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Paintballs proposed as defense against ASTEROID ATTACK

Just in time to to deflect Apophis, destroyer of worlds

Science 26 Oct 23:38

LARGEST BELCH EVER SEEN devastates gassy GIANT Saturn

Colossal ethylene eructation 'bigger than Earth'

Science 26 Oct 14:36

America mounts attempt to top the Register's world record spaceflight

Crack Indiana boffins challenge our epic PARIS project

SPB 26 Oct 09:28

Brainwaves hint at gamer glory

Alpha brains will frag faster

Science 26 Oct 04:30

Mysterious galactic glow caused by Hitchhikers' Krikkit style stars

Lone darkness-wrapped suns fingered in infrared conundrum

Science 25 Oct 14:54

Chinese boffins discover bizarro fish-oid creature with FOUR LIMBS

The THING that crawled OUT OF THE SWAMP

Science 25 Oct 10:57

Boeing recipe turns cooking oil into jet fuel

Come fry with me...

Science 25 Oct 04:18

ESO's nine-gigapixel galactic image has 84 MILLION stars

A portrait of the Milky Way bulge in the infrared

Science 25 Oct 01:45

Boeing zaps PCs using CHAMP missile microwave attacks

Kills power, leaves IT admins intact

Science 25 Oct 00:54

Australian volcano starts to blow

Don't worry: only penguins are in danger as it's in the middle of nowhere

Science 24 Oct 21:00

Wonder why you live longer than a chimp? Thank your MOTHER IN LAW

And your mum, other grandmas. Grandads not mentioned

Science 24 Oct 14:22

Noisy whales made FAR MORE oceanic racket than humans do

Early 19th-C Atlantic was a cetacean 'rock concert'

Science 24 Oct 10:19

While sea ice grows, Antarctica sheds land ice

The airstrip is MELLLLTING!

Science 24 Oct 00:12

FISH IN SPAAACE: New 'nauts and piscine pals head for Xmas on ISS

Baikonur blastoff boosts Soyuz to station

Science 23 Oct 16:04

Black hole spews out 2-million-light-year-long stream of WTF

Boffins spot X-ray blasting, star-stopping cosmic jet

Science 23 Oct 14:08

WHITE WHALE spent 4 years trying to tell us something, then stopped

Startled diver 'given orders in English,' say boffins

Science 23 Oct 12:49

Oldest unreadable alphabet yields to 'tablet' computer

Translation breakthrough close, thanks to camera-in-LED-dome boffinry

Science 23 Oct 04:13

NYU boffins demo tiny tractor beam

To beam the impossible beam

Science 22 Oct 23:29

Astroboffins out FREAK 'BI' GALAXY

Elliptical? Spiral? We report, you decide

Science 22 Oct 20:19

Can climate change be changed back again? Maybe, say boffins

Futurama giant ice-cube method not on the cards, though

Science 22 Oct 15:22

Boffinry group shakes tin for effort to build Babbage's Analytical Engine

Doesn't rule out Kickstarter at some point in future

Science 22 Oct 12:11

European Space Agency to launch exoplanet-spotter

CHaracterising ExOPlanets Satellite wins comp for fast, cheap missions

Science 22 Oct 01:46

Fish skin points to better LEDs

Scaly secret to camouflage, and that's no red herring

Science 21 Oct 23:32

US climate-change skeptics LOSING SUPPORT

Most Americans now believe in human-caused global warming

Science 20 Oct 00:28

Curiosity scoops up SHINY BITS from the RED SANDS of MARS!

Prowling nuclear robot sieves and sniffs the dirt

Science 19 Oct 16:28

EARTH was a BAKING LIFELESS DESERT for 5 MILLION years

Steaming seas prevented recovery from mass extinction

Science 19 Oct 13:58

Ancient 16m-yr-old beastie caught riding on much bigger flying mount

Astounding images of tiny aerial equestrian

Science 18 Oct 16:53

Moon was formed when PLANET SMASHED INTO EARTH

'Theia' absorbed into core, lies beneath our feet today

Science 18 Oct 14:42

Ice sheets may stabilise for centuries, regardless of warming

The tap filling up the oceans sometimes just turns off

Science 18 Oct 08:38

Chinese 'Thunder God' plant could crush cancer

Traditional medicine zapped pancreatic cancer in mice

Science 18 Oct 07:00

Barley’s giant genome sequenced and open-sourced

Boffins build better booze bible

Science 18 Oct 03:02

Boffins explain research with interpretive dance

Dance your Ph.D. winner scores with 'The romantic revolution of Lightness & Strength'

Science 18 Oct 01:40

Caltech shrinks optical accelerometers

A light alternative to tracking mobes

Science 18 Oct 01:00

Astroboffins map GIANT MASS of dark matter

3D image shows ginormous filament of Big Bang batter

Science 17 Oct 15:15

Pints all round as Register Special Projects hacks hack off feet

Poll Result Going the extra 1,609.34 metres for our readers

SPB 17 Oct 12:38

No Chinese rescue for bankrupt battery-making golden child A123

One-time techbiz darling shops self to Milwaukee instead

Science 17 Oct 12:22

Mission to Pluto faces DEEP SPACE DEBRIS PERIL

Profuse cloud of objects lurks around icy dwarf-world

Science 17 Oct 10:59

Plucky orangutan rescued from encroaching biofuel plantations

Ook! The fearful cost of highly saturated vegetable fat

Science 17 Oct 09:29

Earth-sized planet found at Alpha Centauri B

‘Scorched rock’ is just 4.37 light years away

Science 16 Oct 23:58

Ukraine navy to deploy DOLPHINS WITH GUNS ON THEIR HEADS

Sharks? Lasers? Pshaw. Let's get realistic

Science 16 Oct 08:00

NASA's Cassini spacecraft turns 15 while spying on Saturn

Awaiting springtime on the ringed planet

Science 16 Oct 00:17

Last month ties for WARMEST September on RECORD

'Is it hot in here, baby, or it just you?'

Science 15 Oct 23:33

Earlier stories

Spotlight

Colossal ethylene eructation 'bigger than Earth'
Lone darkness-wrapped suns fingered in infrared conundrum
And your mum, other grandmas. Grandads not mentioned
The Soyuz TMA-06M launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan to the International Space Station at 6:51 a.m. EDT. NASA astronaut Kevin Ford and Russian cosmonauts Oleg Novitskiy and Evgeny Tarelkin now are safely in orbit. credit: NASA
Baikonur blastoff boosts Soyuz to station
Boffins spot X-ray blasting, star-stopping cosmic jet
Startled diver 'given orders in English,' say boffins
Solving super-luminal Special Relativity without breaking Einstein
Rui in the pit, levelling the first tube
A profound, earth-moving experience
Possibly record-breaking buttocks stun boffinry world
Aussie lad rediscovers hard-as-nails killer insect