NASA gives IXPE observatory the Ctrl-Alt-Del treatment to make it talk sense Hardware misbehaving in orbit? Time for a reset on the avionics Science27 Mar 2024 | 4
NASA to shoot rockets at April solar eclipse to see how it messes with the atmosphere Boffins hope to better understand how phenomena disrupt comms tech in order to prevent future outages Networks27 Mar 2024 |
Belgian beer study acquires taste for machine learning Researchers reckon results could improve recipe development for food and beverages AI + ML27 Mar 2024 | 8
Intricate mission to de-ice a space telescope is go: Euclid's 'eye' is clear 100 minutes of heating to melt a frozen heart... 1.5 million kilometers away from Earth Science26 Mar 2024 | 17
World's first Neuralink patient enjoying online chess, long Civ 6 sessions While excited by the implant, Noland Arbaugh says it's not perfect and there's still work to be done Science21 Mar 2024 | 12
Euclid space telescope needs de-icing Warm water and a scraper not an option when you're 1.5 million kilometers from home Science20 Mar 2024 | 12
Swift enters safe mode over gyro issue while NASA preps patch to shake it off Gamma-ray burst watcher almost two decades past use-by date Science19 Mar 2024 | 13
Caffeine makes fuel cells more efficient, cuts cost of energy storage Boffins show less platinum may be needed for long-lived power source Science14 Mar 2024 | 58
Climate change means beer made from sewer water, says North Carolina brewery Water? Like from the toilet? Offbeat11 Mar 2024 | 79
Juno fly-by detects lower levels of oxygen on Europa than expected Less abundant molecular oxygen narrow chances of life being found on Jupiter's icy moon Science05 Mar 2024 | 21
New solvent might end winter charging blues for EV owners Subzero temperatures and batteries don't mix – but there may be a solution Science28 Feb 2024 | 55
Varda capsule proves you don't need astronauts for gravity-defying science Space factory startup celebrates successful re-entry Science23 Feb 2024 | 7
Intuitive Machines' Odysseus prepares for Moon landing Updated It slides into orbit. Now comes (another) hard part Science22 Feb 2024 | 8
Chunks of deorbiting ESA satellite are expected to reach the ground Danger to humans? Less than '1 in 100 billion', says agency Science19 Feb 2024 | 36
Space nukes: The unbelievably bad idea that's exactly that ... unbelievable Opinion Like the reality, the concept is blown up out of all proportion. So who launched it this time around? Science19 Feb 2024 | 297
Cutting-edge robot space surgeon makes first incision in Zero-G Updated One giant leap for astronaut medicine Science16 Feb 2024 | 12
Someone had to say it: Scientists propose AI apocalypse kill switches Better visibility and performance caps would be good for regulation too AI + ML16 Feb 2024 | 62
NASA extinguishes experiment about setting things on fire in space Saffire concludes after eight years of flaming good times Science16 Feb 2024 | 9
Intuitive Machines IM-1 heading for Moon on SpaceX rocket Taking Disaster Recovery as a Service to lunar extremes Science15 Feb 2024 | 3
Saturnian moon Mimas: Crunchy on the outside, sub-surface ocean on the inside Data from Cassini suggests hidden depths beneath crater-ridden body Science08 Feb 2024 | 8
Hundreds of workers to space out from NASA's JPL amid budget black hole Launch windows do not respect political squabbling Science07 Feb 2024 | 26
CERN seeks €20B to build a bigger, faster, particle accelerator The Future Circular Collider, if built, will be three times the size of the LHC Science06 Feb 2024 | 102
US research body sues chip tech company Japan’s government plans to buy The stakes are high because the disputed items - photoresists – are essential for EUV lithography Legal06 Feb 2024 | 4
Scientists don thinking caps in wearable tech breakthrough Building semiconductors into fabrics often hits a snag, which a new fiber pulling technique seeks to avoid Science01 Feb 2024 | 14
Add bacteria to the list of things that can run Doom Frame rate would be even worse than the original, though. MUCH worse Bootnotes31 Jan 2024 | 28
Square Kilometre Array prototype 'scope achieves first light SKAMPI was made in China, driven by Docker, located in South Africa, and aimed at the stars The Reg in Space30 Jan 2024 | 5
The pen is mightier than the keyboard for turbocharging your noggin Brain research could help find the right mix between handwriting and new technologies, researchers claim Science28 Jan 2024 | 31
Tiny asteroid's earthly fireworks predicted with pinpoint accuracy by NASA Last year it was over France. This year it was over Germany. Where will the rocks strike next? Science25 Jan 2024 | 12
Peregrine bows out with a bang as SLIM aims for Moon's rocky runway Japanese lunar lander to attempt a soft touchdown Science18 Jan 2024 | 8
Can solar power be beamed down from space? Yes. Is it commercially viable? Not yet Caltech looks back on the highs and lows of the SSPD-1 project Science17 Jan 2024 | 89
Crippled Peregrine lunar lander set for fiery return to Earth in matter of days Doing science and still alive ... but not for long Science15 Jan 2024 | 12
AI and robots join forces to cook up proteins faster Applications across chemistry, energy, and medicine await human-free acceleration Science15 Jan 2024 | 3
Your pacemaker should be running open source software Opinion Using embedded medical technology, such as a pacemaker, defibrillator, or insulin pump? What's running inside is a complete mystery OSes12 Jan 2024 | 52
Silicon Valley weirdo's quest to dodge death – yours for $333 a month Wonder when he's going to give that 28-year-old their skin back Bootnotes11 Jan 2024 | 87
Office gossips beware – chitchat could choke your career chances Study of workplace blabbermouths reveals the consequences Offbeat11 Jan 2024 | 54
AI flips the script on fingerprint lore – maybe they're not so unique after all Discovery could have implications for the field of forensics AI + ML11 Jan 2024 | 54
Cutting-edge microscopy reveals bottled water has 'up to 100 times' more bits of plastic than previously feared Gulp! Science10 Jan 2024 | 46
First functional graphene semiconductor could power future chips This one time at band gap... we managed to use wonder stuff as an electronic material for semiconducting Systems09 Jan 2024 | 12
NASA science bound for Moon after successful Vulcan Centaur launch Your turn, Starship Science08 Jan 2024 | 13
Road to Removal: A blueprint for yanking billions of tons of CO2 out of our atmosphere It'll also cost billions, but perhaps a price worth paying? Science07 Jan 2024 | 156
Brain boffins think they've found the data format we use to store images as memories No, you aren't special - we're probably all visual learners Science02 Jan 2024 | 59
US fusion energy dreams edge closer to reality, Congress permitting Yields could double next year – provided the budget is passed Science02 Jan 2024 | 27
Scientists mull Solar Radiation Management – a potential climate-change stop-gap In-depth As we argue over freeing ourselves from fossil fuels, can SRM buy us time to develop green energy we need? Science30 Dec 2023 | 243
30 years and still sunbathing: SOHO probe continues work as a space weatherman Space Extenders II From the cutting edge of physics research to a valuable monitoring tool Science26 Dec 2023 | 15
ESA's Mars Express continues to avoid retirement home Space Extenders II Another chunk of science, another mission extension. But probe is running on fumes Science24 Dec 2023 | 34
NASA makes purrrr-fect deep space transmission of cat vid Tabby footage crosses millions of miles and was still faster than most folks' home broadband Networks20 Dec 2023 | 18
Danish techies claim they can predict your next move (and your last) Life's a vector, then you die Science20 Dec 2023 | 29
Halley's Comet has begun its long trek back toward Earth Mark your diary for 2061 – if you're over the disappointment of 1986's fuzzy blob Science18 Dec 2023 | 24
Missing tomatoes ketchup with ISS crew after almost a year lost in space Sadly not saucy enough in this state for return trip to Earth Science15 Dec 2023 | 32
NASA engineers scratch heads as Voyager 1 starts spouting cosmic gibberish Science and telemetry data hit by latest issue Science14 Dec 2023 | 164
Solar wind gave Mars a breather and its magnetosphere inflated NASA's long-lived MAVEN probe was there taking notes Science13 Dec 2023 | 8
Uncle Sam plows $42M into nurturing fusion breakthrough Experimerntal milestone needs work before it can be considered a candidate for power generation Science08 Dec 2023 | 27
Chinese boffins pitch quadcopter for Mars sample return mission In the race for the Red Planet, NASA is falling behind Science07 Dec 2023 | 14
'Wobbly spacetime' is latest stab at unifying physics Grudge match between quantum mechanics and general relativity attracts new effort to find harmony Science06 Dec 2023 | 81
UK immigration rules hit science just as it rejoins €100B Horizon program Salary regs could limit the hiring of postdocs from abroad Science05 Dec 2023 | 143
Tiny bits of space junk reveal their wherabouts when they collide, boffins hope It's hard to see, but when they rendezvous in orbit sparks ignite Science05 Dec 2023 | 7
Six pack of sub-Neptune exoplanets hang tight around nearby star Their resonant orbits have remained unchanged for some 4 billion years Science30 Nov 2023 | 8
AI offers some novel crystal materials that could form future chips, batteries, more What's more, a robot managed to cook some of them up. So, y'know, it might not be entirely science fiction AI + ML30 Nov 2023 | 13
Videoconferencing fatigue is real, study finds Your brain and heart do not enjoy Zooming, Teamsing, or Webexing Personal Tech27 Nov 2023 | 34
Long-term space missions may make liftoff harder for male astronauts Study suggests galactic cosmic radiation could damage below-the-belt tissues Bootnotes23 Nov 2023 | 35
Boffins claim invention of rechargable, biodegradable, supercapacitor drug pump Lab rats absorb widget after getting their dose Science21 Nov 2023 | 16