Science

Flying to Mars will be so rad, dude: Year-long trip may dump 60% lifetime dose of radiation on you

Cancer, brain damage, a bad back ... it's all for a good cause
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20 Sep 05:01

Garbage collection – in SPAAACE: Net snaffles junk in first step to clean up Earth's orbiting litter

VideoEU-funded gizmo clings to trash like a face hugger
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19 Sep 22:59

Holy macaroni! After months of number-crunching, behold the strongest material in the universe: Nuclear pasta

Probably cost a pretty PENNE to run that physics simulation
66 Comments
19 Sep 21:19

The Reg chats with Voyager Imaging Team member Dr Garry E Hunt

InterviewRegister hack learns the benefits of brimming the tank before flight
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18 Sep 09:01

Revealed: The billionaire baron who’ll ride Elon’s thrusting erection to the Moon and back

VideoPlease click on this story so at least you'll learn the identity from us and not one of the 1,000 other sites out there
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18 Sep 02:25

Russia: The hole in the ISS Soyuz lifeboat – was it the crew wot dunnit?

Station commander issues suitably withering response
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14 Sep 11:58

UK.gov finally adds Galileo and Copernicus to the Brexit divorce bill

No deal still 'unlikely' insists Whitehall. But here's some grim guidance anyway
267 Comments
14 Sep 09:57

New MeX-Files: The curious case of an evacuated US solar lab, the FBI – and bananas conspiracy theories

Of course, it's huge sun flares, Chinese spying, or ALIENS
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14 Sep 05:06

World's oldest URL – fragments 73,000 years old – discovered in cave

PicsIs it a hashtag? Is it a web address? Is it art? You gotta draw a line somewhere
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13 Sep 04:04

Martian weather has cleared at last: Now NASA's wondering, will Opportunity knock?

45 days of 'WAKE UP' calls to be shouted at teenage rover
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12 Sep 17:30

Boffins don't want to burst your bubble – they create them with sound

VideoNerd out over bizarre ultrasonic fluid dynamics
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12 Sep 07:01

SpaceX dodges lightning while storms keep Japan earthbound

Telstar to blast broadband over Asia while ISS astros face fresh underwear delay
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10 Sep 11:12
Pluto

Pluto is more alive than Mars, huff physicists who are still not over dwarf planet's demotion

C'mon, please, please reinstate its status...
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07 Sep 20:56
Kepler

NASA's Kepler probe rouses from its slumber, up and running again

The old space telescope isn't giving up
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07 Sep 00:37
Voyager mission logo

Voyager 1 left the planet 41 years ago – and SpaceX hopes to land on Earth this Saturday

JPL code still running after four decades. How's your Python looking?
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06 Sep 11:12

Neutron star crash in a galaxy far, far... far away spews 'faster than light' radio signal jets at Earth

Open up your eyes and look around: It's just an illusion
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05 Sep 21:16

Roskosmos admits that Soyuz 'meteorite' hole had more earthly origins

All driller and lots of filler aboard the ISS
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04 Sep 14:55

Black holes can briefly bring dead white dwarf stars back to life

Powerful tidal forces can restart fusion processes
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31 Aug 23:18

Fruit flies use the power of the sun to help them fly in straight lines

Winged critters can travel over 9 miles in a single evening
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31 Aug 07:01

Space station springs a leak while astronauts are asleep (but don't panic)

High-tech duct tape fixed it
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30 Aug 19:24

New Horizons eyeballs Kuiper Belt object Ultima Thule, its next flyby goal

Pic'Pale Blue Dot' snaps pale in comparison to most distant pics ever taken
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30 Aug 07:01

Russian volcanoes fingered for Earth's largest mass extinction

Million-year eruptions killed ozone layer, toasting 90% of life on the planet
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29 Aug 07:01

Jupiter suffered growing pains before becoming our system's big daddy

It may be the oldest and largest planet, but it took a long time
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28 Aug 05:30

Don't mean to alarm you – but NASA is about to pummel the planet with huge frikkin' space laser

Polar cap and sea height-measuring ICEsat-2 to fire 10k pulses at Earth each second
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23 Aug 09:49

It's official – satellite spots water ice at the Moon's chilly poles

Maybe future astronauts can finally enjoy a nice cuppa
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21 Aug 23:22

Lo and behold, Earth's special chemical cocktail for life seems to be pretty common

Maybe its inhabitants are mostly harmless and ordinary too
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17 Aug 07:01

Boffins build the smallest transistor, controlled by an atom

It has potential, but don't expect anything useful too soon
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16 Aug 20:20
nao_robot

Kids are more likely than adults to submit to peer pressure from robots

Hey...kids...yes order 10 of those and give me your parent's credit card details
38 Comments
16 Aug 07:01
wacky_scientist

Drama as boffins claim to reach the Holy Grail of superconductivity

But odd results and email impersonation raise eyebrows
119 Comments
15 Aug 22:50
zebrafish

Boffins get fish drunk to prove what any bouncer already knows

Fish boozing in alcohol and taurine more likely to ignore pals and look for a fight
42 Comments
15 Aug 06:01
meteorite

Boffins blame meteorites for creating Earth's oldest rocks

Smash, bang, wallop what a planetary crust,
22 Comments
14 Aug 06:30
Meanwhile, in the El Reg canteen

Brain brainiacs figure out what turns folks into El Reg journos, readers

Why are we eternal pessimists? And why's that such a bad thing, eh? Eh? Eh?
48 Comments
10 Aug 05:03
space_war

Space, the final Trump-tier: America to beam up $8bn for Space Force

Join the Mobile Infantry and save the Galaxy. Service guarantees citizenship. Would you like to know more?
182 Comments
10 Aug 04:16
radio_telescopes

First low-frequency fast radio burst to grace our skies detected at last

Nobody knows what these rare speedy electromagnetic spurts really are
eta_carinae

Blast from the past: Boffins find the fastest exploding non-supernova star

Eta Carinae's Big Eruption might yet go supernova
22 Comments
03 Aug 05:01
alcohol

Get drinking! Abstinence just as bad for you as getting bladdered

British civil servants go bonkers with no booze, or too much
81 Comments
02 Aug 05:01
NASA's Open Source Rover -- JPL/Caltech image

Build your own NASA space rover: Here are the DIY JPL blueprints

Go on, you know you want to grab these open-source designs and lash them together
43 Comments
02 Aug 04:09
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