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Scientific papers become agentic chatbots with new tool -- Why go through the hassle of reading a study for yourself when you can turn it into an AI agent and tell it to reproduce the analysis for you?

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SpaceX aims Starship for orbit on September 22 -- Flight test 14 angling for 10 hours in space and a splashdown in the Pacific

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Rocket Lab calls foul on Blue Origin's $700M Mars comms contract -- Bezos' biz gets familiar paperwork from unfamiliar quarters as rival challenges NASA award

3 days ago

Mars astronauts could live in houses made of yeast and jello, say scientists -- Low-energy 3D printing could turn Martian dirt into sturdy structures

6 days ago

Chinese researchers find egg-cellent way to keep space debris from scrambling craft -- Eggy armor cuts projectile speed in simulations as LEO gets increasingly crowded

8 days ago

Time lords prepare to kick leap seconds into the next millennium -- Risk of an unprecedented negative adjustment prompts plan to let UTC drift by as much as an hour

11 days ago

BepiColombo sheds its ride and starts the final glide to Mercury -- Eight years after launch, Mercury probe and its Mercury Transfer Module consciously uncouple as orbit approaches

10 days ago

NASA wires up Dragonfly and names the landing area -- Titan-bound rotorcraft set for launch in 2028

14 days ago

NASA's Swift shortens orbital lifetime for the sake of science -- Instruments reactivated for a final hurrah before reentry

15 days ago

ESA's Cluster quartet prepares for its final Tango -- Two-year mission bows out after 26 thanks to some heroic engineering

16 days ago

German-Japanese researchers invent electricity-free tech that could cool datacenters -- How come that super-smart AI of yours didn't figure this out, frontier labs?

19 days ago

Cyborg cockroaches may soon deliver life-saving drugs to disaster victims -- Just what you want crawling through the rubble to rescue you: A swarm of remote-controlled cockroaches with syringe-shooting guns strapped to their backs

20 days ago

SpaceX plans to plant $100B Starbase on Louisiana coast -- Plans to break ground in 2027, produce its own propellant, and power a 'self-sustaining' spaceport. All before Starship ships v1.0 to orbit

21 days ago

India's crewed space program will fly this year, after missing 2022 and 2025 targets -- A space station by 2035 is ISRO's new mission

22 days ago

China calls off ambitious ice-hunting moonshot a day before flight -- Chang'e 7 didn't meet unspecified 'launch requirements'

24 days ago

No lift for Swift as NASA abandons orbital rescue -- LINK will attempt a rendezvous, but its failed reaction wheels rule out grabbing and boosting the observatory

28 days ago

ISS spacewalkers discover there's no such thing as a quick antenna job -- Astronauts removed broken hardware but will have to return for more orbital DIY

29 days ago

Capita handed vital role in next pandemic despite civil service pension failures -- Initial £31M deal comes with scope to scale sharply during a major outbreak

1 month ago

How Voyager engineers found two more years in a 50-year-old power budget -- Even two-tenths of a watt matters when your spacecraft launched in 1977

1 month ago

Agents made my retro tech safe to use again and showed their real value as testers of ideas -- Let's all go a bit mad scientist and see if software can validate our wildest theories

1 month ago

Japan kind-of completes its sovereign satnav constellation -- H3 rocket gets the job done after losing a bird last year

1 month ago

South Korean satellite spots SpaceX lunar impact -- Before and after shots of Elon's ejecta snapped by Danuri

1 month ago

Brit boffins boast of beating barriers to building fusion power -- MAST Upgrade installation hit highest pressure ever achieved without the super-hot plasma destabilizing

1 month ago

Uncle Sam aims to help nuclear energy find its sea legs -- IAEA initiative tackles the rules for floating reactors and atom-powered civilian ships

1 month ago

Next step for LINK spacecraft – a software update that won't make things worse. Are you listening, Microsoft? -- Spin slows as orbital rescue mission creeps forward

1 month ago

Blue Origin blames New Glenn fireball on engine oxygen valve -- Small modifications under way as Bezos's rocket biz races to rebuild pad and fly again this year

1 month ago

Voyager 2 cheats the power budget for another year -- Carefully choreographed shutdown gives probe's three remaining instruments more time

1 month ago

NASA puts astronauts' lives in the hands of Tesla's flaky Cybertruck -- Muskmobiles subject to 11 recalls get the launchpad rescue mission currently handled by vehicles that can survive land mine blasts

1 month ago

NASA boss balks at billion-dollar estimate for recycled Moon rover -- Turning two Mars testbeds into one lunar explorer may prove anything but cheap

1 month ago

NASA's Swift rescue slips to late August as LINK battles its spin -- Engineers make progress in stabilizing mission but push back the rendezvous date

1 month ago

Curiosity rover spots field of giant honeycomb on Mars – but no giant space bees -- Posisbly cracked mud, therefore more evidence Red Planet was once less horrible

1 month ago

NASA Swift rescue mission spins into trouble during commissioning -- Two reaction wheels are out and comms sporadic as controllers work to stabilize LINK

1 month ago

Deep space dishes dodge devastation from Spanish wildfires -- NASA reports some cable damage near Madrid as its antennas and ESA's Cebreros station emerge largely intact

1 month ago

Signals are grim for Jodrell Bank Observatory after UK science funding decision -- Support for e-MERLIN ends 2028 unless the historic radio astronomy center can find another source of cash

1 month ago

SpaceX just about nails Starship test flight 13 -- Super Heavy booster had a super heavy landing, but other reusability tech did the trick

1 month ago

So, how are those commercial replacements working out for you, NASA?

1 month ago

SpaceX to try its luck again with Starship Flight 13 after engines and weather say no -- Replacement Raptors head for liftoff without a static fire test

1 month ago

Astronomers spot exomoon candidate that's almost as massive as Jupiter -- Object orbits a brown dwarf, which circles another star, confusing the cosmic taxonomy

1 month ago

And would have lasted longer if some code hadn't trampled on places it shouldn't

1 month ago

SpaceX Starship Flight Test 13 takes issue with the 'flight' bit -- Engine replacement needed after launchpad abort

2 months ago

NASA's Artemis III will need three rockets to do the job Apollo did with one -- Blue Origin and SpaceX get their turn to prove they can dock, loiter, and not blow up the launch pad

2 months ago

AI power binge delivers best half since 2022 for climate tech venture funding -- Low-carbon projects reap accidental windfall as billions chase compute infrastructure

2 months ago

Sun sets on Vulcan Centaur as NASA moves SunRISE to SpaceX Falcon Heavy -- Solar observatory awaits a new launch date after its original ride hit booster trouble

2 months ago

India's crewed space mission is ready for splashdown, but not launch -- Gaganyaan was supposed to fly in 2022 and make the country only the fourth to put people into orbit

2 months ago

Astronomers find sugar near the creamy center of the Milky Way (no caramel, though) -- First interstellar monosaccharide suggests some of life's ingredients may be scattered across the galaxy

2 months ago

Lucky 13: SpaceX aims for July 16 Starship flight test -- Hopefully, the rocket won't go in the same direction as the company's share price

2 months ago

Scientist models way to make sure no one's violating the ban on nuclear weapons in space -- There is a long-standing international treaty in place but we can't be the only ones side-eyeing world's current crop of politicos

2 months ago

New Horizons Pluto probe just woke itself up after 321 days of hibernation -- Good luck getting your PC to do that after lunch

2 months ago

Ex-NASA boss points out small flaw in Moon landing plan: No lander -- Jim Bridenstine says Artemis 'extraordinarily complicated' compared to the days of Apollo and the Saturn V

2 months ago

NASA calls time on CAPSTONE after four years of lunar orbit lessons -- Advanced Space's privately owned probe will keep flying, but the agency's role is over

2 months ago

Boffins bet on quantum computers, AI supers to solve fusion fuel dilemma -- Department of Energy, Cleveland Clinic, and IBM simulate a soup of molten salts and techno babble in pursuit of tritium

2 months ago

Japan's asteroid sample retriever rapidly buzzes remote space rock -- Zipped just 800m past Asteroid Torifune as part of very extended mission - and sent back a pic, too

2 months ago

NASA says it will isolate volunteers from the outside world for a year -- There might also be a downside

2 months ago

An artificial cell with a full lifecycle has been created for the first time -- SpudCell can feed, divide, and even outcompete its siblings. It's not truly alive, its creator tells us, but it could still transform the bioengineering world

2 months ago

Meta's non-surgical mind reading machine improves on prior projects, but still isn't great -- 61% word accuracy is progress, but the system still relies on users typing and can't yet support real-time communication. Implanted BCIs remain well ahead

2 months ago

Large Hadron Collider goes offline to make room for its enhanced successor -- The High-Luminosity LHC will be mostly the same machine, but it'll deliver 10 times the luminosity and just as little chance of destroying the universe - sorry, conspiracy theorists

2 months ago

Boffins build a better pixel capable of emitting and receiving light -- Tastes great. Less filling. It's a floor wax. It's a dessert topping. Light shaping. Light sending. Why not both?

2 months ago

Trump-shuttered climate change site back online in nonprofit hands -- Remove something from the internet? You can't stop the (climate change) signal, Mal

2 months ago

They've read the scroll thing! AI helps decipher ancient document charred by Vesuvius -- 'Having certainly strained ourselves to the utmost through research and learning, we will no longer be inferior to them,' reads a scroll virtually unwrapped with the help of AI

2 months ago

Perseverance rover finds even more signs of extinct life on Mars -- Scientists remain skeptical, plead for someone to bring the rocks home

2 months ago

Salyut 5 at 50: The Soviet space station that sickened one crew and nearly drowned another -- The last inhabited Almaz outpost was short-lived, secretive, and remarkably accident-prone

2 months ago

Humanity trashed Earth orbit – next stop the Moon -- Neuraspace CEO floats lunar scrapyards as a cleaner way to handle hardware left behind

2 months ago

2,000 retired Google Pixel phones get a second life as a private cloud -- You might say the system packs two kilapixels of compute

2 months ago

Midjourney pivots from AI image generation to body scanning medical spa where patients bathe in 'golden light' -- The underlying technology is real...and borrowed from a partner the company failed to mention

2 months ago

NASA payload to ride commercial Mars orbiter from rocket biz yet to reach orbit -- Aeolus mission promises better Martian weather models, assuming Relativity Space can get its Terran R off the ground

2 months ago

Neuromorphic computing may one day offer AI a power-saving brainwave -- Hybrid systems could bring efficiency gains at the edge, but conventional infrastructure isn't going anywhere fast

2 months ago

AI and brain-computer interface allow speechless ALS patient to work a full-time job -- The hardware isn't new, but a UC Davis research team's machine learning-powered method of translating brain activity in an ALS patient into sentences with 92% accuracy is

3 months ago

NASA said nyet to Roscosmos plan to cut into leaky ISS segment -- Crew sheltered in SpaceX Dragon as aging Zvezda segment's cracks continue to test orbital nerve

3 months ago

NASA management wants a word and won't say why -- A mystery calendar event is certainly one way to find out about being selected for the Artemis III crew

3 months ago

Race against re-entry: Swift's would-be saviour straps itself to a rocket -- Katalyst's LINK spacecraft is go for integration, with a launch from Kwajalein expected within weeks

3 months ago