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Obama win may mean NASA 'nauts to Deep Space as soon as 2021

Earth-Moon L2 jaunt would see them beyond lunar farside

Science 8 Nov 16:22

Habitable HEAVY GRAVITY WORLD found just 42 light-years away

EE 'Doc' Smith's Valeria, or Larry Niven's Jinx perhaps

Science 8 Nov 13:46

What made us human? Being ARMED with lethal ranged weapons

Early kill-tech let us beat Neanderthals, dominate world

Science 8 Nov 12:29

Sellafield's nuclear waste measured in El Reg units

How many Swatches per Jub is intermediate level, again?

SPB 8 Nov 11:17

ALIEN DETECTION was SUPPRESSED by the BBC - top boffin

What if they start swearing? What about health & safety?

Science 8 Nov 07:29

Boffins splash fluids on special soggy biscuits in anti-flood demo

China's 'Silicon Valley' builds bricks that let water IN

Science 7 Nov 18:28

Bald? Looking old before your time? Don't panic, but you might DIE

It's not the years, it's the mileage, say docs

Science 7 Nov 15:27

The genetic button that could turn a WOMAN into a CHIMPANZEE

Or a man, of course. Just doing our bit for equality

Science 7 Nov 12:44

BBC argues it is not bound by FOIA in bid to keep Climate 28 secret

Analysis We're private sector! Auntie's shock claim

Science 7 Nov 11:00

Kyocera boffins make on-screen buttons feel real

Piezoelectric magic offers hope to fat-fingered typers

Science 7 Nov 05:28

HIV vaccine safe for Phase II human trials

Canadian university claim no adverse effects from first tests

Science 7 Nov 04:32

Bangor University touts 20 Gbps access tech

Backbone vendors throw hats in the air

Science 7 Nov 01:34

NASA snaps revealing pix of visiting near-Earth asteroid

Photos Imminent end of civilization highly unlikely

Science 6 Nov 23:01

Satellite data gets a dose of Google cloudy goodness

CSIRO invades the Chocolate Factory

Science 6 Nov 21:30

Cockatoo grabs his tool, manages to get hold of boffins' nuts

Birdy genius stuns scientists with twiggy feats

Science 6 Nov 15:23

LOHAN's cold heart beats beneath silicon breast

Spaceplane mission control electronics provisionally dubbed 'HILTON'

SPB 6 Nov 15:00

EXTREMELY RARE never-seen-alive WHALES found (briefly) alive

Not extinct after all. Probably, anyway

Science 6 Nov 12:38

Astronauts in the US election: No, NOBODY is voting from space

One 'naut may become a congressman, however

Science 6 Nov 12:12

Mystery robot-bringing UFOs sighted by Indian troops on Tibet border

'Not necessarily from outer space', reports paper

Science 6 Nov 10:54

BIONIC MAN makes it to top of Chicago skyscraper

Mind-controlled limb carries him 1,350 feet up

Science 5 Nov 22:53

Scientists ‘untangle’ quantum communications

Faster without entanglement

Science 5 Nov 22:26

Scientist plans to catch Bigfoot with remote-control blimp

Could be a shaggy Sasquatch story

Science 5 Nov 21:45

Solar eclipse due November 14th

Australia gets the best action until Lunar Eclipse hits USA Nov 30th

Science 5 Nov 19:01

Beep! NASA here, a 400 tonne spacecraft is about to buzz your house

Quite high up, fortunately

Science 5 Nov 13:36

Martian atmosphere pristine, totally free of fart gas, reports Curiosity

Red world very different from billion-bottomed Earth

Science 5 Nov 13:36

El Reg seeks hoardiest reader for crap-stashtic honour

Competition Buried under useless junk? Send us proof, if you can find your camera...

SPB 5 Nov 07:00

Asteroid belts could be key to finding intelligent life

Just enough bombardment does you good

Science 2 Nov 22:40

Brain boffins: 'Yes, math CAN make your head hurt – LITERALLY'

It's not math itself that causes pain – it's the anticipation

Science 2 Nov 22:36

Mars rover Curiosity snaps explicit selfies from ALL ANGLES

This is me with red sand on my bottom LOL

Science 2 Nov 16:44

Post-pub nosh deathmatch: Souse versus scrapple

El Reg mixes it up with the Pennsylvania Dutch

SPB 2 Nov 15:00

Elephant which speaks: Rare. One which speaks Korean: Even Rarer

Seen a house fly, a horse fly, never seen an elephant so fly

Science 2 Nov 14:29

Gamma ray telescope uses 'blazars' to map GLOWING COSMIC FOG

Boffins probe Light of the Dawn of Time Itself

Science 2 Nov 13:46

Lab mice drown in their THOUSANDS as Hurricane Sandy fills NYU basement

Boffin: It's a tragedy - rodents are the culmination of years of work

Science 2 Nov 08:38

Businessweek: 'It's Global Warming, Stupid'

Sandy's climate change supersizing is controversial 'only among the stupid'

Science 1 Nov 23:04

Oldest town of the Old World found in Bulgaria

Cut their dead up and buried them with pots - as you do

Science 1 Nov 18:06

ISS 'nauts pop out to fix a radiator... in SPACE

Six hours to fix coolant leak in solar array

Science 1 Nov 16:22

Felix Baumgartner sadly turns out to be blinkered FOOL

Comment That's it. Nobody drink Red Bull any more

Science 1 Nov 16:09

El Reg acquires wildly dangerous laser cannon (with lightsabre option)

Soon to be mounted on head of a shark. Or maybe donkey

SPB 1 Nov 08:29

NASA's long shot shows Titan glows in the dark

Cassini probe captures natural neon sign

Science 1 Nov 01:21

Dark matter pioneer scoops Oz science prize

Work on underweight galaxies recognised

Science 31 Oct 22:15

Curiosity probe tastes Mars soil: Dude, this reminds me of Hawaii

Aloha, potential microbial life-forms

Science 31 Oct 16:52

MULTICOLOURED TARANTULAS found UP TREES in Brazil

Fears they may be kept as pets, farmed for DRUGS

Science 31 Oct 15:36

Earlier stories

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Birdy genius stuns scientists with twiggy feats
'Not necessarily from outer space', reports paper
Comment That's it. Nobody drink Red Bull any more
The two Wicked Lasers fired up
Soon to be mounted on head of a shark. Or maybe donkey
'Campaigners, NGOs, communications types - and scientists'
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