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Fri, 21 Jul 2017 09:27:10 GMT
Too lazy to plug GPS co-ords into satnav? Fear not, gypsythief has saved you
A forward-thinking Reg reader has put the entirety of our Geeks’ Guide series onto a Google Map, for your navigational and geographically organised reading pleasure.…
Wed, 19 Jul 2017 10:30:04 GMT
Should we believe the hype? And why drop so much $$?
Two hundred local government employees across the capital of China's eastern Shandong province will soon be encrypting messages with keys that are "impossible" to crack.…
Tue, 18 Jul 2017 04:57:05 GMT
Sure, Goddard boffins could just analyse the signals, but why not listen to them too?
NASA boffins in charge of the agency's Van Allen Belt mission have recorded audio-frequency noise made by energetic electrons emitting what's known as “whistler waves”.…
Mon, 17 Jul 2017 23:03:31 GMT
Mayak bird so bright it may outshine Venus, Jupiter
Skywatchers are going to see a new light in the heavens this week after the successful launch of the Russian satellite Mayak this past weekend.…
Mon, 17 Jul 2017 05:23:06 GMT
Infected sterile males will help kill off the population
Google’s healthcare arm Verily announced just before the weekend it will release twenty million sterile male mosquitoes into the wild, in Fresno County, California.…
Mon, 17 Jul 2017 01:39:03 GMT
Aerospace firm says there's no market for this stuff, wants to build it anyway
Aerospace company Orbital ATK has failed in a legal bid to halt a DARPA contract for robotic satellite maintenance devices and will instead see if the White House can help it to bring the work to the private sector.…
Sat, 15 Jul 2017 07:02:13 GMT
High-Mach number, magnetized collisionless shocks reproduced
Scientists have managed to create powerful supersonic shock waves – comparable to those generated in space – under laboratory conditions.…
Fri, 14 Jul 2017 21:16:55 GMT
Amazingly, it's not Keith Richards
Humans are newcomers on Earth and it's almost certain that we won't be around, on this planet at least, when the solar system's star finally goes nova. But boffins have identified at least one animal that will be.…
Fri, 14 Jul 2017 13:12:13 GMT
Paves way for thousands of sci-fi novel prologues to come true
Luxembourg's parliament has passed a law that makes it the first European Union country to offer legal certainty that asteroid mining companies get to keep what they find in space.…
Fri, 14 Jul 2017 05:32:11 GMT
LISA Pathfinder's watch is over, but busting it can teach us to handle future, nastier, missions
The European Space Agency is giving the LISA Pathfinder probe what it calls the “Bake, rattle and roll” treatment in the hope it teaches us how to make its successors even better.…
Thu, 13 Jul 2017 05:01:10 GMT
Shrinking spot looks like the Eye of Sauron
NASA has released the first closeup images of Jupiter’s Great Red Spot, the massive storm system that has been swirling on its surface for over 180 years.…
Wed, 12 Jul 2017 07:28:05 GMT
2014 MU69 is New Horizons' next stop and this is a way to get an early look
NASA has flown a plane through shadow of Kuiper Belt object 6.6bn kilometres from Earth.…
Tue, 11 Jul 2017 23:01:11 GMT
Little blighter is about the size of our system's Saturn
The tiniest star, similar in size to Saturn, has been discovered as part of an eclipsing binary system by a group of astronomers.…
Tue, 11 Jul 2017 05:02:11 GMT
SOCRATES shows off space-to-ground entanglement
Japan has become the latest country to demonstrate quantum communication with a satellite, in this case a micro-satellite named SOCRATES.…
Mon, 10 Jul 2017 21:11:44 GMT
It's Pimms O' Clock somewhere in the world right now
An international team of chemists has set the new record for crafting near-perfect cubic ice crystals. Sadly, the ice cubes are so small, they are invisible to the naked eye.…
Mon, 10 Jul 2017 04:13:01 GMT
Four times as massive as a proton, a way to check out the strong nuclear force
What happens if you get two charm quarks together in one baryon? Something four times as heavy as a proton that can help the world understand the strong nuclear force, according to boffins at the Large Hadron Collider.…
Fri, 07 Jul 2017 10:02:06 GMT
Quantum dots show promise for fighting bacterial keratitis
In early lab experiments on rabbits, eyedrops laced with nanoparticles appear to combat bacterial keratitis, a serious infection of the cornea which can, in severe cases, cause blindness.…
Fri, 07 Jul 2017 06:02:05 GMT
Sixty rare possible candidates eyed from NASA's Kepler probe
Astronomers have uncovered a potential treasure trove of hot Jupiters, a rare class of exoplanet, in our galaxy.…
Thu, 06 Jul 2017 21:53:22 GMT
Tweet a GIF about that, Donald
Chinese boffins say they have smashed yet another world fusion record using their EAST contraption – aka the Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak.…
Thu, 06 Jul 2017 10:54:08 GMT
Geminga! Yet another of astronomy's classic pranks...
A new study suggests a dangerous, young neutron star could be attracting planet-forming matter around it as it swims through space.…
Thu, 06 Jul 2017 06:03:13 GMT
Can science crack the cosmos's inexplicable yet bountiful ion? We think it can
Scientists are getting closer to piecing together the chemical reactions that form trihydrogen, one of the most abundant yet mysterious ions floating around in space.…
Thu, 06 Jul 2017 05:02:05 GMT
Turbo-charged solar runaways escape home galaxies, scream through our cosmic backwater
Rare hypervelocity stars tearing through the Milky Way galaxy are runaway suns that have escaped neighbouring galaxies, according to research presented at this year’s National Astronomy Meeting in Hull, England.…
Wed, 05 Jul 2017 06:05:05 GMT
Three eyes look at the sky
Camera designers will get to add a technique borrowed from nature to improve how they handle colour, courtesy of the humble honey bee.…
Wed, 05 Jul 2017 05:05:12 GMT
April drift test analysis updated
Australian researchers who haven't given up on finding Malaysian Airlines MH 370 have told a conference in Darwin they believe they know where it is likely to be.…
Tue, 04 Jul 2017 08:01:08 GMT
Tibet? Pah! A £20m ride puts the Highlands at your feet
Geek's Guide to Britain The world's highest railway is the Xining-Golmud-Lhasa railway at 5,068m (16,627ft) above sea level and running 815km (506 miles). As much a political piece as a transport corridor, the line was designed to fuse China with Tibet – the country the People's Republic invaded and annexed in 1950.…
Tue, 04 Jul 2017 07:04:11 GMT
Rocket and payload just fine, try again tomorrow
SpaceX's current launch, carrying the geosynchronous satellite Intelsat 35e, hasn't got off the ground yet: two launches in a row have been pulled at the last minute.…
Tue, 04 Jul 2017 06:04:10 GMT
Massive news
While business around the world closed out a financial quarter or a financial year ahead of June 30, US boffins were working to a different deadline: linking the kilogram to electromagnetism.…
Mon, 03 Jul 2017 06:03:10 GMT
Putting Bruce Willis out of work
NASA has okayed one of its save-the-world-from-asteroids proposals to move to the preliminary design phase, on the way to a hoped-for launch early in the 2020s.…
Mon, 03 Jul 2017 02:05:05 GMT
Long March, short flight
China's latest Long March-5 Y2 the launch has gone awry for reasons not yet made public.…
Fri, 30 Jun 2017 20:45:25 GMT
All part of the wider plan to visit the dusty wasteland of Mars
Japan's national space agency JAXA has announced plans to send a lone astronaut to the moon by 2030.…
Fri, 30 Jun 2017 18:34:37 GMT
No humans on Red Planet, straight-faced officials have the audacity to claim
NASA has not enslaved a colony of children on Mars nor is it using them for vile orgies on the Red Planet nor feasting on them to harvest their precious bone marrow, officials have told The Register.…
Fri, 30 Jun 2017 05:01:07 GMT
Tune into space boffins' 24-hour telethon celebration
Space scientists and enthusiasts are today celebrating International Asteroid Day – with events in 190 countries and a 24-hour telethon with boffins from NASA, ESA, and JAXA plus assorted celebrities.…
Fri, 30 Jun 2017 01:56:13 GMT
Software update adds traction control to protect rover's wheels
After 18 months of testing, NASA's pushed a patch to the Mars Curiosity Rover – to extend its wheels' life, and eliminate over-exuberant climbs causing “wheelies”.…
Thu, 29 Jun 2017 21:47:43 GMT
Stable for up to 10x the distance from Earth to Moon
A team of physicists claims to have created the world's sharpest laser, with a line width frequency of only 10 millihertz – opening up the possibility of improving the accuracy of optical clocks and radioastronomy experiments.…
Thu, 29 Jun 2017 06:01:10 GMT
Tiny body moves similar to Jupiter – but travels in the opposite direction
Asteroid 2015 BZ509 – also known as Bee-Zed – is the only asteroid in our solar system with a confirmed retrograde orbit lasting 12 years; the same orbital period as Jupiter.…
Tue, 27 Jun 2017 23:52:57 GMT
Never a M or L when you want one, right?
Astronomers looking for black holes have been baffled by the same question for decades: we've found large and small holes, but where are all the medium-sized black holes?…
Tue, 27 Jun 2017 07:26:12 GMT
Sonic boom reduced to 'soft thump' by well-designed shockwaves
NASA says the preliminary design review of its Quiet Supersonic Transport (QueSST) project suggests it is possible to create a supersonic aircraft that doesn't produce a sonic boom.…
Tue, 27 Jun 2017 06:33:13 GMT
But she's down to just 13kg of fuel after seven-minute eclipse-avoidance burn
India's Mars Orbiter Mission – aka MOM – has celebrated its 1,000th Earth day in orbit around the red planet.…
Tue, 27 Jun 2017 06:06:11 GMT
It's official. Uranus clenches after taking in hot beams
Scientists digging through old readings from NASA’s Voyager 2 mission in 1986 have found that Uranus’ magnetic field swings open and shut like the aperture of a revolving door.…
Tue, 27 Jun 2017 01:14:28 GMT
As I was on the motorway, I saw a man who wasn't there. Then things went pear-shaped
If you've ever been dazzled by some idiot's high-beam driving towards you at night, you'd probably welcome a self-driving car – except one of the key “eyes”, LIDAR, can also be blinded, or tricked into reacting to objects that aren't there.…
Mon, 26 Jun 2017 09:32:06 GMT
£$% ambient... light! Can't see.. darn.. phone... screen
A new anti-glare film could help us see our phones a little bit better on a bright day.…
Mon, 26 Jun 2017 05:02:08 GMT
Your bike ride/Glastonbury/hookup with a hottie looks a bit less epic now, eh?
No matter what you did over the weekend, you'll struggle to top Elon Musk's after his space trucking venture launched 11 satellites atop two rockets, both of which stuck perfect landings on barges.…
Fri, 23 Jun 2017 05:01:12 GMT
Danger, Will Robinson!
Autonomous space robots are going to be key to making new discoveries and exploring the furthest reaches of our Solar System and beyond, according to NASA scientists.…
Thu, 22 Jun 2017 06:30:13 GMT
ESA to start the construction of space telescope network
The European Space Agency’s PLATO mission hunting for habitable exoplanets has been given the green light to move from blueprint into construction.…
Wed, 21 Jun 2017 23:41:23 GMT
Grab your camping gear and prepare for August 21
America will witness, for the first time in 99 years, a total solar eclipse stretching from coast to coast on August 21.…
Tue, 20 Jun 2017 23:51:46 GMT
Researchers explore 3D imaging using drones
Video Drones can perform three-dimensional imaging of objects through walls using Wi-Fi, a team of researchers demonstrated for the first time.…
Tue, 20 Jun 2017 23:02:41 GMT
Dr Katie Mack explains the SkyHopper cubesat project to El Reg
A couple of years after it was first conceived, a Melbourne University-led infrared astronomy cubesat proposal called SkyHopper is gathering momentum.…
Tue, 20 Jun 2017 07:58:11 GMT
Verily joins Novartis and the European Investment Fund
Venture capital group Medicxi has announced a $300m late-stage life sciences fund that is backed by Novartis, the European Investment Fund (EIF) and Verily Life Sciences, the healthcare division of Google's holding company Alphabet.…
Tue, 20 Jun 2017 00:22:42 GMT
Fifty possible planets later, we're a step closer to a possible vacation Earth
NASA’s Kepler space telescope has finished cataloging possible planets in the direction of the Cygnus constellation.…
Mon, 19 Jun 2017 11:24:13 GMT
Papr app lets you rate academic papers - and maybe find your ideal postdoc
Boffins have created an app that lets users rate academic preprints and find people with similar academic tastes - and hope to use the results to spot trends in academic publishing.…
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