Avatar Posted by gop5yeq 5573 days ago (http://news.cnet.com)
Category: Social | Tags: NASA ponies $270 million commercial spaceflight
Commercial spacecraft will replace NASA&39's shuttle program. (Credit: NASA) Two companies tied to prominent technology entrepreneurs are among th... read more »
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Avatar Posted by winminuck1 5713 days ago (http://news.cnet.com)
Category: Social | Tags: Protype piercing resres mans ability swallo
Cancer survivor and physician Daniel Fiandra practices swallowing for the first time in two years. (Credit: UC Davis Health System) Surgeon Peter ... read more »
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Avatar Posted by mepeveb 5618 days ago (http://news.cnet.com)
Category: Social | Tags: Air Force launches second mysterious space plane
The X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle taxis on the flight line in 2010. (Credit: U.S. Air Force) A second mysterious, robotic space plane was launched i... read more »
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Avatar Posted by ramirolesi 5667 days ago (http://news.cnet.com)
Category: Social | Tags: NASA reveals strange bomberlike planes of 2025
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... read more »
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Avatar Posted by Ramesh01 5752 days ago (http://news.cnet.com)
Category: Social | Tags: Scratch sniff art a waft of moon
(Credit: We Colonised the Moon) Get a whiff of this, space geeks. A pair of artists has created a batch of scratch-and-sniff prints that smell lik... read more »
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Avatar Posted by boehlerthh 5563 days ago (http://news.cnet.com)
Category: Social | Tags: Shuttle Endeavour grounded electrical glitch
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla.--An electrical glitch with the shuttle Endeavour's hydraulic power system forced NASA managers to scrub today's planned la... read more »
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Avatar Posted by juparbimkj4b 5528 days ago (http://news.cnet.com)
Category: Social | Tags: Opportunity keeps on truckin past 30 km mileston
(Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech) It keeps going and going. NASA's Opportunity rover has logged a total of more than 30 kilometers (18.64 miles) of tr... read more »
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Avatar Posted by Fiectcerreoge 5666 days ago (http://news.cnet.com)
Category: Social | Tags: Scientist he clone long-extinct mammoth
A Japanese scientist says he has a "reasonable chance" of successfully cloning the long-extinct woolly mammoth within just a few years, according to ... read more »
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Category: Social | Tags: Eco maps go mobile open source Springwise
Since moving its not-for-profit venture online in 1995, New York-based Green Map System has made online maps of sustainable initiatives accessible to ... read more »
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Avatar Posted by Samgeogry 5726 days ago (http://news.cnet.com)
Category: Social | Tags: Human brain switches computers on Earth
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... read more »
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Avatar Posted by linkcxzbuildingf 5742 days ago (http://news.cnet.com)
Category: Social | Tags: Scientists grow working miniature livers
Let's just say it's a good thing this breakthrough didn't come around when I was in my early twenties, or I may have been tempted to spend a littl... read more »
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Avatar Posted by sufmanmar1s36 5595 days ago (http://news.cnet.com)
Category: Social | Tags: Researchers trick brain lower blood pressure
Researchers have unveiled encouraging results of the first human randomized control trial of a procedure called therapeutic renal denervation to redu... read more »
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Avatar Posted by douglauodd 5538 days ago (http://news.cnet.com)
Category: Social | Tags: NASA picks Orion-type capsule deep space missions
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla.--A version of the Bush administration's Orion moon capsule, written off by the Obama administration and then resurrected a... read more »
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Avatar Posted by svetalaef 5579 days ago (http://news.cnet.com)
Category: Social | Tags: $55 million atlas of human brain
This thin section of brain has been treated with a pink neuropathological stain to show fine anatomic detail. (Credit: Allen Institute for Brain S... read more »
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Avatar Posted by svetalasq 5612 days ago (http://news.cnet.com)
Category: Social | Tags: Math whizzes recalculate beer-foaming equation
Pay attention students' here's yet another reason to do your advanced math homework. Mathematicians have conducted a new analysis that could have a p... read more »
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Avatar Posted by megapanita 5626 days ago (http://news.cnet.com)
Category: Social | Tags: Will flexible Rolltop laptop ever become reali
Looks like a thermos, but it&39's a laptop in disguise. (Credit: myRolltop) Back in 2009, more than a few people drooled over a concept video fr... read more »
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Avatar Posted by svetalawd 5607 days ago (http://news.cnet.com)
Category: Social | Tags: U.S. sending Global Hawk drone Japan
An RQ-4 Global Hawk, a reconnaissance drone, will be used to help survey damage to towns and industrial facilities in Japan. (Credit: U.S. Air Forc... read more »
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Avatar Posted by repnopar2 5677 days ago (http://news.cnet.com)
Category: Social | Tags: Space tech helping French find parking spots? Oui!
You're in a dense urban neighborhood, and you're looking for parking. You could circle for half an hour, swearing at the guy who stole the space you ... read more »
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Avatar Posted by ahstuzl100 5733 days ago (http://news.cnet.com)
Category: Social | Tags: Management blamed space telescope cost overrun
NASA management miscues threaten to drive up the cost of the agency's next generation space telescope by some $1.5 billion, an independent review pan... read more »
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Avatar Posted by inhandsome 5613 days ago (http://news.cnet.com)
Category: Social | Tags: Global Hawk closer aunomous aerial refueling
The Proteus approaches the Global Hawk in a flight test on January 21. (Credit: NASA Dryden Flight Research Center) The phrase "fill 'er up" is be... read more »
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