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Fri, 22 Sep 2017 05:02:04 GMT
Bio-boffins urge Red Planet life search to hunt for weird metal
Scientists hoping to discover evidence of life on Mars should search for vanadium, a metallic element, according to a paper published in Astrobiology this month.…
Thu, 21 Sep 2017 05:04:06 GMT
Alternative title for this science paper: Seven-inch bullies humiliate unsuspecting birds
Waterfowl situation... Some alpha ducks bully smaller ducks so much when competing for mates that the beta birds' undercarriages barely take off, so to speak, a new study has found.…
Wed, 20 Sep 2017 05:02:09 GMT
Sitting less than one light year apart in spiral galaxy NGC 7674
Scientists have discovered the closest-ever supermassive black hole binary system. It's in the spiral galaxy NGC 7674, and the pair of voids are separated by a distance of less than one light year.…
Mon, 18 Sep 2017 21:26:04 GMT
'Hang on, Trump has done what??!?'
Video Six would-be Mars colonists have emerged from eight months of isolation on top of a Hawaiian volcano as part of preparations for an eventual manned mission to the Red Planet.…
Fri, 15 Sep 2017 22:58:01 GMT
A hidden British engineering gem: The Hovercraft Museum
Geeks' Guide to Britain Did you know that the word “hovercraft” was once patented? And did you know that Great Britain is a world leader in the design and manufacture of the floaty transporters, and has been for half a century?…
Fri, 15 Sep 2017 22:52:15 GMT
Electrophorus electricus is not something to be messed with
One man has calculated the power of electric shocks emitted from electric eels on the human arm - his in fact - all in the name of science.…
Fri, 15 Sep 2017 10:04:05 GMT
It's coming for your jobs, very, very slowly
ROTM It's the most eco-friendly DNA walker I know, computer scientist Damien Woods told The Register.…
Fri, 15 Sep 2017 09:32:05 GMT
But the mission is far from over, say scientists
Cassini, one of NASA’s flagship spacecraft, is poised to meet its fiery end today as it plunges down into Saturn’s atmosphere at a speed of 123,000kph (77,000mph) per hour, where it will soon vaporise.…
Fri, 15 Sep 2017 05:57:20 GMT
Why people hate cheese and speaker worn in the vagina also score 'make you laugh, then make you think' awards
2017's Ig Nobel prizes have been awarded, again with the aim of shining a light on science that first makes you laugh and then makes you think.…
Thu, 14 Sep 2017 21:51:45 GMT
Black planet, black world
Scientists studying WASP-12b, an exoplanet 871 light years from Earth, have determined that it reflects almost no light, making it one of the darkest planets in space.…
Thu, 14 Sep 2017 06:29:12 GMT
Just landed on the Moon and fancy a drink? Step on up
Scientists have created the first map that traces the water content on the surface of the Moon, in the hopes that it may come in handy for astronauts searching for drinking water or fuel.…
Thu, 14 Sep 2017 05:01:07 GMT
Kuiper-belt-bound craft needs a few weeks of tweaks to prepare for Space Duck 2.0
The New Horizons probe has successfully ended its five-month hibernation and resumed chats with its mission controllers.…
Wed, 13 Sep 2017 21:44:12 GMT
Scientists reignite the idea of water-bearing asteroids bringing oceans to Earth
Scientists have found evidence that there may be ground ice on Vesta, the brightest asteroid visible from Earth.…
Wed, 13 Sep 2017 19:04:24 GMT
AR Scorpii was the first white dwarf pulsar to be found
Scientists trying to crack the mystery behind the fastest-pulsating white dwarf have found that its brightness levels change over a timescale of decades.…
Wed, 13 Sep 2017 07:03:10 GMT
Which is why its cameras will stop snapping a day before it smacks into Saturn
Space is nasty and sending data across 83 light-minutes of it isn't easy, so the Cassini probe's death dive into the clouds of Saturn will be an instruments-only affair undocumented by photographs.…
Wed, 13 Sep 2017 00:07:57 GMT
Radio jets beamed from gigantic black holes are still a mystery
Physicists have managed to analyze the hidden "tails" swirling around quasars in supermassive black holes by using a combination of radio telescopes and the Gaia space observatory.…
Tue, 12 Sep 2017 07:02:15 GMT
It's all gone potato-shaped for some galaxies already
A team led by Sydney University's Dr Caroline Foster has created three-dimensional images of 845 galaxies, claiming it is the biggest collection of of 3D galactic representations ever gathered.…
Mon, 11 Sep 2017 23:57:56 GMT
Research just isn't as effective as it used to be
Innovation, fetishized by Silicon Valley companies and celebrated by business boosters, no longer provides the economic jolt it once did.…
Mon, 11 Sep 2017 23:01:23 GMT
So, does my stellar nursery look big in this?
The rate of star formation might play a bigger role in affecting a galaxy's shape than previously thought, according to a recent study.…
Fri, 08 Sep 2017 21:36:17 GMT
Could any 'detect the transits of the Solar System planets'?
Scientists on Earth have found thousands of exoplanets – but which of those potential alien civilizations are in the best position to discover us?…
Fri, 08 Sep 2017 05:03:05 GMT
Did, did these bio-boffins just sass us?
A team of scientists has proposed a new classification system that grades how advanced alien civilizations are by examining how an exoplanet uses energy.…
Thu, 07 Sep 2017 21:28:05 GMT
Air Force picks Florida as new center for mini-shuttle
Video SpaceX today successfully launched the US Air Force's secretive mini-space-shuttle X-37B from the biz's launch pad at the Kennedy Space Center on Cape Canaveral, Florida.…
Thu, 07 Sep 2017 07:01:04 GMT
Probe skipped past Pluto by 12,500km, so this rock needs to prepare for its close-up
If we're not all too hungover when New Year's Day 2019 rolls around, NASA will hopefully have a fun set of photos to show us because on that day New Horizons probe has been told to go within just 3,500km of Kuiper Belt Object MU69.…
Wed, 06 Sep 2017 21:58:08 GMT
Astroboffins predict cosmic collision for ice giant
Four of the 27 moons orbiting Uranus are on a collision course and will smash into each other, creating new rings around the distant ice giant.…
Wed, 06 Sep 2017 18:50:16 GMT
Biggest Sun flare in years could be heading our way
Those living on the top and bottom of our planet are in for a superb light show over the next few days – as the Aurora Borealis in the north, and Australis in the south, will be on full display.…
Wed, 06 Sep 2017 09:55:26 GMT
Before you scoff, consider how much we rationalise away what's in front of us
Scientists hunting for the secret of how boffin scalpel-fodder favourite Drosophila melanogaster (aka the fruit fly) makes decisions have found that some of the brain circuitry active when it makes choices can be linked to what it has already seen.…
Wed, 06 Sep 2017 05:01:08 GMT
Another glimmer of hope of finding ET on otherwise barren brutal busted-flush dust world
Boron, a relatively rare chemical element, has been detected on Mars for the first time. It's a sign there may have been life on the Red Planet.…
Tue, 05 Sep 2017 23:52:32 GMT
What goes up, Musk stay on the ground at this rate
Incoming Hurricane Irma is menacing Florida, USA, prompting mandatory evacuations – and threatening to ruin Elon Musk's week too.…
Tue, 05 Sep 2017 20:55:07 GMT
Rep Bridenstine wants to get into space – presumably after we've destroyed this world
President Donald Trump this month nominated US House Rep James Bridenstine (R-OK) to be the next NASA administrator.…
Tue, 05 Sep 2017 06:59:55 GMT
4.5km rock is the largest object we've seen up close, albeit still 7,000,000km away
Be glad that the asteroid dubbed “Florence” won't revisit Earth for many, many years: observations during its weekend fly-by revealed that the space-rock is so big it's captured two moons.…
Tue, 05 Sep 2017 01:53:30 GMT
9194441048576 + 1 is six MEELLION digits long and the twelfth biggest prime ever found
Humanity's collection of the very large prime numbers just grew by one member: 9194441048576 + 1.…
Mon, 04 Sep 2017 04:58:13 GMT
Who or what had 10 million trillion trillion joules to play with, 3 billion light years away?
Fast Radio Burst-hunters have suffered London Bus syndrome again: fifteen have shown up at once.…
Fri, 01 Sep 2017 20:10:47 GMT
First time boffins have detected water in the planetary system
The Hubble Space Telescope has spotted possible signs of water on the outer planets of TRAPPIST-1, the system with the most exoplanets in a star’s habitable zone.…
Fri, 01 Sep 2017 06:06:05 GMT
Shocking! Lab experiments prove promising, but predicting real destruction is a lot harder
Earthquakes are, by their nature, unpredictable. Although geologists understand why and how the tremors occur, forecasting them more than a few minutes ahead is very difficult.…
Thu, 31 Aug 2017 19:16:32 GMT
Norbert Blum says his proposed solution doesn't work
Computer science boffin Norbert Blum has acknowledged that his P≠NP proof is incorrect, as a number of experts anticipated.…
Wed, 30 Aug 2017 23:24:28 GMT
Fast method gives researchers more time to answer bigger questions about our Universe
A group of physicists has trained an artificial neural network to analyze gravitational lensing images ten million times faster than normal computational methods.…
Tue, 29 Aug 2017 23:04:40 GMT
Human body 'tries to turn on all possible defense systems'
A new study analyzing the blood samples of 18 Russian cosmonauts reveals that space sends the body’s defensive immune system into overdrive.…
Tue, 29 Aug 2017 18:16:33 GMT
On Earth it requires two diamonds and a ton of pressure
Oil and water do mix, a group of scientists have discovered. The two substances normally repel one another, but under extreme conditions oil molecules can dissolve in water.…
Tue, 29 Aug 2017 05:27:05 GMT
Submersible drones are vulnerable when they surface to recharge, hence the need for wetter-is-better top-up tech
Uncrewed underwater vessels are playing a growing role in military operations like surveillance, but they have to either land or surface to recharge their batteries.…
Mon, 28 Aug 2017 23:03:46 GMT
Galactic magnetism emerges early on in the universe's life
Scientists have measured the magnetic field of a galaxy five billion light years from Earth, the most distant coherent magnetic field that has ever been observed.…
Sat, 26 Aug 2017 07:41:11 GMT
NASA's investigations into the watery moons may hold secrets to life in the Solar System
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope will be focused on Europa and Enceladus, the moons of Jupiter and Saturn, in efforts to uncover the secrets of how life began in the Solar System.…
Fri, 25 Aug 2017 21:58:11 GMT
Residents flee as weather services upgrade storm to Category Three
As Hurricane Harvey bears down on the Texas coast, American satellites have provided vital monitoring data to give Texans the best information about the incoming terror tempest.…
Fri, 25 Aug 2017 03:59:48 GMT
Tablet beat Pythagoras by a millennium, may explain how the ancients built pyramids
Those of you who can remember trigonometry can feel free to forget it, because ancient Babylonian mathematicians had a better way of doing it – using base 60!…
Wed, 23 Aug 2017 17:42:21 GMT
Not that the people wearing it will complain – as long as it keeps 'em alive, right?
Pic Elon Musk revealed the first official photo of the SpaceX "spacesuit" today on Instagram.…
Wed, 23 Aug 2017 00:04:38 GMT
Astronomers Without Borders asks you to think of the children
On Monday, millions of Americans watched nature's ballet play out across the Sun (excluding those of us in San Francisco, where we were fogged in). Now an appeal is going out for used glasses to be donated to charity.…
Tue, 22 Aug 2017 17:03:07 GMT
El Reg talks to experts on Kim's capabilities
Feature When they said a week is a lifetime in politics, they weren't kidding.…
Mon, 21 Aug 2017 21:47:08 GMT
Stanford researchers figure out how icy outer planets make it rain gemstones
Researchers from Stanford have shown how the frigid, high-pressure atmospheres of the planets Uranus and Neptune can create a "rain" of diamonds.…
Mon, 21 Aug 2017 06:55:06 GMT
Remote work and automation is about to see Voyager-listeners' work change, but our man says tuning in is still a thrill
When Richard Stephenson drives to work, there's a chance that later that day he'll become the first human to see new details of Mars, a moon of Saturn, or the far reaches of the solar system.…
Thu, 17 Aug 2017 07:26:09 GMT
We hardly noticed at first, but records revealed plenty about how star-stuff sails solar winds
On October 14th, 2014, the Sun decided it was time for a coronal mass ejection, the irregular hiccups that see it belch out astounding quantities of magnetised plasma. And after careful analysis, we've now fingerprinted the plasma's passing using no fewer than ten spacecraft.…
Thu, 17 Aug 2017 03:58:11 GMT
Teams get extra wiggle room to hit final deadline
The X-Prize Foundation has cut some slack for teams vying to be the first to land a robot on the Moon and scoop millions of dollars as a result.…
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