Shazam! Two world-record lightning events recognised
One streaked across 750km of sky, the other set a duration record
Science01 Feb 2022 | 22
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Burning plasma signals step forward in race for nuclear fusion as researchers get bigger capsule for their 192-laser experiment
But work at US security-linked lab falls short of true ignition. 'This is physics,' they say
Science27 Jan 2022 | 40
ESA's Solar Orbiter sneaks in bonus science by choking on the dust of a comet tail (again)
Plucky probe due to make closest pass to the Sun in March
Science26 Jan 2022 | 3
Feeling virtuous with a good old paperback? Well, don't. Switching to traditional media does not improve mood
Study hopes to take the elitism out media consumption
Science07 Jan 2022 | 53
Newly discovered millipede earns its name by being the first to walk on one thousand legs
Millipede? Has something been bugging you about the name? Not any more
Science16 Dec 2021 | 77
£42k for a top-class software engineer? It's no wonder uni research teams can't recruit
Lack of recognition and support for quality engineering part of science's reproducibility problem, MPs hear
Software16 Dec 2021 | 242
NARROWER TOPICS
Gas giant 11 times the mass of Jupiter discovered in b Centauri binary system
Orbit roughly 100 times wider than that of similar planets in our solar system
Science09 Dec 2021 | 17
Quantum computing to grow by 50 per cent per year until 2027, when revenue will still be chump change
IDC reckons industry will be worth $8.6B a year – or about a quarter of one Dell quarter
On-Prem30 Nov 2021 | 10
Hubble space 'scope brings its Cosmic Origins Spectrograph back online
Work continues on code to make the observatory operate happily when control unit message sync glitches out
Science30 Nov 2021 | 9
AI-enhanced frog stem cells start to replicate in entirely new ways
Xenobots scoop up loose cells to make more of themselves. We welcome our new overlords
Science30 Nov 2021 | 30
FYI: Catastrophic flooding helped carve Martian valleys, not just rivers of water
Thanks, science
Science29 Sep 2021 | 23
Is it OK to use stolen data? What if it's scientific research in the public interest?
Not always, but Swiss team says you can manage the risks
Security17 Sep 2021 | 51
Survey of astronomers and geophysicists shines a light on 'bleak' systemic bullying
'We need to hold each other to account when we're talking through these issues'
Science22 Jul 2021 | 57
Lego bricks, upcycled iPhone lenses used in new low-cost, high-res microscope
Full instructions given away for free, to 'nurture natural curiosity'
Science24 Jun 2021 | 13
Seeking an escape from the UK? Regulations aimed at rocket and satellite launches from 2022 have arrived
Unclear if 'space' is on the green, amber or red list
Science26 May 2021 | 15
Boffins improve on tech that extracts DC power from ambient Wi-Fi
Series of 8 spin-torque oscillators improves efficiency, but parallel design better for wireless transmission
Science21 May 2021 | 53
Bye-bye Bridenstine: Outgoing chief leaves NASA in good shape, though Boots on Moon by '24 goal looks doubtful
Former NASA test engineer steps into the hot seat as acting head
Science21 Jan 2021 | 21
Quixotic Californian crusade to officially recognize the hellabyte and hellagram is going hella nowhere
The Reg speaks to Stanford boffin behind decade-long push for SI prefix
Storage14 Jan 2021 | 99
Useful quantum computers will be impossible without error correction. Good thing these folks are working on it
What if the cat in the box could come back to life?
Science09 Dec 2020 | 33
Hey, over here, I'm talking... Academics help computers figure out which way you're facing when you speak
Video Which could be useful for AI assistants as they'll know whether you're barking orders at them or the kids or the TV
Science06 Nov 2020 | 6
ISS air leakage fixed in time for crew handover, thanks to floating teabag
In Brief Also: Starlinks soar but GPS stays grounded, NASA names first Virgin Galactic flier
Science22 Oct 2020 | 61
Shine on: Boffins bedazzle Alexa and her voice-controlled assistant kin with silent laser-injected commands
How beams of light can boss around smart speakers
Science14 Aug 2020 | 16
America's largest radio telescope blind after falling cable slashes 100-foot gash in reflector dish
Pic Venerable Arecibo Observatory showing its age
Science12 Aug 2020 | 65
Antarctic science put on ice by coronavirus – next summer's expeditions restricted to essentials and robots
Australia just wants to get supplies in and keep people moving safely
Science07 Apr 2020 | 11
After 1.5 million days of computer time, SETI@home heads home to probe potential signs of alien civilizations
'We're now approaching the point to do the analysis and write-up,' co-founder tells El Reg
Science04 Mar 2020 | 69
Boris celebrates taking back control of Brexit Britain's immigration – with unlimited immigration program
Don’t worry: The PM's only going to let the best boffins in... honest
Science28 Jan 2020 | 390
LightAnchors array: LEDs in routers, power strips, and more, can sneakily ship data to this smartphone app
Video Talk about gone in a flash
Security12 Dec 2019 | 74
We've heard of spam filters but this is ridiculous: Pig-monkey chimeras developed in a Chinese laboratory
We've read enough sci-fi to know how this turns out
Science10 Dec 2019 | 132
Welcome to cultured meat – not pigs reading Proust but a viable alternative to slaughter
The meatball that shook the world has investors salivating
Science16 Nov 2019 | 210
The eagle has handed.... scientists a serious text message bill after flying through Iran, Pakistan
A bird on the band is worth more than your entire research budget
Bootnotes26 Oct 2019 | 95
Traffic lights worldwide set to change after Swedish engineer saw red over getting a ticket
Mats Järlström's fight shows you never cross an engineer
Software21 Oct 2019 | 362
Chemists bitten by Python scripts: How different OSes produced different results during test number-crunching
Analysis Boffins claim code was fine... when they wrote it
Science15 Oct 2019 | 157
Tut – you wait a lifetime for an interstellar object then two come at once
Boffins spot a possible follow-up to 'Oumuamua
Science13 Sep 2019 | 42
India pokes Vikram with a stick, drill-toting robot lands on Earth, UK plans launch site, and more
Roundup Also: A billion lucky smartphone owners can make use of Galileo
Science10 Sep 2019 | 7
Lab grown stem cells emit brain waves like newborns – and boffins build robot worm to slither through heads
Video Insane in the brain
Science30 Aug 2019 | 20
Crikey, that's FAST: China clocks 84 pulsars in 2 years using world's largest radio telescope
Tens of thousands still to find blinking in the darkness
Science04 Jul 2019 | 25
Monster magnet in my pocket: Boffins' gizmo packs 45.5-tesla punch and weighs just 390g
But don't get too excited, it can't do much at the moment
Science17 Jun 2019 | 95
NASA goes commercial, publishes price for trips to the ISS – and it'll be multi-millionaires only for this noAirBNB
$22,500 a day to breathe, eat and exercise, $50 per GB for data, $11,250 to pee and sleep
Science07 Jun 2019 | 89
Barbie Girl was wrong? Life is plastic, it's not fantastic: We each ingest '121,000 pieces' of microplastics a year
Worse news, there's more in alcohol than tap water
Science06 Jun 2019 | 119
Astronomer slams sexists trying to tear down black hole researcher's rep
Misogynists sniping at Caltech's Kate Bouman get an earful
Science12 Apr 2019 | 163
Welcome your new ancestor to the Homo family tree; boffins have discovered a new tiny species of human
Homo luzonensis spotted underneath layers and layers of clay in a Filipino cave
Science11 Apr 2019 | 41
Are brown dwarfs stars or planets? Boffins find evidence for proto-suns in a solar system
Finding a twin brown dwarfs around a giant star just adds to the confusion
Science10 Apr 2019 | 33
Boffins baffled by planet nugget whizzing round white dwarf that should have killed it
Solid small satellite where a year lasts for just two hours
Science05 Apr 2019 | 35
Geiger counters are so last summer. Lasers can detect radioactive material too, y'know
Boffins show how to nab radioactive contraband, by looking for 'electron avalanches'
Security25 Mar 2019 | 80
Forget that rare-earth element crunch – we can now just extract them from industrial waste
It's a match made in heaven for erm, glucunobacter and phosphogypsum
Science15 Mar 2019 | 50
Danger mouse! Potent rodents 'see' infrared after eyeballs injected with nanoparticles
Maybe it'll make its way to humans in the army one day...
Science01 Mar 2019 | 58
Visited the Grand Canyon since 2000? You'll have great photos – and maybe a teensy bit of unwanted radiation
15 gallons of uranium ore left in the visitors' center for 18 years
Science20 Feb 2019 | 75
Hungover this morning? Thought 'beer before wine and you'll be fine'? Boffins prove old adage just isn't true
Better to drink plenty of water, we reckon
Science10 Feb 2019 | 89
Yay, we got a B for maths. Literally, a bee: Little nosy nectar nerds smart enough to add, abstract numbers
What's next? Arithme-ticks?
Science07 Feb 2019 | 54
Boffins build bugged bees bearing backpacks
Bees harvest data, but would be more fun if they had lasers
Science12 Dec 2018 | 23
Boffins build blazing battery bonfire
'Sun in a box' system promises power storage from molten silicon
Science08 Dec 2018 | 157
Talk about a GAN-do attitude... AI software bots can see through your text CAPTCHAs
Code to defeat letter-based I'm-a-human tests revealed, major sites left wide open
Security05 Dec 2018 | 26
Register Lecture: For AI's sake – taming the wild data frontier
Blighty's metrology experts define terms
Lectures23 Nov 2018 |
Boffins have fabricated microscopic sci-fi tractor beams for real
It can only hold millions of cold rubidium atoms for now though
Science31 Oct 2018 | 44
Boffins ask for £338m to fund quantum research. UK.gov: Here's £80m
Meanwhile, jocks in US Senate shove $1.275bn at field
Science17 Sep 2018 | 43
Berkeley bio-boffins' butt-blasting belly-bothering batt-teria generates electricity
Infection gives you the runs – and the ability to produce power
Science14 Sep 2018 | 22
Russian volcanoes fingered for Earth's largest mass extinction
Million-year eruptions killed ozone layer, toasting 90% of life on the planet
Science29 Aug 2018 | 91
Get drinking! Abstinence just as bad for you as getting bladdered
British civil servants go bonkers with no booze, or too much
Science02 Aug 2018 | 81
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
Science01 Aug 2018 | 216
AI threatens yet more jobs – now, lab rats: Animal testing could be on the way out, thanks to machine learning
Time for rodents to retrain as PHP programmers
AI + ML12 Jul 2018 | 28
Astroboffins spy the brightest quasar that lit the universe's dark ages
The light has only taken 13 billion years to reach us
Science09 Jul 2018 | 17
Spidey sense is literally tingling! Arachnids detect Earth's electric field, use it to fly away
Video Up, up, and away in my silky eight-legged balloon
Science06 Jul 2018 | 35
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