Space Science Nova-C lander is finally heading to the Moon A commercial spacecraft full of NASA science experiments and "demo" payloads By Alfonso Maruccia, February 16, 2024, 9:29 AM
Science Space NASA's Juno mission captures incredible new images of Jupiter New Jupiter photos from the Io flyby By Daniel Sims, February 14, 2024, 9:26 AM 15 comments
Electronics Science A promising new calcium-oxygen battery design can withstand up to 700 recharge cycles New electrolyte material provides a potential breakthrough for calcium-based batteries By Alfonso Maruccia, February 13, 2024, 10:03 AM 10 comments
Science On the brink: Atlantic Ocean current is getting closer to collapse A real Day After Tomorrow scenario By Rob Thubron, February 13, 2024, 7:46 AM 36 comments
Science Space An experimental 3D printer will melt steel to create new objects... in space Printing metal objects aboard the ISS is a challenging, but potentially game-changing By Alfonso Maruccia, February 12, 2024, 2:13 PM
Space Science Saturn's "Death Star" moon has a 45-mile-deep subsurface ocean The ocean likely occupies half the moon's volume By Daniel Sims, February 9, 2024, 7:39 AM 7 comments
Science Space Jupiter orbiter delivers unprecedented close up images of highly volcanic Jovian moon Io The Juno spacecraft passed within 930 miles of the moon's surface By Cal Jeffrey, February 8, 2024, 4:31 PM
Science CERN reviews plans to build new particle smasher three times bigger than the Large Hadron Collider The costly Future Circular Collider will hopefully unveil more secrets of the universe By Alfonso Maruccia, February 7, 2024, 2:12 PM 29 comments
Science Electronics Next-gen autonomous drone set to unveil hidden secrets of Antarctica The Little Plane That Could (map snow covered mountains) By James Miller, February 4, 2024, 12:08 PM
Science Electronics Artificial plants can convert wind and rain into electricity The proof-of-concept harvests two renewable energy sources simultaneously By Daniel Sims, January 31, 2024, 7:38 AM
Science Elon Musk announces first human Neuralink implant patient, claims promising results The company's first product will be called Telepathy By Rob Thubron, January 30, 2024, 6:55 AM 27 comments
Science Space Moonquakes and Lunar Landslides could endanger astronauts on the moon's south pole The moon is shrinking, which affects one of the possible Artemis 3 landing zones By Daniel Sims, January 27, 2024, 10:22 AM
Space Science Japan crashes SLIM spacecraft upside-down on the moon and calls it a "success" Its two rovers are operational, and the craft seems intact but is without power until February 1 By Cal Jeffrey, January 26, 2024, 4:46 PM 22 comments
Space Science NASA retires Ingenuity helicopter following rotor damage Ingenuity suffered a communications loss earlier this month By Shawn Knight, January 26, 2024, 12:14 PM
Science Tech Culture DragonFire laser weapon can hit a coin from a kilometer away for around $13 a shot Lasers can accurately track and destroy aerial targets By Daniel Sims, January 23, 2024, 2:36 PM 29 comments
Science Liquid metal RAM breakthrough brings us closer to flexible, implantable electronics A lab example of biomimicry By Shawn Knight, January 23, 2024, 12:18 PM
Electronics Science Researchers develop world's first functioning graphene semiconductor Breakthrough could eventually lead to terahertz processors By Cal Jeffrey, January 19, 2024, 3:46 PM 7 comments
Mobile Science Computational photography can capture hand positions and gestures using only an ambient light sensor Researchers worry about privacy, but concerns are largely overblown By Cal Jeffrey, January 18, 2024, 3:18 PM
Science Researchers capture plants' invisible airborne communication on video Uncovering the story of how plants respond to airborne 'warning messages' By Alfonso Maruccia, January 17, 2024, 9:40 AM 7 comments
Space Science NASA discovers new exoplanet with a "lava hemisphere" in a distant star system A tidally-locked planet that is a bit too close to its host star for harboring life By Alfonso Maruccia, January 16, 2024, 2:07 PM 7 comments
Science Tech Culture Microsoft's AI found a new material to replace li-ion batteries Will machine learning algorithms revolutionize scientific research on battery materials? By Alfonso Maruccia, January 11, 2024, 1:42 PM 25 comments
Science Tech Culture People are drinking a lot of nanoplastic particles with bottled water Your fancy bottled water is not as pure as you would hope By Alfonso Maruccia, January 10, 2024, 5:35 PM 60 comments
Science Space Russia and China successfully transmit two images over satellite using quantum communication There are still technical hurdles to overcome but advances are being made By Erika Morphy, January 6, 2024, 4:31 PM 15 comments
Space Science SpaceX comes very close to meeting goal of 100 orbital launches in a year This past week it had the two last launches of the year, including one that carried the US military's X-37B space plane to unprecedented altitudes By Erika Morphy, December 31, 2023, 11:11 AM
Science Space Pioneering study simulates using nuclear weapons for asteroid deflection Life imitating art By Rob Thubron, December 21, 2023, 6:58 AM