Updated programs suggest ARIA will keep singing for another year The UK's Advanced Research and Invention Agency (ARIA) has appointed a second tranche of program leaders and announced new program areas, suggesting confidence in its long-term funding…
Lees meerUpdated programs suggest ARIA will keep singing for another year The UK's Advanced Research and Invention Agency (ARIA) has appointed a second tranche of program leaders and announced new program areas, suggesting confidence in its long-term funding…
Lees meerPublic-private partnership zaps photons at hotspots, hopes to ship by 2027 A startup backed by Sandia National Laboratories thinks it's found a cool new way to keep the world's supercomputers and datacenters cool enough to run efficiently: Zap ‘em w…
Lees meerBuilt by 2028? Maybe. Powering homes? That’s another slip of paper entirely Canadian nuclear regulators have approved an Ontario company's request to build a single small modular reactor (SMR) – the first such license issued in the country.…
Lees meerBuilt by 2028? Maybe. Powering homes? That’s another licence entirely Canadian nuclear regulators have approved an Ontario company's request to build a single small modular reactor - the first such license issued in the country. But with the chosen …
Lees meerLugging a solar furnace to melt it could slash the need to launch bulky power gear from Earth You've perhaps heard of using Moon dirt for building roads and other structures for future lunar explorers. But a group of German scientists reckon they've…
Lees meerGovernment boasts of £14B in R&D spending, but grant body takes £300M hit Despite ambitions to position itself as a science and tech superpower, the UK has cut the budget for the government body responsible for university research funding.…
Lees meerULA wins $5.4B and Blue Origin $2.4B The US will spend $5.9 billion on Elon Musk's SpaceX in the name of national security. United Launch Alliance (ULA) follows with $5.4 billion, and Blue Origin is set to receive $2.4 billion.…
Lees meerULA wins $5.4B and Blue Origin $2.4B The US will spend $5.9 billion on Elon Musk's SpaceX in the name of national security. United Launch Alliance (ULA) follows with $5.4 billion, and Blue Origin is set to receive $2.4 billion.…
Lees meerHeads up to those living on lunar base in 2032: DUCK!! The likelihood of asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting the Moon, during Christmas 2032, has more than doubled.…
Lees meerJeff Bezos' other space business finally shows signs of life with launch scheduled for next week The first batch of Amazon's Project Kuiper satellites is due to be lofted into orbit next week.…
Lees meerBoosted human-computer interface promises better communication for patients who lost ability to speak Some smart cookies have implemented a brain-computer interface that can synthesize speech from thought in near real-time.…
Lees meerNew Glenn landing scuppered by engine problems The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is closing its investigations into both the SpaceX Starship Flight 7 explosion and Blue Origin New Glenn-1 landing failure.…
Lees meerI'm sorry Dave, I can't do that The last commands have been sent to the ESA's Gaia satellite and, after a dozen years scanning the galaxy, the spacecraft is shutting down its computers and boosting out into a retirement orbit around the Sun.…
Lees meerWhat counts as failure in New Space? Comment Yet another rocket exploded over the weekend and – you guessed it – its CEO called the test flight "a great success." This raises the question: what even counts as failure anymore in the world of so-call…
Lees meerBlame the 23andMe implosion, rise in far-right govt OpenSNP, a fourteen-year-old open source repository for genetic records, will shut down and delete all its data at the end of April.…
Lees meerNHS boffins think there's a connection, but ‘snot all good news: Swallowing batteries is even more dangerous Researchers from the UK’s National Health Service believe increasing adoption of cashless payments may be having an unexpected payoff: Fewer…
Lees meerI'm sorry Dave, I can't do that The last commands have been sent to the ESA's Gaia satellite and, after a dozen years scanning the galaxy, the spacecraft is shutting down its computers and boosting out into a retirement orbit around the Sun.…
Lees meerNHS boffins think there's a connection, but ‘snot all good news: Swallowing batteries is even more dangerous Researchers from the UK’s National Health Service believe increasing adoption of cashless payments may be having an unexpected payoff: Fewer…
Lees meerAirbus UK wins £150M contract to revive long-delayed rover project Airbus UK, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the European aerospace giant, has won the £150 million contract to complete a landing system for the long-delayed ExoMars rover.…
Lees meerAirbus UK wins £150M contract to revive long-delayed rover project Airbus UK, a wholly-owned subsidairy of US aerospace giant, has won the £150 million contract to complete a landing system for the long-delayed ExoMars rover.…
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