50 launches, 1 knighthood – Rocket Lab CEO talks heavy-lift rockets, Venus, and Musk
Interview Sir Peter Beck on bringing balance to the market and more
Science19 Jun 2024 | 10
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Tiny solid-state battery promises to pack a punch in pocket gadgets
TDK tech envisioned as successor to button cells – if it works as promised
Science18 Jun 2024 | 72
NTT uses scattered monitors to trick your brain into seeing 3D images
Because not everyone's walking around wearing augmented reality goggles yet
Software18 Jun 2024 | 10
Wrongful termination lawsuit accuses Neuralink of Herpes B-infected monkey business
Forced to work through lunch, attacked by virus-carrying primates, and sacked for being pregnant – allegedly
Science17 Jun 2024 | 21
The Hubble Space Telescope is back in business
Running on one gyro, but still gazing at the sky
Science17 Jun 2024 | 13
Virgin Galactic celebrates flight hiatus with a reverse stock split
Biz keen to avoid a delisting as share price drops
Science14 Jun 2024 | 9
Voyager 1 makes stellar comeback to science operations
Engineers coax veteran probe back to health
Science14 Jun 2024 | 32
Japan's space agency helps to target advertising with satellite photos of crops
Some would say ads for cabbage are futile – can pics from space at least make them timely?
Software14 Jun 2024 | 20
Dr Ed Stone, former director of JPL, Voyager project scientist, dies at 88
Obit A legacy of scientific discovery, inspiration and engagement
Science13 Jun 2024 | 18
Space health shocker: Astronauts return mostly fine
Largest ever study reveals some of the effects on human body aren't as bad as thought, but work needs to be done
Science12 Jun 2024 | 12
Gates-backed nuclear plant breaks ground without guarantee it'll have fuel
TerraPower's atomic facility needs lots of low-enriched uranium and who mainly makes it ... ah, jeez
Science11 Jun 2024 | 77
Molten lunar regolith heats up space colonization dreams
Human settlement of the Moon made a little easier, maybe?
Science11 Jun 2024 | 35
Biden admin fuels up Rocket Lab with $24M for space-grade solar cell chip shop
Funding will expand manufacturing by 50% in three years, says Uncle Sam
Science11 Jun 2024 |
Legendary Glastonbury farm using bovine excreta power plant adds graphene boffinry
This is not BS, it's cutting-edge material science
Science11 Jun 2024 | 35
Virgin Galactic's VSS Unity bows out to make way for Delta Class successor
Company's fate now rests with SpaceShipTwo's followup
Science10 Jun 2024 | 8
EU grants €15M funding for ICARUS inflatable heat shield
Exclusive Just don't let it fly too close to the Sun
Science10 Jun 2024 | 24
Astroboffins order most advanced spectrograph ever to sniff out alien life
ANDES, in the Andes, is predicted to find the first Population III mega-star
Science08 Jun 2024 | 30
White House hopes $180M will solve science, tech gaps in commercial fusion power
Researchers get 4 years, a small pot of cash, and long row to hoe before making tech practical by next decade
Science07 Jun 2024 | 19
Quantinuum inches closer to fault-tolerant quantum with a 56 qubit machine
This one only produces errors 65 percent of the time. Woo-hoo!
Science07 Jun 2024 | 11
A tale of two missions: Starliner and Starship both achieve milestones
It was the best of times for space fans
Science07 Jun 2024 | 57
OpenAI to buy electricity from CEO Sam Altman's nuclear fusion side hustle
Knowing your supplier is always good – and super lab's auditors promise to check for conflicts of interest
AI + ML06 Jun 2024 | 53
Ariane 6 ready to rocket, bringing heavy-lift capability back to Europe
Just a wet dress rehearsal left before debut launch
Science06 Jun 2024 | 12
Can AI models trained on human speech help us understand dogs?
What’s that Lassie? Our nefarious AI overlords are about to take over the world? You must be barking
Science06 Jun 2024 | 29
High-flying drones on a leash could blow traditional wind turbines away
Bristol researcher granted £375K to improve airborne wind energy systems
Science05 Jun 2024 | 40
Boeing's Starliner makes it into orbit at long last – with human crew aboard
Let's get that brave duo to the ISS and then home to Earth safely
Science05 Jun 2024 | 35
Hubble will transition to single-gyro mode to gain a few more years of operational life
So about that commercial servicing mission, hmm?
Science05 Jun 2024 | 14
China's Chang'e-6 lunar probe packs rocks and rolls back to Earth
Tasks on far side of the Moon were heavily automated
Science04 Jun 2024 | 4
Hubble plays spin the bottle with last few gyros
Time to dust off those contingency plans?
Science04 Jun 2024 | 26
Energy buffs give small modular reactors a gigantic reality check
Too expensive, slow, and risky for investors, and they're taking focus off renewables, say IEEFA experts
Science03 Jun 2024 | 122
Boeing's Starliner finds yet another way to not reach space
'Unfortunately a power supply generally does not fail ... until it does'
Science03 Jun 2024 | 67
JAXA's Akatsuki probe goes silent after more than a decade studying Venus
Plus: Japanese billionaire cancels joyride with artists around the Moon
Science03 Jun 2024 | 3
China lands probe Chang'e-6 on the far side of the Moon
ASIA IN BRIEF PLUS: Singapore intros AI safety tools; Satya Nadella fined by Indian gov; China stops influencers flaunting bling
Science03 Jun 2024 | 2
DARPA awards in-orbit manufacturing contract to Momentus
In the not too distant future agency wants to found factories in the sky
Science02 Jun 2024 | 3
NASA and ESA take a close look at Europe's International Habitation Module
Astronauts clamber around a mock-up, launch of the real thing is only 4 years away
Science31 May 2024 | 6
FCC boss wants tighter rules to prevent devastating satellite explosions in orbit
Rosenworcel suggests bringing risk down to 1 in 1,000 for debris-emitting blasts – will other countries play ball?
Science30 May 2024 | 6
European Space Agency's Vega-C rocket a step closer to returning to flight
Latest nozzle redesign means a late 2024 launch is on the cards
Science30 May 2024 | 5
Promising results for osteoarthritis treatments tested in space
More work needed to translate ISS success into something that can be used on Earth
Science30 May 2024 | 5
Neuralink wants 3 more quadriplegic patients for its brain control interface trial
Sign up for your turn with the R1 robot if you qualify
Science29 May 2024 | 12
Evidence mounts that Venus has multiple active volcanoes
Data from 1990s adds to previous modelling to show lava-spewers widespread on second planet from Sun
Science29 May 2024 | 16
NASA, Boeing opt to fly leaky thruster as-is for first crewed Starliner CST-100 mission
Will Boeing's Padstayer become Padleaver on June 1?
Science28 May 2024 | 65
South Korea targets Moon and Mars landings after launching unified space agency
Meanwhile, North Korea's latest rocket fails
Public Sector28 May 2024 |
4 more years! Intelsat, Northrop Grumman extend satellite servicing contract
Mission Extension Vehicle to fuel up helpless but functional sats
Science24 May 2024 | 10
Japan's space agency enlists train operator's AI to foresee in-orbit failures
Shinkansen maintenance tricks boost reliability on the ground, so why not?
AI + ML24 May 2024 | 4
China reveals space weather radar it claims represents a breakthrough
Might share tech and data with the world sometime … maybe
Science24 May 2024 | 7
US Space Force says it needs more practice at responding to orbital emergencies
But still just once a year because this stuff is expensive. Hopefully that's enough
Public Sector23 May 2024 | 4
ESA to fetch stuff from space before ISS takes the plunge
Thales Alenia Space and The Exploration Company tapped for retrieval ops
Science23 May 2024 |
Computer modeling deepens scientists' understanding of solar cycle
Phenomenon underpinning aurora has eluded explanation as we approach 11-year flip
Science23 May 2024 | 8
US Army doubles down on laser tag with $95M for prototyping
Recently confirming first use of energy weapons in the field, military now wants bigger, better systems
Science22 May 2024 | 17
Boeing's Calamity Capsule launch date slides into the future
Starliner or Padstayer?
Science22 May 2024 | 24
55 years ago, Apollo 10's crew turned the airwaves blue
Shockingly, astronauts can curse when in high-stress situations
Science21 May 2024 | 67
FDA gives Neuralink 'a second shot' at human brain chip
A case of 'keep digging deeper' actually being the right move for Elon, potentially
Science20 May 2024 | 9
Another week, another leak for Boeing's Starliner crew capsule
This bird isn't going to space for a while
Science20 May 2024 | 27
Rosalind Franklin rover gets another shot at Mars after string of bad luck
Could 2030 bring touchdown at last?
Science17 May 2024 | 5
Wiley shuts 19 scholarly journals amid AI paper mill problems
Fake science challenges academic publishing
AI + ML16 May 2024 | 38
BepiColombo power struggle could leave probe short of Mercury's orbit
Updated ESA/JAXA mission running on reduced thrust as engineers work to resolve the issue
Science16 May 2024 | 4
Neuralink keeps losing the thread on brain implant wiring
Musk venture allegedly decided imperfect design was usable
Science15 May 2024 | 25
Destroying offshore wind farms is top priority for Trump if he returns to presidency
It’s definitely to protect the whales and not the fossil fuel industry
Bootnotes14 May 2024 | 283
Hubble Space Telescope hasn't had any visitors for 15 years
STS-125 – the Space Shuttle mission that almost never happened
Science14 May 2024 | 26
Texan construction workers put a rocket up Team SpaceX over 'unpaid bills'
'If they were to call me today, I'd tell them to f%*k off'
Science14 May 2024 | 68
Japanese scientists propose drug to regrow teeth, promise trials won't bite
Adios, dentures?
Science13 May 2024 | 50
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