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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 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

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 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
NASA New Horizons artist's impression

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
volcano_eruption

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

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

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
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16 Aug 07:01

Drama as boffins claim to reach the Holy Grail of superconductivity

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

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
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15 Aug 06:01

Boffins blame meteorites for creating Earth's oldest rocks

Smash, bang, wallop what a planetary crust,
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14 Aug 06:30

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?
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10 Aug 05:03

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?
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10 Aug 04:16

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

Nobody knows what these rare speedy electromagnetic spurts really are
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03 Aug 07:04

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

Eta Carinae's Big Eruption might yet go supernova
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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
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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
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02 Aug 04:09
pyramid_of_giza

Now that's a dodgy Giza: Eggheads claim Great Pyramid can focus electromagnetic waves

And the Leaning Tower of Pisa can pick up BBC World Service
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01 Aug 06:07
meteorite

The Solar System's oldest minerals reveal the Sun's violent past

Blue crystals hidden in space rocks open hidden secrets
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31 Jul 07:01
mars_radar_lake

Hurrah! Boffins finally discover liquid water sloshing around on Mars

Idea was first speculated more than 30 years ago – now hidden lake detected
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26 Jul 05:02
Astronaut on mars . Photo by shutterstock

All that dust on Mars is coming from one weird giant alien structure

Impress pals at the pub by telling them about the creepy-sounding Medusae Fossae
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25 Jul 05:02

Sorry, Neil Armstrong. Boffins say you may not have been first life-form to set foot on the Moon

Earth's satellite may have been habitable billions of years ago
star_planet

Alien sun has smashing time sucking up planets

First case of solar suckage
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20 Jul 06:01

Fukushima reactors lend exotic nuclear finish to California's wines

Smooth body with a perky top note and a hint of cesium-137 for post-2011 vintages
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19 Jul 20:00
jupiter

By Jove! Astroboffins spot 12 new spanking moons around Jupiter

Now it has 79 satellites, and one is a tiny 'oddball'
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17 Jul 20:56
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