Paper details previously unknown step in process of converting light energy to chemical energy Photosynthesis – the process by which plants and some other organisms convert sunlight to food – is complex, and scientists don't fully understand how it …
Lees meerNeither war nor bad sensors nor a nautical journey will keep this probe from building a 3D map of space It's been a decade since it was announced, but the Euclid mission to build a 3D map of the universe is finally getting close to launch with the s…
Lees meerNeither war nor bad sensors nor a nautical journey will keep this probe from building a 3D map of space It's been a decade since it was announced, but the Euclid mission to build a 3D map of the universe is finally getting close to launch with the s…
Lees meerTokamak Energy off to Albuquerque desert to douse kit in radiation UK fusion company Tokamak Energy claims to have made a breakthrough in fusion magnets – and is prepared to test its technology at a US gamma ray facility in the desert.…
Lees meerThey go down, down, down, with the burning pull of gravity ... or do they? Astronomers will direct NASA's James Webb Space Telescope to peer at Saturn in an attempt to discern when its iconic rings might vanish.…
Lees meerNEPA was violated by letting SpaceX do its own impact study, suit alleges A group of environmental nonprofits and an indigenous nation have sued America's Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) over the fallout from SpaceX's failed Starship launch la…
Lees meerNEPA was violated by letting SpaceX do its own impact study, suit alleges A group of environmental nonprofits and an indigenous nation have sued the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) over the fallout from SpaceX's failed Starship launch last …
Lees meerReg-turned-Bloomberg journo talks rockets, satellites, and more Interview Bloomberg journalist and former Register vulture Ashlee Vance has finished a five-year in-depth investigation into Earth's potentially multi-trillion-dollar private space ind…
Lees meerYou want this to go faster? OK, send in the contractors. That'll do the trick The US government's hypersonic weapons programs may have been lagging behind international rivals, but at Sandia National Laboratory in New Mexico, there's a plan to accel…
Lees meerBut don't toss out your silicon chips quite yet Talk about branching out: Swedish researchers have built what they claim is the world's first wooden transistor.…
Lees meerAshlee Vance's When the Heavens Went on Sale paints an inside view of orbital startups Book review First, a disclaimer: Ashlee Vance worked for The Register in the early noughties. But he's also the chap who literally wrote the book on Elon Musk an…
Lees meerReg-turned-Bloomberg journo talks rockets, satellites, and more Interview Bloomberg journalist and former Register vulture Ashlee Vance has finished a five-year in-depth investigation into Earth's potentially multi-trillion-dollar private space ind…
Lees meerAshlee Vance's When the Heavens Went on Sale paints an inside view of orbital startups Book review First, a disclaimer: Ashlee Vance worked for The Register in the early noughties. But he's also the chap who literally wrote the book on Elon Musk an…
Lees meerAWS adds Korean support; Singtel creates InfraCo; Philippines SIM registration drive extended Asia In Brief China's Zhurong rover may have succumbed to dusty solar panels, but while the robot explorer was operational it found potential evidence of …
Lees meerAWS adds Korean support; Singtel targets; Philippines SIM registration drive extended Asia In Brief China's Zhurong rover may have succumbed to dusty solar panels, but while the robot explorer was operational it found potential evidence of water on…
Lees meerReg-turned-Bloomberg journo talks rockets, satellites, and more Interview Bloomberg journalist and former Register vulture Ashlee Vance has finished a five-year in-depth investigation into Earth's potentially multi-trillion-dollar private space ind…
Lees meerTime to shake, rattle, and roll the probe to remove pesky antenna pin A tiny pin stuck in place on ESA's Juice spacecraft may be preventing engineers from unfurling its 16-metre-long antenna as it zooms toward Jupiter.…
Lees meerReg-turned-Bloomberg journo talks rockets, satellites, and more Interview Bloomberg journalist and former Register vulture Ashlee Vance has finished a five-year in-depth investigation into Earth's potentially multi-trillion-dollar private space ind…
Lees meerTime to shake, rattle, and roll the probe to remove pesky antenna pin A tiny pin stuck in place on ESA's Juice spacecraft may be preventing engineers from unfurling its 16-metre-long antenna as it zooms toward Jupiter.…
Lees meerMusk loyalists said launch wasn't a failure. Tell that to folks, wildlife covered in dust, ash, debris America's Federal Aviation Administration has grounded SpaceX's Starship to conduct a safety investigation after the heavy-lift rocket destroyed a…
Lees meerBy redirecting energy from probe's voltage regulator, NASA buys itself another three years NASA boffins seeking a way to postpone instrument shutdowns on the venerable Voyager spacecrafts have worked out a solution they say will get another three ye…
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