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
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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
NARROWER TOPICS
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
NASA makes the James Webb Telescope a looker with a heart of gold
Astroboffins get precious about heat protection in space
Science05 Jun 2018 | 14
The ice must flow: Dunes of frozen gas spotted on alien dwarf
Pluto's not just a cold distant ball – it may have been geologically active early on
Science31 May 2018 | 23
Boffins bash out bonkers boost for batteries
Patent sought for honeycomb design that could massively lengthy battery life
Science17 May 2018 | 61
North will remain North for now, say geo-magnetic boffins
Much-feared magnetic field 'flip' not happening anytime soon
Science01 May 2018 | 70
Something weird to deck the Xmas tree with: 3D-printed Wi-Fi baubles
Boffins from the University of Washington embed connectivity in (mostly) plastic trinkets
Science06 Dec 2017 | 12
Arecibo spared the axe: Iconic observatory vital to science lives on
NSF approves plan to keep Puerto Rico facility operational after hurricane trashed it
Science18 Nov 2017 | 55
MoD: Sci-tech strategy? Er, here's a bunch of words and diagrams
Brit military top brass assures us it has coherent plan to harness Brit boffinry
Security30 Oct 2017 | 24
The case of the disappearing insect. Boffin tells Reg: We don't know why... but we must act
'It's more dramatic than climate change'
Science20 Oct 2017 | 112
SCARY SPICE: Pumpkin air freshener sparks school evacuation
Four fall ill after Fall's favorite artificial flavoring overwhelms
Bootnotes07 Oct 2017 | 48
Boffins fear we might be running out of ideas
Research just isn't as effective as it used to be
Science11 Sep 2017 | 93
Fruit flies' brains at work: Decision-making? They use their eyes
Before you scoff, consider how much we rationalise away what's in front of us
Science06 Sep 2017 | 42
Comp sci world shock: Bonn boffin proposes P≠NP proof, preps for prestige, plump prize
Potential math challenge solution greeted with skepticism
Software16 Aug 2017 | 56
UK waves £45m cheque, charges scientists with battery tech boffinry
Attempt to make Blighty an innovator in the field
Science28 Jul 2017 | 59
Researchers solve screen glare nightmare with 'moth-eye' antireflective film
£$% ambient... light! Can't see.. darn.. phone... screen
Science26 Jun 2017 | 38
Scientists are counting atoms to figure out when Mars last had volcanoes
Astroboffin-in-training makes dating breakthrough
Science26 May 2017 | 18
'Tabby's Star' intrigues astro-boffins with brief 'dimming event'
Is it comets? Or aliens? Astronomers want your help to figure out this cosmic riddle
Science23 May 2017 | 33
DNA-bothering eggheads brew beer you were literally born to like
Red alert: Science mixed with marketing detected
Science25 Mar 2017 | 49
Good news, everyone! Two pints a day keep heart problems at bay
And yes, total abstinence isn't good for you
Bootnotes23 Mar 2017 | 135
Shine on, you crazy Eind minds: Boffins fire out 43Gbps infrared 'Wi-Fi'
Super fast but you'll need line-of-sight
Networks18 Mar 2017 | 33
MIT goes down to the wire: Brain cable pipes electricity, chemicals, light straight into minds
Polymer highway into the head promises easier neurological monitoring
Science23 Feb 2017 | 7
From drugs to galaxy hunting, AI is elbowing its way into boffins' labs
Feature Machine learning is cropping up more and more in research papers – does it work?
AI + ML23 Feb 2017 | 9
Dead cockroaches make excellent magnets – now what are we supposed to do with this info?
They'll stick notes to fridges in the aftermath of nuclear war?
Science17 Feb 2017 | 41
Twin brothers. One went into space. The other didn't. NASA reveals how their bodies differ
Great way to monitor effects of being in orbit
Science01 Feb 2017 | 40
NASA brews better test to find ET in cosmic cocktails
Take an alien liquid, stir, add lasers, then wait to see what rises to the top
Science27 Jan 2017 | 8
Stanford boffins find 'correlation between caffeine consumption and longevity'
Make a cup of tea - or a mocha - before you read this if you want a long and happy life
Science17 Jan 2017 | 63
Fatal genetic conditions could return in some 'three-parent' babies
Better mother matching needed
Science05 Jan 2017 | 35
Speeding jet of Siberian liquid hot Magma getting speedier, satellites find
Swarm gazers find faster flows in the outer core
Science04 Jan 2017 | 34
Plastic fiver: 28 years' work, saves acres of cotton... may have killed less than ONE cow*
Inventor of polymer banknote: Veggie £5 refuseniks are being 'absolutely stupid'
Bootnotes02 Dec 2016 | 260
UK minister promises science budget won't be messed with after Brexit
Ambitious pledges ahead of Article 50 negotiations
Science26 Oct 2016 | 67
British trio win Nobel prize for physics
'Opened door to unknown world where matter can assume strange states'
Science04 Oct 2016 | 24
Boffins ID bug behind London's Great Plague of 1665
Yersinia pestis fingered as slayer of 10,000 victims
Science09 Sep 2016 | 48
That Public Health study? No, it didn't say 'don't do chemo'
When big media goes clueless about big data
Science02 Sep 2016 | 34
Pump-priming the new ampere: NIST works to count electrons in silicon
Show me the way to go Ohm
Science30 Aug 2016 | 45
Jovial NASA says Juno flyby a success
Downloads will take days
Science29 Aug 2016 | 23
Robot babies fail in role as teenage sex deterrents
'Infant simulators' that cry and go Code Brown don't stop girls from having actual kids
Science26 Aug 2016 | 49
No, we haven't found liquid water on Mars, says NASA
New observations don't contradict Martian wet patch theories, but dry them up a lot
Science24 Aug 2016 | 30
NIST spins atomic gyroscope to allow navigation without GPS
Wait, there's more: it's also an accelerometer
Science24 Aug 2016 | 46
Physicists believe they may have found fifth force of nature
'Boson X' related to dark matter?
Science16 Aug 2016 | 69
Juno shoots 'Marble Movie' of Jupiter
Blinded observers granted gift
Science12 Aug 2016 | 7
NASA test foiled by rocket shaking power cord loose from camera
Video Snapper built to take you inside a rocket plume eventually produced stunning images
Science10 Aug 2016 | 26
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