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Pitchfork-wielding mobs encircle smart meters

'Fraud meter' fear

Science 27 Nov 22:02

Cyborg MIT prof touts iPhone-controlled power-jumping legs

Other bionic plugins offer 7' height, climbing claws

Science 27 Nov 16:07

Uni seeks 'research officer' for sex trade 'fieldwork'

Experience of lapdancing and vice girls? Apply here

Biology 27 Nov 10:19

Replace Bulldog gridiron mascot with robot, PETA demands

Symbol of sturdy Britishness mustn't be bred any more

Biology 26 Nov 14:35

'Alien spies live among us' says Bulgarian gov space boffin

Say we must stop global warming, unnatural insemination

Space 26 Nov 12:32

NASA to develop haptic air-typing spacesuit gloves

Touch screens over before they began?

Space 26 Nov 10:02

Atlantis glides home with choked pee nozzle

No more dumps before terra firma?

Space 25 Nov 21:43

Strap-on jetwing birdman does an Icarus into Straits of Gibraltar

Yves Rossy flies, undone

Science 25 Nov 16:27

Nigel Lawson: Climate science has turned into religion

Interview Why a think tank? Why now?

Environment 25 Nov 14:25

'Whales can't even hear naval sonar' says Navy boffin

Enormous CT scanner used to probe spermwhale's noggin

Biology 25 Nov 13:54

Superconductor forcefield to shield re-entering spacecraft?

Euro/Russian plan for submarine missile test mulled

Space 25 Nov 12:34

Beeb storm cockup: Wrong day's shipping forecast read

But sailors shouldn't really be using Radio 4 anymore

Environment 25 Nov 11:49

Eat frozen food and avoid line-caught fish, says eco study

Enviro-profs clash with Greenpeace advice

Environment 25 Nov 09:53

Feral dromedaries besiege Oz Outback town

'Some people open their windows and all they see is camels'

Biology 25 Nov 09:50

Billionaire floats eco dream on sailing soda bottles

Plastiki and the 100% recyclable yacht

Biology 25 Nov 07:02

Dodgy wheel thwarts Mars rover rescue

Sand trap 3: NASA 0

Space 24 Nov 18:34

NASA plans robot rocket aeroplane to fly above Mars

To join nuclear laser tank. Mars defends, actually

Space 24 Nov 13:36

Collisions at LHC! Tevatron record to be broken soon?

Boffins tear up schedule in race for dimensional portal

Physics 24 Nov 11:04

New analysis points to ancient Martian ocean, river valleys

Just a matter of finding sea-monster skeletons, now

Space 23 Nov 16:10

Moller Skycar to finally crash and burn?

Desperate last-gasp spin: 'Virtual flight tests' start

Science 23 Nov 15:19

MIT boffins invent robot clam-grapnel

Tech has important mole-cruiser implications, too

Science 23 Nov 12:17

New sensitive space gloves: NASA spends wad freely

Glovely cash for astro haberdashers

Space 23 Nov 09:57

Atlantis astronaut flying high over baby's birth

Houston, we have a daddy

Space 22 Nov 23:28

Triumph in Geneva! LHC beams up and running again

Dimensional portal invasion back on track

Physics 21 Nov 09:39

Wrecking CRU: hackers cause massive climate data breach

Secretive scientists' source code goes walkabout

Environment 20 Nov 16:51

VTOL gyro-copter flying car mates with killer robot

Droid jump-choppers to be offered to military

Science 20 Nov 16:03

LHC dimensional apocalypse from midnight: Your thoughts

Aliens, gov planetbuster boffins, many others write in

Physics 20 Nov 12:58

US forces developing 'miniature weapons' for killer robots

Phantom Works pocket missile ideal for 'suburban combat'

Science 20 Nov 10:04

Al Gore entertains the supercomputer troops

SC09 Seeks political scientists

Environment 19 Nov 23:04

US monster-truck roboguns to blast enemies autonomously

While simultaneously shooting rockets out of the air

Science 19 Nov 15:14

Boffins try to get closer to hot bodies

Quantum dots: making electricity from waste heat

Physics 19 Nov 15:02

New 'reversible' paralysis-ray turns victims blue, flaccid

'Many test subjects survived', claim inventors

Biology 19 Nov 12:25

Atlantis specialists set for ISS spacewalk

Robotic arm lube job on list of tasks

Space 19 Nov 11:31

'Hybridisation' tech to quintuple battery life

DARPA seeks box-o-lotso energy goodening gear

Physics 19 Nov 11:05

US, China play footsie with joint space mission

We will 'enhance security in outer space'

Space 19 Nov 07:02

IBM lab builds computerized cat brain

ROTM Feline consciousness sim

Rise of the Machines 18 Nov 19:37

Renegade weatherman forecast today's storm weeks ago

Mystic Met baffled

Environment 18 Nov 16:15

LHC starts beaming Saturday: Collisions Dec 3

Exclusive Reg reader unlocks secret CERN web

Physics 18 Nov 14:41

Gene testing firm goes titsup

DNA disease spotting ain't worth spit

Biology 18 Nov 13:44

Cosmic Vampire sheds light on dark energy

European Astro-boffs eagerly wait for supernova

Space 18 Nov 13:32

High-tech 'blade runner' legs better than real ones - profs

Olympic ban on Dr Who Cybermen seems likely

Biology 18 Nov 11:19

NASA maps Mars with child labor web games

Hey kid, Be a Martian

Space 18 Nov 06:02

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