University of Maryland biology student Judy Wexler sits in the Gamera. It doesn&39't look like a turtle. (Credit: Essential Eye Photographics, Earl... read more »
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NASA's aging Voyager spacecraft, more than three decades outbound from Earth and approaching the outermost limits of the solar system, may be seeing ... read more »
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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla.--Enduring the heat of re-entry one last time, the shuttle Discovery dropped out of orbit and returned to Earth today to wr... read more »
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The Fujitsu-built K Computer in Kobe, Japan, is the fastest supercomputer in the world, according to the Top500 List of Supercomputers, to be anno... read more »
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GoPro&39's 3D videocamera system (Credit: GoPro) The camera market might be dominated by giants such as Canon and Panasonic, but a small start-up... read more »
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Reading about Lenovo's eye-popping gaze-controlled laptop being shown at the CeBit tech fair this week, we were excited to see a demo of Guger Tech... read more »
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The Remora 6000 being launched in Cyprus. (Credit: Phoenix International ) An American-built remotely operated vehicle (ROV) has finally retriev... read more »
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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... read more »
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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... read more »
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Boeing announced today that it is resuming flight testing for its 787 Dreamliner program six weeks after an onboard fire halted the evaluation progr... read more »
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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla.--Less than six weeks before launch, astronaut Timothy Kopra, injured in a bicycle accident Saturday, was removed from the ... read more »
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MIT's high-rank 3D approach places a special image over the rear one to create the 3D illusion. (Credit: MIT) Researchers at MIT have been devel... read more »
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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... read more »
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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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The da Vinci Surgical System is often used in robot-assisted prostate cancer operations. (Credit: Intuitive Surgical) Robot-assisted surgery to ... read more »
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A Russian Soyuz rocket carrying three crew members bound for the International Space Station blasted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan t... read more »
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A photo of Intel&39's Light Peak technology (Credit: Intel) Intel tomorrow is said to be revealing some of the final details of its Light Peak tec... read more »
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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla.--The Endeavour astronauts installed a $2 billion cosmic ray detector on the International Space Station today, a powerful ... read more »
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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... read more »
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(Credit: Martin Aircraft) The three-year wait for a recreational jetpack may be almost over--assuming regulators give their approval. New Zealand... read more »
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