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Australia's 'answer to the velociraptor' unveiled

Our dinos are hardest in world, claim Aussies

Biology 3 Jul 13:51

US sinks $0.5bn into electromagnetic aircraft-throwers

Great idea for new Brit carriers - if we get any

Physics 3 Jul 13:16

X2 supercopter in first tail-drive flight

Sikorsky preps Osprey bitchslap

Physics 3 Jul 09:46

Marie Curie voted top female boffin

Scientifically radiant, New Scientist poll shows

Physics 2 Jul 13:26

'First-ever' flight of robotic ornithopter announced

Vid Prototype 'nano' bugging-bug drone gets another $2m

Science 2 Jul 12:08

ESA lifts world's largest telecoms satellite

TerreStar 1 heads for orbit

Space 2 Jul 10:52

Prof: People reject news which conflicts with beliefs

Utter rubbish, according to open-minded observers

Biology 2 Jul 09:47

Astronomers sniff intermediate mass black hole

X-rays point to 500 solar mass 'middleweight'

Space 2 Jul 08:31

NASA patches Endeavour's leaky plumbing

Good to go for July lift-off

Space 1 Jul 23:52

Spanish boffins develop bat-like sonar-vision superpower

Iberian Daredevils 'see' through smoke, bodies, walls

Biology 1 Jul 10:57

Rogue Atlantis knob removed by hand

Oh, just pull the thing out

Space 1 Jul 09:16

NASA, Japan (nearly) finish topographic map of Earth

Everything but the boring polar bits

Space 30 Jun 18:53

Lockheed engineer: F-22 Raptor Stealth tech is 'defective'

Updated Emperor's invisible clothes actually visible shocker

Science 30 Jun 12:32

DARPA hands BBN $30m in evil 'Machine Reading' plan

Satanic devil project to automate low-rent journalism

Science 29 Jun 14:45

Chaps: Give up, you'll never understand women

Pointless even to try, indicates new research

Biology 29 Jun 11:43

NASA reacquires original Moon landing footage

Tapes discovered in Oz, agency confirms

Space 29 Jun 11:02

Toyota in 'real time brainwave driver control' success

Handsfree driving only on wheelchairs for now

Biology 29 Jun 10:07

Buzz Aldrin weighs into NASA

Cancel Ares, reprieve shuttle, colonise Mars

Space 28 Jun 08:02

Ecopocalypse causes giant fish ears

First Vulcans, then Obama, now les poissons

Biology 26 Jun 22:06

UK climate change funding cut by 25%

Weather soothsayers lose £4.3m

Environment 26 Jun 20:19

Qantas cancels $3bn Dreamliner order

Cites 'worsening economic environment'

Science 26 Jun 11:17

Rogue knob could ground space shuttle Atlantis

Wedged between dashboard and window, and refusing to budge

Space 26 Jun 10:51

Boffins 'cage the demon' of white phosphorus

Moleculo-prison could neutralise hellfire weapon

Science 26 Jun 10:48

Salty Saturn moon plumes suggest stuff of life

Giant geysers project forth

Space 25 Jun 19:45

Brit firm stops anti-tank warheads with cloth

Out of the box thinking indeed

Science 25 Jun 14:05

Obama weighs into Raptor stealth superfighter fracas

Royal Navy will be cheering for the president

Science 25 Jun 11:00

ISS crew snaps erupting volcano

Impressive view of Sarychev Peak blast

Space 25 Jun 10:37

Disney punts hetero luuurv to wide-eyed kiddies

Children spared the magic of Snow White and the Seven Gays

Biology 24 Jun 12:40

'Overweight' people live longer than those of 'ideal' weight

Pie orgies sadly unlikely to increase lifespan, though

Biology 24 Jun 11:37

Mystic Met Office predicts neighbourhood Thermageddon

Modelling 'totally inadequate' last year - why trust it now?

Environment 24 Jun 11:30

Prof: Global windfarm could power entire human race

Analysis Provided most of it remains in misery, that is

Environment 24 Jun 10:32

NASA moon-attack probe beams home first lunar shots

Next meeting won't be so friendly

Space 23 Jun 20:29

Dreamliner first flight delayed yet again

Boeing's 787 woes continue

Science 23 Jun 15:26

DARPA seeking Genesis-style godware capability

Self-organising Tetris AIs, smart-vat superlife on cards

Science 23 Jun 11:04

Musk hits out at co-founder's Tesla Roadster allegations

Denies he insisted on '$140m door latch'

Science 23 Jun 10:21

NASA takes stick over feet and inches

Go metric, agency urged

Space 23 Jun 09:07

Dinosaurs actually slimmer than we thought, say boffins

Unfeasibly lardy elephant exposes duff calculations

Biology 22 Jun 10:36

Intel goes to ultraviolet extremes

Research@Intel The EUV prototype that (nearly) blows up

Physics 20 Jun 04:06

Branson breaks ground on US rocketplane spaceport

WhiteKnightTwo makes emergency landing

Space 20 Jun 03:45

Boffins: Gigantic crustacean sperm is 'viable strategy'

Ostracods' jumbo jism is 10x longer than own bodies

Biology 19 Jun 14:42

The Moon? We're going nowhere, says NASA official

More cash or new technologies essential

Space 19 Jun 12:59

NASA unleashes Moon-attack probe

Successful launch of lunar suicide mission

Space 19 Jun 10:05

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