Science

Beardy Branson chucks cash at His Muskiness' Hyperloop idea

Firm built round improbable concept now to be known as Virgin Hyperloop One
45 Comments
13 Oct 13:28

Top of the radio charts: Jodrell Bank goes for UNESCO World Heritage status

UN, you had better say yes...
34 Comments
12 Oct 12:11

Look! Over there! Intel's cooked a 17-qubit chip quantum package

Have you tried collapsing the waveform and polarizing a photon again?
52 Comments
12 Oct 04:15

Someone liked dwarf planet Haumea so much they put a ring on it

VIDEOWe've not seen orbital bling out this far before
17 Comments
12 Oct 03:31

They've only gone and made a chemical-threat-detecting ring

Oo, what's that you've got on? Chanel No. 5? Anthrax? This trendy wearable would know
25 Comments
11 Oct 14:05

NASA readies its asteroid warning system for harmless flyby

Reminder: amateur astronomers, watch out for 2012 TC4, you might get lucky
32 Comments
11 Oct 04:56

Three words: Synthetic gene circuit. Self-assembling bacteria build pressure sensor

Because 3D printers are sooo 2006
38 Comments
10 Oct 09:05

Boffins' bonkers fibre demo: 53 Tbps down ONE piece of glass

Japan's NICT looks to data centres of the future
17 Comments
09 Oct 22:56

What does the Moon 4bn years ago and Yahoo! towers this week have in common? Both had an awful atmosphere

Huge explosions belched foul gases, but enough about Y!...
30 Comments
07 Oct 07:35

After seven-hour operation, the ISS has a new 'hand'

Get a grip, it's just another spacewalk
15 Comments
06 Oct 03:56

In current affairs news: Teen boffin with lots of potential crafts electric honeycombs out of oil

He'd teach you about ions and mysterious structures but he'd have to charge
14 Comments
06 Oct 02:56

Foiled again! Brit military minds splash cash on killing satellites with... food wrapping?

Great for keeping sandwiches fresh AND de-orbiting sails
64 Comments
05 Oct 12:02
The Soyuz capsule descending under its parachute this morning. Pic: NASA/Bill Ingalls

NASA tests supersonic parachute, to help us land on Mars

VidSub-orbital rocket worked, but the telemetry indicates a sudden descent
31 Comments
05 Oct 06:24

Biochem boffins win the Nobel Prize for cryo-electron microscopy

Fancy method captures three-dimensional images of biomolecules
12 Comments
05 Oct 05:01
Super-villain Dr Evil puts finger to lip in scheming manner, asks for one million dollars. Pic: New Line Cinema

Li-quid hot mag-ma: There's a Martian meteorite in your backyard. How'd it get there?

Asteroid smacks chunks off a volcano... but not as we know it
27 Comments
04 Oct 13:21

Rosetta probe's final packets massaged into new snap of Comet 67P

Just 53 per cent of the image made it home, so software thought it couldn't be a photo
28 Comments
04 Oct 07:28

Physicists win Nobel Prize for spotting ripples in fabric of space-time

Dude. Woah.
24 Comments
03 Oct 13:38

Forget the 'simulated universe', say boffins, no simulator could hit the required scale

Reality will have to do unless you can leap-frog quantum computing
135 Comments
03 Oct 07:01

Life began after meteorites splashed into warm ponds of water, say astronomers

Cosmic carbon crashes, plus grains galore, set the chemical world cranking
33 Comments
03 Oct 06:29

Bad news! Astroboffins find the stuff of life in space for the first time

We thought this stuff would turn up where there's already life. Turns out it's everywhere
65 Comments
03 Oct 04:02

Nobel Prize for boffins who figured out why you feel like crap after long-haul flights

It's the same for fruit flies
28 Comments
02 Oct 16:31

Geoboffins claim to find oldest trace of life in rocks 4bn years old

It could hint at the possibilities of life on other planets early on in their development
63 Comments
30 Sep 07:27

Musk: Come ride my Big F**king Rocket to Mars

By 2024. Possibly. SpaceX isn't very good at deadlines
142 Comments
29 Sep 22:57

Hubble spies most distant comet zipping through Solar System

Iceball K2 is already active despite being far from the Sun
24 Comments
29 Sep 20:25

Ancient fat black holes created by belching Big Bang's dark matter

Streams of gas slammed into cloud of baffling cosmic material – new theory
17 Comments
29 Sep 05:27

Dome, sweet dome: UAE mulls Martian city here on Earth ahead of Red Planet colonization

Massive facility will try self-sustaining for a year
77 Comments
28 Sep 06:31

Did the Earth move for you, too? Grav waves sensed from black holes' bang 1.8bn LYs away

Best signal yet received after space void mega-prang
46 Comments
28 Sep 05:09
Moon

NASA, Roscosmos: We're building a lunar space station!

Can't say where. Can't say when. Can't agree on Mars or Moon as target. But it'll happen!
24 Comments
28 Sep 03:30

Boeing slams $2m on the desk, bellows: Now where's my jetpack?

Aviation chums want personal flying device that can be flown by 'anyone, anywhere'
48 Comments
26 Sep 21:15

Japanese boffins try 'token passing' to scale quantum calculations

If you liked it, then you shoulda put a ring on it it on a ring
26 Sep 11:07
JET interior photo UKAEA

Hotter than the Sun: JET – Earth’s biggest fusion reactor, in Culham

Geek's Guide to BritainA star performer producing fission-free plasma power
139 Comments
25 Sep 08:01

Don't panic, but.. ALIEN galaxies are slamming Earth with ultra-high-energy cosmic rays

Particle streams unlikely to come from within the Milky Way
52 Comments
25 Sep 05:01

Hurricane Maria leaves Arecibo radio telescope damaged and dark

Feed antenna collapses, dropping debris onto main dish
25 Sep 00:09
Sputnik, image via Shutterstock

Sputnik-1 replica used to test the real thing goes under the hammer

If you've got a lazy US$100k to $150k, a piece of history can be yours on Wednesday
his low-angle self-portrait of NASA's Curiosity Mars rover shows the vehicle at the site from which it reached down to drill into a rock target called "Buckskin." The MAHLI camera on Curiosity's robotic arm took multiple images on Aug. 5, 2015, that were stitched together into this selfie. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS

NASA, wait, wait lemme put my drink down... NASA, you need to be searching for vanadium

Bio-boffins urge Red Planet life search to hunt for weird metal
20 Comments
22 Sep 05:02

Ducks ding dongs in face of stiff competition

Alternative title for this science paper: Seven-inch bullies humiliate unsuspecting birds
23 Comments
21 Sep 05:04
Artist's view of a binary black hole. Pic credit: NASA, ESA and G Bacon (STScI)

Boffins discover tightest black hole binary system – and it's supermassive

Sitting less than one light year apart in spiral galaxy NGC 7674
47 Comments
20 Sep 05:02
MORE More icon

Biting the hand that feeds IT © 1998–2017

Cookies Privacy Ts&Cs