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US boffins create darkest material ever

Blacker than a black cat in a coal cellar

16 Jan 12:33

Boffins: Antimatter comes from black holes, neutron stars

'No one could have expected so much unexpectedness'

15 Jan 16:55

Super Soaker inventor touts solid state heat-2-leccy

Ex-NASA boffin could kill off wind and tidal

10 Jan 14:44

GM sees future: Cars and drivers full of booze

Autopilot alcomobiles for drunk drivers

9 Jan 15:11

Radiohead backs WW2-style austerity program

Music for a new society?

10 Dec 13:43

MoD: Frontline troops must have silent Xmas crackers

Exploding planes yes, exploding cargo no

10 Dec 12:03

MI5, EPA clean up dirty bomb dirt

Spooks vanquish phantom menace

7 Dec 14:17

Only bicarbonate of soda can save mankind!

A new take on carbon sequestering

27 Nov 16:46

Stuff string theory - try E8 to explain the universe

Surfing boffin touts new Theory Of Everything

19 Nov 2007, 16:57

Cig-lighter electropulse cannons offered to US plods

Cold dead turkey strangely incapable of flight

13 Nov 2007, 21:36

Massive fire on Olympic site

Exclusive pic There's the fire, son

12 Nov 2007, 13:27

Honda to put ultracapacitors on the road in '08

MIT 'Electric shag' nanocarpet tech proposed

5 Nov 2007, 13:28

African human-powered lighting plan announced

People. Is there anything they can't do?

2 Nov 2007, 16:35

Oz nanoboffins punt paper-thin flak jacket plan

Some kind of Robocop involvement. And geckoes, of course

31 Oct 2007, 14:57

Barracuda skydroid to make comeback?

Piscine killbot may not be sunk after all

29 Oct 2007, 16:01

A380 touches down in Oz

Passengers impressed with aeronautical behemoth

25 Oct 2007, 12:54

Hypersonic hydrogen airliner to bitchslap Concorde

€10bn* funding could bring two hour London-Sydney flights

24 Oct 2007, 14:11

Nanotubes offer self-mending aircraft wings, golf clubs

Teeny pipes. Is there anything they can't do?

22 Oct 2007, 16:08

Ships pollute more than planes

More CO2 overall, not vessel for vessel

19 Oct 2007, 13:59

BT blows £250m on wind power

Dialling down the carbon footprint

19 Oct 2007, 11:02

North American cities go green under LED street lights

Cutting costs and CO2

18 Oct 2007, 13:53

Quantum scientist wins Euro computing prize

Plans to build bigger computer, do harder sums

16 Oct 2007, 13:51

Boeing delays 787 Dreamliner

Six month knock-back to November 2008

11 Oct 2007, 10:46

Fairly realistic flying car offered for 2009 delivery

It's a car. It can fly. That's it.

10 Oct 2007, 15:45

Australia to get 1,000 megawatt wind farm

Power for 400,000 homes

9 Oct 2007, 16:11

Hard disk innovators get physics Nobel

Giant Magnetoresistance - real world nanotech

9 Oct 2007, 14:18

Nissan builds twirly-cab sideways electric pod-car

Includes Teletubbian dashboard boncebot for added road rage capacity

9 Oct 2007, 13:54

US nanotech boffins track evanescent light

By following the Poynting vector, of course

9 Oct 2007, 12:21

Boeing robo-chopper for DARPA's super-spyeye

Multi-channel perve platform gets whisper mode

8 Oct 2007, 12:45

Japanese wrinklies spurn robot helpers

Might yet go for obedient droid butlers, though

20 Sep 2007, 13:07

MIT builds load-carrying mechanical boots

JackBoot™? March-o-Matic™? YompBot™?

20 Sep 2007, 11:27

Boffins challenge shape of neutron neutrality

Pick a team, dammit

18 Sep 2007, 15:14

Subterranean mole-bot under development

No plan to seek out underground civilisations, though

18 Sep 2007, 14:32

Chernobyl to get new steel lid

$1.4bn 'containment structure'

17 Sep 2007, 20:57

Reference kilo shows mysterious weight loss

First Lindsay, then Nicole, now the standard unit of mass

13 Sep 2007, 10:55

Zoom up ropes on silent electric drive

DSEi James Bond underwater assault gear goes public

12 Sep 2007, 16:15

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