China will soon overtake Japan as the world's second heaviest spender on research and development, according to a report from the Battelle Memorial I...
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There are those who believe that a full moon puts them in a strange mood and even causes them to behave in a peculiar manner.
Some, though, want to c...
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The U.S Air Force seems to do a lot to make the lives of its pilots and air crew more comfortable.
Just the other day, one heard about a new chair t...
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Commercial spacecraft will replace NASA&39's shuttle program.
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Two companies tied to prominent technology entrepreneurs are among th...
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Given that we are unlikely to get past 2012, perhaps it's churlish to even think of what 2025 might look like.
However, the indelible optimists at NA...
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One end of the CMS detector during the LHC&39's assembly in 2007.
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The Large Hadron Collider, CERN's particle acce...
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Space Exploration Technologies, or SpaceX, plans to build a commercial heavy-lift rocket that will carry more than twice the payload of existing larg...
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Projects designed to help communities improve access to clean water, cook with clean-burning fuel, fortify salt to maintain nutrients, and use mobil...
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The clean-energy geeks (definitely a term of endearment) at Stanford University have come up with a way to turn every river in the world into a power...
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Even those of us who cover e-commerce often overlook the reality of connecting the "e" part of the equation to the real world. Webvan and Kozmo.co...
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Babyloid is perfect for caring humanoids.
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The nightmare of robot babies continues apace in Japan, a rapidly aging soc...
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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla.--The shuttle Discovery's external tank was loaded with more than a half million gallons of supercold liquid oxygen and hyd...
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One thing we can probably all agree on is that in the future, robots will be everywhere. But will they play the role of master or servant
Sexy tim...
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The human brain is truly awesome.
A typical, healthy one houses some 200 billion nerve cells, which are connected to one another via hundreds of tril...
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Have you ever forgotten to turn your cell phone off during a flight Did you survive
The question might seem slightly churlish, but the airline indu...
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Canadian firm BioLytical received FDA approval this week for the sale of its Insti HIV Rapid Antibody Test in the United States.
The test, which, at...
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The six-member, all-veteran crew of the shuttle Discovery flew to Florida today to await their blastoff Monday on a space station resupply mission th...
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Ground crew rolls the Solar Impulse into its hangar in Brussels after the successful flight. The vast array of solar cells is visible on the win...
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The &39'NASA Explorer&39' badge on Foursquare
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The first live Twitter messages from space were less than a year ago, but alread...
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Theyworkforyou.com, the site that helps the British public keep tabs on their politicians, has just made the government''s goings-on even more transpa...
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