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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?

1 day 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

2 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

3 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

4 days ago

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

6 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

9 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

10 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

12 days 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

17 days 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

17 days ago

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

19 days ago

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

21 days 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

22 days 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

23 days 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

23 days 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

23 days ago

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

24 days 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

26 days 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

26 days 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

29 days 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

1 month 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

1 month 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

1 month 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

1 month 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

1 month 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

1 month 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

1 month 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

1 month ago

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

1 month 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

1 month 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

1 month 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

1 month 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

1 month ago

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

1 month 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

1 month 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

1 month 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

2 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

2 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

2 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

2 months ago

NASA names crew for Artemis III lunar lander rehearsal -- Whether any of the spacecraft will be ready in time for H2 2027 remains unanswered

2 months ago

MIT boffins take electrospray nozzles out of the cleanroom, into the 3D printer -- Who said sub-millimeter, three-layer science juice had to be expensive to squirt?

2 months ago

UK boffin bait lands 18 international researchers -- Global Talent visa program aims to draw in dissatisfied scientists from countries including the US

2 months ago

Serious ISS air leak forces NASA astronauts to temporarily take shelter in Dragon capsule -- Business is back to normal in the orbital station, but one of two newly discovered leaks is still unrepaired

2 months ago

Trump pumps federal funds into coal plants in the name of energy security -- DoE wants to keep 13 coal-fired power generators going at the same time as funding nuclear research

2 months ago

Blue Origin's New Glenn makes a crater-sized dent in Artemis plans -- Explosion wrecks rocket and pad, leaving NASA's lunar ambitions looking less than launch-ready

3 months ago

Swift thinking buys NASA observatory a little more time before re-entry -- Rescue mission might have until the end of summer after science operations halted

3 months ago

NASA to pull an IKEA by dropping tons of plastic, metal, and glass on the Moon -- Astronauts will get to self-assemble lunar base

3 months ago

Bezos rocket fell short after cryogenic leak cut engine thrust -- Frozen hydraulic line blamed for leaving payload in the wrong orbit

3 months ago

Starship shows it can deploy satellites, but Moon mission clock still ticks -- What's a tumbling Super Heavy and a skipped Raptor relight between friends?

3 months ago