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Lees meerAstrolab up against competition but has secret weapon: Cosmic crooner Chris Hadfield Space startup Astrolab, led by ex-SpaceX manager and NASA engineer Jaret Matthews, has successfully tested a lunar rover prototype that can operate telerobotically …
Lees meerWith millions of euros, we'll do you a QSolid, say scientists Germany is getting more serious about quantum computing with the foundation of the QSolid project which aims to build a complete quantum computer based on cutting-edge native technology.…
Lees meerA billion here, a billion there, after a while, it starts adding up to real money NASA's request for $24bn in funding for its 2022 fiscal year will be considered by US lawmakers this month.…
Lees meerThis time the intelligence is not artificial An algorithm capable of estimating the risk that a particular patient will develop prostate cancer over the next five years should be used in a national screening program in the UK, one of the software's …
Lees meerWe're promised less science fiction, more contemporary hardware Startup PsiQuantum has a rough vision of what its one-million-qubit quantum computer could look like.…
Lees meerDetails still up in the air, unlike whatever hit our natural satellite A chunk of Chinese space junk today crashed into the far side of the Moon, according to a maker of astrometry software.…
Lees meerFor actual headaches, not tech messes, but hasn't said why its staff have a problem that needed tackling Fujitsu has been hailed as the world's leading company by the International Headache Society's World Patient Support Association.…
Lees meerWhat to know and what not to panic about Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant – Europe's largest such facility and one of the biggest of its kind in the world – caught fire on Thursday after being shelled by Russian military, according to Ukra…
Lees meerOne day after Roscosmos said 'hostile' UK govt should withdraw stake in satellite firm The board of satellite constellation provider OneWeb this morning said it had voted to suspend all launches from Baikonur, a day after Russia's space agency said …
Lees meerWho says organic chemistry doesn't have its drama? The US Patent Office's appeal board on Monday sided with Harvard University and MIT by upholding a set of the group's patents covering CRISPR-Cas9 genome editing in plants and animals.…
Lees meerRosalind Franklin still can't catch a break The joint ESA-Roscosmos Mars rover Rosalind Franklin is "very unlikely" to launch this year after Russia was hit with fresh economic sanctions for invading Ukraine.…
Lees meerGovernment said to be looking further north than the Oxford-Cambridge Arc UK efforts to create a high-tech research and development region designed to rival Silicon Valley seem dead in the water as government prioritises other initiatives.…
Lees meerIt's all about perspective Research published today confirms that what scientists thought were two types of active galactic nuclei are, in fact, one: the features were simply tilted at different angles.…
Lees meerPlucky probe exceeded expectations. What's your excuse for that keyboard? Recent photos from NASA's Mars InSight lander demonstrate that even the Register readers' filthiest PCs cannot compare to the effects of Martian dust.…
Lees meerNext stop, ITER? Scientists and engineers running the Joint European Torus (JET) facility in Oxford have announced a record-breaking 59 megajoules of heat energy from fusion, more than double the previous record achieved by JET.…
Lees meerSpaceX launched even though the space weatherman predicted tricky conditions could follow a solar flare SpaceX last week launched 49 shiny new Starlink broadband-beaming satellites, which is good. But but 40 of them have already, or will shortly, me…
Lees meerThe chances of anything coming from Mars are a million to one, they said – but Perseverance samples just might make it NASA has picked Lockheed Martin Space as the developer of the Mars Ascent Vehicle (MAV), one of the vehicles that will retrieve sa…
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