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Fri, 30 Sep 2016 14:39:36 GMT
Citizen boffins: Help find the alien that ultimately kills us all
The SETI project, which hunts for alien life and has generated hundreds of terabytes of data every day, has poured its bits over IBM’s cloud for citizen scientists to pick over.…
Fri, 30 Sep 2016 10:29:11 GMT
Slow drop finale
Update The European Space Agency was set to crash its Rosetta space probe into comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko as the final stage of its 12-year research mission at 12.18pm BST today (7:18am EDT).…
Fri, 30 Sep 2016 07:01:09 GMT
From the Giant Magellan 'scope to science and what the nightlife is like in Chile
Pics + vids Construction has now started on the Giant Magellan Telescope – which will be the world's largest optical viewing device mankind has ever built – using record-breaking mirrors and advanced electronics.…
Fri, 30 Sep 2016 06:42:12 GMT
Nuclear-powered laser space tank loves the smell of exotic xenon isotopes in the morning
Mars' atmosphere is wafting up from its cold, dead soil, according to new findings from the Curiosity Rover.…
Wed, 28 Sep 2016 14:48:09 GMT
2006 called, it wants its technology back
US military lunacy department DARPA has begun offering a podcast.…
Wed, 28 Sep 2016 01:58:12 GMT
Thought-to-be-lifeless hell-ball actually has a rich inner life
NASA’s MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry, and Ranging (MESSENGER) craft has found evidence that Sol's innermost planet is tectonically active.…
Tue, 27 Sep 2016 22:01:39 GMT
Red Planet to be Elon-gated community-slash-graveyard
SpaceX founder Elon Musk has laid out an audacious multibillion-dollar plan to send colonists to probably die on Mars.…
Mon, 26 Sep 2016 20:58:01 GMT
What? It's what NASA said - what are you thinking of?
Pics and video Images from the Hubble Space Telescope of Jupiter's most intriguing moon, Europa, appear to show plumes of water being ejected from the surface into space.…
Mon, 26 Sep 2016 09:59:12 GMT
From Acorns to bedrooms
Geek's Guide to Britain King’s Parade in Cambridge looks like the last street on earth to have anything to do with computing. On one side is an absurdly ornate college gatehouse in yellow stone and King’s College Chapel, which combines the barn-like shape of a tiny chapel with the scale and detail of a cathedral.…
Sat, 24 Sep 2016 16:12:20 GMT
Investigations team probed rocket debris and data from 1 September explosion
A large breach in the liquid oxygen tank of SpaceX’s Falcom 9 rocket likely caused the explosion during a test at the start of this month, investigators have said.…
Fri, 23 Sep 2016 10:29:11 GMT
Whichever way you look it's all exactly the same, boffins confirm
Scientists have confirmed that the universe is very likely the same in every direction, showing that the assumption of the universe being isotropic can be safely used in cosmology.…
Fri, 23 Sep 2016 09:57:08 GMT
Also told: ‘Don’t look at France... it’s a nightmare’
British universities are looking to deepen links with their continental counterparts or even open offshore campuses in order to maintain their EU ties.…
Fri, 23 Sep 2016 03:31:21 GMT
Volkswagen also scored one of last night's Ig Nobel Prizes, for software-defined chemistry
The annual Ig Nobel Prizes were handed out on Thursday night, as always “honoring achievements that make people laugh, then think”.…
Wed, 21 Sep 2016 23:01:01 GMT
And yet WhatsApp cost $19bn?
Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan have promised at least $3bn in funding for a medical initiative to cure, prevent or manage all known diseases by the end of the century.…
Wed, 21 Sep 2016 15:34:10 GMT
Flying death spotted in the Cotswolds, boffins move in for the kill
A sleepy Cotswold town could be about to witness the genocide of local honey bees following the discovery of invasive predatory Asian hornets.…
Wed, 21 Sep 2016 06:16:11 GMT
Tune in at 10:40PM UTC next Friday for a 'controlled crash'
The European Space Agency (ESA) has held an hour-long hangout to explain what's likely to happen when its Rosetta spacecraft touches down on Comet 67p.…
Wed, 21 Sep 2016 05:03:07 GMT
Expect fireworks late in 2017
The first space station lofted into orbit by China is coming down next year, the country's space agency has confirmed.…
Tue, 20 Sep 2016 07:22:10 GMT
Antikythera mechanism shipwreck yields old bones
Video The ancient shipwreck off the Greek island of Antikythera has already yielded up archeological wonders but now marine archeologists have found a body buried in the wreck that could yield up some clues as to the ship’s origins.…
Tue, 20 Sep 2016 06:19:06 GMT
The best words in science: 'That's odd'
The Chandra space telescope has spotted X-rays emanating from Pluto.…
Mon, 19 Sep 2016 06:58:10 GMT
Keep Solar System Tidy message heeded despite plan for three probe dumps
NASA has revealed its final plans to crash the Cassini probe into Saturn next year.…
Wed, 14 Sep 2016 16:04:13 GMT
Calibrating relationships between celestial objects
The European Space Agency has revealed the first catalogue of stars mapped during its Gaia mission today.…
Wed, 14 Sep 2016 15:07:08 GMT
Apparently, it was designed to be 'tongue in cheek'
The Science Museum in London has announced it will reconsider its exhibition on sex and gender – after it faced criticism over a quiz that tested whether a brain was male or female.…
Tue, 13 Sep 2016 15:33:05 GMT
Top profs and R&D bod make plea to Parliament
Attracting and retaining EU talent remains a top concern for UK science following Brexit, according to today’s House of Lords Select Committee meeting about EU membership and UK science.…
Tue, 13 Sep 2016 05:24:24 GMT
Amazon CEO's rocket company reveals its orbit-and-beyond-capable boosters
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos' space company Blue Origin has revealed designs for its first orbit-and-beyond-capable boosters.…
Mon, 12 Sep 2016 17:03:09 GMT
Natural selection algorithms to weed out web's crap design
Silicon Valley machine-learning biz Sentient Technologies promises to bring the power of natural selection to marketing via AI, rather than digital marketers.…
Mon, 12 Sep 2016 12:29:18 GMT
Movement without energy? Redmond puts its money where its mouth is
Microsoft researchers have teamed up with physicists from the University of California, Santa Barbara, to show how time crystals might be possible.…
Mon, 12 Sep 2016 02:31:38 GMT
Mars' layered rocks look just like the American southwest, says Yanquiphile NASA
Mars looks just like the American southwest, says NASA after landing images of some big buttes on Mars.…
Fri, 09 Sep 2016 16:01:08 GMT
Did space rocks bring us life? Just 7 years and we'll know!
NASA has successfully launched its first mission sending a spacecraft to an asteroid with the aim of returning samples of space rocks back to Earth.…
Fri, 09 Sep 2016 13:57:08 GMT
'Anomaly' wasn't rocket engine's fault, he claims
SpaceX are still investigating the explosion that caused its Falcon 9 rocket, and the Facebook satellite it was carrying, to erupt into flames last week.…
Fri, 09 Sep 2016 04:51:32 GMT
Yersinia pestis fingered as slayer of 10,000 victims
Scientists have revealed Yersinia pestis as the bacteria that caused London's 1665 Great Plague.…
Thu, 08 Sep 2016 06:04:11 GMT
Realistic tech or lazy plot device – what do you think?
Star Trek @ 50 Zooming through space faster than the speed of light is integral in science fiction if the story unfolds over different planets, galaxies and universes.…
Tue, 06 Sep 2016 10:02:10 GMT
Not just mankind: Ladies love 'em too, we're told
Humankind is still considering whether we could create sex robots – but should we, considering the ethical and legal questions arising from the creation of sex data and non-adult sex robots?…
Tue, 06 Sep 2016 09:35:04 GMT
Chilling on –70°C comet, leg stuck in the air... Fancy a beer, friend?
The European Space Agency's (ESA) obsolete robotic lander Philae has been spotted lying on its side in the dark depths of Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko as the Rosetta mission nears completion.…
Tue, 06 Sep 2016 01:05:26 GMT
'Tabby's Star' gets a friend and it's even stranger, but let's not do the 'alien megastructure' thing again okay?
One curious case of “what's that?” in astronomy is a puzzle: two gets astrophysicists on the way to an answer. An oddly-dimming star called EPIC 204278916 (EPIC in this article) might help boffins understand the “Dyson sphere” (no, it's not) Tabby's star.…
Mon, 05 Sep 2016 15:56:11 GMT
Human guinea pigs to be subjected to more testing after arrival
Three astronauts from the International Space Station are expected to fly home tomorrow after spending 172 days floating in space.…
Mon, 05 Sep 2016 07:32:59 GMT
Better late than never for Mars InSight and its thermo-hammer plan to drill 5 metres into Mars
We're going back to Mars, quite probably on Monday, November 26th, 2018.…
Sat, 03 Sep 2016 04:58:12 GMT
No Hexagon like on Saturn, but still the joy of six: half a dozen megabytes of Juno data took 62 hours to download
Jupiter doesn't have a colossal hexagon at its North Pole, unlike it celestial cousin Saturn.…
Fri, 02 Sep 2016 14:59:45 GMT
Geology, space-style
Ahuna Mons, the 13,000 foot high, 11 mile wide volcano on dwarf planet Ceres is made entirely out of ice – and provides evidence that water may have once existed beneath the planet's surface.…
Fri, 02 Sep 2016 07:54:13 GMT
Biomed brainboxes have already begun moving in
The first scientists are moving into the Francis Crick Institute, the biggest biomedical research institute under one roof, costing £650m.…
Fri, 02 Sep 2016 05:30:13 GMT
Say 'interesting radio signal' probably from boring old Earth
Stand down, one and all: there's not even cool new science in this week's “alien signal”, let alone a SETI success: the signal seems to have come from "terrestrial origins".…
Fri, 02 Sep 2016 03:05:05 GMT
When big media goes clueless about big data
“Chemotherapy kills” was bound to pique our interest, especially since in the best traditions of modern research, its source was a badly-reported scientific study.…
Thu, 01 Sep 2016 18:34:51 GMT
That'll buff right out, no worries
Updated Elon Musk has confirmed that today's SpaceX rocket explosion – which destroyed a $200m satellite – was caused by a cockup during fueling.…
Wed, 31 Aug 2016 20:22:30 GMT
Plucky climate-change probe fends off cosmic intruder
The European Space Agency's Sentinel-1A satellite has been hit by an unidentified flying object while in orbit. Panic not: the probe remains fully operational.…
Wed, 31 Aug 2016 17:01:29 GMT
Stromatolites are evidence of changing chemistry on Earth
The world’s oldest fossils have been discovered in Greenland after a layer of snow on ancient rocks melted, revealing stromatolites embedded in the Isua supracrustal belt.…
Wed, 31 Aug 2016 12:27:11 GMT
Set your watches for tomorrow's skylight extravaganza
Tomorrow’s morning sky will be temporarily blotted by an inky blackness as the Sun disappears behind the moon, leaving a dazzling ‘ring of fire’ in an annular solar eclipse over Africa.…
Wed, 31 Aug 2016 08:02:12 GMT
Microgravity does little to life's secret sauce, experiment confirms
DNA has been sequenced in space for the first time during a series of experiments performed last weekend by biologist-turned-NASA astronaut, Kate Rubins.…
Wed, 31 Aug 2016 07:27:05 GMT
SONEAR sees 25-metre-plus rock when it was, well, so near
A small asteroid made a rare, close pass between Earth and the moon on August 28.…
Tue, 30 Aug 2016 22:12:41 GMT
First real test for second-hand reusable Falcon
European satellite operator SES will trust its latest hardware to a SpaceX Falcon rocket that has already made it into space once.…
Tue, 30 Aug 2016 15:55:13 GMT
Mystery of the missing baryons leads to a surprising find
The supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way galaxy was bursting with nuclear activity when humans' first ancestors roamed the Earth, according to a team of astrophysicists.…
Tue, 30 Aug 2016 08:06:12 GMT
Fooling around with VLC systems
Proponents of visible light communications (VLC) like “Li-Fi” love reminding us of the bonkers speeds they can get (200 Gbps last year, for example), but just like its radio-spectrum counterpart, it needs protection against eavesdropping and jamming.…
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