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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
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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 -- Networks1 day ago
Satellite slinger AST reckons newer birds won't outshine stars in night sky -- As astronomers gripe about sats screwing observations -- Science1 day ago
DARPA to 'radically' rev up mathematics research. Yes, with AI -- Now that's a sum of all fears -- AI + ML1 day ago
Hubble Space Telescope is still producing science at 35 -- Remember when NASA was laser focused on that?4 days ago
Europe fires up beefier booster for Ariane 6 and Vega-C -- Successful qualification run for P160C solid-fuel motor in South American spaceport4 days 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 - | 244 days ago
NTT creates a drone that triggers and catches lightning – then keeps flying -- Because nobody wants a bazillion volts zorching critical infrastructure7 days ago
SpaceX Dragon cargo capsule docks to the International Space Station -- Plenty of tortillas onboard but not quite so much science this time7 days 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 crisis8 days ago
No rest for the rocketry as NASA's Easter weekend heats up -- Returning crew and a vital supply launch distract managers from chocolate eggs12 days 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 time11 days 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 longer13 days ago
20 years on, DART still a masterclass in how not to rendezvous in orbit -- Two decades have passed since NASA made two spacecraft collide13 days ago
US senator warns 'China is cheering' for proposed NASA budget cuts -- Bipartisan support needed to keep DOGE from the door14 days ago
White House budget proposal could beam NASA science back decades -- Houston, we have a funding problem15 days 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 - | 1814 days ago
UK's answer to DARPA sprouts new ideas, like programmable plants -- Updated programs suggest ARIA will keep singing for another year21 days ago
Laser-cooled chips: Maybe coming soon-ish to a datacenter near you -- Public-private partnership zaps photons at hotspots, hopes to ship by 202721 days ago
Canada OKs construction of first licensed teeny atomic reactor -- Built by 2028? Maybe. Powering homes? That's another slip of paper entirely21 days 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 -- Science22 days 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 -- Science22 days ago
SpaceX scores $5.9B lion's share of Space Force launch contracts -- ULA wins $5.4B and Blue Origin $2.4B -- Public Sector22 days ago
NASA doubles odds of Moon hitting near-Earth asteroid -- Heads up to those living on lunar base in 2032: DUCK!! -- Science22 days 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 week26 days ago
Speech now streaming from brains in real-time -- Boosted human-computer interface promises better communication for patients who lost ability to speak28 days ago
FAA closes investigations into Blue Origin landing fail, Starship Flight 7 explosion -- New Glenn landing scuppered by engine problems28 days 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 - | 4319 days ago
Genetic data repo OpenSNP to self-destruct before authoritarians weaponize it -- Blame the 23andMe implosion, rise in far-right govt -- 01 Apr 202529 days ago
European Gaia mapping satellite is retired but proves very tough to kill -- I'm sorry Dave, I can't do that -- 31 Mar 202529 days 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 -- 31 Mar 202529 days ago
Brits to build ExoMars landing gear after Russia sent packing -- Airbus UK wins £150M contract to revive long-delayed rover project -- 29 Mar 202529 days 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 problem1 month 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'1 month 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 alternative1 month ago
ISS resupply and trash pickup craft postponed indefinitely after Cygnus container crunch -- All eyes on SpaceX's April cargo mission to the orbital outpost1 month 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 doors1 month 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 cost1 month ago
Jeff Bezos can now taunt Elon Musk: I'm building a moon rover for NASA, when can Tesla do that? -- Firefly Aerospace choses Amazon boss's Honeybee Robotics to supply vehicle for 2028 mission1 month ago
Revenge of the nerds: Teachers, professors sue to undo Trump science funding cuts -- Who needs studies into diseases, virus infections, US mortality rates ... right?1 month ago
NASA rewrites Moon mission goals in quiet DEI retreat -- First woman and first person of color pledges dropped1 month ago
NASA's inbox goes orbital after email mishap spams entire space industry -- EXCLUSIVE -- A lone voice cries out from reply-all chaos: 'Someone tell DOGE to rehire whoever maintains this email list' -- Applications1 month ago
Boeing's Starliner future uncertain as NASA weighs next steps -- Comment -- Fix testing to stretch into the summer. When will aerospace giant decide enough is enough? -- Science1 month ago
US Space Force warns Chinese satellites are 'dogfighting' in space -- Begun, preparation for orbital wars has1 month ago
Crew-9 splashes down while NASA floats along with Trump and Musk nonsense - Comment - Elements within the US space agency have elected to toe the party line - Science - 19 Mar 2025 - | 751 month ago
Boffins 3D-print artificial iris muscle that flexes both ways -- If this light-activated stuff works, it could make building robots easier - or make lazing about under the Sun quite a workout1 month ago
Los Alamos boffins whip up a speedometer for satellites -- First license plates, now a way to calculate pace in orbit. Speeding tickets next?1 month ago
SpaceX Dragon pod arrives at ISS to finally pick up stranded Boeing astronaut pair -- Second time's a charm1 month ago
Bubble trouble in hydraulics blamed for NASA and SpaceX Crew-10 scrub -- Trapped gas isn't just a party foul – it's a launch-stopper -- Science1 month ago
France offers US scientists a safe haven from Trump's war on woke -- Aix-Marseille University rolls out welcome mat for American researchers facing funding cuts -- Offbeat1 month ago
Saturn runs rings around Jupiter -- Ratification of 128 additional moons puts the smaller gas giant way ahead on satellite count -- Science1 month ago
Starliner astronauts' stay drags on as Crew-10 launch scrubs - Updated - Hydraulic problems stop the countdown clock at T-44 minutes - Science - 13 Mar 2025 - | 351 month ago
ESA cuts the ribbon on 34,000-core Space HPC center tailored for space workloads -- PUE of 1.09 and heats the building it lives in -- HPC1 month ago
AI models hallucinate, and doctors are OK with that -- Eggheads call for comprehensive rules to govern machine learning in medical settings -- AI + ML1 month ago
Rocket Lab says NASA lacks leadership on Mars Sample Return -- Agency willing to take huge risks with human exploration, but not willing to do it for some dirt? -- Science1 month ago
Microsoft quantum breakthrough claims labeled 'unreliable' and 'essentially fraudulent' Updated - Redmond insists it's got this right and has even more impressive results to share soon - Systems - 12 Mar 2025 - | 651 month ago
Man with artificial heart survives over 100 days outside hospital -- Skip the schnitzel with gravy and chips for lunch - this is an experimental device for transplant candidates1 month ago
From pantyhose to power cells, nylon gives lithium batteries a leg up -- Researchers claim efficiency boost plus reduction in environmental harm1 month ago
Is NASA's science budget heading for a black hole? COMMENT - Dare mighty things ... as long as we can afford it - Science - 11 Mar 2025 - | 1111 month ago
Earth's atmosphere is shrinking and thinning, which is bad news for Starlink and other LEO Sats -- The thermosphere usually drags space junk to its doom. As it thins, ruined orbits are a possibility1 month ago
Things are looking down for cutting-edge cosmic observatories - Opinion - Space is the place? Not if you're nuts about neutrinos - Science - 10 Mar 2025 - | 161 month ago
Surprise! People don't want AI deciding who gets a kidney transplant and who dies or endures years of misery -- Researchers find AI isn't ready to help with moral decision making -- AI + ML1 month ago
Athena Moon lander officially FOADs – falls over and dies – in crater -- Second time unlucky for Intuitive Machines, but hey, at least we got 250MB of data from it -- Science1 month ago
Axiom Space and Red Hat to take edge computing into orbit -- To boldly go where HPE and Raspberry Pi have been for a while -- Edge + IoT1 month ago
SpaceX's 'Days Since Starship Exploded' counter made it to 48. It's back to zero again now -- 'Energetic event' did for Flight 8 after a few minutes. Super Heavy Booster recovered again, so there's that1 month ago
Moonshot goes sideways as Intuitive Machines' second lunar lander seemingly falls over -- Space is hard. Hopefully not so hard the three rovers on this spaceship are lost1 month ago
More Voyager instruments shut down to eke out power supplies -- Veteran probes close in on the half century1 month ago
UK must give more to ESA to get benefits of space industry boom, says Brian Cox -- Physicist and media darling argues partnership with NASA too prone to political whim1 month ago
Satnav systems built for Earth used by Blue Ghost lander as it approached the Moon -- No, your car can't navigate in space. But perhaps colonies can find their way without dedicated lunar GPS1 month ago
Controllers getting no response from Lunar Trailblazer orbiter or Odin asteroid mining probe -- NASA and AstroForge missions prove Space is Hard1 month ago
Scotland now home to Europe's biggest battery as windy storage site fires up -- 400MWh now, and 600MWh by next year? Crivens, that's a fat batt!1 month ago
Scientists create woolly ma-mouse by looking at mean genes from the Pleistocene -- Eggheads claim breakthrough in step toward making ancient beasts 'de-extinct'1 month ago
SpaceX loses a Falcon 9 booster and scrubs a Starship -- Reusable first stage of workhorse tips over after landing1 month ago
The ups and down of a virtual trip to the Moon in Zero G's 727 - interview - But what will the parabola specialist do when spares for Boeing's classic run dry? Science - 04 Mar 2025 - | 111 month ago
America's National Science Foundation workers fired in bulk by Trump now reinstated -- Judge slams 'significant chaos' that's become Uncle Sam's standard operating procedure1 month ago
SpaceX receives FAA blessing for another Starship test -- Flying to the Turks and Caicos tonight? Good luck1 month ago
Polish space agency confirms cyberattack -- Officials vow to uncover who was behind it -- Ransomware in Focus -- 03 Mar 20251 month ago
First private moon lander to touch down safely starts sending selfies -- Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost planned to work for 14 days, should be useful for years thanks to its reflector that improves on Apollo-era tech -- Science -- 03 Mar 20251 month ago
ESA's Integral gamma-ray gazer gasps its last -- After almost 23 years on the job, observations end for 2029 re-entry -- Science -- 28 Feb 20251 month ago
AWS unboxes quantum cat qubit kit called Ocelot -- Sprinting after Microsoft and co, Amazon claims it too has a QC chip that's good at all-important error correction -- Science -- 27 Feb 20251 month ago
DARPA seeks ideas for 'large bio-mechanical space structures' -- How to make them, and what to use them for2 months ago
SpaceX says bad vibes most likely cause of Starship 7 flop -- All fixed for Flight Test Eight, OK?2 months ago
The red color of Mars might have an earlier, wetter origin -- Scientists pool data from ESA and NASA spacecraft to come up with a ferrihydrite theory2 months ago
SpaceX has an explanation for the Falcon 9 bits that hit Poland -- Oxygen leak blamed for a lack of deorbit burn2 months ago
Here's the ugliest global-warming chart you'll ever need to see -- Analysis -- Earth is running a fever. That's not news. What's surprising is exactly how fast its temperature is rising2 months ago
Los Alamos boffins slap blinkers on satellites so we know who to blame in a crash -- Extremely Low Resource Optical Identifier no brighter than LED, but readable with telescopes -- Networks2 months ago
Elon Musk calls for International Space Station to be deorbited by 2027 -- Plus: ESA astronaut Andreas Mogensen not happy with SpaceX chief for 'lie' about 'abandoned' Starliner crew -- Science2 months ago
National Science Foundation staff axed by Trump fear for US scientific future -- Feature -- An inside tale: Probation extended, tenure revoked, a scramble to merge research portfolios, and more2 months ago
NASA's on-again, off-again job cuts – what's the plan? -- Comment -- Lucky there isn't an asteroid headed for Earth for which a demoralized space agency might need to mount a redirect mission2 months ago
France tops China's tokamak record with 22-minute plasma containment run -- Nice number, but also not much more than a nice advance -- Science2 months ago
Microsoft shows off novel quantum chip that can scale to 'a million qubits'. So far: Eight -- Updated -- Not just a matter of time but a matter of Majorana fermions, too2 months ago
Telco to open lab to test cell network interoperability with satellites -- Because 4G notspots aren't much good to anyone -- Networks2 months ago
Odds of city-killer asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting Earth creep upward -- It's probably fine2 months ago
Einstein Probe finds two stars that have spent 40 million years taking turns eating each other -- Odd X-ray flashes gave the game away, just few weeks after China-led mission launched2 months ago
City-slaying space rock 2024 YR4 still has 2.4% shot at smacking Earth -- Scientists refine estimates, but can't yet rule out an impact2 months ago
There's a slight chance Asteroid 2024 YR4 could hit Moon in 2032 -- Very unlikely, but could make for a neat light show if it does2 months ago
International Space Station's out-of-this-world selfie booth turns 15 -- The Cupola continues to offer the best views in the universe2 months ago
Undergrad and colleagues accidentally shred 40-year hash table gospel -- Student shows 'uniform hashing is optimal' was just wishful thinking2 months ago
DARPA skips the lab, will head to orbit to test space manufacturing tech -- Previous NOM4D experiments have gone so well, says project leader, that it's time to get real2 months ago
James Webb Space Telescope to size up asteroid 2024 YR4 before it rocks our world -- 40 m or 90 m? The difference matters in the case of impact2 months ago