Microwaved fish could help scientists create sustainable LEDs Supermaterial created from heated scales. Sorry about the smell Science10 Aug 2022 | 10
Russian anti-satellite test added to a 'pressing threat to security' in space Too much junk in the orbital trunk Science10 Aug 2022 | 31
NASA's six-mile-wide orbital telescope is 1/6th built Interferometry will be used to turn six toaster-sized satellites into one giant solar observatory Science10 Aug 2022 | 9
Northrop Grumman to use Firefly Aerospace tech in its de-Russianized Antares SpaceX to pick up the slack while the rocket is updated yet again Science09 Aug 2022 | 9
Report slams UK plan to become 'science superpower' by 2030 Lords cite 'frequent' policy changes, lack of metrics, post-Brexit funding as top issues Science09 Aug 2022 | 99
Clean up orbit first, then we can think about space factories, says FCC It's hard to make things out there when dust-sized particles can destroy them Science08 Aug 2022 | 22
India’s latest rocket flies but payloads don't prosper Satellites end up in 'unusable' orbit Science08 Aug 2022 | 24
Russia: Hey, don't act surprised if we're still on the ISS in 2030 Yeah, they do have a habit of being in places where they are no longer welcome Science05 Aug 2022 | 15
Virgin Galactic delays commercial suborbital flights again Buys up land to train and entertain space tourists when they do start Science05 Aug 2022 | 24
US-funded breakthrough battery tech just simply handed over to China Licencing snafu sends American invention overseas Science04 Aug 2022 | 59
Pull jet fuel from thin air? We can do that, say scientists Vid Thanks, we'll take any good news, large or small, right now Science04 Aug 2022 | 200
The US grid is ready for 100% renewables, says DoE A $26m chunk of the infrastructure bill set aside to prove it can handle inverter-based energy Science03 Aug 2022 | 39
ESA declares the Sentinel-1B mission over after payload resuscitation ends What would you do with an otherwise healthy spacecraft? Science03 Aug 2022 | 11
SpaceX demonstrates that it too can shower the Earth with debris Monolith found in Australian field actually a piece of SpaceX vehicle Science03 Aug 2022 | 57
NASA to send prototype robot surgeon into space Dammit Jim, I'm a piece of autonomous equipment, not a doctor Science03 Aug 2022 | 23
Boffins put supercomputer on the scent of a perfect landfill deodorizer Is this what they mean by garbage collection? Science03 Aug 2022 | 23
US regulators set the stage for small, local nuclear power stations What could go wrong? Study finds waste is more reactive, making it more dangerous Science02 Aug 2022 | 73
Spent Chinese rocket booster splashes down over Southeast Asia NASA chief slams Beijing for not disclosing Long March 5B trajectory Science02 Aug 2022 | 15
SpaceX upgrades Starlink to reflect less light, can't launch without its Starship A dazzling problem Science01 Aug 2022 | 29
Paper batteries on the cards to power IoT and smart labels Quest to reduce environmental impact finds pulp solution Science29 Jul 2022 | 19
Google sues Sonos yet again, claiming it stole IP and infringed patents Patent lawsuits, the next saga
Electrical explosion at Google datacenter injures three Search, Maps and YouTube later suffer brief outages - nothing as concerning as the injuries suffered by workers
Burger King just sent spam receipts to customers Updated Have it your way – whether you want it or not
China-linked spies used six backdoors to steal info from defense, industrial enterprise orgs We're 'highly likely' to see similar attacks, Kaspersky warned
APIC fail: Intel 'Sunny Cove' chips with SGX spill secrets AMD Zen chips, meanwhile, are vulnerable to side-channel data scrying
Businesses should dump Windows for the Linux desktop Opinion It makes perfect sense for enterprises as well as enthusiasts. Just ask GitLab
Tesla Full Self-Driving fails to notice child-sized objects in testing Campaign group Dawn Project results calculated from small sample size, test done without hands on the wheel
Intel challenges Nvidia, AMD with trio of workstation GPUs For those that just can't wait for AV1 encoding
Microsoft's fix for 'data damage' risk hits PC performance 'AES-based operations might be two times slower' without latest updates
Bill Gates venture backs effort to bring aircon startup to market Supports liquid desiccant tech to store energy to smooth bumps in demand, lower greenhouse gas impact Science29 Jul 2022 | 63
Preparing for Skylab: The separate 1972 experimental mission that never left the ground Feature Bags of splashy fun for astronauts in SMEAT's simulation Science29 Jul 2022 | 25
NASA: Mars rocks won't make it back to Earth until 2033 Cute that they think the human race will still be here when Perseverance's samples arrive Science28 Jul 2022 | 32
Scientists use dead spider as gripper for robot arm, label it a 'Necrobot' Videos Our ancestors made tools from bones … so why not freeze a spider instead of 3D printing parts? Science28 Jul 2022 | 122
Chinese booster rocket tumbles back to Earth: 'Non-zero' chance of hitting populated area 88 percent of the world's population live under the currently estimated footprint of the debris Science27 Jul 2022 | 63
NASA's Lunar Orbiter spots comfortably warm 'pits' all over the Moon Shaded bits of lava tubes stay at 17°C all lunar day and all lunar night, a contrast with the rest of Luna's frequent fluctuations Science27 Jul 2022 | 80
The Great Pacific Garbage Patch: Now 100,000kg smaller The Ocean Cleanup pulled all that trash in less than a year, and its newest system could collect 10x more Science26 Jul 2022 | 79
General Motors goes electric with $2.5b US government loan for battery plants Tesla is not the only biz that can take billions from American taxpayers Science26 Jul 2022 | 17
Russia's new space chief confirms it will leave ISS after 2024 Updated NASA: First we’ve heard of it Science26 Jul 2022 | 33
James Webb, Halley's Comet may be set for cosmic dust-up Comet debris is right in JWST's path, and could further damage its sensitive mirror Science26 Jul 2022 | 38
Eutelsat and OneWeb to join forces across orbits in $3.4b merger LEO and GEO orbit covered in satellite broadband handshake Science26 Jul 2022 | 25
Experts warn transition to private space stations won't happen anytime soon As NASA launches 11th annual ISS Research and Development Conference Science26 Jul 2022 | 25
Aviation body wants views on rocket plans of Virgin Orbit The race for first space launch from UK soil (or airspace) continues Science25 Jul 2022 | 11
DARPA seeks portable muon-making machine to see through almost anything We currently make muons at CERN, so this is quite the miniaturization job Science25 Jul 2022 | 53
SpaceX crewed flight to ISS delayed by damaged rocket Just as NASA urged to reuse Musk hardware no more than five times Science23 Jul 2022 | 24
Trees may help power your next electric car No, we're not reverting to steam power – lignin just makes great cathodes Science22 Jul 2022 | 24
You're not wrong. The scope for quantum computers remains small Systems Approach Perhaps a QC can help us work out why we'd want a QC Science21 Jul 2022 | 15
NASA stalls water-seeking VIPER lunar rover to 2024 Americans need more time rebuilding their Moon sound stage, clearly Science21 Jul 2022 | 14
ESA kicks ExoMars rover down the road, to 2026 at best The way forward to Mars is cancelled (you meant the meeting, right?) Science20 Jul 2022 | 4
UK chemicals multinational to build hydrogen 'gigafactory' Johnson Matthey receives government backing to scale-up fuel cell production Science20 Jul 2022 | 100
US Space Development Agency invests $1.3b in missile tracking satellites Northrop Grumman, L3Harris Technologies to build the 28-satellite constellation for warning, tracking Science19 Jul 2022 | 5
Hush now: Baby talk has common features across languages and societies ML study combines with citizen science to show talking and singing to infants may have evolutionary roots Science19 Jul 2022 | 33
Corporate structures for environmental sustainability Formal management frameworks and processes are helping ZTE meet its environmental responsibilities Sponsored Feature
Is the $10 billion James Webb Space Telescope worth the price tag? Performs better than expected, which is just as well – as it's going to be pelted with space rocks Science16 Jul 2022 | 107
Copper shortage keeps green energy, tech ventures grounded Copper the balloon popper for 2050 net-zero goals according to S&P Science15 Jul 2022 | 62
Dmitry Rogozin sacked as boss of Russian space agency Roscosmos Bluster and hot air do not make for a sustainable space program Science15 Jul 2022 | 19
James Webb Space Telescope looks closer to home with Jupiter snaps Commissioning pics show spacecraft can peer near as well as far Science15 Jul 2022 | 39
Mars helicopter to take a breather, recharge batteries Like a lot of us hope to do, Ingenuity goes on summer break Science14 Jul 2022 | 52
Panasonic picks Kansas for $4b EV battery plant Tesla's biggest battery supplier will reportedly hire 4,000 staff Science14 Jul 2022 | 10
Behold: The first images snapped by the James Webb Space Telescope Pics Literally galaxies far, far away Science13 Jul 2022 | 36
These centrifugal moon towers could be key to life off-planet Vid Spinning skyscrapers might produce about 1G at widest point Science12 Jul 2022 | 64
SpaceX Starship booster in flames after unexpected ignition Space oddity definitely not a metaphor for a corporate takeover going down the tubes Science12 Jul 2022 | 24
NYC issues super upbeat PSA for surviving the nuclear apocalypse It's the end of the world as we know it, and you'll be fine Science12 Jul 2022 | 59
First-ever James Webb Space Telescope image revealed Pic Decades in the making, billions of dollars, all so we can say together: My god, it's full of stars! Science12 Jul 2022 | 132
NASA's CAPSTONE silence down to a software flaw There's a code nasty on a spacecraft in deep space... not the first mission to suffer and won't be the last Science08 Jul 2022 | 49
COO of failed bio-biz Theranos found guilty on all twelve fraud counts What a prick ... of blood was ever going to work in these machines? Science07 Jul 2022 | 30
Wash your mouth out with shape-shifting metal You wanted flying cars and robo-butlers. Instead, we're getting tooth-cleaning morphing nanoparticle bots Science06 Jul 2022 | 38
Large Hadron Collider experiment reveals three exotic particles Tetraquarks and other discoveries as CERN revs up for Run 3 Science05 Jul 2022 | 78
ESA's 2030+ roadmap envisions Europeans on the Moon and Mars But the agency is distinctly aware that it needs more autonomy Science05 Jul 2022 | 23
CAPSTONE mission is Moon-bound, after less rocketry than expected Final update China rubbishes NASA suggestion it wants Luna all to itself Science05 Jul 2022 | 31
2050 carbon emission goals need nuclear to succeed, says International Energy Agency Without it, $500b more in investments is needed to reach C-neutrality Science01 Jul 2022 | 88
NASA delays SLS rollback due to concerns over rocky path to launchpad The road to the Moon is paved with... river rock? Science01 Jul 2022 | 22
Resurrected Dundee Satellite Station to host quantum Optical Ground Station Pandemics and university disinterest apparently no match for ingenuity and determination Science01 Jul 2022 | 11
China says it has photographed all of Mars from orbit Enjoy the slideshow from Tianwen's orbital adventures Science30 Jun 2022 | 30
City-killing asteroid won't hit Earth in 2052 after all ESA ruins our day with some bad news Science29 Jun 2022 | 29
NanoAvionics satellite pulls out GoPro to take stunning selfie over Earth Consumer-grade camera was refitted with custom housing and software to survive in the vacuum Science29 Jun 2022 | 36
Chinese boffins suggest launching nuclear Neptune orbiter in 2030 All these worlds are yours, except Europa. Attempt no landing there. Use them together, use them in peace Science29 Jun 2022 | 57
Soviet-era tech could change the geothermal industry Gyrotrons can super heat plasma, maybe vaporize 20km of rock, too Science28 Jun 2022 | 122
NASA's mini-spacecraft CAPSTONE just launched on its journey to the Moon 25kg CubeSat the size of a bar fridge will plot course for Gateway space station, pave way for human boots on Moon Science28 Jun 2022 | 5
Returning to the Moon on the European Service Module Interview Moving to series production and dealing with the US, where things are done slightly differently Science28 Jun 2022 | 35
Whatever hit the Moon in March, it left this weird double crater Pic NASA probe reveals strange hole created by suspected Chinese junk Science25 Jun 2022 | 58
NASA circles August in its diary to put Artemis I capsule in Moon orbit First steps by humans to recapture planet's natural satellite Science24 Jun 2022 | 19
NASA wants nuclear reactor on the Moon by 2030 Space boffins task engineers with creating 40kW lunar fission plant that can operate for ten years Science24 Jun 2022 | 90
Bipolar transistors made from organic materials for the first time Move over silicon – digital circuits have a flexible new friend Science23 Jun 2022 | 71
Amazon shows off robot warehouse workers that won't complain, quit, unionize... Mega-corp insists it's all about 'people and technology working safely and harmoniously together' Science22 Jun 2022 | 62
NASA ignores InSight's battery woes in pursuit of data Space boffins: Nevermind ekeing out the battery, let it go out in a blaze of glory! Science22 Jun 2022 | 7
Mars Express orbiter to get code update after 19 years And over millions of miles, too. Piece of cake!? Science22 Jun 2022 | 51
Liftoff at last for South Korean space program Satellite-deploying rocket finally launches – after a few setbacks Science22 Jun 2022 | 4
AWS buys before it tries with quantum networking center Fundamental problems of qubit physics aside, the cloud giant thinks it can help Science22 Jun 2022 | 5
NASA tricks Artemis launch computer by masking data showing a leak Plus it aborts ISS reboost. Not the greatest start to the week, was it? Science21 Jun 2022 | 19
NASA's SOFIA aircraft preps for final flights ahead of mission end With operations deadline in September, team eager to squeeze more data out of infrared observatory Science20 Jun 2022 | 12
SpaceX reportedly fires staffers behind open letter criticising Elon Musk Asked for equitable treatment and a boss that doesn't embarrass them Science17 Jun 2022 | 105
SpaceX staff condemn Musk's behavior in open letter Well, it doesn't take a rocket scientist to see why Science16 Jun 2022 | 84
McKinsey thinks quantum computing could create $80b in revenue ... eventually Figure is 'value at stake' but 'not the actual value' which itself is a quantum statement Science16 Jun 2022 | 4
South Korea's space ambitions stuck on the launchpad Second Nuri rocket stalls with problem similar to those that caused first mission to mostly fail Science16 Jun 2022 | 6
SpaceX and OneWeb bury the satellite constellation hatchet Will play nicely in Earth orbit Science15 Jun 2022 | 4
If you want to launch Starship from Texas, here's some homework, FAA tells SpaceX Be a good neighbor to folks and the environment, and we'll think that permit over Science14 Jun 2022 | 22
Astra fails, sends NASA's Tropics weather satellites back to Earth Orbital success counter stuck at 2 as upper stage of rocket shuts down early and CubeSats lost Science13 Jun 2022 | 9
NASA to commission independent UFO study The truth is out there, and the space agency intends to find it – scientifically Science10 Jun 2022 | 28
Meteoroid hits main mirror on James Webb Space Telescope Impact at the end of May bad enough to garble data, but NASA isn't worried Science09 Jun 2022 | 77
Photonic processor can classify millions of images faster than you can blink We ask again: Has science gone too far? Science08 Jun 2022 | 50
Japan's asteroid probe reportedly found 20 amino acids They're the stuff of life, so the fact they're floating around out there is very exciting Science07 Jun 2022 | 70
Why chasing the AI dragon may force big tech to take sustainability seriously Comment Carbon offsets don't make you green when your datacenters are still rolling coal Science06 Jun 2022 | 14
Brute force and whiskey: The solution to all life's problems Who, Me? Just make sure to drink it AFTER the rocket has successfully launched Science06 Jun 2022 | 81
Small nuclear reactors produce '35x more waste' than big plants Updated At least one manufacturer would like to disagree with study's conclusions Science02 Jun 2022 | 204
Researchers claim quantum device performs 9,000-year calculation in microseconds In Gaussian boson sampling at least, quantum supremecy is here Science02 Jun 2022 | 35
Algorithm spots 104 asteroids in huge piles of data Rocks stood out like a THOR thumb for code Science01 Jun 2022 | 13
Fusion won't avert need for climate change 'sacrifice', says nuclear energy expert But the potentially abundant, if distant, source of sustainable energy could offer hope Science31 May 2022 | 125
NASA's 161-second helicopter tour of Martian terrain Video Ingenuity footage sent back to Earth via Perseverance, despite looming battery problem Science30 May 2022 | 35
Quantum internet within grasp as scientists show off entanglement demo Teleportation of quantum information key to future secure data transfer Science29 May 2022 | 29