Hate speech row: Fine or jail anyone who calls people boffins, geeks or eggheads, psychology nerd demands
'Divisive and humiliating' terms are bad as the N-word, uni lecturer argues
18 Dec 2019
Articles about Boffin
Boffin the boffin and his boffinry pals in double dwarf super-prang alert
Pics Supernova, huge bang, yes, yes. But have we reached Peak Boffin?
09 Feb 2015
So, what exactly defines a 'boffin'? Speak your brains...
Engineer? Computer scientist? Biologist? You tell us
12 Jun 2014
Russian boffins race to meteorite crash lake as shard prices go sky-high
Space rock hunters flog fragments at $10,000 a piece
18 Feb 2013
Pret-a-porter: LG boffins' bendy battery can be worn as PANTS
But keep that fire extinguisher close
31 Aug 2012
New lightest-ever material: Ideal power for electric car
Pitch-black Aerographite could juice batteries of the future-ture-ture
18 Jul 2012
Watch out for the GIGANTIC ALIEN JELLYFISH, warns space boffin
Floating horror blobominations roam ice-moon skies
06 Jul 2012
CERN catches a glimpse of Higgs-like boson
Answer to life, the universe and everything coming soon
04 Jul 2012
Gigantic lava spirals wreck Mars ice valley theory
Student goes looking for water, finds yet more rock
27 Apr 2012
Mega squid use HUMONGOUS eyes to spot ravenous sperm whales
Boffins float theory on colossal creatures' eyesight
16 Mar 2012
Super-boffin Stephen Hawking to star in Big Bang Theory
UK prof to drop in on Dr Sheldon Cooper
14 Mar 2012
Kung-fu tweeting Carl Douglas wins El Reg prize - with expert timing
Beardie computer scientist was fast as lightning
13 Feb 2012
Boffins find prehistoric croc species with 'mate-attracting' skin helmet
'Shieldcrocs' mingled with dinosaurs
06 Feb 2012
Boffins one step closer to invisible shed
Successfully cloak 3D object from microwaves
26 Jan 2012
Exotic Russian rock CAME FROM OUTER SPACE
Alien quasicrystal find sheds light on solar system birth
04 Jan 2012
Bumblebee boffins rediscover long-vanished species
Rare US insect had not been seen since 1956
06 Dec 2011
Dyson sinks £1.4m into Cambridge engineering chair
Intellectual vacuum
24 Nov 2011
New 'plasma lamps' to replace fluorescent bulbs, LEDs
Boffins bid for spinout riches on flat, bendy glow-sheets
21 Nov 2011
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