Jill Tarter, director of the SETI Institute, wants individuals to help in the search for intelligent life in the universe. (Credit: James Martin... read more »
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The glove in the SudoGlove system contains flex, force, and vibration sensors, plus a 2D gyroscope on the wrist. (Credit: Jeremy Blum) Here's one ... read more »
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The &39'NASA Explorer&39' badge on Foursquare (Credit: Foursquare) The first live Twitter messages from space were less than a year ago, but alread... read more »
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A concept image of a flying refueling craft for satellites, similar to what NASA hopes to achieve for other spacecraft. (Credit: MacDonald, Dettwi... read more »
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Hewlett-Packard has won a contract from NASA worth up to $2.5 billion. The contract was awarded Monday and calls for Hewlett-Packard to provide an... read more »
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Susannah Gal (left) and Susan Bane have devised a new imaging technique to view specific proteins in action. (Credit: Jonathan Cohen) Two professo... read more »
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The Dragon spacecraft from SpaceX. (Credit: SpaceX) SpaceX has won the first-ever license from the Federal Aviation Administration allowing a priv... read more »
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When consumers buy fair-trade products, it''s typically because they are motivated more by ethical considerations than by price&8212'which tends to be... read more »
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Floor bots: The new Roomba 760 (back) for vacuuming and Scooba 230 (front) for scrubbing. (Credit: Tim Hornyak/CNET) LAS VEGAS--iRobot demoed it... read more »
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To the Japanese, wrapping a gift well can be as meaningful as the gift itself, elevating the simple act of wrapping to an art that is in itself a vis... read more »
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The notion of erasing memories associated with painful or harmful pasts is not a new one. But it has remained just that: a notion. Will erasing mem... read more »
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Researchers say they've used nanoparticles to create a material sensitive enough to analyze a patient's breath in real time and detect indicators of ... read more »
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Imagine if you could pray to your computer to stop the beach ball of doom from spinning, the blue screen of death from staring you in the face. Pe... read more »
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A timeline of supercomputing speed. (Credit: AMD) The Jaguar supercomputer, housed at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory at the University of Ten... read more »
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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... read more »
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A food delivery robot shows off the goods at a robot restaurant in Jinan, in China's Shandong Province (click to enlarge). (Credit: Cui Jian/Chin... read more »
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Global Observer&39's first flight. (Credit: AeroVironment, Inc.) When it comes to unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV), hydrogen is all the rage. The fi... read more »
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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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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... read more »
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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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