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Britain's AI gold rush hits a wall – not enough electricity -- Energy secretary Miliband promises renewable utopia for green and pleasant land... filled with datacenters -- On-Prem2 days ago
Axiom Space ejects CEO after six months, installs NASA veteran as replacement - Updated - Jonathan Cirtain at the helm as revolving door swings for private corp - Science - 16 Oct 2025 - | 820 hours ago
SpaceX's Starship: Two down, Mons Huygens to climb -- Comment -- Musk's moonshot still missing orbit, refueling, landing3 days ago
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory: Another 550 employees set to leave the building -- US government shutdown nothing to do with action as space veteran calls move 'an alarming time' for science5 days ago
SpaceX limbers up for Starship flight 11 as launch pad faces retirement -- Updated -- Another flawless demonstration or unplanned explosion await4 days ago
Weird ideas welcome: VC fund looking to make science fiction factual -- Nuclear power is getting hot, but don't hold your breath for everlasting batteries8 days ago
50 years in deep space, and Voyager still can't escape budget gravity -- Probes face 26% funding cut as NASA grapples with shutdown chaos9 days ago
Space Shuttle war of words takes off as senator blasts 'woke Smithsonian' Exclusive - Houston, we have a custody battle - Science - 09 Oct 2025 - | 1141 day ago
Mars' powerful whirlwinds blow dust everywhere, could affect future missions -- Keeping tabs on Martian dust devils with bonus data from ESA's veteran orbiters10 days ago
Texas senators cry foul over Smithsonian's pricey Space Shuttle shuffle -- Can be shifted for a tenth of the price AND the wings don't have to come off – allegedly11 days ago
How chatbots are coaching vulnerable users into crisis - Feature - From homework helper to psychological hazard in 300 hours of sycophantic validation - AI + ML - 08 Oct 2025 - | 2110 days ago
Trio who made foundational quantum computing discovery bag Nobel physics prize -- Studies at UC Berkeley in the 1980s paved the way for quantum computing and cryptography12 days ago
Starlink is burning up one or two satellites a day in Earth's atmosphere -- Kessler syndrome is bad; atmospheric incineration may be worse, says astrophysicist Jonathan McDowell12 days ago
Only way to move Space Shuttle Discovery is to chop it into pieces, White House told -- Smithsonian warns that dismantling orbiter for relocation is history in the wrecking17 days ago
Avio bags €40M ESA contract for reusable rocket stage, but don't hold your breath -- Industry insiders whisper more about posturing than practical progress17 days ago
Square Kilometre Array is so sensitive, its datacenter needs two Faraday cages to stop RF leaks -- IAC 2025 -- Stray signals are a no-no when you're trying to tune into the stars -- On-Prem17 days ago
SpaceX rockets toward next Starship launch, set for October 13 -- Once more with feeling...17 days ago
Away from Oktoberfest, Munich's museums also serve science on tap -- Geek's Guide -- Because sometimes you need a V2 rocket with your schnitzel -- Geek's Guide18 days ago
SAP users still wrestling with business case for S/4HANA -- A decade later, ERP giant struggles to convince legacy customers to upgrade1 day ago
Meta convinces Blue Owl to cut $30B check for its Hyperion AI super cluster -- Cleverly concocked deal keeps debt off Social Media empire's books1 day ago
Have I Been Pwned logs 17.6M victims in Prosper breach -- P2P lending platform says it could not verify the claims at present1 day ago
Labor unions sue Trump administration over social media surveillance - Updated - Sharing views POTUS doesn't like? Say goodbye to that visa, First Amendment be damned6 hours ago
Carmakers fear chip crunch as Dutch sanctions hit Nexperia -- Beijing blocks exports after Netherlands imposes special measures on Chinese-owned chipmaker1 day ago
Turns out the end of Windows 10 is good for something: The PC refresh cycle -- Operating system's D-day resucitates flatlining computer sector15 hours ago
Amazon spills plan to nuke Washington...with X-Energy mini-reactors -- Now they just need to get regulatory approval6 hours ago
Boris Johnson confesses: He's fallen for ChatGPT -- As OpenAI allows chatbot to spout erotic content, former British prime minister makes true feelings known6 hours ago
Microsoft parks Landsat and Sentinel satellite data in Azure's orbit -- NASA's Earth-watching archives find new home in Redmond's cloud, complete with Copilot hype6 hours ago
Hyperscalers try to beat the heat with larger racks, more air flow -- Most datacenters to ditch 19-inch standard for 21-inch OCP kit by 20306 hours ago
Cyborg dreams move closer to reality with low-power artificial neuron -- UMass Amherst research promises better bioelectronic communication18 days ago
Second time unlucky for Firefly as an Alpha rocket stage explodes -- Company faces a setback on the test stand18 days ago
NASA's deep-space laser comms demo has left the chat -- DSOC hit record speeds beaming data from Psyche before going dark19 days ago
Engineers successfully reboost International Space Station after early Dragon abort -- If at first you don't succeed, you might be SpaceX20 days ago
NASA administrator says US should have 'village' on Moon in a decade - IAC 2025 - The Register is at the world's biggest space gabfest and just heard the world's top 6 space agency leaders speak - Science - 29 Sep 2025 - | 3514 days ago
NASA and Sierra Space clip Dream Chaser's ISS wings -- Aptly named spacecraft might never make it to the orbital outpost after all -- Science22 days ago
SpaceX Dragon huffs, puffs... and fizzles out as NASA aborts ISS boost -- Meanwhile, Katalyst wins $30M contract to stop Swift telescope falling out of the sky -- Science23 days ago
Tree-hugging hippie datacenter runs entirely on green hydrogen and wastes zero water -- Lambda's latest innovation with bit barn builder ECL only supports a handful of Nvidia racks, but it's a start -- Systems24 days ago
Boffins fool a self-driving car by putting mirrors on traffic cones -- 21st century tech confused by $100 of shiny stuff -- AI + ML25 days ago
NASA panel fears a Starship lunar touchdown is more fantasy than flight plan -- Safety watchdog doubts SpaceX can ready HLS in time for 2027 Artemis mission -- Science25 days ago
Brit scientists over the Moon after growing tea in lunar soil -- It's one small sip for man... -- Science25 days ago
Turns out Hayabusa2's next asteroid target isn't much bigger than the probe itself -- It's also spinning twice as fast than thought, making a tricky rendezvous even trickier -- Science25 days ago
Court lets NSF keep swinging axe at $1B in research grants -- Judge rules there's no quick fix for 1,700+ axed grants, leaving labs scrambling for cash while the lawsuit plays out1 month ago
Humanity now has zero active robots at Venus as Japan ends 15-year 'Dawn' mission -- Thanks for the memories, Akatsuki1 month ago
AI can now design functional viruses – not the computer kind, either -- Inject this synthetic phage into E. coli and it kills better than the real thing1 month ago
Super-sized space freighter delayed on way to ISS, leaving snacks in jeopardy -- Crew will have to wait a little longer for science supplies, spares, and 'fun food'1 month ago
Li-ion roars can predict early battery failure, MIT boffins say -- Batteries emit distinct acoustic signatures depending on how they're failing – a bit like people, really -- Science1 month ago
Small nuke reactors are really coming online by next year, US energy secretary insists -- That's optimistic based on progress so far -- Science1 month ago
Smart-blooded super soldiers: Coming soon from DARPA -- We remind the world yet again that science fiction is usually a warning, not an aspiration -- Science1 month ago
Starlink outage knocks tens of thousands offline worldwide -- Downdetector logged 40,000 reports before service flickered back -- Networks1 month ago
Curious connections: Voyager probes and Sinclair ZX Spectrum - Opinion - There's more than warm power supplies and wonky capacitors - Science - 15 Sep 2025 - | 5329 days ago
Boffins invent DNA tape that could pack 375 petabytes into an LTO cart -- But it reads at about the speed of punch cards -- Storage1 month ago
Silent magnetosphere spacecraft starts talking to controllers again - Half of TRACERS satellite duo tripped up by power problems - Science - 12 Sep 2025 - |1 month ago
US House Appropriations Committee saves NASA budget, Prez holds the veto pen -- Mars Sample Return mission still for the chop -- Science1 month ago
US tosses $134M pocket change at fusion pipe dream -- That won't even warm the plasma -- Science1 month ago
NASA bars Chinese citizens from its facilities, networks, even Zoom calls -- You don't need to be a rocket scientist to figure out the reasons why -- Security1 month ago
NASA finds best evidence of life on Mars so far -- The usual cadre of scientists who disproved previous findings are stumped -- Science1 month ago
After nearly half a century in deep space, every ping from Voyager 1 is a bonus -- Powered by plutonium, running on pure stubbornness -- Science1 month ago
Microsoft doing light work with Analog Optical Computer prototype -- Good for solving finance and clinical problems... and AI -- Personal Tech1 month ago
SpaceX Dragon gives International Space Station a kick up the orbit -- But what goes up will also have to come down -- Science1 month ago
Ex-NASA chief: China likely to land humans on Moon before Uncle Sam does again -- Overly complex architecture featuring SpaceX's Starship to blame -- Science1 month ago
UK DARPA clone spared savings squeeze while Treasury raided government -- ARIA spent £16.5M, has £600M in the tank, and no one asked for it back -- Science1 month ago
Space Command gets Trumped out of Colorado, voting conspiracy cited -- New Alabama HQ to be named the Donald J. Trump Space Command Center, says local Senator1 month ago
White House nixes NASA unions amid budget uncertainty -- Executive order adds space agency to National Security Exclusions, voiding collective bargaining rights for staff1 month ago
Larry Ellison bankrolling £118M AI vaccine research at Oxford University -- Oracle billionaire funds project to predict immunity and develop treatments for hard-to-prevent diseases1 month ago
ESA's Solar Orbiter will help space boffins predict destructive coronal ejections -- Superfast electrons traced back to the Sun1 month ago
AI spies questionable science journals, with some human help -- "Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship"1 month ago
China turns on giant neutrino detector that took a decade to build -- 700 meters under a mountain, a 20,000-tonne detector and a giant sphere await elusive particles1 month ago
Firefly reckons thermal tweaks will stop next rocket tearing itself apart -- Company cleared to launch again after April failure1 month ago
Unlike most of Musk's other ventures, Starship keeps it together for Flight Test 10 -- Explosions all expected and on schedule this time1 month ago
Trump stomps feet, pulls out 't-word' again over China rare earths ban - World War Fee - 'They have to give us magnets' Science - 26 Aug 2025 - | 1311 month ago
ESA engineers trace anomaly in silent Juice spacecraft to a bug in the code -- Timer fail blamed for probe going quiet as Venus looms1 month ago
Two scrubs, one Starship: Third time lucky for SpaceX? -- We've going to Mars! Oh no – anvil clouds!1 month ago
Mysterious X-37B spaceplane flies again, this time carrying a quantum GPS alternative -- Satnav birds would be a high-priority target in war. This tech could be a more resilient alternative1 month ago
Viking 1 at 50: NASA's first raid on the red planet -- Launched in 1975, the probe outlived its 90-day mission by years and set the standard for Mars landings -- Science1 month ago
IBM, NASA cook up AI model to predict solar tantrums -- Open source Surya system promises early alerts for space weather that can fry satellites and grids -- AI + ML1 month ago
Dwarf planet Ceres may have been habitable - for microbes - a couple of billion years back -- Radioactive decay produced a warm internal ocean -- Science1 month ago
Space industry frets as UKSA set for bureaucratic re-entry -- Government says move will cut red tape, but startups fear sector could be sidelined -- Science1 month ago
NASA starts bolting together Artemis III rocket for 2027 Moon shot -- Funding fights and Starship stumbles could still bring it back down to Earth2 months ago
China sends an AI to its space station, where Taikonauts use it to prep for spacewalk -- Single spacesuit now worn 20 times2 months ago
Molten salt nuclear reactors slated to power Google datacenters in 2030 -- More than 60 years after first demos of this tech, Kairos will bring it back to Oak Ridge2 months ago
Physicist models new use for nuclear waste: Turning it into super-rare fusion fuel -- Got a particle accelerator? Here's your tritium startup idea2 months ago
Everybody needs good neighbors – especially ones who sell you solar energy -- P2P power networks beat stingy feed-in tariffs for Aussie households, study finds2 months ago
SpaceX prepares itself for a tenth Starship flight test -- If at first you succeed, keep trying until you don't2 months ago
Reckon you can put a nuclear reactor on the Moon? -- You have until Thursday August 21 to respond if you do2 months ago
Who made the demo list for Trump's fast-track nuclear reactor scheme? -- US DoE names firms for Pilot Program to show how it could be done2 months ago
Social media users rubbish at spotting sneaky ads, say boffins -- Social media marketeers getting better at concealing promos in posts -- Offbeat2 months ago
NASA mulls sending a rescue rocket to boost Swift observatory's orbit -- Agency asks for ideas from US industry as orbit decays -- Science2 months ago
Chap found chunks of an asteroid older than Earth in his suburban living room -- First came the fireball, then a hole in the roof and a dent in the floor -- Science2 months ago
UK.gov's nuclear strategy is 'slow, inefficient, and costly' -- Taskforce delivers damning interim report on next generation of energy generation -- Science2 months ago
Apollo 13 hero Jim Lovell has taken his final orbit - Obit - Veteran of four spaceflights dies at 97 - Science - 11 Aug 2025 - | 182 months ago
Snotty astronauts should skip spacewalks, suggests study -- Pressure difference between the space station, space suits increases congestion, say boffins2 months ago
China says its lunar lander passed Luna-landing and take-off tests -- Current plan calls for Taikonaut touchdown around 20302 months ago
NASA won't name the Shuttle picked to move to Texas -- Acting Administrator has selected a lucky orbiter, but won't say which one2 months ago
NASA boss calls for nuclear reactor on the Moon -- Science budget? Whatever. It's all about beating China and Russia2 months ago
North of England snubbed by UK government bag-a-boffin scheme -- Home of Manchester Baby can't bid for talent, baby2 months ago
NASA changes the rules of the game for commercial space stations -- Aiming to shrink the post-ISS gap, but less orbit time for NASA astronauts?2 months ago
More NASA spacecraft give controllers the silent treatment -- Communication problems for recently launched small satellites2 months ago
Mistakenly sold NASA command trailer could be yours – for $199K -- Former Space Shuttle support vehicle surfaces after surplus slip-up -- Offbeat2 months ago
Lunar Trailblazer trails off as NASA loses probe to the void -- Stricken spacecraft gives scientists the silent treatment -- Science2 months ago
How to train your robot: Wear a tiny one in a baby carrier -- You can build your own robot CHILD for under $1,000 -- Science2 months ago
Skyrora wins green light to lob rockets from Scotland -- Launch license issued for suborbital Skylark L -- Science2 months ago
Germany and Japan teamed their ISS robots for seek-and-photograph mission -- Bot built by Airbus and IBM recognized astronaut's voice and issued instructions to camera drone2 months ago
Amazon's Kuiper satellite broadband to offer commercial services in mid-2026, at least in Australia - Updated - Maybe sooner in other places - Networks - 05 Aug 2025 - | 62 months ago
Mars says hello as NASA's Europa Clipper warms up radar -- Instrument works fine. Now, about those transistors2 months ago
Untangling the Jeff Bezos web: Who pays for the billionaire's space lust? -- Blue Origin and Amazon's Kuiper satellite program are an arm's length apart2 months ago
ISS is still leaking air after latest repair efforts fail -- Russian boffins searching for root cause in their segment of the outpost, former cosmonaut says -- 01 Aug 20252 months ago
Wasp nest at US nuclear site tests ten times over safe radiation limit -- Everything's fine, says Department of Energy report -- 01 Aug 20252 months ago
SpaceX Crew Dragon lofting next batch of 'nauts to ISS today -- Crew-11 prepares for liftoff on Musk rocket while Boeing's Calamity Capsule remains grounded -- 31 Jul 20252 months ago
Bitter fight over 2020 Microsoft quantum paper both resolved and unresolved - Deep dive - Ground control to Majorana - Science - 31 Jul 2025 - | 302 months ago