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US Navy preps railgun for tests

Bedding down BAE Systems prototype

8 Feb 22:00

Indonesian train roof fare-dodgers given the brush off

Foul-smelling brooms purge carriages of surfing commuters

8 Feb 14:39

Laser boffins blast bits onto hard drive at 200Gb/sec

Superheating drives forego magnetic write heads

8 Feb 00:51

Boffins crack superconducting graphene's melting mystery

Next-gen high-speed transistors go 3D to slash leaks

3 Feb 13:19

The IEEE and the Electric Universe

A podium isn’t endorsement says Victoria chapter

31 Jan 22:00

Star Trek tractor beam to save Earth from asteroid Armageddon

One of three ways world's top boffins will save us from planet killers

30 Jan 11:18

‘Quantum Trojans’ undermine security theory

Can dodgy vendors compromise ‘uncrackable’ security?

29 Jan 22:30

Boffins make graphene micro-distillery

Wonder stuff cooked up super-strength vodka

27 Jan 11:09

Untangling the question of antimatter mass

Boffins spin up positronium

27 Jan 01:00

IBM demos new nanotech

Carbon nanotube, graphene research boost transistors' future

26 Jan 22:00

Boffins one step closer to invisible shed

Successfully cloak 3D object from microwaves

26 Jan 10:20

Scientists shift electron orbits for atomic storage and quantum computing

Jupiter’s orbital mechanics inspires mesoscopic physicists

26 Jan 00:51

Two million-degree matter from SLAC laser

PICOSECOND PULSE OF DOOM!

25 Jan 21:06

Laser used to cool semiconductor

Next: the quantum physics case-mod

23 Jan 23:00

Potent proton pulse to BOMBARD EARTH Tuesday morn

Sunspots get angry, planes get rerouted

23 Jan 21:20

Quantum physics to encrypt clouds of the future - boffins

No chance of sniffing your privates on qubit-crunching computers

20 Jan 10:47

Russian boffins: US radar didn't fry Phobos-Grunt

Megawatt ray-gun not to blame for Martian probe fiasco

18 Jan 11:02

Pollution-gobbling molecules in global warming SMACKDOWN

Boffins: Newly observed particles scrub our filthy air

16 Jan 10:17

Hubble probes star death blast clue to universe riddle

Pic 9bn-year-old supernova could explain dark energy

12 Jan 10:42

Black hole radiation could provide insight into quantum gravity

Now, all we need is to observe it

8 Jan 22:00

UNSW researcher creates four-atom silicon wires

Quantum-scale lifeline for Moore's Law and Ohm's Law

5 Jan 22:00

Exotic Russian rock CAME FROM OUTER SPACE

Alien quasicrystal find sheds light on solar system birth

4 Jan 11:02

Very tiny RF transistor made from graphene

Sweden’s Chalmers mixes up smaller, faster microwave electronics

3 Jan 23:00

New ATLAS particle part of 'everyday mass'

This boson isn’t the Higgs

27 Dec 23:00

Pluto's blushing complexion riddle solved by boffins

Hubble spectrograph shines light on dwarf planet's colouring

22 Dec 13:24

Three more 'nauts prepare for space station housewarming

Crew blasts off tomorrow in time for weightless Xmas

20 Dec 11:42

CERN: 'New physics starts now'

Analysis Next, get busy in the TeV range

14 Dec 01:04

Higgs boson hunters have god particle in their sights

Are universe's secrets lurking in energy spike?

13 Dec 14:46

God particle hunt breakthrough expected TODAY

Cancel lunch - significant Higgs boson data promised

13 Dec 12:28

Bristol boffins bring qubit computing a tiny step closer

Spooky action at a VERY SMALL distance

13 Dec 00:02

Cambridge puts Isaac Newton's notes online

A free peek at the original Apple apple genius

12 Dec 21:10

Mythbusters cannonball ‘myth-fires’

Misses target, hits houses and car

8 Dec 10:42

Bill Gates discusses nuclear development deal with China

TerraPower plans new form of low-risk nuclear reactor

7 Dec 23:07

God particle may be within our grasp

Rumours of Higgs sightings precede latest results seminar

7 Dec 15:22

Quantum computing comes closer as diamonds get spooky

Boffins 'entangle' synthi-gems at room temperature

2 Dec 12:40

ESA tests greenhouse gas-measuring lasers

Green beams light up the skies over the Canaries

30 Nov 09:04

Virtually indestructible robostarfish penetrates tiny cracks

Wriggling flexi-bot created by Harvard boffins

29 Nov 12:11

Using virtual particles to get real random numbers

Bouncing photons off ‘empty space’

29 Nov 01:30

‘We know where dark matter is hiding’ claim boffins

WIMPs are bigger than we thought

24 Nov 00:30

Engineers seek funds for world’s largest Tesla coil

Ten stories of electromagnetic goodness

22 Nov 21:31

Not so fast: Italian boffins say neutrinos not faster than light

Pistols at dawn at Hotel Gran Sasso?

21 Nov 22:30

Atomic time boffins build better second-watcher

NPL and precision on the final frontier

21 Nov 13:00

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