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America's largest radio telescope blind after falling cable slashes 100-foot gash in reflector dish
Venerable Arecibo Observatory showing its age
12 Aug 21:42 | 6
Science
In brief
Rocket Lab to bounce back from July's orbital fail with bulging payloads and parachuting Electrons
Also: Scottish rocketeers to launch from Iceland, and SpaceX lobs more Starlinks
11 Aug 17:20 | 8
Science
Why so salty, Ceres? Is it on account of your underground oceans and cryovolcanism?
Dawn probe's last data shows surprising results from asteroid belt
11 Aug 10:00 | 7
Science
NASA to stop using names like 'Eskimo Nebula' and 're-examine' what it calls cosmic objects
‘Horsehead Nebula’ is okay, ‘Siamese Twins Galaxy’ is not
10 Aug 06:07 | 174
Science
The sun is shining, the birds are singing. You can shut the curtains and tour The National Museum of Computing in VR
We don't have to go... outside... to have a good time, oh no
07 Aug 13:42 | 10
Science
Q: What’s big, red and pulses UV light into the cosmos three times a night? A: Mars
Boffins find atmospheric oddities that make the planet blink in Spring and Autumn
07 Aug 06:53 | 24
Science
Geneticists throw hands in the air, change gene naming rules to finally stop Microsoft Excel eating their data
Spreadsheet woes spanning 16+ years force official update
06 Aug 22:58 | 270
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The results are in: Science says the Solar System's magnetic heliosphere looks like a deflated croissant
Or maybe a spleen? Stomach? Snot bubble? You decide
06 Aug 06:07 | 42
Science
Austria astroboffins shed a little light on how we might track orbital junk hurtling at spacecraft during daytime
Study reckons observation window would be increased from 6 to 22 hours
05 Aug 09:15 | 3
Science
What a good eye-dea: Battery-less, grain-of-sand-sized 2.4GHz transmitter to help save your eyesight
Wireless sensor to show 'how the body is responding in real-time' to treatment
05 Aug 07:02 | 25
Science
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe – because we used astrometry: A Saturn-like world hugging its star
Mexico, US boffins used technique 'for the first time' with ground-based radio 'scopes to spot exoplanet
04 Aug 22:46 | 4
Science
Aviation regulator outlines fixes that will get the 737 MAX flying again
Software upgrade to deliver less lethally-stubborn automation
04 Aug 07:56 | 113
Science
Virgin Galactic pals up with Rolls-Royce to work on Mach 3 Concorde-style private jet that can carry up to 19 people
Same height, bit faster, same wing layout as iconic 1960s airliner
03 Aug 12:59 | 92
Science
Voyager 1 cracks yet another barrier: Now 150 Astronomical Units from Sol
20 light hours from Earth and still sending home data
31 Jul 06:36 | 82
Science
And it's off! NASA launches nuke-powered, laser-shooting, tank Perseverance to Mars to search for signs of life
23 cameras, microphones and a helicopter on the rover to see and hear the Red Planet in living technicolor
30 Jul 13:03 | 48
Science
Boeing confirms it will finish building 747s in 2022, when last freighter flies off the production line
Commercial business slumps but troubled 737 MAX could be back in the skies late this year
30 Jul 06:02 | 57
Science
911, I wanna report a robbery. Hundreds of thousands of stars stolen from a cluster. I think it was the Milky Way
Ancient ball of suns smeared across space by our galaxy two billion years ago
29 Jul 22:23 | 15
Space Extenders
Once considered lost, ESA and NASA's SOHO came back from the brink of death to work even better than it did before
Almost 25 years and counting, here's to the luckiest spacecraft off Earth
29 Jul 09:00 | 43
Science
Virgin Galactic reveals giant mirror feature in cabin design for Beardy Branson's space bus
Passengers will be able to watch themselves float while bathed in Earthlight and surrounded by tasteful colours
29 Jul 07:32 | 43
Science
What goes up, Musk come down... and up and down and up and down: NASA details followup Dragon pod trips to orbiting station
Assuming this weekend's return journey goes well, natch
28 Jul 22:53 | 7
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Exclusive
NCC Group admits its training data was leaked online after folders full of CREST pentest certification exam notes posted to GitHub
'Inhouse crt rigs to solve... book before ur exam' as firm claims 'some' of the content wasn't theirs
Security
China now blocking ESNI-enabled TLS 1.3 connections, say Great-Firewall-watchers
And needs a very blunt instrument to do the job, because the protocol works as planned
Bootnotes
Steve Wozniak at 70: Here's to the bloke behind Apple who wasn't a complete... turtleneck
The Yin to Steve Jobs' Yang celebrates another orbit around the Sun
Bootnotes
What are you gonna do? Give me detention? Illinois schools ban pyjamas in online classes
While remote-working adults adhere to 'business in the front, party in the back'
Patch Tuesday
We spent way too long on this Microsoft, Intel, Adobe, SAP, Red Hat Patch Tuesday article. Just click on it, pretend to read it, apply updates
Please, thanks, good show, cheers, ta
Software
Firefox maker Mozilla axes a quarter of its workforce, blames coronavirus, vows to 'develop new revenue streams'
250 'true Mozillians' laid off, Taiwan office completely shuttered
Personal Tech
Can I get some service here? The new 27-inch iMac forgoes replaceable storage for soldered innards
Spudger-flingers rate it 4 out of 10, note an 'artificially short lifespan'
Review
Huawei Matebook X Pro 2020: Nothing too crazy but at least it's more fixable and cheaper than comparable Apple wares
Which might help convince your stingy purchase manager
Networks
India connects submarine cable to islands where some still live in the stone age
But others live on colossal military bases that extend the range of India’s armed forces
Security
This is node joke. Tor battles to fend off swarm of Bitcoin-stealing evil exit relays making up about 25% of outgoing capacity at its height
Cash-strapped privacy devs face determined miscreants who keep coming back for more
STORIES
Science
Astroboffins map engine of a solar flare: Magnetic mega-fields and Earth-dwarfing blankets of electric current
Holy sheet...
28 Jul 06:11 | 8
Science
Eye see you're having surgery: Origami inspires tiny, super-accurate robot surgeon
Research showed 'reduced deviation' when it made a 0.5mm x 0.5mm slice
27 Jul 15:10 | 13
Science
If you think you've got problems, pal, spare a thought for these boffins baffled by 'oddball' meteorites
Chondritic and achondritic? Back to the drawing board, then
27 Jul 06:04 | 27
Science
USA seeks Moon and Mars nuke power plant designs ready to fly in 2027
Wants 10kw delivering 120V DC because solar cells have limitations and we can’t schlep fuel up there
27 Jul 02:57 | 103
Science
We're not all about rockets, says NASA: Balloon tech is good enough for economical star scanning
Ahem, hey, any chance LOHAN can hitch a ride?
25 Jul 09:15 | 28
Science
Mysterious supernova is blasting far-flung galaxy with flashes of UV light – and astroboffins don't know why
So many questions, but it's only the second time such a phenomenon has been observed
24 Jul 18:26 | 16
Science
Fresh astro-underwear, anyone? Orbital shenanigans as Progress freighter has last-minute ISS docking wobble
Resupply ship plies space station with food, fuel and fear
24 Jul 12:39 | 18
Science
Russia tested satellite-to-satellite shooter, say UK and USA
Moscow says offending bird is a mere maintenance drone
24 Jul 07:27 | 65
Science
Visa fraud charges: Uncle Sam accuses four Chinese eggheads of covering up their true ties to China's military
Three collared, one in hiding at San Francisco consulate
24 Jul 02:31 | 22
Science
China successfully launches Mars probe that packs an orbiter, lander, rover
State media posts short vid and says Tianwen-1 is doing just fine so let’s just go with that shall we?
23 Jul 06:34 | 31
Pic and video
'First ever' snap emerges of something vaguely resembling our solar system 300 ly away. We'll take 10 tickets
Gassy giants make Jupiter look like an absolute tiddler
23 Jul 05:06 | 32
Science
SpaceX pulls off an incredible catch, netting both halves of its Falcon fairing as they fell Earthwards after latest launch
Fair(ing) play, engineers
22 Jul 20:56 | 38
Science
Mexican cave relics suggest humans were populating the Americas up to 17,000 years earlier than thought
Immigrants crossing Bering land bridge would have found folk already there
22 Jul 17:16 | 20
Science
We've heard of littering but this is ridiculous: Asteroid dumps up to 50 quadrillion kg of space dirt on Earth, Moon
Sadly, missing all of us by 800 million years
22 Jul 07:03 | 22
Science
The volcanoes on Venus aren't dead, say astroboffins, they're merely resting, pining for the planet's lava fjords
We may not know the answer until the 2030s, though
21 Jul 06:09 | 13
In brief
SpaceX to return NASA 'nauts to Earth with a splash
Plus: Minotaurs are from MARS, ANASIS-II awaits, and a cool half billion for Skynet
20 Jul 18:06 | 15
Science
United Arab Emirates’ Mars probe successfully launched and phones home
‘Hope’ mission is first interplanetary effort from Arab world, aims to sniff Martian atmosphere
20 Jul 04:30 | 7
Science
Black hole destroys corona
'Just totally unheard of and really mind-boggling' says MIT assistant prof
18 Jul 08:23 | 129
Science
US military whips out credit card for unmanned low-Earth-orbit outpost prototype (aka a repurposed ISS cargo pod)
Pentagon can't wait to do some 'experimentation and testing' in space
18 Jul 00:54 | 16
