Row with Russia and SpaceX delays could leave NASA unable to reach ISS
Talk of sabotage on the International Space Station has exposed cracks in the US-Russia space relationship that could see NASA unable to fly astronauts into orbit
AI has reimagined nature and it’s both amazing and terrifying
A pack of brown dogs look like majesties of nature, but they’ve actually been dreamt up by a DeepMind AI
T. rex evolved into a monster predator by dumbing down its brain
The very first tyrannosaurs were relatively small dinosaurs – and the skull of one of them seems to have contained a brain with a more complex shape than that of the enormous T. rex
Chemistry Nobel Prize awarded for harnessing evolution to help humans
The chemistry Nobel Prize goes to Frances Arnold, George Smith, and Gregory Winter for controlling evolution to create proteins that solve chemical problems.
Third lander arrives on asteroid Ryugu with only 16 hours to live
Japan has just dropped off its third lander on the surface of the asteroid Ryugu. It has less than a day to complete its mission before its batteries run out
Gaia spacecraft prepares to weather an incoming meteoroid storm
A spacecraft currently mapping the Milky Way could be pelted by space dust next week, so the European Space Agency is putting up its shields
Idly tapping your fingers can make you think time has slowed down
Moving a body part in time to a rhythm alters your perception of time, causing it to either stretch or contract – providing new clues about which parts of the brain control our body clocks
Distant dwarf planet called ‘The Goblin’ could point to Planet X
There is a 300-kilometre-wide ice world in the far reaches of the Solar System - and its orbit is consistent with the presence of the hypothetical Planet X
It has been a good/bad week for women in physics
At last, a third Nobel, but it has been a decidedly mixed week for female physicists
Facebook’s AI is writing short stories and they actually make sense
Making machines that write stories is incredibly hard. But a new approach from Facebook’s AI team has produced some surprisingly good tales