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Ireland and Great Britain map, image via Shutterstock

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

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.
Gareth Corfield, 21 Jul 2017
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China's 'future-proof' crypto: We talk to firm behind crazy quantum key distribution network

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.
Andrew Silver, 19 Jul 2017
NASA image - Van Allen Belts

NASA whistles up electron noise from the Van Allen belt

Sure, Goddard boffins could just analyse the signals, but why not listen to them too?
24 Comments
18 Jul 04:57
mayak

Russia launches non-TERRIFYING satellite that focuses Sun's solar rays onto Earth

Mayak bird so bright it may outshine Venus, Jupiter
39 Comments
17 Jul 23:03

Google unleashes 20m lab-created blood-thirsty freaks on a city. And this is a good thing, it says

Infected sterile males will help kill off the population
52 Comments
17 Jul 05:23

DARPA's robot sat-fixing program survives sueball strike

Aerospace firm says there's no market for this stuff, wants to build it anyway
17 Jul 01:39

Physicists send supersonic shock waves rippling through a lab

High-Mach number, magnetized collisionless shocks reproduced
24 Comments
15 Jul 07:02

Eggheads identify the last animal that will survive on Earth until the Sun dies

Amazingly, it's not Keith Richards
81 Comments
14 Jul 21:16

Luxembourg passes first EU space mining law. One can possess the Spice

Paves way for thousands of sci-fi novel prologues to come true
65 Comments
14 Jul 13:12

ESA trying to 'bake, rattle and roll' gravity wave space probe

LISA Pathfinder's watch is over, but busting it can teach us to handle future, nastier, missions
14 Jul 05:32

Juno beams back first closeups of Jupiter's unsightly red acne

Shrinking spot looks like the Eye of Sauron
22 Comments
13 Jul 05:01

NASA flies plane through Earthly shadow of Kuiper Belt object

2014 MU69 is New Horizons' next stop and this is a way to get an early look
38 Comments
12 Jul 07:28

Astroboffins spot tiniest star yet – we guess you could call it... small fry

Little blighter is about the size of our system's Saturn
23 Comments
11 Jul 23:01

Japan joins quantum space race with microsatellite demo

SOCRATES shows off space-to-ground entanglement
11 Jul 05:02

Just in time for summer boozing: Boffins smash world record for the most perfect ice cubes

It's Pimms O' Clock somewhere in the world right now
37 Comments
10 Jul 21:11

LHC finds a new and very charming particle: the Xicc++ baryon

Four times as massive as a proton, a way to check out the strong nuclear force
56 Comments
10 Jul 04:13

Semiconductor-laced bunny eyedrops appear to nuke infections

Quantum dots show promise for fighting bacterial keratitis
28 Comments
07 Jul 10:02

Astronomers fire up AI algorithms to hunt Milky Way's hot Jupiters

Sixty rare possible candidates eyed from NASA's Kepler probe
07 Jul 06:02
Tokamak

While USA is distracted by its President's antics, China is busy breaking another fusion record

Tweet a GIF about that, Donald
123 Comments
06 Jul 21:53
Data at wavelength of 0.45 mm, combined from SCUBA and SCUBA-2, in a false-colour image. The Geminga pulsar (inside the black circle) is moving towards the upper left, and the orange dashed arc and cylinder show the 'bow-wave' and a 'wake'. The region shown is 1.3 light-years across; the bow-wave probably stretches further behind Geminga, but SCUBA imaged only the 0.4 light-years in the centre.

'Vicious' neutron star caught collecting dustbunnies

Geminga! Yet another of astronomy's classic pranks...
13 Comments
06 Jul 10:54

Boffins with frickin' laser beams chase universe's mysterious trihydrogen

Can science crack the cosmos's inexplicable yet bountiful ion? We think it can
46 Comments
06 Jul 06:03

RED ALERT! High-speed alien fugitives are invading our Milky Way

Turbo-charged solar runaways escape home galaxies, scream through our cosmic backwater
29 Comments
06 Jul 05:02

Boffins' five eyes surprise: Bees correct colour for ambient light

Three eyes look at the sky
63 Comments
05 Jul 06:05

MH370 researchers refine their prediction of the place nobody looked

April drift test analysis updated
72 Comments
05 Jul 05:05

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

Geek's Guide to BritainTibet? Pah! A £20m ride puts the Highlands at your feet
110 Comments
04 Jul 08:01

SpaceX halts Intelsat 35e launch twice in a row

Rocket and payload just fine, try again tomorrow
43 Comments
04 Jul 07:04

Constant work makes the kilo walk the Planck

Massive news
93 Comments
04 Jul 06:04

NASA: Bring on the asteroid, so we can chuck a fridge at it

Putting Bruce Willis out of work
103 Comments
03 Jul 06:03

China pollutes ocean with bloody big rocket

Long March, short flight
51 Comments
03 Jul 02:05

Sailor Moon? More like sail to the Moon: Japan vows to set foot on lunar soil by 2030

All part of the wider plan to visit the dusty wasteland of Mars
17 Comments
30 Jun 20:45

Shock: NASA denies secret child sex slave cannibal colony on Mars

No humans on Red Planet, straight-faced officials have the audacity to claim
122 Comments
30 Jun 18:34

Did you know? Today is International Asteroid Day! Wouldn't it be amazing if one were to...

Tune into space boffins' 24-hour telethon celebration
19 Comments
30 Jun 05:01
Testing traction control at JPL

NASA tells Curiosity: Quit showing off, no 'wheelies' please

Software update adds traction control to protect rover's wheels
31 Comments
30 Jun 01:56

Talk about cutting-edge technology! Boffins fire world's sharpest laser

Stable for up to 10x the distance from Earth to Moon
37 Comments
29 Jun 21:47

Astroboffins dig into the weird backwards orbit of the Bee-Zed asteroid

Tiny body moves similar to Jupiter – but travels in the opposite direction
12 Comments
29 Jun 06:01
Black holes merging

Ever wondered why the universe only has black holes in S or XXXL? No? Boffins have an answer

Never a M or L when you want one, right?
36 Comments
27 Jun 23:52
NASA's Low Boom Flight Demonstration aircraft

Concorde without the cacophony: NASA thinks it's cracked quiet supersonic flight

Sonic boom reduced to 'soft thump' by well-designed shockwaves
140 Comments
27 Jun 07:26

India's Martian MOM clocks up 1,000 days circling the red planet

But she's down to just 13kg of fuel after seven-minute eclipse-avoidance burn
29 Comments
27 Jun 06:33

No way to sugarcoat this: I'm afraid Uranus opens and closes to accept particle streams

It's official. Uranus clenches after taking in hot beams
Blinded me with science

Researchers blind autonomous cars by tricking LIDAR

As I was on the motorway, I saw a man who wasn't there. Then things went pear-shaped
81 Comments
27 Jun 01:14

Researchers solve screen glare nightmare with 'moth-eye' antireflective film

£$% ambient... light! Can't see.. darn.. phone... screen
38 Comments
26 Jun 09:32
SpaceX barge

SpaceX nails two launches and barge landings in one weekend

Your bike ride/Glastonbury/hookup with a hottie looks a bit less epic now, eh?
63 Comments
26 Jun 05:02
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