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Rewriting the checklists: 50 years since Apollo 13 reported it 'had a problem' – and boffins saved the day

It's instrumentation. It must be instrumentation. It wasn't instrumentation. Final part of The Register's look at Apollo 13

14 Apr 03:08 | 22

Come kneel with us at UK's Cathedral, er, Oil Rig of the Canal: Engineering masterpiece Anderton Boat Lift

Give a Cheshire cheers to a true waterway wonder

04 Mar 10:00 | 73

Geek's Guide to Britain

German scientists, Black Knights and the birthplace of British rocketry

El Reg visits Westcott and the Isle of Wight in search of more of Britain's forgotten rocket centres

27 Jan 09:15 | 42

Geek's Guide to Britain

Talking a Blue Streak: The ambitious, quiet waste of the Spadeadam Rocket Establishment

Memories of missiles on the moors of Cumbria

27 Nov 10:07 | 98

Geek's Guide to Britain

Orford Ness: Military secrets and unique wildlife on the remote Suffolk coast

Shingle spit and you'll miss this science and history on t' beach gem

24 Sep 09:16 | 42

Geek's Guide to Britain

The Central Telegraph Office was serving spam 67 years before vikings sang about it on telly

Farewell to St Paul's telco treasury

19 Sep 08:16 | 61

Geek's Guide to Britain

What made a super high-tech home in Victorian England? Hydroelectric witchery, for starters

Forget the scones and gardens, Cragside house is engineery

18 Mar 09:05 | 99

Are you aware of the gravity of the situation on Mars? Why yes, say boffins: We rejigged Curiosity to measure it

Shock after accelerometers hacked, in the old-school sense, and rock density probed

01 Feb 06:03 | 22

Geek's Guide to Britain

Blueprint of modern construction can be found in a tech cluster... of 19th century England

The world's first iron-framed building will return to service soon

27 Sep 09:15 | 27

Geek's Guide to Britain

Mirror mirror on sea wall, spot those airships, make Kaiser bawl

The North East's Zeppelin warning system is largely forgotten

31 May 08:08 | 68

Presto chango, crypto buyo: You're travelling like El Reg's gang of nerds

Fancy micropaying for the great Geek's Guide eBook?

22 May 12:03 | 78

Geek's Guide to Britain

Take-off crash 'n' burn didn't kill the Concorde, it was just too bloody expensive to maintain

Yet Filton display shows it's among the world's best-loved aircraft

01 May 08:50 | 241

Geek's Guide to Britain

Fancy a viaduct? We have a wrought Victorian iron marvel to sell you

Myth, legend and the lucky escape of Bennerley

21 Mar 09:18 | 79

Geek's Guide to Britain

Life's a beach – then you're the comms nexus of the British Empire and Marconi-baiting hax0rs

Inside Porthcurno's world-spanning telegraphy web

15 Feb 09:05 | 45

Geek's Guide to Britain

Worcestershire's airborne electronics warfare wonderland

What Bernard Lovell did before Jodrell Bank

12 Jan 09:38 | 39

Geek's Guide to Britain

Hotter than the Sun: JET – Earth’s biggest fusion reactor, in Culham

A star performer producing fission-free plasma power

25 Sep 08:01 | 141

Geeks' Guide to Britain

Fancy that! Craft which float over everything on a cushion of air

A hidden British engineering gem: The Hovercraft Museum

15 Sep 22:58 | 100

Everything you never knew about mail: The Postal Museum opens

Plus: We take a sneak peek at London's other tube network, Mail Rail

28 Jul 12:00 | 20

Reg reader turns Geek's Guides to Britain into Geek's Map of Britain

Too lazy to plug GPS co-ords into satnav? Fear not, gypsythief has saved you

21 Jul 09:27 | 36

Geek's Guide to Britain

Extreme trainspotting on Britain's highest (and windiest) railway

Tibet? Pah! A £20m ride puts the Highlands at your feet

04 Jul 08:01 | 110

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Google looks at bypass in Chromium's ASLR security defense, throws hands up, won't patch garbage issue

Engineers write off GC abuse because Spectre broke everything anyway

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Half a million stolen French medical records, drowned in feeble excuses

A bitter pill best swallowed with eight gallons of swimming pool water

BOFH: 7 jars of Marmite, a laptop and a good time

Or 'How PFY and I do Access Control'

Apple's latest macOS Big Sur update stops cheapo USB-C hubs bricking your machine

Still, it's probably best to stick with eye-wateringly expensive official peripherals

Choose your fighter! March Mammal Madness pits poor, innocent critters against each other in mortal combat

Not literally and all in the name of education

Apple, forced to rate product repair potential in France, gives itself modest marks

Never mind the glue and soldered RAM

Bezos denied: New Glenn launch pushed into 2022 after Space Force says no

Also: Old age a bigger risk for Branson's passengers as Virgin Galactic slips again

HPE urges judge to pick through Deloitte-bashing report it claims demolishes Autonomy founder's defence

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Lochs, rifle stocks and two EPIC sea gates: Thomas Telford's Highland waterway

Feats of engineering, projections busted - the Caledonian Canal

03 Apr 09:02 | 52

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Going underground: The Royal Mail's great London train squeeze

Uber cars, Amazon drones? Pah! Driverless deliveries from a different age

06 Dec 12:04 | 68

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Turing, Hauser, Sinclair – haunt computing's Cambridge A-team stamping ground

From Acorns to bedrooms

26 Sep 09:59 | 54

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Avoiding Liverpool was the aim: All aboard the world's ONLY moving aqueduct

Barton Aqueduct – where heavy metal shifts H₂O

28 Jul 13:57 | 75

Inside Electric Mountain: Britain's biggest rechargeable battery

Swallow massive lake, regurgitate, repeat

16 May 09:07 | 185

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The field at the centre of the universe: Cambridge's outdoor pulsar pusher

Radio astronomy, sheds and high-explosive ordnance

12 Feb 14:15 | 34

Geek's Guide to Britain

Come on kids, let's go play in the abandoned nuclear power station

After oil, before shale: the future that never was

26 Jan 15:04 | 141

Bletchley Park remembers 'forgotten genius' Gordon Welchman

Head of Hut Six 'a disastrous example to others' – GCHQ

27 Sep 11:00 | 78

Geek's Guide to Britain

Bookworms' Weston mecca: The Oxford institution with a Swindon secret

The 400-year-old Uni library with a big-box backer

18 Sep 14:51 | 25

Geek's Guide to Britain

Rock reboot and the Welsh windy wonder: Centre for Alternative Technology

Biomass and the pit

21 Aug 12:50 | 41

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Get thee behind me, Satanic mills! Robert Owen's Scottish legacy

Inside the works of Scotland's industrial revolutionary

11 Aug 09:03 | 30

Geek's Guide to Britain

The Great Barrier Relief – Inside London's heavy metal and concrete defence act

Waves against the machine

14 Jul 11:31 | 87

Geek's Guide to Britain

Planet killer: Ex-army officer's Welsh space-rock mission

Tunguska, Chelyabinsk... Powys

06 Jul 13:37 | 22

Geek's Guide to Britain

Taming the Thames – The place that plugged London's Great Stink

How Joseph Bazalgette flushed the capital into the modern age

30 May 11:00 | 74

Geek's Guide to Britain

Bridge, ship 'n' tunnel – the Brunels' hidden Thames trip

Monument to a trio who left their mark on Blighty

04 May 13:29 | 50

Geek's Guide to Britain

Saturn's rings, radio waves ... poetry? At home with Scotland's Mr Physics

James Clerk Maxwell's house

06 Apr 12:03 | 24

Geek's Guide to Britain

Marconi: The West of England's very own Italian wireless pioneer

A trip to the Lizard King's monument

23 Feb 12:02 | 81

Geek's Guide to Britain

Suffering satellites! Goonhilly's ARTHUR REBORN for SPAAAACE

BT's sat comms site repurposed

25 Nov 11:01 | 48

Geek's Guide to Britain

Kingston's aviation empire: From industry firsts to Airfix heroes

Sir Thomas Sopwith's suburban Surrey hub

24 Oct 09:03 | 58

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