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US sinks $0.5bn into electromagnetic aircraft-throwers

Great idea for new Brit carriers - if we get any

3 Jul 13:16

X2 supercopter in first tail-drive flight

Sikorsky preps Osprey bitchslap

3 Jul 09:46

Marie Curie voted top female boffin

Scientifically radiant, New Scientist poll shows

2 Jul 13:26

Intel goes to ultraviolet extremes

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

20 Jun 04:06

Minority Report command sales system pushes Euro UAV

Paris Airshow Touchscreens: Combat maybe, marketing for sure

16 Jun 14:35

Israeli army develops one-eyed robot trouser snake

Vid Erects rigidly to penetrate smugglers' route

12 Jun 14:21

Engineers are troublesome 'expert loners', says prof

Media image, student foolishness blamed

9 Jun 15:03

Boffins: Ordinary lightbulbs can be made efficient, cheaply

Incandescents nearing extinction: Impeccable timing, everyone

1 Jun 11:03

Segway inventor builds shoe-controlled bionic arm

Kamen's vibro-limb tried out by US veterans

28 May 13:13

Summer debut for Judge Dredd computer smart-rifle

Exploding wireless mini-shell ammo hits round corners

27 May 14:11

DARPA at work on 'Transformer TX', a proper flying car

'Morphing' robo hover-Prius to run on 'ring motors'

26 May 14:00

Nork nuke quite a lot less powerful than Hiroshima

Not missile size yet, either: still bad news though

26 May 10:50

Boffins build basis for 9TB DVDs

All down to the longitudinal surface plasmon resonance of gold nanorods, don't you know

Reg Hardware 21 May 09:14

'Air fuelled' battery tech invented in Scotland

Oxygen-sucking kit won't be popular in submarines

19 May 13:15

Swivel-shed v polar stilt-scope in Big Bang boffinry clash

Quest for the cosmic grav-wave afterglow 'gunsmoke'

18 May 15:50

Boeing to build prototype pulsed-microwave robomissile

Fly-by sky fry

18 May 12:32

Austria pulls out of Large Hadron Collider

Particle physics means nothing to me, says Vienna

11 May 09:09

Atomsmasher boffins probe duff whisky deluge

Mm, yes, that one's fake too. Put it in my desk

5 May 08:50

Yes! It's the invisible1 shed2!

At last, some proper arse-kicking new tech3

1 May 12:34

Homer Simpson 'nuclear waste spill' panic at nuke sub base!

Almost as bad as dropping a luminous watch in the sea!

28 Apr 15:47

US Navy unveils superconductor 'cloaking device' destroyer

Captain Needa! It happened again

20 Apr 09:18

Boffins build super-accurate atomic clock

300 million years without winding

17 Apr 21:34

Boeing: Raygun dreadnoughts will rule the oceans by 2019

Missiles, laser sharks simply nowhere

17 Apr 09:16

NASA's Kepler dazzles with first pics in new-Earth hunt

One snapshot, millions of stars

16 Apr 20:03

NASA rejects democracy, names ISS node 'Tranquility'

Get sweaty on the COLBERT

15 Apr 22:03

NASA probes seek remnants of lost 'Theia' planet

Boffins: Ancient world smashed into us to create Moon

14 Apr 15:51

British steam car completes final testing

Next stop 170mph

3 Apr 11:26

Pics show North Korean rocket ready to go

Norks ready for biggest shot yet

30 Mar 10:52

Fresh tech hiccup for V-22 tiltrotor fleet

If something hasn't broken on your Osprey, it's about to

27 Mar 13:33

DARPA to build nothingness detector for tunnel sniffing

Bottom falls out of subterranean-lair market

16 Mar 13:07

Boffins build 'slow glass' light-trapping nanodoughnut

Exciton in tight ring = fast photonic computing?

10 Mar 12:35

Israelis develop 'safe' plutonium: good for power, bad for weapons

Nuke waste could be used as fuel - even by Arabs

5 Mar 12:30

NHS study produces ejector-seat ambulance design

Projectile paramedics to the rescue

5 Mar 08:02

Bloodhound supercar is 'recession beater', says promoter

Boob-squeezing boffins steal Richard Noble's show

4 Mar 13:32

North Korea announces missile test sat launch

Champagne on ice at US raygun-jumbo HQ

24 Feb 10:14

Storage breakthrough could bust density record

12 times over

20 Feb 22:55

Large Hadron Timewaster

No collisions till October at earliest

10 Feb 13:58

We need cheap, abundant energy. Here's how

Energise! More R&D, fewer red herrings

9 Feb 11:21

'Infinitesimal magnetic tornadoes' set to ravage computing

Calling it qits

4 Feb 01:38

Intel plucks power from TV signals

At last, a use for Paris Hilton's British Best Friend

3 Feb 14:46

Subatomic nanoholograms smash 1-bit-per-atom barrier

What storage limit, says supersmall-me prof

2 Feb 12:05

NASA working on boomless supersonic jets

And contrived acronyms

26 Jan 16:11

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