Nuclear Fusion Breakthrough Confirmed: California Team Achieved Ignition. Research Continues

"A major breakthrough in nuclear fusion has been confirmed a year after it was achieved at a laboratory in California," reports Ne...

Are Space Scientists Ready For Starship - the Biggest Rocket Ever?

Slashdot reader sciencehabit shared this thought-provoking anecdote from Science magazine: NASA's Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing S...

Elon Musk pitches lofty goals in a magazine run by China’s internet censorship agency

Illustration by Kristen Radtke / The Verge; Getty Images Elon Musk pitched sustainable energy, brain implants, and space exploration in a...

Ransomware Causes 'Major', Long-Lasting Outage for UK Health Service's Patient Notes

The Independent reports that the UK's National Health System is experiencing a major outage "expected to last for more than three w...

Researchers Pinpointed Covid-19's Origin to Within a Few Metres

Australia's public broadcaster interviewed a virologist who "played a key role in mapping the evolution of COVID-19" (and was ...

'Unstoppable' Python Remains More Popular than C and Java

"Python seems to be unstoppable," argues the commentary on August's edition of the TIOBE index (which attempts to calculate pr...

Netflix Airs Episode on Kansas 'Swat' Perpetrator, While Victim's Family Sues Policeman

In June Netflix launched Web of Make Believe: Death, Lies, and the Internet, a true-crime series. It began with an episode documenting the 2...