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Nikola Tesla's greatest challenge: He could measure electricity but not stupidity

Something for the Weekend, Sir?A scientist on a banknote? Stick that up your Darcy
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02 Nov 09:01

Transformers: Robots... at least it tries: Watch boffins' Optimus Dime rearrange on the fly

Its creators see this shape-shifter droid as more like Big Hero 6 than cheesy Autobots
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02 Nov 08:04

Need electric propulsion for your satellite? Want a 'made in Britain' sticker? Step right this way...

UpdatedThales boldly goes where, er, NASA went in the 1960s
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01 Nov 12:31

Sensor failure led to Soyuz launch failure, says Roscosmos

Russian space agency schedules ISS crew launch for early December
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31 Oct 23:20

Boffins have fabricated microscopic sci-fi tractor beams for real

It can only hold millions of cold rubidium atoms for now though
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31 Oct 06:01

Goodnight Kepler! NASA scientists lay the exoplanet expert to rest as it runs out of fuel

Exoplanet telescope out, and Opportunity in its last rites
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30 Oct 21:58

Watch closely as NASA deploys the world's biggest parachute at supersonic speeds

VideoEngineers hope it will land a rover safely for the future Mars 2020 mission
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30 Oct 07:01

Hi there, Hubble, glad to hear you're doing okay

Our eye on the sky winks open
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29 Oct 22:23

One down, two to go. Russia inches closer to putting a crew on Soyuz while celebrating 50 years since the first Return To Flight

Meanwhile, China notches up another launch success and a commerical orbital miss
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29 Oct 12:10

The 'roid in Spain drills mainly on the plain: Plucky Brit Mars robot laps up sun, sand and, er, simulated science

Scientists watch from 1,000 miles away as Charlie the Rover plays with ExoMars' toys
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27 Oct 10:01

Americans' broadband access is so screwed up that the answer may lie in tiny space satellites

FCC prepares to approve new wave of small internet birds
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25 Oct 22:25

Want to roll like one of the biggest minds in physics? Prof Stephen Hawking's wheelchair is up for auction

Christies sets up 'giants of science' memorabilia sell off
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24 Oct 19:25
geminid_meteor_shower

It's big, it's blue, and it'll be raining down on you – it's 3200 Phaethon

Astroboffins baffled by mysterious repeat visitor
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24 Oct 05:01
Siren Vase

I ship you knot: 2,400-year-old Greek trading vessel found intact at bottom of Black Sea

Carbon dating places it as oldest complete wreck
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23 Oct 11:07

BepiColombo launches, Russia ponders next lift-off, and 50 years since Apollo 7 got its feet wet

RoundupThe week in spaaaaaace
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23 Oct 09:25

Cosmoboffins think grav waves hold the key to sorting out the disputed Hubble Constant

New method could settle the question of how fast the universe is expanding
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23 Oct 05:09

Hubble 'scope gyro drama: Hey, NASA, have you tried turning it off and on again? Oh, you did. And it worked? Cool

Just don't let it restart to install updates...
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23 Oct 01:13

Core-blimey! Riddle of Earth's mysterious center finally 'solved' by smarty seismologists

So solid crew confirm old idea by spotting tiny waves
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19 Oct 21:09

It's Two Spacecraft, One Mission as BepiColombo gets ready to launch

JAXA and ESA in a tree, going to visit Mercury
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19 Oct 10:45

Good news: Largest, most ancient known galaxy supercluster is spotted. Bad news: It's collapsing on itself

Five quadrillion solar masses – and you'll need a Farcaster to get there
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18 Oct 23:14

NASA gently nudges sleeping space 'scopes Chandra, Hubble out of gyro-induced stupor

X-ray probe could be awake by end of this week
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16 Oct 05:53

NASA chief in Moscow: 'We will fly again on a Russian Soyuz rocket'

'I have no reason to believe at this point that it won't be on schedule' For reals, my dude?
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15 Oct 19:56

Bloodhound Super-Sonic-Car lacks Super-Sonic-Cashflow

Plucky Brit land speed record chaser fails to find £25m down the back of the sofa, calls in Administrators
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15 Oct 12:05

NASA's Chandra probe suddenly becomes an EX-ray space telescope (for now, anyway)

Aging kit kicks into safe mode, 65,000+ miles away
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12 Oct 22:00

With sorry Soyuz stuffed, who's going to run NASA's space station taxi service now?

CommentSpaceX, Boeing running behind schedule, and don't get me started on SLS
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11 Oct 22:53

Russian rocket goes BOOM again – this time with a crew on it

Updated'Nauts safe, but the ISS may have to be abandoned
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11 Oct 10:42

Huge ice blades on Jupiter’s Europa will make it a right pain in the ASCII to land on

The spikey satellite is not for the faint hearted, it appears
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11 Oct 07:01
CK_Vulpeculae

Astroboffins discover when white and brown dwarfs mix, the results are rather explosive

350-year monkish mystery could be down to a merger
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10 Oct 19:02
Hubble anniversary image

Hate to burst your Hubble: Science stops as boffins scramble to diagnose gyro problem

Weekend failure could reduce 'scope's scope
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09 Oct 09:17
Voyager probe illustration

SpaceX touches down in California as Voyager 2 spies interstellar space

Musk's mighty missile no match for the plucky probe that could
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08 Oct 14:50
Superluminous quasar J0100+2802

It's over 9,000! Boffin-baffling microquasar has power that makes the LHC look like a kid's toy

The first detection shows beams powered to over 25 trillion electron volts
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05 Oct 22:13
STS-26

30 years ago, NASA put Challenger behind it and sent a Space Shuttle back out into the black

Chipped tiles and a sweaty crew, but relief for the nervous space agency
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05 Oct 11:20
Cassini

Organic stuff, radiation, unexpected methane... Yes, we're talking about Saturn's surprising rings

Boffins take a good look at the cosmic formations – they won't be there forever
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05 Oct 07:04

UK space comes to an 'understanding' with Australia as Brexit looms

Countries agree to cooperate on satellite navigation as Blighty faces becoming a third country in Galileo
exomoon

Astroboffins may have found the first exomoon lurking beyond the Solar System

It's so big that it's possible that it could have its own little moons
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04 Oct 06:01
solar_system_edge

Hunt for Planet X finds yet another planetoid, just not the right one

Astroboffins are Goblin up Solar System sightings
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03 Oct 21:00
MASCOT

JAXA probe's lucky MASCOT plonks down on space rock Ryugu without a hitch

16 hours of rocking and rolling before the power runs out
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03 Oct 10:51
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