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
21 Jan 2021
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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
14 Jan 2021
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?
09 Dec 2020
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
06 Nov 2020
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
22 Oct 2020
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
America's largest radio telescope blind after falling cable slashes 100-foot gash in reflector dish
Pic Venerable 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
Video Talk 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
Analysis Boffins 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
Roundup Also: A billion lucky smartphone owners can make use of Galileo
10 Sep 2019
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