GDPR rejig and Online Safety Bill concerns, semiconductor strategy basically sorted then. Right? Right? UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has used a reshuffle of his cabinet of ministers to also usher into existence a dedicated department to focus on sc…
Lees meerGreat: Fewer paywalls. Not great: Long-term funding is still a question Academic publisher the MIT Press has announced a new initiative to move from subscription-funded journals to open-access papers that are free of charge.…
Lees meerMeanwhile, no one is thinking of the horrible emissions coming out of all these rockets, say scientists SpaceX CEO Elon Musk said over the weekend that, despite nearly two years since a successful launch, Starship will be flying again this March – w…
Lees meerSTEP won't be complete until 2040, but here's a 'delivery body' in the meantime The UK government has set up a delivery body tasked with building a prototype fusion energy plant to be sited at West Burton in Nottinghamshire.…
Lees meerAstronauts need better autonomy as ground control gets further away While astronauts are often engineers or scientists, they usually aren’t geologists, which is why the European Space Agency (ESA) is investing in training to make sure its next missi…
Lees meer'Stunning' scans reveal how ray-finned fish diverged from other vertebrates A fish fossil first described in northwest England more than 100 years ago is shedding light on the evolution of the brain with the help of X-ray scanning and 3D reconstruct…
Lees meerCoal is cooked and gas is dissipating, as renewables delivered a fifth of all EU juice in 2022 Take that, energy crisis: Wind and solar power generation rose to record levels in the EU last year, overtaking natural gas as an energy source for the fi…
Lees meerMicrosoft and friends happy to assuage Uncle Sam's anxiety — for a price Fujitsu may not be worried about encryption busting quantum computers showing up anytime soon, but that doesn’t mean the US government is willing to risk missing out.…
Lees meerAlso, JunoCam malfunctioned again, time to get new kit up there NASA has formally ended the Geotail spacecraft's 30-year mission studying the Earth's magnetosphere after months of repeated attempts to repair its last data recorder failed. …
Lees meerThanks in large part to the Inflation Reduction Act, the dirty fuel has even fewer things going for it now If it wasn't clear before that the coal age is over, there is now just a single, solitary coal-fired power plant in the US that would be more …
Lees meerWork isn't original if it was taken from a plagiarism engine like ChatGPT Science and Springer Nature, two leading academic journal publishers, introduced new rules addressing the use of generative AI tools to write papers in their editorial policie…
Lees meerWhat a tease A box-truck-sized asteroid has made one of the closest approaches by a near-Earth object ever recorded, brushing past our home world at a distance of a couple of thousand miles on Thursday. …
Lees meerLast (failed) attempts at such an endeavor happened a decade ago, but AstroForge thinks it can do better Cast your mind back to the year 2012 and you might stumble upon a very similar story, but this isn't a flashback: There's a new startup in town …
Lees meerLooks like a reboot of SWIV Lockheed Martin this week showed that a 50kW laser being developed for air defense scenarios can be turned on to create a coherent beam, a milestone the defense giant calls "first light."…
Lees meerNice of someone to give SpaceX a little competition Video Rocket Lab this week successfully launched its first Electron rocket from American soil, and put three satellites into low Earth orbit.…
Lees meerFission reactor rocket should get them going quite fast US research agencies NASA and DARPA are teaming up to create a nuclear thermal rocket engine in hopes the tech will one day carry crewed missions to Mars.…
Lees meerGood luck blowing up a pile of rubble. Boffins suggest we'll need to create a diversion instead An asteroid named Itokawa that's been identified as potentially hazardous to Earth would be difficult to destroy, according to new research analyzing dus…
Lees meerNuScale plants could begin construction as soon as February 21, when new rule goes into effect The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has finalized rules allowing construction of nuclear small modular reactors (SMRs) – the first time a design ha…
Lees meerAttempts to fix glitch ditched – but never give up, never surrender NASA's Lucy spacecraft will have to soldier on to reach eight asteroids within Jupiter's orbit – a journey expected to last 12 years – with a glitch in one of its solar arrays for n…
Lees meerHow did the world's largest economy get stuck with retro measurement? Feature In 1793, French scientist Joseph Dombey sailed for the newly formed United States at the request of Thomas Jefferson carrying two objects that could have changed America.…
Lees meerLight-powered droids are coming, one fraction of a millimetre at a time What do you get when you stretch mouse muscle tissue over a polymer skeleton and attach electronics capable of converting radio-frequency energy into light?…
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