescope discovery shows that... phew, current model of the cosmos still works
Science19 Jun 2025 | 20
SpaceX's Starship explodes again ... while still on the ground
Test fire trouble means Musk's rocketeers reset the 'days since Starship had a major anomaly' counter to zero
Science19 Jun 2025 | 215
Space manufacturing company Varda gets clearance to launch more uncrewed capsules
UPDATED Startup has already shown how to make drugs in space
Science19 Jun 2025 | 2
Nvidia bets on Gates-backed nuclear startup to keep its AI ambitions from melting down
$650M funding round aims to bring TerraPower's Natrium power plant in Wyoming online by 2030
Science18 Jun 2025 | 14
Brit space sector struggles to compete with £90K graduate banking salaries
UK needs skills task force to get slice of $1.8 trillion pie, Lords told
Science18 Jun 2025 | 116
Japan set to join the re-usable rocket club after Honda sticks a landing
France announced its own effort to build re-usable engines on the same day
Science18 Jun 2025 | 31
Atlas V glitch delays second Project Kuiper launch
Amazon's satellite constellation hits another snag as ULA rocket aborts on pad
Science17 Jun 2025 | 12
Penn State boffins create silicon-free two-dimensional computer
Clock speed of 25 kHz means 2D CMOS system won't run Doom quite yet
Science16 Jun 2025 | 34
Japan builds near $700M fund to lure foreign academic talent
For researchers yearning to earn some yen and escape Trump 2.0
Science16 Jun 2025 | 13
ISS leaks push Axiom Mission 4 launch to no earlier than June 19
Evaluation of latest repairs to Russian segment ongoing
Science16 Jun 2025 | 9
Researchers claim spoof-proof random number generator breakthrough
Combining quantum entanglement with hash chains promises randomness which can be relied on
Science14 Jun 2025 | 70
UK dumps £2.5 billion into fusion pipe dream that's already cost millions
UPDATED STEP sucked up £220 million in 2022, and it's still not apparent what that accomplished
Science13 Jun 2025 | 102
Falcon 9 leaks keep Axiom private astronaut mission on the ground
Weather and propulsion system problems conspire to keep astronauts away from the ISS
Science12 Jun 2025 | 3
Behold! Humanity has captured our first look at the Sun's South Pole
Confusingly, the magnetic north and south poles are both down there, where the Solar Orbiter can see them
Science12 Jun 2025 | 46
DARPA is testing a device soldiers can swallow to make them less stressed
Not that kind of edible - this one's electronic
Science11 Jun 2025 | 28
NASA to silence Voyager's social media accounts
All about consolidation as mission mouthpieces archived in pursuit of 'improving the experience'
Science11 Jun 2025 | 50
Tug reaches flaming ship carrying electric cars off Alaska coast
It's still smoking, but help is on hand
Science11 Jun 2025 | 36
Probability of Asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting the Moon increases
Scientists improve knowledge by 20% thanks to James Webb Space Telescope data
Science10 Jun 2025 | 28
China orders trial of aged care robots that can cook, clean, and provide emotional support
Elon Musk suggested this to Beijing years ago
AI + ML10 Jun 2025 | 28
1.5 TB of James Webb Space Telescope data just hit the internet
Online catalog gives open science access to data from early universe
Science09 Jun 2025 | 15
US lawmakers fire back a response to Trump's NASA cuts
Big expensive Moon rockets = good. Science = yeah, whatever
Science09 Jun 2025 | 20
China's asteroid-and-comet hunter probe unfurls a 'solar wing'
Asia in brief Plus: Hitachi turns graybeards into AI agents, Tiananmen anniversary censorship, AWS in Taiwan, and more!
Science09 Jun 2025 | 4
£127M wasted on failed UK nuclear cleanup plan
Don't worry, only 100 more years of Sellafield nuclear site cleansing to go
Science07 Jun 2025 | 78
Trump lifts US supersonic flight ban, says he's 'Making Aviation Great Again'
It's boom time for the next generation of fast travel
Science07 Jun 2025 | 170
Ex-NASA Admin pick blames Musk ties for pulled nomination
Jared Isaacman reveals how space agency might have looked under his watch
Science06 Jun 2025 | 60
Japan's latest Moon landing written off as a failure after ispace probe goes dark
UPDATED Rangefinder broke during descent so lander didn't slow down
Science05 Jun 2025 | 51
Ship abandoned off Alaska after electric cars on board catch fire
Water, water everywhere, but it would just make it worse
Science05 Jun 2025 | 284
60 years ago the US took its first walk in space with Gemini 4
Four years later, Apollo 11 landed on the Moon
Science04 Jun 2025 | 14
Meta just saved an Illinois nuclear plant that was set to be mothballed
The 20-year deal with Constellation will slake Zuckercorp's thirst for energy to power AI datacenters
Science03 Jun 2025 | 29
Engineers bring Psyche's thrusters back online
Diagnosing a borkage from a million miles away
Science03 Jun 2025 | 18
NASA boss-to-be gets spaced as proposed budget cuts detailed
White House withdraws Isaacman pick amid potential $6B funding drop
Science02 Jun 2025 | 28
Odd homage to '2001: A Space Odyssey' sees 'Blue Danube' waltz beamed at Voyager 1
Birthdays for ESA (50) and Johann Strauss (200) marked with music of the spheres
Science02 Jun 2025 | 73
American science put on starvation diet
National Science Foundation FY 2026 budget cut by more than 60%
Science30 May 2025 | 81
Astroboffins analyzed old data and found a candidate dwarf planet in the Oort cloud
Thank whoever decided to make the Dark Energy Camera Legacy Survey public for this discovery
Science30 May 2025 | 23
China to visit Earth’s ‘quasi-moon’ and bring a chunk of it back home
Tianwen 2 probe launched Thursday and will also get up close with a comet
Science29 May 2025 | 14
MIT boffins claim liquid sodium battery could one day power aircraft while sucking up CO2
Prototype packs triple the energy density of lithium-ion, they claim
Science28 May 2025 | 55
SpaceX resets 'Days Since Last Starship Explosion' counter to zero, again
Musk’s rocket co fails to deploy any dummy satellites either
Science28 May 2025 | 79
FAA gives SpaceX the nod for Starship Flight 9 but doubles the danger zone
Updated Aircraft Hazard Area now stretches 1,600 nautical miles
Science23 May 2025 | 25
Space Force tech mission threatened by staff and funding black hole
Budget slashing has 'outsized impact' on us, says commander who fears branch not ready for orbital war
Public Sector22 May 2025 | 17
China finds a previously unknown microbe on its space station
Don’t panic! It's related to an earthly bug, eats gelatin, not astronauts, and may have adapted to life in space
Science22 May 2025 | 17
Microsoft-backed AI out-forecasts hurricane experts without crunching the physics
LLM trained on decades of weather data claimed to be faster, and cheaper
European Supercomputing21 May 2025 | 24
Estimating AI energy usage is fiendishly hard – but this report took a shot
And it gets even harder when you try to estimate CO2 emissions
AI + ML21 May 2025 | 11
NASA was eyeing ISS crew cutbacks before Trump's budget landed
Will the US President take credit for that one as well?
Science21 May 2025 | 3
UK 'extremely dependent' on US for space security
After 60 years+ cooperation on space and military ops, worrying 'rhetoric' from Team Trump has Brits examining options
Security21 May 2025 | 108
Aussie rocket foiled by premature fairing pop
Updated A fair dinkum disaster
Science19 May 2025 | 27
DARPA zaps popcorn with laser power beamed 5.3 miles through air
800-watt demo breaks distance record for optical energy transmission
Science19 May 2025 | 37
When LLMs get personal info they are more persuasive debaters than humans
Large-scale disinfo campaigns could use this in machines that adapt 'to individual targets.' Are we having fun yet?
AI + ML19 May 2025 | 17
No-boom supersonic flights could slide through US skies soon
Feature As long as you're quiet about it
Science17 May 2025 | 94
NASA keeps ancient Voyager 1 spacecraft alive with Hail Mary thruster fix
Failure could've triggered a small explosion
Science15 May 2025 | 80
Next week's SpaceX Starship test still needs FAA authorization
Aiming for the stars, but sometimes hitting the Caribbean
Science15 May 2025 | 62
Intuitive Machines blames dim lighting and dodgy data for second lunar faceplant
Touchdown with no topple? Company aims for third time lucky
Science14 May 2025 | 23
Saudi CubeSat gets golden ticket on doomed SLS rocket
Trump greenlights slot for Riyadh as NASA's pricey booster teeters on the brink
Science14 May 2025 | 14
NSF director memo to staff: Don't worry about those job cuts, at least for now
Court orders halt to layoffs – as folks steering American innovation wonder how long injunction will last
Science14 May 2025 | 8
Boffins warn that AI paper mills are swamping science with garbage studies
Research flags rise in one-dimensional health research fueled by large language models
AI + ML13 May 2025 | 78
After more than half a century, the voyage of Kosmos 482 is over
The Soviet Union aimed for Venus, but hit the Indian Ocean instead
Science13 May 2025 | 25
Mars may have vast underground oceans and enough H2O to make it a water world
Chinese and Australian boffins ask what else could be slowing down seismic waves as they pass through the Red Planet?
Science13 May 2025 | 28
Fusion eggheads claim modeling fix for particle escape - at least in stellarators
One problem down, x - 1 problems go
Science12 May 2025 | 14
CERN boffins turn lead into gold for about a microsecond at unimaginable cost
So alchemists had the right idea – they just lacked a 27 km particle accelerator
Science12 May 2025 | 39
Yolk's on you – eggs break less when they land sideways
MIT research team proves pop science eggsplanation wrong
Offbeat10 May 2025 | 65
US govt's science foundation purges 37 divisions, equity unit among casualties
DEI another day: Trump priorities bite as $1B in grants vanish, layoffs loom
Science09 May 2025 | 81
VIPER rover banished to storage as moonshot plan sputters
NASA cancels solicitation to get a partner to launch, land, and operate the bot for free
Science09 May 2025 | 12
Microsoft wants us to believe AI will crack practical fusion power, driving future AI
This BS ends at some point, right?
AI Infrastructure Month09 May 2025 | 48
As US scientists flee Trump, MP urges Britain to do more to nab them
One concrete suggestion: Looser visa requirements
Science09 May 2025 | 140
NASA JPL boss bails for 'personal reasons' as budget cuts bite
Updated Laurie Leshin to leave in June
Science08 May 2025 | 16
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