Sunday, July 13, 2025 1:56 AM ET
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Lord of the Rings director Peter Jackson backs plan to do a Jurassic Park on extinct birds -- New Zealand's Giant Moa stood over three meters tall but were easy prey2 days ago
Eggheads hold science fair on Capitol Hill to decry funding cuts -- 'The Things We'll Never Know' show highlights what we'll be missing3 days ago
ESA backs five rockets in Launcher Challenge – only some have exploded - Comment - Oodles of euros on offer for not accidentally blowing up stuff - Science - 09 Jul 2025 - | 132 days ago
One Big Brutal Bill: Ex-NASA brass decry Trump's proposed budget cuts -- 'If this is the priority for our tax dollars, we are doomed' -- Science4 days ago
Nuclear reactors smaller than a semi truck to be tested in Idaho -- Forget small modular reactors. Microreactors are the new hotness -- Science5 days ago
Double-detonation supernova could explain why the universe is full of candles -- Lucy in the sky with calcium -- Science5 days ago
'Cyber security' behind decision to end defense satellite sharing of hurricane data -- Official notice confirms delay to cutoff until the end of July. Not to worry, AI modelling's in the wings -- Networks5 days ago
UK puts out tender for space robot to de-orbit satellites - Updated - Got to be a 'clean space superpower' – right, Brits? Science - 06 Jul 2025 - | 522 days ago
Mars was once a desert with intermittent oases, Curiosity data suggests -- New modeling of carbon cycle shows unsteady but habitable history before liquid water disappeared7 days ago
Cold without the compressor: Boffins build better ice box -- A thermoelectric material called CHESS is pretty cool7 days ago
MethaneSAT 'likely not recoverable' after losing contact with Earth -- Methane monitoring satellite managed just over a year in orbit before its sudden demise10 days ago
23andMe's new owner says your DNA is safe this time -- Nonprofit TTAM assures everything is BAU. Whether that makes customers feel better is another matter -- Cyber-crime10 days ago
Trump's One Big Beautiful Bill bankrolls $85M Space Shuttle shuffle -- NASA science might be cut, but cash can be found to move a 'space vehicle' from museum to museum -- Science10 days ago
NASA tests shrinking metals to help it find more exoplanets -- Mysterious 'Alloy 30' gets smaller when heated, which could help stabilize super-sensitive space telescopes -- Science10 days ago
NASA gives Lunar Trailblazer a few more weeks to pick up the phone -- Stricken probe giving US space agency the silent treatment -- Science6 days ago
China successfully tests hypersonic aircraft, maybe at Mach 12 -- America recently extended tech export bans specifically to stop Beijing building this sort of thing -- Science -- 01 Jul 202512 days ago
Google to buy power from fusion energy startup Commonwealth - if they can ever make it work -- Someday, my prince will come -- Science -- 30 Jun 202512 days ago
Northrop Grumman shows SpaceX doesn't have a monopoly on explosions - video - NASA's future Artemis booster sputters during test - Science - 30 Jun 2025 - | 119 days ago
China claims breakthroughs in classical and quantum computers -- Chipmaker Loongson says server CPUs on par with 2021's Ice Lake, as local press tout kit to manage 1,024-qubit systems -- Systems -- 30 Jun 202512 days ago
Security company hired a used car salesman to build a website, and it didn't end well -- On Call -- First came the dodgy lawyer, then the explosively angry HR person, leaving a whistleblower techie to save his career1 day ago
Lovestruck US Air Force worker admits leaking secrets on dating app -- Oh my sweet secret informant lover, what happened in that NATO meeting today?1 day ago
AI coding tools make developers slower but they think they're faster, study finds -- Predicted a 24% boost, but clocked a 19% drag9 hours ago
Intel's leaders have stopped pretending – and it's about time -- Comment -- Not even in the top 10, CEO Lip-Bu Tan reportedly tells employees1 day ago
ICANN fumes as AFRINIC offers no explanation for annulled election -- As allegations fly regarding fraudulent powers of attorney, one member wants to wind up AFRINIC and start again9 hours ago
Now everybody but Citrix agrees that CitrixBleed 2 is under exploit -- Add CISA to the list1 day ago
Users of PostgreSQL in the cloud say the uptime just ain't up to it -- One in five users hit by service failures in the last year, research finds9 hours ago
Telefónica Germany offloads VMware support to Spinnaker due to high renewal costs -- 'Our offer from Broadcom was five times higher than we expected'9 hours ago
British Perl guru Matt Trout dead at 42 -- obituary -- A controversial and polarizing figure, but also widely hailed9 hours ago
Chinese censorship-busters claim Tencent is trying to kill its WeChat archive -- Alleges Singaporean infosec outfit sent feeble legal demands to hosting company, which caved7 hours ago
Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter learns new trick at the age of 19: 'very large rolls' -- Now play dead, like a lot of NASA science programs if the White House gets its way15 days ago
US Department of Defense will stop sending critical hurricane satellite data - updated - No replacement in the wings for info streamed from past their prime rigs, 'termination will be permanent' Science - 27 Jun 2025 - | 7811 days ago
There's no international protocol on what to do if an asteroid strikes Earth -- Or so hear members of Parliament in the UK15 days ago
NICER science not so nice as ISS telescope pauses operations -- Cosmic research on hold while engineers investigate a problematic motor15 days ago
Don't look up: NASA is struggling to execute its planetary defense plan -- Audit finds budget uncertainties and tiny staff make it hard to mount a fight against killer space rocks -- Science18 days ago
Axiom Mission 4 finally set for launch June 25 -- Fifth and final Crew Dragon ready for first flight to the ISS tomorrow -- Science17 days ago
Bezos beams up batch two as Project Kuiper plays catch-up with Starlink -- ULA's Atlas V deploys second load of Amazon's broadband satellites -- Networks18 days ago
World's largest camera shows galaxy in 3,200 megapixel glory as Rubin telescope goes online -- 20TB of galactic shots a day, backed by Microsofties -- Science18 days ago
Eutelsat seeks €1.35B to boost LEO network and take the fight to Starlink -- French satellite operator plans capital raise backed by state and key investors including Bharti22 days ago
ESA's XMM-Newton finds huge filament of missing matter -- Veteran X-ray telescope discovery shows that... phew, current model of the cosmos still works23 days ago
SpaceX's Starship explodes again ... while still on the ground -- Test fire trouble means Musk's rocketeers reset the 'days since Starship had a major anomaly' counter to zero23 days ago
Space manufacturing company Varda gets clearance to launch more uncrewed capsules - UPDATED - Startup has already shown how to make drugs in space - Science - 19 Jun 2025 - | 220 days ago
Nvidia bets on Gates-backed nuclear startup to keep its AI ambitions from melting down -- $650M funding round aims to bring TerraPower's Natrium power plant in Wyoming online by 203024 days ago
Brit space sector struggles to compete with £90K graduate banking salaries -- UK needs skills task force to get slice of $1.8 trillion pie, Lords told24 days ago
Japan set to join the re-usable rocket club after Honda sticks a landing -- France announced its own effort to build re-usable engines on the same day24 days ago
Atlas V glitch delays second Project Kuiper launch -- Amazon's satellite constellation hits another snag as ULA rocket aborts on pad25 days ago
Penn State boffins create silicon-free two-dimensional computer -- Clock speed of 25 kHz means 2D CMOS system won't run Doom quite yet26 days ago
Japan builds near $700M fund to lure foreign academic talent -- For researchers yearning to earn some yen and escape Trump 2.026 days ago
ISS leaks push Axiom Mission 4 launch to no earlier than June 19 -- Evaluation of latest repairs to Russian segment ongoing26 days ago
Researchers claim spoof-proof random number generator breakthrough -- Combining quantum entanglement with hash chains promises randomness which can be relied on28 days ago
UK dumps £2.5 billion into fusion pipe dream that's already cost millions - UPDATED - STEP sucked up £220 million in 2022, and it's still not apparent what that accomplished - Science - 13 Jun 2025 - | 10225 days ago
Falcon 9 leaks keep Axiom private astronaut mission on the ground -- Weather and propulsion system problems conspire to keep astronauts away from the ISS1 month ago
Behold! Humanity has captured our first look at the Sun's South Pole -- Confusingly, the magnetic north and south poles are both down there, where the Solar Orbiter can see them1 month ago
DARPA is testing a device soldiers can swallow to make them less stressed -- Not that kind of edible - this one's electronic1 month ago
NASA to silence Voyager's social media accounts -- All about consolidation as mission mouthpieces archived in pursuit of 'improving the experience' -- Science1 month ago
Tug reaches flaming ship carrying electric cars off Alaska coast -- It's still smoking, but help is on hand -- Science1 month ago
Probability of Asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting the Moon increases -- Scientists improve knowledge by 20% thanks to James Webb Space Telescope data -- Science1 month ago
China orders trial of aged care robots that can cook, clean, and provide emotional support -- Elon Musk suggested this to Beijing years ago -- AI + ML1 month ago
1.5 TB of James Webb Space Telescope data just hit the internet -- Online catalog gives open science access to data from early universe1 month ago
US lawmakers fire back a response to Trump's NASA cuts -- Big expensive Moon rockets = good. Science = yeah, whatever1 month ago
China's asteroid-and-comet hunter probe unfurls a 'solar wing' Asia in brief - Plus: Hitachi turns graybeards into AI agents, Tiananmen anniversary censorship, AWS in Taiwan, and more! Science - 09 Jun 2025 - | 41 month ago
£127M wasted on failed UK nuclear cleanup plan -- Don't worry, only 100 more years of Sellafield nuclear site cleansing to go1 month ago
Trump lifts US supersonic flight ban, says he's 'Making Aviation Great Again' -- It's boom time for the next generation of fast travel1 month ago
Ex-NASA Admin pick blames Musk ties for pulled nomination -- Jared Isaacman reveals how space agency might have looked under his watch1 month ago
Japan's latest Moon landing written off as a failure after ispace probe goes dark - UPDATED - Rangefinder broke during descent so lander didn't slow down - Science - 05 Jun 2025 - | 511 month ago
Ship abandoned off Alaska after electric cars on board catch fire -- Water, water everywhere, but it would just make it worse1 month ago
60 years ago the US took its first walk in space with Gemini 4 -- Four years later, Apollo 11 landed on the Moon1 month ago
Meta just saved an Illinois nuclear plant that was set to be mothballed -- The 20-year deal with Constellation will slake Zuckercorp's thirst for energy to power AI datacenters1 month ago
Engineers bring Psyche's thrusters back online -- Diagnosing a borkage from a million miles away1 month ago
NASA boss-to-be gets spaced as proposed budget cuts detailed -- White House withdraws Isaacman pick amid potential $6B funding drop1 month ago
Odd homage to '2001: A Space Odyssey' sees 'Blue Danube' waltz beamed at Voyager 1 -- Birthdays for ESA (50) and Johann Strauss (200) marked with music of the spheres -- 02 Jun 20251 month ago
American science put on starvation diet -- National Science Foundation FY 2026 budget cut by more than 60% -- 30 May 20251 month ago
Astroboffins analyzed old data and found a candidate dwarf planet in the Oort cloud -- Thank whoever decided to make the Dark Energy Camera Legacy Survey public for this discovery -- 30 May 20251 month ago
China to visit Earth's 'quasi-moon' and bring a chunk of it back home -- Tianwen 2 probe launched Thursday and will also get up close with a comet -- 29 May 20251 month ago
MIT boffins claim liquid sodium battery could one day power aircraft while sucking up CO2 -- Prototype packs triple the energy density of lithium-ion, they claim -- Science1 month ago
SpaceX resets 'Days Since Last Starship Explosion' counter to zero, again -- Musk's rocket co fails to deploy any dummy satellites either -- Science1 month ago
FAA gives SpaceX the nod for Starship Flight 9 but doubles the danger zone - Updated - Aircraft Hazard Area now stretches 1,600 nautical miles - Science - 23 May 2025 - | 251 month ago
Space Force tech mission threatened by staff and funding black hole -- Budget slashing has 'outsized impact' on us, says commander who fears branch not ready for orbital war -- Public Sector1 month ago
China finds a previously unknown microbe on its space station -- Don't panic! It's related to an earthly bug, eats gelatin, not astronauts, and may have adapted to life in space -- Science1 month ago
Microsoft-backed AI out-forecasts hurricane experts without crunching the physics -- LLM trained on decades of weather data claimed to be faster, and cheaper -- European Supercomputing1 month ago
Estimating AI energy usage is fiendishly hard – but this report took a shot -- And it gets even harder when you try to estimate CO2 emissions -- AI + ML1 month ago
NASA was eyeing ISS crew cutbacks before Trump's budget landed -- Will the US President take credit for that one as well? -- Science1 month ago
UK 'extremely dependent' on US for space security -- After 60 years+ cooperation on space and military ops, worrying 'rhetoric' from Team Trump has Brits examining options -- Security1 month ago
Aussie rocket foiled by premature fairing pop - Updated - A fair dinkum disaster - Science - 19 May 2025 - | 271 month ago
DARPA zaps popcorn with laser power beamed 5.3 miles through air -- 800-watt demo breaks distance record for optical energy transmission -- Science1 month ago
When LLMs get personal info they are more persuasive debaters than humans -- Large-scale disinfo campaigns could use this in machines that adapt 'to individual targets.' Are we having fun yet? -- AI + ML1 month ago
No-boom supersonic flights could slide through US skies soon - Feature - As long as you're quiet about it - Science - 17 May 2025 - | 941 month ago
NASA keeps ancient Voyager 1 spacecraft alive with Hail Mary thruster fix -- Failure could've triggered a small explosion1 month ago
Next week's SpaceX Starship test still needs FAA authorization -- Aiming for the stars, but sometimes hitting the Caribbean1 month ago
Intuitive Machines blames dim lighting and dodgy data for second lunar faceplant -- Touchdown with no topple? Company aims for third time lucky1 month ago
Saudi CubeSat gets golden ticket on doomed SLS rocket -- Trump greenlights slot for Riyadh as NASA's pricey booster teeters on the brink -- Science1 month ago
NSF director memo to staff: Don't worry about those job cuts, at least for now -- Court orders halt to layoffs – as folks steering American innovation wonder how long injunction will last -- Science1 month ago
Boffins warn that AI paper mills are swamping science with garbage studies -- Research flags rise in one-dimensional health research fueled by large language models -- AI + ML1 month ago
After more than half a century, the voyage of Kosmos 482 is over -- The Soviet Union aimed for Venus, but hit the Indian Ocean instead -- Science1 month ago
Mars may have vast underground oceans and enough H - 2 - O to make it a water world - Chinese and Australian boffins ask what else could be slowing down seismic waves as they pass through the Red Planet? Science - 13 May 2025 - | 281 month ago
Fusion eggheads claim modeling fix for particle escape - at least in stellarators -- One problem down, x - 1 problems go -- Science2 months ago
CERN boffins turn lead into gold for about a microsecond at unimaginable cost -- So alchemists had the right idea – they just lacked a 27 km particle accelerator -- Science2 months ago
Yolk's on you – eggs break less when they land sideways -- MIT research team proves pop science eggsplanation wrong -- Offbeat2 months ago
US govt's science foundation purges 37 divisions, equity unit among casualties -- DEI another day: Trump priorities bite as $1B in grants vanish, layoffs loom -- Science2 months ago
VIPER rover banished to storage as moonshot plan sputters -- NASA cancels solicitation to get a partner to launch, land, and operate the bot for free -- Science2 months ago
Microsoft wants us to believe AI will crack practical fusion power, driving future AI -- This BS ends at some point, right? -- AI Infrastructure Month2 months ago
As US scientists flee Trump, MP urges Britain to do more to nab them -- One concrete suggestion: Looser visa requirements -- Science2 months ago
NASA JPL boss bails for 'personal reasons' as budget cuts bite - Updated - Laurie Leshin to leave in June - Science - 08 May 2025 - | 162 months ago
ESA feeling weightless and unwanted amid proposed NASA cuts -- Euro space agency insists it's reliable and desirable in face of 'abusive spouse' -- Science2 months ago
NASA jettisons Neo4j database for Memgraph citing costs -- It's not rocket science, it's budgeting -- Databases2 months ago
Microsoft burnishes green cred by paying Swedes to burn biomass and bury CO - 2 - Updated - Schemes like this are just a license to pollute for tech giants, or so critics say - Science - 06 May 2025 - | 122 months ago
EU tells US scientists to dump Trump for a lab in Europe -- Brussels rolls out €500M plan to lure boffins with grants and actual respect for research2 months ago
Soviet probe from 1972 set to return to Earth ... in May 2025 -- Not, it's not the plot of a sci-fi disaster movie2 months ago
Trump wants to fire quarter of NASA budget into black hole – and not in a good way -- Proposed cuts would mean: No Lunar Gateway, Artemis hardware to retire, ISS toast in 20302 months ago
NASA probes propulsion problem in Psyche's thrusters -- Mission to a metal asteroid lacks xenon pressure2 months ago