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'We're storing how this material should behave': Boffins' 3cm 'm-bit' cubes demonstrate programmable wunderstuff

Raising possibility of buildings that flex in earthquakes, and much more

21 Jan 14:58 | 4

Bye-bye Bridenstine: Outgoing chief leaves NASA in good shape, though Boots on Moon by '24 goal looks doubtful

Former NASA test engineer steps into the hot seat as acting head

21 Jan 12:16 | 12

SpaceX powers through bad case of wind to nail Falcon 9's eighth droneship landing

Rapid reuse in sight, as are yet another batch of Starlink satellites

20 Jan 17:46 | 17

Virgin Orbit finally lives up to its name after second attempt with LauncherOne rocket

Also: Qualifying Starliner and Blue Origin gets ready for humans

20 Jan 13:15 | 27

You look for the largest objects in the universe and two come along at once: Astroboffins spot mega radio galaxies dwarfing Milky Way

These things could be more common than first thought

20 Jan 06:32 | 16

Engineers blame 'intentionally conservative' test parameters for premature end to Space Launch System hotfire

'If this scenario occurred during a flight, the rocket would have continued to fly'

19 Jan 18:35 | 59

Debut firing of NASA's Space Launch System core stage cut short following 'Major Component Failure'

This is why we test

18 Jan 17:48 | 27

NASA pulls the plug on InSight's mole after Martian surface bests boffins

A blue day on the Red Planet

15 Jan 20:06 | 45

MIT professor charged with failing to disclose China ties while hitting up US Dept of Energy for research grant

Academic also charged with hiding foreign assets, false tax statements

15 Jan 01:51 | 11

SpaceX cargo ship splashes down off Florida with science in tow – but what we want to know is how space wine tastes

It's been sloshing around the International Space Station for a while

14 Jan 16:18 | 17

Look, we've sent space probes to Jupiter and Mars – makes sense to keep them going a while longer, says NASA

Jupiter and Mars machines get new life

13 Jan 11:45 | 12

Boeing confirms last 747 to roll off production line in 2022

Last four built will be freighters. And mighty freighters at that

13 Jan 04:24 | 25

UK Space ponders going nuclear with Rolls-Royce: Hopes are to slice the time it takes for space travel

Another year, another study

12 Jan 20:25 | 42

Boffins store text message inside E. coli bacteria using electromagnetic signal – and you'll never guess what it says

Just kidding, you'll totally guess

12 Jan 11:32 | 43

International Space Station scores powerup with solar panels that 'roll out like a tape measure'

Still needs three launches and a dozen spacewalks to install 55kW capacity upgrade

12 Jan 09:15 | 19

Theranos destroyed crucial subpoenaed SQL blood test database, can't unlock backups, prosecutors say

CEO Holmes also accused of funding extravagant lifestyle through fraud

12 Jan 03:28 | 60

ESA signs on the dotted line for ESPRIT, Europe's Lunar Gateway module

Also: Another One Leaves the Crust, SLS gets ready to rumble, and SpaceX sets off the 2021 fireworks

08 Jan 17:37 | 8

Titanium carbide nanotech approach hints at hydrogen storage breakthrough

Exciting news for green fuel, but quality control, financing will be a challenge

07 Jan 09:13 | 89

China celebrates third year of operations on the far side of the moon

Chang'e-4 and Yutu rover are still exploring, and NASA will need their support satellite

05 Jan 07:27 | 7

Earth observation chief Dr Josef Aschbacher takes reins at European Space Agency

Also: Rocket Lab rounds out a busy year, OneWeb returns to constellation work, NASA ploughs ahead with Orion

22 Dec 14:30 | 10

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On his way out, Trump emits exec order suggesting US cloud giants must verify ID of all foreign customers

Know-your-client demand may just be ignored by incoming Biden admin

If my calculations are correct, when Google Chrome hits version 88, you're gonna see some serious... security

Manifest v3 plus JavaScript timer throttling, vuln fixes, FTP killed off, etc

Loser Trump's last financial disclosure docs reveal Tim Cook gave him $5,999 Mac Pro, the 'first' made in Texas

But that's fake news

FireEye publishes details of SolarWinds hacking techniques, gives out free tool to detect signs of intrusion

Instructions for spotting and keeping suspected Russians out of systems

Windows Product Activation – or just how many numbers we could get a user to tell us down the telephone

A confession from ex-Microsoft engineer Dave Plummer. Also: WPA fun in the Registry

With depressing predictability, FCC boss leaves office with a list of his deeds... and a giant middle finger to America

A last gasp for the era of alternate facts

Raspberry Pi Foundation moves into microcontrollers with the $4 Pi Pico using homegrown silicon

Dual-core Arm Cortex-M0+ board for hobbyists and power users alike

Malwarebytes says its Office 365, Azure tenancies invaded by SolarWinds hackers, insists its tools are still safe to use

Points finger at privilege escalation via application rights in Azure AD, which Microsoft says is as designed

Dnsmasq, used in only a million or more internet-facing devices globally, patches not-so-secret seven spoofing, hijacking flaws

Get your updates when you can for gear from scores of manufacturers

Over long US weekend, GitHub HR boss quit after firing Jewish staffer who warned Nazis were at the Capitol

Microsoft-owned code silo admits 'significant errors of judgment and procedure'

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Dodgy procedures doomed Arianespace's Vega before it even left the launchpad

Misleading processes and inadequate testing caused an inversion of steering, officer

18 Dec 12:30 | 37

UK finally signs off on Square Kilometre Array Observatory Convention

Now to build over 130,000 little 'scopes in nasty hot places. Also in data centers

18 Dec 07:07 | 23

US Government Accountability Office dumps sack of coal on NASA's desk over Moon mission naughtiness

It'll be fine, just keep giving Boeing money

17 Dec 18:02 | 27

China's Chang'e 5 probe lands Moon rocks in Inner Mongolia

A small steppe for probe, giant leaps await science ... and propaganda

17 Dec 08:05 | 37

We got it! Japanese space agency confirms its probe has Ryugu asteroid samples

Andromeda Strain anyone?

15 Dec 10:25 | 30

Raven geniuses: Four-month-old corvids have similar cognitive abilities to great apes at same age, study finds

Animal cognition may be better fit for AI devs than human, adds prof

14 Dec 11:22 | 65

FBI confirms Zodiac Killer's 340 cipher solved by trio of amateur math and software codebreakers

Mysterious message, unread for 51 years, turns out to be a bit dull

12 Dec 00:12 | 78

Don't give up on Planet Nine yet: Hubble 'scope finds just such a world a mere 336 light-years away

Massive planets at far out distances from their stars are possible after all

11 Dec 11:34 | 26

SpaceX Starship blows up on landing, Elon Musk says it's the data that matters and that landed just fine

Test flight took candidate Mars trip rocket to new heights

10 Dec 05:57 | 108

Megabucks in funding, 28 years of research, and Boston Dynamics is to be 'sold to Hyundai' for 1/40th of an Arm

So what does that make it, a leg? A toe?

10 Dec 01:29 | 15

Useful quantum computers will be impossible without error correction. Good thing these folks are working on it

What if the cat in the box could come back to life?

09 Dec 14:22 | 32

Chuck Yeager, sound barrier pioneer pilot, dies at 97

He had, and inspired, The Right Stuff

08 Dec 07:29 | 64

Bezos to the Moon: Blue Origin fires up BE-7 engine to be used in human lunar mission

Also: Orion challenges and a quarter century since SOHO's launch

07 Dec 18:01 | 9

Japan sticks the landing: Asteroid sample recovered from Hayabusa2 probe

Probe now sets sail for further adventures

07 Dec 03:58 | 37

Marine archaeologists catch a break on the bottom of the Baltic Sea: A 75-year-old Enigma Machine

Attempting to save aquatic life trapped in old fishing nets, divers uncover a hidden treasure

04 Dec 21:23 | 106

A tale of two nations: See China blast off from the Moon as drone shows America's Arecibo telescope falling apart

Everyone has an off day, er, year, er, make that four years...

04 Dec 03:03 | 56

Robot drills hole on Moon, employs robot arm to clean up mess to bring home

We’re talking about China’s Chang’e 5 lunar sample return mission, which has accomplished one of its main jobs

03 Dec 05:57 | 30

China's Chang'e-5 lands on the Moon to scratch surface

Mission aims to bring home 2kg of stones and soil from up to 2m down

01 Dec 18:30 | 46

Arecibo Observatory brings forward 'controlled demolition' plans by collapsing all by itself

Star of science and celluloid is no more

01 Dec 17:00 | 149

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