Science
Dishing up the goods: Square Kilometre Array moves out of the theoretical and into the contractual
Plus: Australian telescope precursor finds weird waves in the middle of the galaxy
18 Oct 2021 16:44 | 23
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Oops, they did it again – rogue Soyuz spurt gave ISS an attitude problem
Crew successfully de-orbited on Sunday carrying vital payload: footage for a movie shot in space
17 Oct 2021 23:59 | 16
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Space boffins: Exoplanet survived hydrogen-death of its host star
Hope extended to gas giants across the universe... well, it is Friday
15 Oct 2021 14:24 | 31
Register Debate
Reg readers: Don't assume anything when sharing health data
Debate exhibits chronic distrust of policy makers, Big Pharma, and insurance companies
15 Oct 2021 10:30 | 21
Science
Forget everything you learned playing Lunar Lander: Chinese boffins reveal secrets of Chang'e 5 probe's touchdown
Landing with liquid fuel aboard made slosh-avoidance essential. Plus: China names first woman to visit Tiangong space station
15 Oct 2021 07:51 | 8
Register Debate
Sharing medical records with researchers: Assumed consent works in theory – just not yet in practice
The UK shows us how not to run an opt-out approach
14 Oct 2021 10:45 | 31
Science
James Webb Space Telescope completes its voyage to French Guiana
Only a million or so miles to go
13 Oct 2021 17:30 | 25
Register debate
I'm diabetic. I'd rather risk my shared health data being stolen than a double amputation
You want my medical records? Good, take them – now find me a cure
13 Oct 2021 10:45 | 110
Science
Saturday start for NASA's Lucy probe on its 12-year quest to map Jupiter's Trojan asteroids
Astronomers will be searching for clues on how the Solar System formed
12 Oct 2021 23:50 | 13
Register debate
Patients must know how their health records are used – and approve any sharing for research
Who really benefits from 'secondary use' of your medical data?
12 Oct 2021 10:45 | 44
Science
Boeing's Calamity Capsule might take to space once again ... in the first half of 2022
'Oxidizer and moisture interactions' blamed for iffy spaceship valves
11 Oct 2021 13:01 | 40
Register Debate
Opt-out is the right approach for sharing your medical records with researchers
If assumed consent is informed consent, it’s individuals who benefit
11 Oct 2021 10:45 | 121
Science
Nothing says 'We believe in you' like NASA switching two 'nauts off Boeing's Starliner onto SpaceX's Crew Dragon
All change on 2022 ride to the ISS
07 Oct 2021 17:30 | 30
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Nobel Prizes in Physics and Chemistry awarded to boffins studying complex systems, organic catalysts
20m Swedish kronor – close to 2 million quid – to be shared
07 Oct 2021 10:28 | 6
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D-Wave claims it can build a gate-model quantum computer
And if it works, you could play with it in a cloud around 2024
05 Oct 2021 20:25 | 25
Science
Italian researchers' silver nano-spaghetti promises to help solve power-hungry neural net problems
Back-to-analogue computing model designed to mimic emergent properties of the brain
05 Oct 2021 10:23 | 18
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Pretend starship captain to take trip in real space capsule
William Shatner joins crew for Bezos' number two
04 Oct 2021 16:23 | 151
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ESA and JAXA release Mercury eyecandy, courtesy of spacecraft BepiColumbo
Fourth of nine scheduled planetary assists completed as spacecraft inches closer to releasing its orbiters
04 Oct 2021 12:13 | 19
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UK.gov presents its National Space Strategy: Space is worth billions to us. Just don't mention Brexit, OK?
'Putting rocket boosters the size of Saturn V's F1 under Brit space biz.' Yikes. But where's the money, Boris?
01 Oct 2021 10:27 | 74
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Honda to build reusable rockets to sling sats, but won't scare SpaceX
Also plans remote-controlled robots with fingers and jar-opening capabilities, to help run a moon base
01 Oct 2021 05:05 | 3
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Blue Origin employees complain of sexist culture that ignores safety concerns
At Jeff Bezos’ rocket company, billionaire egos create fear of flying
01 Oct 2021 01:13 | 24
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Airline meal-sized £700k awarded by UK.gov for green aviation: That's for eco-tech rather than planes, mind
Infrastructure to support lower-emission aircraft, is the hope
30 Sep 2021 14:44 | 13
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Virgin Galactic cleared to fly again after a spell on Federal Aviation Administration's naughty step
More airspace and a hotline to the authority fixed up for the next flight
30 Sep 2021 11:01 | 20
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YouTube expands vaccine misinfo crackdown, nukes anti-vax channels for good
Public health experts wonder what took so long
30 Sep 2021 00:16 | 114
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FYI: Catastrophic flooding helped carve Martian valleys, not just rivers of water
Thanks, science
29 Sep 2021 23:25 | 23
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NASA halts Mars comms for two weeks as Sun gets in way of Red Planet
Who wouldn't want a break from Earth's noise?
29 Sep 2021 07:31 | 26
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If anyone can explain why Jupiter's Great Red Spot is spinning faster and shrinking, please speak up
Astronomers are still figuring out how the planet's storm continues to rage
28 Sep 2021 06:44 | 84
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Samsung is planning to reverse-engineer the human brain on to a chip
'Here I am, 100 billion neurons and all you want me to do is calculate all the ways this could possibly go wrong?'
27 Sep 2021 15:16 | 72
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Airbus to help build Mexican Moon-mining automata
Commercial partner's ad-funded expedition plans the ultimate pop-up in 2022
27 Sep 2021 06:59 | 17
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Scientists took cues from helicopter seeds to invent tiny microchips that float on wind
'Microfliers' could carry sensors to monitor air pollution and more
24 Sep 2021 16:29 | 36
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Boston Dynamics' Spot robot embarks on its latest thrilling adventure: Insurance!
US company equips cybernetic pooch to help in building inspections, post-disaster assessments
23 Sep 2021 20:27 | 6
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US Congress ponders setting up permanent UFO investigation office
Nothing to do with little green men, mind, unless they can be defined as state or non-state actors
21 Sep 2021 16:48 | 31
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China discloses new space tech: Coloured cargo labels to replace beige ones taikonauts found fiddly
Slaps 'em on six tonnes of kit – enough to sustain space station crew for six months – and successfully sends it to Tianhe
21 Sep 2021 07:32 | 13
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NASA hopes VIPER rover will search for water in Moon's Nobile crater in 2023
Machine could help unlock natural resources for future lunar base dwellers
21 Sep 2021 06:03 | 8
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US Federal Aviation Administration issues draft assessment of SpaceX Super Heavy impact
The environmental impact, not the smoking crater made by an impact
20 Sep 2021 11:43 | 21
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China's taikonauts return from heavenly palace after 92-day mission
Plenty more launches planned to attach another couple of modules
20 Sep 2021 04:57 | 17
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Space tourists splash down in Atlantic Ocean after three days in orbit
Some sightseeing, music, gambling, chatting to folks back home – just like a regular roadtrip
19 Sep 2021 05:30 | 67
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UK funds hydrogen-powered cargo submarine to torpedo maritime emissions by 2050
Green machine will also suck up microplastics between Glasgow and Belfast
16 Sep 2021 11:28 | 56
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SpaceX successfully sends four amateurs into orbit for three-day tour
Vision from window seats didn't stream, everything else worked
16 Sep 2021 01:40 | 29
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SpaceX prepares to launch four civilians and a glass dome into space
Musk to demonstrate his is mightier than Bezos or Branson's
15 Sep 2021 18:31 | 14
DSEI 2021
UK gives military's frikkin' laser cannon project a second roll of the dice
First try had a habit of melting its mirrors, apparently
14 Sep 2021 21:36 | 33
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Boffins say Martian colonists could pee in buckets, give blood if they want shelter
In terms of building materials, Mars has nothing to offer but blood, soil, sweat and tears. And urine. Lots of urine
14 Sep 2021 17:33 | 51
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NASA's Perseverance rover nabs two Martian rock samples for scientists on Earth to study one day
Too early to confirm ancient alien life, but a 'potentially habitable sustained environment,' though...
14 Sep 2021 00:08 | 11
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The day has a 'y' in it, so Virgin Galactic has announced another delay
A potentially iffy component in the flight actuation system this time
13 Sep 2021 11:30 | 29
Science
Spot the dog? No, we couldn't either because Spot is a robot employed by United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority
Plans to send remote devices to work at 70-year-old decommissioned nuclear power station may not be so barking
10 Sep 2021 10:43 | 44
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Orolia inks €70m deal to provide atomic clocks for second generation of EU's Galileo navigation satellites
Time to hit the road
09 Sep 2021 19:15 |
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Dozy ISS cosmonauts woken by smoke alarm on eve of 5-hour spacewalk
Air purified, everyone back to bed, says Roscosmos, studiously ignoring smoke, burning smell
09 Sep 2021 16:01 | 16
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James Webb Space Telescope penciled in for launch this century. Yes, Dec 18, 2021
This thing better not explode on the pad
09 Sep 2021 06:26 | 31
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Elizabeth Holmes' Theranos fraud trial begins: Defense claims all she did was fail – and that's not a crime
Her attorney argues she made mistakes ... like trusting her former partner and COO Sunny Balwani
09 Sep 2021 00:29 | 46
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Astronomers detect burps of interstellar cannibal from 480 million light years away
In space, everyone can see you emit brightly shining gas, X-rays, and radio waves
07 Sep 2021 17:01 | 16
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After failing to make it to orbit, Firefly Aerospace asserts it has 'arrived'
'Arrived' back on the planet quite a bit sooner than expected, sure
06 Sep 2021 15:47 | 12
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Alpha adds to tally of exploding rockets, takes out space sail prototype with it
Firefly Aerospace rounds out a wobbly week for rocket fanciers
03 Sep 2021 21:34 | 39
Science
Perseverance rover drilled a rock on Mars and probably snaffled a core sample
Now to enact humanity's cunning interplanetary kidnapping plan
03 Sep 2021 06:56 | 21
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Branson (in a) pickle: FAA grounds Virgin Galactic flights after billionaire's space trip veered off course
Biz defends 'safe and successful' ride
03 Sep 2021 06:02 | 46
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Imaginary numbers help AIs solve the very real problem of adversarial imagery
Duke University boffins figure out a way to boost the security of recognition networks
02 Sep 2021 08:32 | 16
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NASA tests flying taxis made by biz dreaming of being the Uber of the sky
Joby hopes to push its ambitious service live in 2024
02 Sep 2021 00:46 | 28
Science
Arms not long enough to reach the plug socket? Room-wide wireless charging is on the way
Hold onto your hats, tinfoil brigade!
01 Sep 2021 09:41 | 93
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This drag sail could prevent spacecraft from turning into long-term orbiting junk. We spoke to its inventors ahead of launch
Gadget due to be tested this week
01 Sep 2021 07:26 | 55
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Trial of Theranos boss Elizabeth Holmes begins: She plans to say her boyfriend and COO Balwani abused her
Judge asks prospective jurors whether they have experience with intimate partner violence
01 Sep 2021 00:56 | 62
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More cracks found in Russian annex of the International Space Station
Head of Russia's segment says it's time for Roscosmos to build its own orbiting lab
31 Aug 2021 23:09 | 26
