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Gov confirms plans for Sky box in charge of your house

Smart meters remote-control spy boxes by 2020

Environment 3 Dec 12:25

Swedish lactating bloke's dream turns sour

Milkman's 'sore' moobs refuse to yield

Biology 3 Dec 12:19

LHC back after temporary unexistence

'Pre-cycling interruptus' delays return

Physics 3 Dec 10:53

Proto-mammals survived ancient global warming in Antarctica

Flight from tropics saved egg-laying furless cat

Biology 3 Dec 10:10

Space butterflies invade ISS

…and they're hungry

Space 3 Dec 01:11

Use Web 2.0 magic to sprinkle democracy on science

Climategate Mike Hulme: Apply the Truthiness patch

Environment 2 Dec 16:08

Navy's £1bn+ destroyers set to remain unarmed for years

Ex-British miracle missiles in new test FAIL

Science 2 Dec 14:46

Hacked climate Prof stands aside

Taking the heat off

Environment 2 Dec 10:57

LHC knocked out by ANOTHER power failure

Exclusive 'Birdy bread-bomber from the future' involved?

Physics 2 Dec 10:00

DARPA balloon-hunt compo: Stand by for skulduggery

We may never be told the winners' methods

Science 1 Dec 14:18

Boffins: Stress of family Xmas can cause fatal diseases

'Fight/flight' reaction misplaced vs average relatives

Biology 1 Dec 11:53

ISS crew drops from 12 to 2

In space, nobody can hear you scream (but the other guy)

Space 1 Dec 06:02

Titan has Earth-style 'climate change', says prof

Saturnian ice-moon's 'Sea of Krakens' will vanish

Space 30 Nov 13:38

Climategate: Why it matters

Analysis The scandal we see and the scandal we don't

Environment 30 Nov 13:23

LHC smashes Tevatron record: Humanity enters the unknown

Dimensional portal to open by Xmas?

Physics 30 Nov 10:59

Royal Society offers all-time top boffinry selection online

Need to keep a dog alive with punctured lungs?

Science 30 Nov 10:16

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

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