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Ancient Ore Crusher or KillBot 2000? NASA gets ready to pick a name for its Mars 2020 Rover
Destined to die a lonely Martian death? How about Doomed Buggy?
22 Jan 11:46 | 2
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SpaceX ponders its next mission to blot out the Sun with another 60 Starlink sats
Also: ISS batteries changed, Virgin's fleet grows, Rocket Lab makes nod to crap sitcom, and more
21 Jan 11:23 | 3
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Fly me to the M(O2)n: Euro scientists extract oxygen from 'lunar dust' by cooking it with molten salt electrolysis
'Being able to acquire oxygen would obviously be hugely useful for future settlers'
21 Jan 07:27 | 76
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World-record-breaking boffins reveal the fastest spinning thing on Earth – and it's not George Orwell in his grave
Privacy's dead but, hey, we've got nanoparticles spinning at 300 billion RPM. So that's cool
21 Jan 05:36 | 29
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Big Falcon explosion as SpaceX successfully demos Crew Dragon abort systems
Mere months until 'nauts get a ticket to ride?
20 Jan 10:30 | 88
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The mysterious giant blobs of gas around our galaxy's black hole are actually massive merger stars being shredded
Yum, long noodle-like stars
16 Jan 06:54 | 29
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15 years on, Euroboffins finally work out what it took to send the Huygens Titan probe into such a spin
Negative torque didn't bring the plucky spacecraft down, thankfully
15 Jan 06:03 | 35
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NASA is Boeing to get to the bottom of that Starliner snafu... plus SpaceX preps to blow up a Falcon 9
RoundupAlso: Fancy a trip round the Moon? Of course you do, but there's a catch...
14 Jan 09:15 | 33
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Geoboffins find the oldest matter on Earth: Ancient stardust created before the Solar System formed
That's way, way, way older than the dust off your oldest PC
14 Jan 05:16 | 22
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There's a cling-on off the starboard bow... Small moon spotted orbiting asteroid NASA's Lucy will visit in 2027
Tch-oh, you wait for one cosmic rock and then two show up
10 Jan 20:04 | 10
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H0LiCOW: Cosmoboffins still have no idea why universe seems to be expanding more rapidly than expected
New estimation of Hubble Constant emerges
10 Jan 07:18 | 80
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Astroboffins discover Sun is surfing on 9,000-light-year gas wave that acts as Milky Way's stellar nursery
The Radcliffe is totally radical
09 Jan 06:51 | 21
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Blame of thrones: Those viral vids of PC monitors going blank when people stand up? Static electricity from chairs
VideoEl Reg speaks to ex-AT&T boffin who previously probed weird effect
09 Jan 05:58 | 61
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Pack your bags! NASA's latest exoplanet hunter satellite finds its first Earth-sized world in a habitable zone – and it's only 100 light years away
VidTESS also spots Tatooine-alike
08 Jan 05:12 | 23
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Is there alien life on Earth? Maybe, says Brit 'naut. Well, where did they come from? How about this far-away cluster. Or this 'Godzilla' galaxy...
Infinite diversity in infinite combinations... symbolizing the elements that create truth and beauty.
07 Jan 06:07 | 51
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From Soviet to science fiction icon, the weird life of Isaac Asimov 100 years on
CommentNot perfect, but pretty damn good
06 Jan 10:34 | 142
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NASA's monster rocket inches towards testing while India plots return to the Moon
Chandrayaan-3 to be a bit less crashy this time around
03 Jan 13:46 | 39
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A cheery New Year tale: How the Dundee Satellite Receiving Station might rise once more
Missed The Great Escape this year? How about boffins rescuing sat dishes from the scrappers instead?
02 Jan 13:35 | 10
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European Space Agency launches planet-hunting Cheops while Rocket Lab starts on a third launchpad
RoundupMeanwhile, in the UK: Rocket engine testing? Here? We'd really rather not...
24 Dec 13:30 | 29
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Starliner: Boeing, Boeing... it's back! Borked capsule makes a successful return to Earth
Making lemonade out of lemons with Calypso
23 Dec 12:00 | 95
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LastPass stores passwords so securely, not even its users can access them
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Remember that Sonos speaker you bought a few years back that works perfectly? It's about to be screwed for... reasons
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Windows 7 back in black as holdouts report wallpaper-stripping shenanigans
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Leave your admin interface's TLS cert and private key in your router firmware in 2020? Just Netgear things
Finding sparks debate over bug disclosure – and how to secure a local gateway's web control panel
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'I am done with open source': Developer of Rust Actix web framework quits, appoints new maintainer
Project author Nikolay Kim also given some community support after 'unsafe shitstorm'
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Wave goodbye: DigitalOcean decimates workforce as co-founder reveals lack of profitability, leadership turmoil
Literally: As much as 10% of employees at server-hosting biz laid off in 'non-cost-cutting' move
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South American nations open fire on ICANN for 'illegal and unjust' sale of .amazon to zillionaire Jeff Bezos
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WTF, EFS? Experts warn Windows encryption could spawn nasty new ransomware
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This isn't Boeing very well... Faulty timer knackers Starliner cargo capsule on its way to International Space Station
What a clock-up
20 Dec 23:56 | 113
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No, Illyrian, Naqaỹa, Mastika, Automex aren't Hollywood's hottest baby names – they're new monikers for exoplanets
The IAU brandishes 112 new names for the star systems and its exoplanets to celebrate its 100 year anniversary
18 Dec 08:02 | 9
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Happy Artemis Day everybody! NASA preps its monster rocket for testing
RoundupSinging songs around the bonfire of billions and other stories
17 Dec 12:28 | 22
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Someone get Greenpeace on the line. Boffins clock carbon 'pollution' cloud 30,000 light-years wide choking galaxies
It's the first bit of evidence that confirms carbon born in ancient stars spreads throughout space
17 Dec 05:04 | 25
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And now for this evening's space weather report. We've got a hotspot of satellite-wrecking 'killer electrons' in the outer Van Allen belt...
...So consider rerouting your journey through that
13 Dec 22:51 | 31
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Rocket Lab ends year by cutting ribbon on first launchpad in the US
Launch opportunities per year now over 130. Actually launched in 2019: 6
13 Dec 18:00 | 3
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100 mysterious blinking lights in the night sky could be evidence of alien life... or something weird, say boffins
Either way, we'll take a one-way ticket, please. Now. Thanks. Good
13 Dec 05:56 | 53
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OK. We're off. Water ice found just below the surface of Mars. Good enough for us. Let's go. Impulse power, Mr Sulu
Let's grab a nice cold drink on the Red Planet. Don't forget to pack a shovel
12 Dec 23:21 | 84
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No box shifting, no Buck Rogers. Bezos-backed Blue Origin blasts off once again
Postcards from the edge... of space?
12 Dec 15:15 | 21
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It's a billion-ton, 14-million-mile long mysterious alien formation – and Earth is heading right into it
Yes, it's the debris tail of asteroid 3200 Phaethon, the source of the annual Geminids meteor shower
12 Dec 12:04 | 44
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You cannae break the laws of physics, cap'n... Boffins call BS on 'impossible' black hole, fear readings were botched
UpdatedWe knew it was too good to be true
12 Dec 06:55 | 48
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Space Force is go, go, go! Because we have a child as President of the United States
House of Representatives OKs Trump plan because it wants federal parents to take time off
12 Dec 02:03 | 135
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Boffins find proof that yes, Carl Sagan and Joni Mitchell were right, we really are all made up of star stuff
Sprinkles from extrasolar red giants found here on Earth
11 Dec 08:01 | 39
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ESA trumpets 'world's first space debris removal' with 4-armed junk botherer
Debris removal missions to eventually outnumber actual debris?
10 Dec 14:30 | 30
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We've heard of spam filters but this is ridiculous: Pig-monkey chimeras developed in a Chinese laboratory
We've read enough sci-fi to know how this turns out
10 Dec 05:23 | 132
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Brewing in spaaaaace: SpaceX sends a malting kit to the International Space Station
Round UpPlus: Commercial crew news and NASA publishes what ISRO won't
09 Dec 19:30 | 46
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Forget sharks with lasers, NASA kits out an elephant seal with a sensor-studded skullcap
We're never gonna survive unless, we get a little crazy
06 Dec 23:09 | 36
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Asteroid Bennu is flinging particles of dust and rock from its surface – and scientists can't work out why
PicImages beamed back from NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft leave scientists baffled
06 Dec 00:52 | 26
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We know this sounds weird but in future we could ask fiber optic cables: Did the earth move for you... literally?
Distributed acoustic sensing turns old glass cabling into seismic sensors
05 Dec 08:01 | 25
