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
14 Aug 2020
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America's largest radio telescope blind after falling cable slashes 100-foot gash in reflector dish
PicVenerable Arecibo Observatory showing its age
12 Aug 2020
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
07 Apr 2020
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
04 Mar 2020
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
28 Jan 2020
LightAnchors array: LEDs in routers, power strips, and more, can sneakily ship data to this smartphone app
VideoTalk about gone in a flash
12 Dec 2019
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
10 Dec 2019
Welcome to cultured meat – not pigs reading Proust but a viable alternative to slaughter
The meatball that shook the world has investors salivating
16 Nov 2019
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
26 Oct 2019
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
21 Oct 2019
Chemists bitten by Python scripts: How different OSes produced different results during test number-crunching
AnalysisBoffins claim code was fine... when they wrote it
15 Oct 2019
Tut – you wait a lifetime for an interstellar object then two come at once
Boffins spot a possible follow-up to 'Oumuamua
13 Sep 2019
India pokes Vikram with a stick, drill-toting robot lands on Earth, UK plans launch site, and more
RoundupAlso: A billion lucky smartphone owners can make use of Galileo
10 Sep 2019
Lab grown stem cells emit brain waves like newborns – and boffins build robot worm to slither through heads
VideoInsane in the brain
30 Aug 2019
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
04 Jul 2019
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
17 Jun 2019
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
07 Jun 2019
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
06 Jun 2019
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