Science

Scissors cut paper. Paper wraps rock. Lab-made enzyme eats plastic

Brit boffins save planet
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18 Apr 09:19

NASA's TESS mission in distress, Mars Express restart is a success

Falcon 9 grounded while turning it off and on again works at ESA
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17 Apr 10:29

If you guessed China’s heavy lifter failed due to a liquid hydrogen turbo engine fault, well done!

Late 2018 launch plan for third attempt at moon-capable rocket
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17 Apr 04:05

SpaceX's Falcon 9 poised to fling 350kg planet-sniffing satellite into Earth orbit

NASA boffins hope Musk's firm doesn't make a mess of TESS
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16 Apr 10:31

Boeing CEO takes aim at Musk’s Starman-in-a-Tesla stunt

Anyone can lob a car into space, but you need a Boeing rocket to bring it back
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13 Apr 10:47

Worried we'll make ourselves extinct? Let’s be scientific about it

Register Lecture to calculate Existential Risk of AI, bio-tech and more
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12 Apr 08:32

European Space Agency squirts a code update at Mars Express orbiter

We can install a new OS from 150 million kilometres away, but Windows 10 1803 is delayed?
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11 Apr 16:25

Airbus plans beds in passenger plane cargo holds

PollSmall problem: world faces big shortages of air freight capacity
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11 Apr 04:58

How life started on Earth: Sulfur dioxide builds up, volcanoes blow, job done – boffins

And it's been downhill since
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09 Apr 22:28

Birds can feel Earth's magnetic fields? Yeah, that might fly. Bioboffins find vital sense proteins

No cheep puns here. Just egg-shell-ent ones
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07 Apr 09:01

Ass-troplastic! Printing parts from p.. er... human waste

Boffins flushed with success as new uses found for cosmic cack
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06 Apr 13:48

Virgin spaceplane makes maiden rocket-powered flight

VideoAnd pops the sound barrier for good measure
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06 Apr 06:32
Ariane 5 (pic: Arianespace)

Ariane 5 primed for second launch of year after trajectory cockup

Satellite payloads ended up in wrong orbit
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05 Apr 15:58
Hubble anniversary image

Hubble sharpens measurement of distance to ancient cluster

Boffins do give a fig about trig after all
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05 Apr 11:48
Penguins in mist, photo via Shutterstock

I say, I say, I say: What's the difference between a king penguin and liquid?

According to these boffins, the similarities would surprise you
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05 Apr 09:02

Not one, but 20,000 black holes hiding in Milky Way's heart

Thousands of them lie hidden in the dark secretly guzzling gas
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04 Apr 19:38

Super Cali upstart's new rocket test approaches, even though the size of it won't launch a Tesla motor

Alaskan skies cleared for Astra Space Inc's 12m craft
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04 Apr 11:22

What's silent but violent and costs $250m? Yes, it's Lockheed Martin's super-quiet, supersonic X-plane for NASA

VidUS space agency's Concorde-cutter project is go
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03 Apr 19:42

Need a needle in an artery? Move over, doc, there's an app for that

Boffins find smartphones more accurate than humans
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03 Apr 13:43

Indian comms satellite gives boffins back home the silent treatment

One firing, two firings, three... Hello? Can you hear me?
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03 Apr 11:19

Elon Musk's mighty erection fires sperm at orbiting space station

NASA mission's airy position: To check if extraterrestrial bonking will work as expected
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03 Apr 00:20

No chance of flying too close to this: Icarus, the most distant star seen, is 9bn light years away

And you'll need more than wings to reach it
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02 Apr 20:05

Let's go to Mars, dude: Euro space parachute passes maiden test

Payload not smashed to smithereens, massive plus
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29 Mar 15:23

No Falcon Way: NASA to stick with SLS, SpaceX more like space ex

US cosmo-boffins: Never mind the cost, feel the payload
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29 Mar 01:01

Boffins stalk house-hunting bees, find colony behaves kind of like a human brain

Oh do beehive!
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28 Mar 10:23

Tantalising Tabby's Star teases watchers with big dimming event

No 'alien' megastructure, but lots of ongoing weirdness
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28 Mar 03:18

NASA stalls $8bn James Webb Space Telescope again – this time to 2020

Someone call Scotty – he'd know how to fix this thing
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27 Mar 20:35
reg lectures

The Register Lectures tackle tractor beams and truculent tech

April, May talks span levitation and existential risk
27 Mar 08:47
NASA image: fast-evolving luminous transient

Astro-boffins find new type of super-fast supernova

Kepler data thought to be glitchy reveals two-week wonder
27 Mar 04:05

Galileo, Galileo, Galileo, off you go: Snout of UK space forcibly removed from EU satellite trough

Brit industry, military locked out
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26 Mar 15:23
Space: 1999's nuclear explosion on the Moon

India: Yeah, we would like to 3D-print igloos on the Moon

Are we really doing this? ask politicos
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26 Mar 11:38
Mushrooms

NASA fungus problem puts theory of 'Martian mushrooms' on toast

Fungus found in the lab makes amino acids we think are alien
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26 Mar 04:02
after-party mess

Good news: The only thing standing between NASA and $20bn is...

UpdatedOh. US President Donald Trump's signature. And he's threatening a veto
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23 Mar 17:07
Falcon 9 lifts the ORBCOMM satellites. Pic: SpaceX

SpaceX blasted massive plasma hole in Earth's ionosphere

GPS systems thrown out of whack by Elon's rocket
Tiangong-1 illustration from CMSE

Tiangong-1 re-entry window shrinks: Duck from March 30 to April 3

VideoRadar imaging shows Chinese space station is still intact
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23 Mar 02:27
Hawking

Prof Stephen Hawking's ashes will be interred alongside Sir Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin

Westminster Abbey is noted atheist's final resting place
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22 Mar 20:43
SoFi Swimming (pic: Robert R Katzschmann)

MIT boffins build rubber robot, invade privacy of unsuspecting sealife

Finding Robo: Just when you thought it was safe to go back into the water…
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22 Mar 16:57
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