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Agriboffins' site downed by DDoS after GM protest

Hactivists may have been linked to Anonymous

28 May 14:27

Insect vision a template for computer ‘sight’

Can you see what bees see?

23 May 23:05

Boffins track birds ... from Spaaaaaaaace

Endangered, not-so-angry, birds capture big data

22 May 23:15

Stanford boffins create light-powered artificial retina

Prosthetic works without batteries

18 May 01:27

Button batteries BURN KIDS FROM INSIDE

Where’s that dead CMOS battery you replaced last week?

16 May 00:11

Lasers battle cattle farts!

In other news, cows with guns

13 May 23:30

Study reveals high price of smut addiction

Severe social, relationship and legal problems hit habitual viewers

11 May 01:03

Ape Apps help Orangutans talk to people

Fondleslabs fold under simian swipes

10 May 04:57

Miniature woolly mammoths once roamed Crete

Dog-sized hippos, dumbos also wandered holiday paradise

9 May 13:48

Intelligence a genetic mistake

Badly copied genome boosted brains, kinda

7 May 23:30

Dinosaur flatulence may have warmed Earth

Sauropod emissions blow away cows, came close to modern methane volumes

7 May 20:21

Suppressed data on mutant H5N1 human-killer virus PUBLISHED

Information wants to be free

3 May 16:01

Facebook button triggers tidal wave of human organs

We're all heart. And liver, kidneys, pancreas ...

2 May 15:26

Dinosaurs were DRAINED of blood by GIGANTIC HORROR FLEAS

Huge insect bites 'like having a hypodermic shoved in'

2 May 09:58

Uni preps facility to build bionic eye chips

A fab vision for smartphones to help implants

1 May 23:06

E-health FAIL: £1.59 iPhone apps dole out drugs to kids in A&E

Stop watching Star Trek and get some blood on your screens

26 Apr 15:59

US doc finally fingers elusive G-spot

83-year-old corpse flashes Earth-moving button

25 Apr 12:17

Supernovae blasts shape climate, life on Earth, reckons boffin

'Our world's biology is reflection of the sky'

24 Apr 18:03

US okays release of bird flu research

Ferret-killer research deemed to have public health benefits

23 Apr 01:00

Higher ground: plants seeking colder temperatures

Flowers take up mountaineering

23 Apr 00:10

Biologists create synthetic DNA capable of EVOLUTION

Morph-happy bio-soup strained

20 Apr 11:29

Death Star dinosaur aliens could rule galaxy

Boffin: 'We would be better off not meeting them'

12 Apr 11:16

Bacteria isolated for four million years beat newest antibiotic

Ancient bacteria share genes with bugs exposed to modern medicine

12 Apr 00:30

Dream:ON iPhone app-maker seeks sleepy fanbois for testing

You won't feel a thing...

11 Apr 12:18

US ecosystems basically unaffected by global warming, studies show

Streams fail to dry up as expected at test sites

10 Apr 11:37

Rabid skunks attack US

Thirsty, deadly stinkers driven by drought

6 Apr 23:46

PLASMA GERM BLASTER GUN invented for cleaning skin

Set phaser to 'sterilise', Dr McCoy

5 Apr 12:57

Feathered Tyrannosaurus uncovered in China

Try getting this one into the air

4 Apr 22:42

Prehistoric monster snake crushed prey under 1.5 Brooklyn Bridges

BBC gets the measure of South American monster

4 Apr 09:00

Corny conversations prove plants 'talk'

I talk to the trees, that’s why they put me away

4 Apr 00:30

Sugar content now to be measured in Cadbury Creme Eggs

1 Coke = 2 choc-nugs packed with, well, whatever it is

30 Mar 15:30

Disappearing bees mystery: Boffins finger regicide pesticides

Buzz-buggers say neo-Nick O'Teen makes drones get lost

30 Mar 10:02

Exploding dinosaur theory EXPLODED

Bone botherers blast belly-burst boffinry

30 Mar 07:31

Harvard bio-boffins build gut-on-a-chip

Micromachine for medicine research

29 Mar 22:15

Lucy in 3.4 million-year-old cross-species cave tryst

New homonin fossil discovered

29 Mar 04:55

Sitting down all day is killing you

Get off your butt and make some tea if you want to live

27 Mar 07:11

Robotic surgeon successful in first prostate snip

Low-cost robot could save NHS millions

23 Mar 20:28

GIANT KANGAROOS wiped out by humans, not climate change

Ancient poo suggests hunters proved too tough for giant marsupials

23 Mar 02:51

US scientists demo hydrogen-powered robo-jellyfish

Our underwater overlords?

21 Mar 23:00

Facebook tracking makes for non-angry birds

Research takes off as cockatoos “Like” no-nets scheme

21 Mar 02:41

Horny VIKING MICE raped and pillaged Euro pipsqueaks

Tiny raiders revelled in 10th century rampages

20 Mar 14:28

Spider venom to be tested for pesticide potential

Boffins want to create artificial spider peptides to eliminate crop-eating bugs

20 Mar 05:03

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