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Mars rover hits rocky snag with power tool -- All driller, no filler

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More missions, less money, higher risk: NASA's back to the '90s playbook -- Faster, better, cheaper is back and history suggests you can't get all three at the same time

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Artemis III aims for 'late 2027' for Earth orbit demonstration -- SpaceX and Blue Origin will absolutely be ready in time. Definitely

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SpaceX rocket set for unintentional Moon landing – well, a piece of it anyway -- But unlike most junkers, it'll be traveling faster than the speed of sound, claims astronomy software dev

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NASA boss: make Pluto a planet again -- Despite looming science cuts, Isaacman finds resources to poke the planetary hornet nest

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Trump admin pays wind developers to quit, back fossil fuel projects -- DoI offers up to $885M if they abandon offshore wind projects

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Despite proposed science cuts, NASA boss says 'We haven't canceled anything yet' -- That 'yet' is sure doing a lot of heavy lifting if the budget for science is slashed

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SpaceX dusts off Falcon Heavy for first flight in 18 months -- Side boosters to make simultaneous touchdown while center core takes one for the team

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Solid-state batteries hold more juice, but keep cracking up. Now researchers know why -- Two teams, similar diagnosis: Ceramic electrolytes still refusing to cooperate

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Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope trumps Trump cuts, is launch-ready ahead of schedule -- Revolutionary telescope aiming for space after multiple near death experiences

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NASA reckons the Artemis II heat shield performed like a champ -- Good news for future missions as initial findings agree with agency's design decision

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FAA grounds Blue Origin's New Glenn as it probes missed satellite delivery 'mishap' -- One of two second stage engines misbehaved, administration must sign off report before flights resume

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NASA Inspector fears new spacesuits won't be ready for Moon landing -- Dud contracts, proprietary designs, and zero-experience supplier make for quite the mess

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You too can build a nuclear battery from junk you have lying around the house -- It won't provide much juice, but its creator calls it a 'nanowatt nuclear power plant'

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Blue Origin nails the landing, but puts the payload satellite in the wrong orbit -- Wouldn't be the first time a Jeff Bezos company left a package in the wrong place

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NASA working on 'Big Bang' upgrade to keep the Voyagers alive for longer -- Tests scheduled for May can't come soon enough after VGER 1 power glitch led to instrument shutdown

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NASA gets the ball rolling on its part in Europe's jinxed Mars rover mission -- Rosalind Franklin moving again, though another budget cut looms

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Don't let the bot play doctor! AI gets early diagnoses wrong 80% of the time -- 'LLMs should not be trusted for patient-facing diagnostic reasoning,' boffins advise

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Fission impossible: Uncle Sam wants nuclear reactors in space by 2031 -- Some on the Moon's surface, some in orbit. How does 5 years sound? Do-able, right nerds?

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Britain's atomic brain trust gives itself till 2030 to unpick fusion challenges -- Armed with £2.5B, UKAEA sets out technical hurdles it wants cracked by end of decade

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Physicist reckons two-button calculator can do all elementary math -- Paper says a single binary operator could replace a lot of scientific heavy lifting

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NASA insiders oddly relaxed about latest budget threats -- Veterans think Congress may swat cuts again, but uncertainty could still do lasting damage

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Japanese rocket part came unglued, leading to mission failure -- Tiny variation in temperature weakened a component and when a critical moment arrived, that mattered

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Here's how to watch the Artemis II splashdown -- Crew went farther from Earth than any humans we know about, now they're coming back!

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DARPA looking for battery that could power a laptop for months -- Drawback: it's radioactive

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Talk ain't cheap: DARPA offers grants for new AI-to-AI communication protocol -- MATHBAC program wants better machine-to-machine chatter for scientific discovery

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Artemis II snaps eclipse, Earthset shots on first crewed lunar flyby since Apollo -- Turns out deep space still looks better without AI helping

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White House seeks deep NASA cuts as Artemis II breaks spaceflight record -- 'Proposal resurrects an existential threat to US leadership in space science and exploration'

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Artemis II blasts off on first crewed lunar mission since Apollo -- And of course the Orion toilet malfunctioned

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Renewables reached nearly 50% of global electricity capacity last year -- Cool, but fossil-fuel additions and AI-era power demand still muddy the climate math

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Virgin Galactic reopens ticket sales with out-of-this-world price hikes -- Flights to resume in 2026 before space tourism biz runs out of cash

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Starlink sprays debris into orbit following another satellite 'anomaly' -- No risk to ISS or Artemis, but not ideal for operator peace of mind

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Mars coughs up another maybe-life clue in the form of nickel compounds -- Perseverance found the minerals in an ancient river channel, but researchers say geology may still beat biology

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Artemis II countdown begins as NASA prepares for crewed Moon flyby -- Orion's four astronauts edge toward liftoff for humanity's first lunar voyage in more than 50 years

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Bees and hummingbirds aren't just buzzing – they're sipping trace booze -- Alcohol turns up in most floral nectar, meaning pollinators are drinking tiny cocktails without ever getting drunk

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Commercial space pleads with NASA to stop moving the goalposts in orbit -- Private station hopefuls say ISS rethink is shaking confidence

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Trump remembers to appoint science panel, fills it mostly with tech bros -- Plus one actual physicist

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NASA's lunar reboot is long on ambition, short on answers -- Exactly how will astronauts get to and from that moonbase?

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Chemists concoct nail polish that lets clawed humans use touch screens -- They still look goofy, but at least you might be able to use 'em like a stylus

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Goodbye, Lunar Gateway: NASA ditches Moon station for Moon base -- NASA boss Jared Isaacman has no intention of letting this setback delay the Artemis program, apparently

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NASA sets 'impossible' ground rules for relocation of 'flown space vehicle' -- Draft Request for Proposals says you can move shuttle orbiter but you cannot break it

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When it comes to catastrophic space weather, the UK is holding a cocktail umbrella -- National Audit Office warns government has little idea of how to respond in the event of a major solar storm

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CERN eggheads burn AI into silicon to stem data deluge -- The operating system of the universe isn't going to debug itself

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Turns out your coffee addiction may be doing your brain a favor -- Decades of data suggest people who stick to a couple of brews fare better in terms of gray matter

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Starship may chauffeur Orion to the Moon, as NASA mulls ditching SLS after Artemis V -- SpaceX's still-not-quite-orbital rocket tapped as lunar taxi. Musk's minicab anyone?

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Fiber on the surface of the moon could help detect moonquakes -- Better than seismometers?

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Artemis II takes a rain check on return to launch pad as NASA fixes loose wire -- Still aiming for April 1 if the weather plays ball

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In the name of science: Boffins build fart-tracking undies -- A wearable sensor designed to monitor intestinal gas suggests the average person may let rip around 32 times a day

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Everything needed to make DNA and RNA found in asteroid sample -- Results from Ryugu suggest the the Solar System produced the building blocks of life

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Digital fruit fly brain model walks and cleans its feelers -- Early demo hints at a future sci-fi writers warned us about

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Inside the datacenter where the day starts with topping up cerebrospinal fluid -- Biological computing is messy and gassy – It's now cloudy, too

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NASA pencils in fresh Artemis II Moon launch attempt for April 1 -- 'When we tank the vehicle ... I would like it to be on a day that we could actually launch'

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NASA probe checks out years early because this solar cycle is a real drag -- Van Allen spacecraft re-enters over the Pacific with 1 in 4,200 chance of causing injury

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Britain turns up the heat on homegrown ceramics for hypersonic missiles -- DSTL bets £350K the UK can cook up its own exotic materials

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Ig Nobel Prize flees US for Switzerland after 35 years over safety concerns -- This is not satire, but we wish it was

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Musk admits Starship V3 launch date has slipped as Super Heavy booster rolls into place -- Launch predictions continue to be optimistic as 2027 and Artemis III near

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SETI admits its search for alien life may be too narrowly focussed -- Solar winds near aliens' homes – and ours – might be blowing away signs of alien technosignatures by broadening signals

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Amazon tells FCC to bin SpaceX's million-satellite datacenter dream -- Calls Musk's orbital plans "speculative" despite Bezos touting orbiting compute

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China browses lunar landing spots in race to land on Moon -- Not a US flag in sight

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NASA abandons delayed SLS upper stage for ULA's Centaur V instead -- Vulcan rocket hardware drafted in amid Artemis reshuffle but still no word on lander

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Britain spends £180M to work out what time it is -- Atomic clocks will tell you when your Waymo is late

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NASA's asteroid defence mission slowed targets by 1.7 inches per hour -- You gotta start somewhere, and in this case astroboffins would have been nowhere without help from intrepid volunteers

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Bundle of human neurons hooked to silicon learns to stumble through Doom -- What hath science wrought?

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60 YEARS SINCE HUMANITY TOUCHED THE SURFACE OF ANOTHER PLANET -- Remembering the day the Venera 3 impacted Venus

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Asteroid 2024 YR4 won't smack Moon in 2032, boffins confirm -- Humanity and its neighbor safe from this menace at least

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TerraPower gets permission to build, not operate, sodium-cooled nuclear reactor -- Don't flip the switch until the NRC says you can, okay?

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Congress puts the ISS on life support until 2032, orders Moon base plan -- Authorization Act seeks to keep lights on until commercial stations are ready

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Solar superstorm gave ESA's Mars orbiters a handy science opportunity -- Veteran spacecraft overcome computer glitches as atmosphere 'flooded by electrons'

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CERN sends AI-trained robot mice scurrying through LHC beam pipes -- Bots hunt deformed RF contacts inside the collider's 27 km vacuum tubes

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AI doctor's assistant is easily swayed to change prescriptions, give bad medical advice -- Spread false medical info, supersize drug orders, and more!

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