Science

DARPA's robot sat-fixing program survives sueball strike

Aerospace firm says there's no market for this stuff, wants to build it anyway
17 Jul 01:39

Physicists send supersonic shock waves rippling through a lab

High-Mach number, magnetized collisionless shocks reproduced
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15 Jul 07:02

Eggheads identify the last animal that will survive on Earth until the Sun dies

Amazingly, it's not Keith Richards
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14 Jul 21:16

Luxembourg passes first EU space mining law. One can possess the Spice

Paves way for thousands of sci-fi novel prologues to come true
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14 Jul 13:12

ESA trying to 'bake, rattle and roll' gravity wave space probe

LISA Pathfinder's watch is over, but busting it can teach us to handle future, nastier, missions
14 Jul 05:32

Juno beams back first closeups of Jupiter's unsightly red acne

Shrinking spot looks like the Eye of Sauron
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13 Jul 05:01

NASA flies plane through Earthly shadow of Kuiper Belt object

2014 MU69 is New Horizons' next stop and this is a way to get an early look
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12 Jul 07:28

Astroboffins spot tiniest star yet – we guess you could call it... small fry

Little blighter is about the size of our system's Saturn
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11 Jul 23:01

Japan joins quantum space race with microsatellite demo

SOCRATES shows off space-to-ground entanglement
11 Jul 05:02

Just in time for summer boozing: Boffins smash world record for the most perfect ice cubes

It's Pimms O' Clock somewhere in the world right now
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10 Jul 21:11

LHC finds a new and very charming particle: the Xicc++ baryon

Four times as massive as a proton, a way to check out the strong nuclear force
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10 Jul 04:13

Semiconductor-laced bunny eyedrops appear to nuke infections

Quantum dots show promise for fighting bacterial keratitis
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07 Jul 10:02

Astronomers fire up AI algorithms to hunt Milky Way's hot Jupiters

Sixty rare possible candidates eyed from NASA's Kepler probe
07 Jul 06:02
Tokamak

While USA is distracted by its President's antics, China is busy breaking another fusion record

Tweet a GIF about that, Donald
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06 Jul 21:53
Data at wavelength of 0.45 mm, combined from SCUBA and SCUBA-2, in a false-colour image. The Geminga pulsar (inside the black circle) is moving towards the upper left, and the orange dashed arc and cylinder show the 'bow-wave' and a 'wake'. The region shown is 1.3 light-years across; the bow-wave probably stretches further behind Geminga, but SCUBA imaged only the 0.4 light-years in the centre.

'Vicious' neutron star caught collecting dustbunnies

Geminga! Yet another of astronomy's classic pranks...
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06 Jul 10:54

Boffins with frickin' laser beams chase universe's mysterious trihydrogen

Can science crack the cosmos's inexplicable yet bountiful ion? We think it can
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06 Jul 06:03

RED ALERT! High-speed alien fugitives are invading our Milky Way

Turbo-charged solar runaways escape home galaxies, scream through our cosmic backwater
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06 Jul 05:02

Boffins' five eyes surprise: Bees correct colour for ambient light

Three eyes look at the sky
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05 Jul 06:05

MH370 researchers refine their prediction of the place nobody looked

April drift test analysis updated
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05 Jul 05:05

Extreme trainspotting on Britain's highest (and windiest) railway

Geek's Guide to BritainTibet? Pah! A £20m ride puts the Highlands at your feet
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04 Jul 08:01

SpaceX halts Intelsat 35e launch twice in a row

Rocket and payload just fine, try again tomorrow
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04 Jul 07:04

Constant work makes the kilo walk the Planck

Massive news
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04 Jul 06:04

NASA: Bring on the asteroid, so we can chuck a fridge at it

Putting Bruce Willis out of work
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03 Jul 06:03

China pollutes ocean with bloody big rocket

Long March, short flight
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03 Jul 02:05

Sailor Moon? More like sail to the Moon: Japan vows to set foot on lunar soil by 2030

All part of the wider plan to visit the dusty wasteland of Mars
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30 Jun 20:45

Shock: NASA denies secret child sex slave cannibal colony on Mars

No humans on Red Planet, straight-faced officials have the audacity to claim
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30 Jun 18:34

Did you know? Today is International Asteroid Day! Wouldn't it be amazing if one were to...

Tune into space boffins' 24-hour telethon celebration
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30 Jun 05:01
Testing traction control at JPL

NASA tells Curiosity: Quit showing off, no 'wheelies' please

Software update adds traction control to protect rover's wheels
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30 Jun 01:56

Talk about cutting-edge technology! Boffins fire world's sharpest laser

Stable for up to 10x the distance from Earth to Moon
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29 Jun 21:47

Astroboffins dig into the weird backwards orbit of the Bee-Zed asteroid

Tiny body moves similar to Jupiter – but travels in the opposite direction
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29 Jun 06:01
Black holes merging

Ever wondered why the universe only has black holes in S or XXXL? No? Boffins have an answer

Never a M or L when you want one, right?
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27 Jun 23:52
NASA's Low Boom Flight Demonstration aircraft

Concorde without the cacophony: NASA thinks it's cracked quiet supersonic flight

Sonic boom reduced to 'soft thump' by well-designed shockwaves
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27 Jun 07:26

India's Martian MOM clocks up 1,000 days circling the red planet

But she's down to just 13kg of fuel after seven-minute eclipse-avoidance burn
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27 Jun 06:33

No way to sugarcoat this: I'm afraid Uranus opens and closes to accept particle streams

It's official. Uranus clenches after taking in hot beams
Blinded me with science

Researchers blind autonomous cars by tricking LIDAR

As I was on the motorway, I saw a man who wasn't there. Then things went pear-shaped
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27 Jun 01:14

Researchers solve screen glare nightmare with 'moth-eye' antireflective film

£$% ambient... light! Can't see.. darn.. phone... screen
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26 Jun 09:32
SpaceX barge

SpaceX nails two launches and barge landings in one weekend

Your bike ride/Glastonbury/hookup with a hottie looks a bit less epic now, eh?
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26 Jun 05:02
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