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open Jeff Bezos can now taunt Elon Musk: I'm building a moon rover for NASA, when can Tesla do that? 50
By jonsg
open Revenge of the nerds: Teachers, professors sue to undo Trump science funding cuts 117
open God didn't have a plan for Gelsinger at Intel. Maybe there is one for his new gig, Gloo 22
open NASA rewrites Moon mission goals in quiet DEI retreat 104
open Feds charge three over Molotov attacks on Tesla sites in multiple states 92
open BOFH: Have you tried forcing an unexpected reboot? 94
open Boeing's Starliner future uncertain as NASA weighs next steps 71
By Decay
open US Space Force warns Chinese satellites are 'dogfighting' in space 50
By Jan 0
open HP Inc settles printer toner lockout lawsuit with a promise to make firmware updates optional 90
open Names, bank info, and more spills from top sperm bank 17
open Crew-9 splashes down while NASA floats along with Trump and Musk nonsense 75
open Boffins 3D-print artificial iris muscle that flexes both ways 9
open Curious tale of two HR tech unicorns, alleged espionage, and claims of a spy hiding in a bathroom 25
open Los Alamos boffins whip up a speedometer for satellites 23
By Hurn
open SpaceX Dragon pod arrives at ISS to finally pick up stranded Boeing astronaut pair 32
open Bubble trouble in hydraulics blamed for NASA and SpaceX Crew-10 scrub 20
open France offers US scientists a safe haven from Trump's war on woke 338
open Pirate Bay financier and far-right activist Carl Lundström dies in plane crash 68
By spold
open BOFH: HR's AI hiring tool is perfectly unbiased – as long as you're us 51
open Saturn runs rings around Jupiter 18
open Starliner astronauts' stay drags on as Crew-10 launch scrubs 35
By druck
open As Elon Musk makes thousands of federal workers jobless, tycoon pushes for $56B Tesla pay deal 96
open Rocket Lab says NASA lacks leadership on Mars Sample Return 29
open Man with artificial heart survives over 100 days outside hospital 27
By DS999
open From pantyhose to power cells, nylon gives lithium batteries a leg up 12
open Is NASA's science budget heading for a black hole? 111
open Earth's atmosphere is shrinking and thinning, which is bad news for Starlink and other LEO Sats 72
open Things are looking down for cutting-edge cosmic observatories 16
open Developer sabotaged ex-employer with kill switch activated when he was let go 79
By Ignazio
open Athena Moon lander officially FOADs – falls over and dies – in crater 37
open SpaceX's 'Days Since Starship Exploded' counter made it to 48. It's back to zero again now 112
open Moonshot goes sideways as Intuitive Machines' second lunar lander seemingly falls over 35
open More Voyager instruments shut down to eke out power supplies 54
By Dagg
open UK must give more to ESA to get benefits of space industry boom, says Brian Cox 85
By Roland6
open Satnav systems built for Earth used by Blue Ghost lander as it approached the Moon 39
open 'Cybertruck ownership comes with ... interesting fan mail' 158
By Not Yb
open Controllers getting no response from Lunar Trailblazer orbiter or Odin asteroid mining probe 12
By tip pc
open Scotland now home to Europe's biggest battery as windy storage site fires up 251
open Cybercrims now licking stamps and sending extortion demands in snail mail 18
open Scientists create woolly ma-mouse by looking at mean genes from the Pleistocene 46
open SpaceX loses a Falcon 9 booster and scrubs a Starship 70
open The ups and down of a virtual trip to the Moon in Zero G's 727 11
open America's National Science Foundation workers fired in bulk by Trump now reinstated 84
By herman
open SpaceX receives FAA blessing for another Starship test 35
open First private moon lander to touch down safely starts sending selfies 25
open ESA's Integral gamma-ray gazer gasps its last 7
open AWS unboxes quantum cat qubit kit called Ocelot 13
By CorwinX
open DARPA seeks ideas for 'large bio-mechanical space structures' 39
open FDA clears Google watch feature to call 911 if you flatline 53
open 100-plus spies fired after NSA internal chat board used for kinky sex talk 74