Researchers claim spoof-proof random number generator breakthrough -- Combining quantum entanglement with hash chains promises randomness which can be relied on

22 hours 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 - | 65

2 hours ago

Falcon 9 leaks keep Axiom private astronaut mission on the ground -- Weather and propulsion system problems conspire to keep astronauts away from the ISS

2 days 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 them

3 days ago

DARPA is testing a device soldiers can swallow to make them less stressed -- Not that kind of edible - this one's electronic

3 days ago

NASA to silence Voyager's social media accounts -- All about consolidation as mission mouthpieces archived in pursuit of 'improving the experience'

3 days ago

Tug reaches flaming ship carrying electric cars off Alaska coast -- It's still smoking, but help is on hand

3 days ago

Probability of Asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting the Moon increases -- Scientists improve knowledge by 20% thanks to James Webb Space Telescope data

3 days 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 + ML

5 days ago

1.5 TB of James Webb Space Telescope data just hit the internet -- Online catalog gives open science access to data from early universe -- Science

5 days ago

US lawmakers fire back a response to Trump's NASA cuts -- Big expensive Moon rockets = good. Science = yeah, whatever -- Science

5 days 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 - | 4

5 days ago

£127M wasted on failed UK nuclear cleanup plan -- Don't worry, only 100 more years of Sellafield nuclear site cleansing to go

7 days ago

Trump lifts US supersonic flight ban, says he's 'Making Aviation Great Again' -- It's boom time for the next generation of fast travel

8 days ago

Ex-NASA Admin pick blames Musk ties for pulled nomination -- Jared Isaacman reveals how space agency might have looked under his watch

8 days 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 - | 51

6 days ago

Ship abandoned off Alaska after electric cars on board catch fire -- Water, water everywhere, but it would just make it worse

10 days ago

60 years ago the US took its first walk in space with Gemini 4 -- Four years later, Apollo 11 landed on the Moon

10 days 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 datacenters

11 days ago

Engineers bring Psyche's thrusters back online -- Diagnosing a borkage from a million miles away

11 days ago

NASA boss-to-be gets spaced as proposed budget cuts detailed -- White House withdraws Isaacman pick amid potential $6B funding drop -- 02 Jun 2025

12 days 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 2025

13 days ago

American science put on starvation diet -- National Science Foundation FY 2026 budget cut by more than 60% -- 30 May 2025

13 days 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 2025

13 days 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

16 days 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

17 days ago

SpaceX resets 'Days Since Last Starship Explosion' counter to zero, again -- Musk's rocket co fails to deploy any dummy satellites either

17 days 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 - | 25

18 days 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 Sector

23 days 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 -- Science

24 days 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 Supercomputing

15 days 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 + ML

24 days ago

NASA was eyeing ISS crew cutbacks before Trump's budget landed -- Will the US President take credit for that one as well? -- Science

24 days 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 -- Security

25 days ago

Aussie rocket foiled by premature fairing pop - Updated - A fair dinkum disaster - Science - 19 May 2025 - | 27

23 days ago

DARPA zaps popcorn with laser power beamed 5.3 miles through air -- 800-watt demo breaks distance record for optical energy transmission -- Science

26 days 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 + ML

26 days ago

No-boom supersonic flights could slide through US skies soon - Feature - As long as you're quiet about it - Science - 17 May 2025 - | 94

20 days ago

NASA keeps ancient Voyager 1 spacecraft alive with Hail Mary thruster fix -- Failure could've triggered a small explosion -- Science

26 days ago

Next week's SpaceX Starship test still needs FAA authorization -- Aiming for the stars, but sometimes hitting the Caribbean -- Science

26 days ago

Intuitive Machines blames dim lighting and dodgy data for second lunar faceplant -- Touchdown with no topple? Company aims for third time lucky -- Science

1 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 -- Science

1 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 -- Science

1 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 + ML

1 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

1 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 - | 28

30 days ago

Fusion eggheads claim modeling fix for particle escape - at least in stellarators -- One problem down, x - 1 problems go

1 month 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

1 month ago

Yolk's on you – eggs break less when they land sideways -- MIT research team proves pop science eggsplanation wrong -- Offbeat

1 month 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 -- Science

1 month 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 -- Science

1 month ago

Microsoft wants us to believe AI will crack practical fusion power, driving future AI -- This BS ends at some point, right? -- AI Infrastructure Month

1 month ago

As US scientists flee Trump, MP urges Britain to do more to nab them -- One concrete suggestion: Looser visa requirements -- Science

1 month ago

NASA JPL boss bails for 'personal reasons' as budget cuts bite - Updated - Laurie Leshin to leave in June - Science - 08 May 2025 - | 16

1 month ago

ESA feeling weightless and unwanted amid proposed NASA cuts -- Euro space agency insists it's reliable and desirable in face of 'abusive spouse' -- Science

1 month ago

NASA jettisons Neo4j database for Memgraph citing costs -- It's not rocket science, it's budgeting -- Databases

1 month 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 - | 12

1 month 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 research

1 month ago

Soviet probe from 1972 set to return to Earth ... in May 2025 -- Not, it's not the plot of a sci-fi disaster movie

1 month 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 2030

1 month ago

NASA probes propulsion problem in Psyche's thrusters -- Mission to a metal asteroid lacks xenon pressure -- Science -- 01 May 2025

1 month ago

'I guess NASA doesn't need or care about my work anymore' -- Former Space Shuttle boss's blog booted from Trump-era agency website -- Science -- 30 Apr 2025

1 month ago

Swiss boffins admit to secretly posting AI-penned posts to Reddit in the name of science -- They're sorry/not sorry for testing if bots can change minds by pretending to be a trauma counselor or a victim of sexual abuse -- AI + ML -- 29 Apr 2025

1 month ago

Amazon's first 27 Kuiper broadband sats make it into orbit on an Atlas V -- One launch down, 80-plus to go, for a pittance compared to planned AWS spending -- Networks -- 29 Apr 2025

1 month ago

Satellite slinger AST reckons newer birds won't outshine stars in night sky -- As astronomers gripe about sats screwing observations -- Science

1 month ago

DARPA to 'radically' rev up mathematics research. Yes, with AI -- Now that's a sum of all fears -- AI + ML

1 month ago

Hubble Space Telescope is still producing science at 35 -- Remember when NASA was laser focused on that? -- Science

1 month ago

Europe fires up beefier booster for Ariane 6 and Vega-C -- Successful qualification run for P160C solid-fuel motor in South American spaceport -- Science

1 month ago

Sustainability still not a high priority for datacenter industry - Extreme weather is - such - a problem when building bit barns... hmmm, wonder what could be causing that? On-Prem - 24 Apr 2025 - | 24

1 month ago

NTT creates a drone that triggers and catches lightning – then keeps flying -- Because nobody wants a bazillion volts zorching critical infrastructure

1 month ago

SpaceX Dragon cargo capsule docks to the International Space Station -- Plenty of tortillas onboard but not quite so much science this time

1 month ago

America's National Science Foundation tells DEI, misinfo studies: You're fired -- No one should be excluded – unless you have certain views on the Mid-East crisis

1 month ago

No rest for the rocketry as NASA's Easter weekend heats up -- Returning crew and a vital supply launch distract managers from chocolate eggs

1 month ago

Small ocean swirls may have an outsized effect on climate, NASA satellite shows -- SWOT satellite lets scientists observe small-scale eddies and waves for the first time

1 month ago

Heat can make Li-Ion batteries explode. Or restore their capacity, say Chinese boffins -- Future chargers could re-arrange battery chemistry to make them live longer

1 month ago

20 years on, DART still a masterclass in how not to rendezvous in orbit -- Two decades have passed since NASA made two spacecraft collide

1 month ago

US senator warns 'China is cheering' for proposed NASA budget cuts -- Bipartisan support needed to keep DOGE from the door

1 month ago

White House budget proposal could beam NASA science back decades -- Houston, we have a funding problem

2 months ago

AI is making hyperscalers' sustainability pledges look more and more like a Hail Mary - Comment - Carbon capture, SMRs, fusion power - tech titans' climate strategies are packed with moon shots - AI + ML - 12 Apr 2025 - | 18

1 month ago

UK's answer to DARPA sprouts new ideas, like programmable plants -- Updated programs suggest ARIA will keep singing for another year

2 months ago

Laser-cooled chips: Maybe coming soon-ish to a datacenter near you -- Public-private partnership zaps photons at hotspots, hopes to ship by 2027

2 months ago

Canada OKs construction of first licensed teeny atomic reactor -- Built by 2028? Maybe. Powering homes? That's another slip of paper entirely

2 months ago

Boffins turn Moon dirt into glass for solar panels, eye future lunar base power -- Lugging a solar furnace to melt it could slash the need to launch bulky power gear from Earth

2 months ago

Brit universities told to keep up the world-class research with less cash -- Government boasts of £14B in R&D spending, but grant body takes £300M hit

2 months ago

SpaceX scores $5.9B lion's share of Space Force launch contracts -- ULA wins $5.4B and Blue Origin $2.4B -- Public Sector

2 months ago

NASA doubles odds of Moon hitting near-Earth asteroid -- Heads up to those living on lunar base in 2032: DUCK!! -- Science

2 months ago

Amazon's Project Kuiper satellites now boarding the rocket to relevance -- Jeff Bezos' other space business finally shows signs of life with launch scheduled for next week -- Science

2 months ago

Speech now streaming from brains in real-time -- Boosted human-computer interface promises better communication for patients who lost ability to speak -- Science

2 months ago

FAA closes investigations into Blue Origin landing fail, Starship Flight 7 explosion -- New Glenn landing scuppered by engine problems -- 01 Apr 2025

2 months ago

Isar's first orbital rocket crashes into sea – CEO calls it a 'great success' Comment - What counts as failure in New Space? Science - 01 Apr 2025 - | 44

10 days ago

Genetic data repo OpenSNP to self-destruct before authoritarians weaponize it -- Blame the 23andMe implosion, rise in far-right govt -- 01 Apr 2025

2 months ago

European Gaia mapping satellite is retired but proves very tough to kill -- I'm sorry Dave, I can't do that -- 31 Mar 2025

2 months ago

Cashless society could be why fewer kids are eating coins and sticking things up their noses -- NHS boffins think there's a connection, but 'snot all good news: Swallowing batteries is even more dangerous

2 months ago

Brits to build ExoMars landing gear after Russia sent packing -- Airbus UK wins £150M contract to revive long-delayed rover project

2 months ago

Boeing's Starliner may fly again, pending fixes to literally everything -- Updated -- More than 70 percent of anomalies closed out, but those pesky thrusters are still a problem

2 months ago

From concept to cosmos: Webb engineers on the telescope that changed everything -- Interview -- JWST trio awarded IEEE Simon Ramo medal: 'I'm proud of the whole damn team'

2 months ago

Nuclear center must replace roof on 70-year-old lab so it can process radioactive waste -- Project sees 7-year delay and budget swell to £1.5B, but nuclear leadership 'confident' it has an alternative

2 months ago

ISS resupply and trash pickup craft postponed indefinitely after Cygnus container crunch -- All eyes on SpaceX's April cargo mission to the orbital outpost

2 months ago

50 years ago the last Saturn rocket rolled out of NASA's Vehicle Assembly Building -- Half a century later, there's a Moon rocket behind those same doors

2 months ago

Aardvark beats groundhogs and supercomputers in weather forecasting -- PC-size ML prediction model predicted to be as good as a super at fraction of the cost

2 months ago