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LHC dimensional apocalypse from midnight: Your thoughts

Aliens, gov planetbuster boffins, many others write in

20 Nov 12:58

Boffins try to get closer to hot bodies

Quantum dots: making electricity from waste heat

19 Nov 15:02

'Hybridisation' tech to quintuple battery life

DARPA seeks box-o-lotso energy goodening gear

19 Nov 11:05

LHC starts beaming Saturday: Collisions Dec 3

Exclusive Reg reader unlocks secret CERN web

18 Nov 14:41

German boffins produce sim of 'invisibility carpet' in action

Don't try sweeping anything important under this

13 Nov 10:28

El Reg's LHC visit - Deleted Scenes

'An impossible machine that could not be built'

8 Nov 10:02

'Something may come through' dimensional 'doors' at LHC

Attack of the Hyperdimensional Juggernaut-Men

6 Nov 12:02

Large Hadron Collider scuttled by birdy baguette-bomber

Exclusive Bread on the busbars could have seen 'dump caverns' used

5 Nov 13:23

DARPA issues balloon-hunting $40k 'Network Challenge'

Distributed natter-mob spy legions at the ready

30 Oct 11:29

Brit robo-sub dives to 3.5 miles on seabed volcano quest

Battery bottom-probe does 20000 leagues under the sea

29 Oct 16:26

Fibreless fibre optics developed by US Air Force

Mobile bandwidth bonanza to enable unplugged quantum crypto?

28 Oct 16:48

Large Hadron boffin arrested on terrorism suspicion

No more atom-smashing for you

9 Oct 19:43

Coin-sized nuclear isotope battery minted

Charge your cell for a thousand years

8 Oct 14:26

CCD inventors secure Nobel Prize for Physics

Optical fibre pioneer also honoured

6 Oct 14:26

New antimatter atomsmashers 'may destroy themselves'

'Imagine there are all these huge bells, see,' says prof

6 Oct 11:43

3-tonne robot flying saucer offered to world's militaries

DSEi Norse-god angel rescues Brit hover-ship firm

10 Sep 07:44

US Navy boffins invent aircraft-to-sub laser phone

Beam the noise

7 Sep 13:20

German boffins invent steel Velcro

Good for sticking on building facades, apparently

4 Sep 11:54

Israelis offer unmanned robo smart-missile 8-pack

Tanks? Artillery? Airstrikes? So 20th century

3 Sep 15:11

NASA works on robo-podcab scheme

Robosaurus inventor gets backing for Mag-lev personal transporter

3 Sep 10:19

Secret US spontaneous human combustion beam tested

Silent deathray in first blast from the skies

2 Sep 15:06

Boffins fail to detect Moon's strangeness

Quark hunt ends in a handful of dust

2 Sep 12:54

Tossable bots for US Navy SEALs

Beercan-sized rollerdroids to replace hurl-cams?

27 Aug 15:19

Lightning-gun tech 'approaching weaponisation'

Settings: Gadget bricker, skeleton-strobe, smoking boots

26 Aug 14:31

Blimp radar makes first flight

Vid Defence against terrorist death drones, kamikazes

26 Aug 10:04

Kettle car breaks speed record

Celebratory cuppas all round

26 Aug 08:19

DARPA seeks 'Precision Electronic Warfare'

'Surgical jamming' bubble follows you to the corner

25 Aug 14:59

US likely to downgrade Euro missile-interceptor plans

Rogue-state ICBMs 'haven't arrived on schedule'

25 Aug 10:23

Boffins in 'let's create black holes in the lab' jape

SQUIDs. Is there anything they can't do?

24 Aug 13:41

New NASA rocket fuel 'could be made on Moon, Mars'

Exploding toothpaste to bring astronauts home

24 Aug 10:46

IBM twists DNA for future chip fab tech

Organic armature for nanotubues, anyone?

Reg Hardware 17 Aug 16:24

Earthquake-squelching, sonar-invisible 'active cloak' unfurled

Will you just shut up about f*ing Harry Potter, pleads prof

17 Aug 14:28

Boffins build World's tiniest 'laser'

Photons in, surface plasmons out

17 Aug 12:20

Boffins develop 'Hidden gateway to Hogwarts girls' loos'

Actually more of a raygun-proof forcefield barrier

13 Aug 10:56

LHC rushed back into service at 50% max power

Redline still triple that of US god-particle rival

7 Aug 11:55

Helium hole hiccup halts Hadron

Problem-prone particle project postponed

23 Jul 11:36

Microsoft hosts Feynman lecture series

Actual fun with physics

15 Jul 15:12

Deal inked in US Navy 'R2-D2' raygun robo-turret plan

Boat-blaster also wearable by (frigate-sized) sharks

8 Jul 13:18

Plasma rocket in new test with Brit supermagnet fitted

Nuclear/solar space electro-drive doing well

7 Jul 11:02

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

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