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RED ALERT! High-speed alien fugitives are invading our Milky Way

Turbo-charged solar runaways escape home galaxies, scream through our cosmic backwater
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06 Jul 05:02

Boffins' five eyes surprise: Bees correct colour for ambient light

Three eyes look at the sky
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05 Jul 06:05

MH370 researchers refine their prediction of the place nobody looked

April drift test analysis updated
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05 Jul 05:05

Extreme trainspotting on Britain's highest (and windiest) railway

Geek's Guide to BritainTibet? Pah! A £20m ride puts the Highlands at your feet
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04 Jul 08:01

SpaceX halts Intelsat 35e launch twice in a row

Rocket and payload just fine, try again tomorrow
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04 Jul 07:04

Constant work makes the kilo walk the Planck

Massive news
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04 Jul 06:04

NASA: Bring on the asteroid, so we can chuck a fridge at it

Putting Bruce Willis out of work
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03 Jul 06:03

China pollutes ocean with bloody big rocket

Long March, short flight
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03 Jul 02:05

Sailor Moon? More like sail to the Moon: Japan vows to set foot on lunar soil by 2030

All part of the wider plan to visit the dusty wasteland of Mars
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30 Jun 20:45

Shock: NASA denies secret child sex slave cannibal colony on Mars

No humans on Red Planet, straight-faced officials have the audacity to claim
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30 Jun 18:34

Did you know? Today is International Asteroid Day! Wouldn't it be amazing if one were to...

Tune into space boffins' 24-hour telethon celebration
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30 Jun 05:01

NASA tells Curiosity: Quit showing off, no 'wheelies' please

Software update adds traction control to protect rover's wheels
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30 Jun 01:56

Talk about cutting-edge technology! Boffins fire world's sharpest laser

Stable for up to 10x the distance from Earth to Moon
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29 Jun 21:47

Astroboffins dig into the weird backwards orbit of the Bee-Zed asteroid

Tiny body moves similar to Jupiter – but travels in the opposite direction
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29 Jun 06:01
Black holes merging

Ever wondered why the universe only has black holes in S or XXXL? No? Boffins have an answer

Never a M or L when you want one, right?
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27 Jun 23:52

Concorde without the cacophony: NASA thinks it's cracked quiet supersonic flight

Sonic boom reduced to 'soft thump' by well-designed shockwaves
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27 Jun 07:26

India's Martian MOM clocks up 1,000 days circling the red planet

But she's down to just 13kg of fuel after seven-minute eclipse-avoidance burn
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27 Jun 06:33

No way to sugarcoat this: I'm afraid Uranus opens and closes to accept particle streams

It's official. Uranus clenches after taking in hot beams
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27 Jun 06:06

Researchers blind autonomous cars by tricking LIDAR

As I was on the motorway, I saw a man who wasn't there. Then things went pear-shaped
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27 Jun 01:14

Researchers solve screen glare nightmare with 'moth-eye' antireflective film

£$% ambient... light! Can't see.. darn.. phone... screen
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26 Jun 09:32

SpaceX nails two launches and barge landings in one weekend

Your bike ride/Glastonbury/hookup with a hottie looks a bit less epic now, eh?
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26 Jun 05:02

NASA? More like NASAI: Brainy robots 'crucial' to space exploration

Danger, Will Robinson!
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23 Jun 05:01

PLATO mission to find alien life is given the thumbs up

ESA to start the construction of space telescope network
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22 Jun 06:30

Darkness to fall over North America from a total solar eclipse

Grab your camping gear and prepare for August 21
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21 Jun 23:41

No, really. You can see through walls using drones and Wi-Fi

VideoResearchers explore 3D imaging using drones
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20 Jun 23:51

Melbourne Uni hoping to hoist tiny telescope to look at BIG explosions

Dr Katie Mack explains the SkyHopper cubesat project to El Reg
20 Jun 23:02

Medicxi launches $300m European late-stage life sciences fund backed by Google company

Verily joins Novartis and the European Investment Fund
20 Jun 07:58

NASA's Kepler space telescope finishes its original mission catalog

Fifty possible planets later, we're a step closer to a possible vacation Earth
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20 Jun 00:22

Is your research hot or not? US boffins create ‘Tinder for preprints’

Papr app lets you rate academic papers - and maybe find your ideal postdoc
19 Jun 11:24
pizza

Elon Musk reveals Mars colony rocket capable of bringing pizza joints to the red planet

'Making Humans a Multi-Planetary Species' plan details how to get 1m humans to Mars
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19 Jun 07:30

You wait ages for a sun, then two come along at once: All stars have twins, say astroboffins

So where is our Sol's sibling?
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17 Jun 07:09

As you head off to space with Li-ion batts, don't forget to inject that liquefied gas into them

What could go wrong?
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16 Jun 19:57

Just like knotted-up headphones: Entangled photons stay entwined over record distance

Literally spooky action at a distance
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16 Jun 06:39
A dentist examining teeth

Fear the dentist? Strap on some nerd goggles

Patients frolicking by virtual beach felt less pain in the chair
Voyager mission logo

Voyager 1 passes another milestone: It's now 138AU from home

Tape drive due to shut down in 2018 as 1.4 kbps link becomes too skinny
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14 Jun 06:57

It came from space! Two-headed flatworm stuns scientists

The regeneration process continues to baffle boffins
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14 Jun 00:10

Curiosity drills into the watery origins of Mars

Minerals found in Mars rocks strengthen case for past life-friendly conditions
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12 Jun 22:46
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