Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have announced that, using inexpensive components from ordinary liquid crystal display (LCD) proje...
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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...
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We tend to think of paper planes as small things, thrown in class in order to get 7-year-olds through the crushing boredom of, say, arithmetic.
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Necessity is the mother of invention, as they say, and it''s also widespread in Paraguay, where some 300,000 families lack adequate housing. Motivated...
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This false-color image of the soil in front of the rover Spirit highlights differences in the surface soil (dark red) and the deeper soils expose...
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Susannah Gal (left) and Susan Bane have devised a new imaging technique to view specific proteins in action.
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Two professo...
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How would you feel about putting your head in the arms of this robot
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If you've tried every potion available to st...
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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla.--The crew of the shuttle Discovery, given a "Star Trek" send off by actor William Shatner, undocked from the International...
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Air Force personnel in &34'self-contained atmospheric protective ensemble suits&34' perform initial post-orbit checks on the X-37B space plane earl...
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I remember programming turtle graphics in Logo when I was in high school. These days, students can learn basic ...
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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla.--The shuttle Endeavour undocked from the International Space Station for the 12th and final time late Sunday, backing away...
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Lingodroids agreed on randomly created words to represent location, distance, and direction with surprising accuracy.
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Academics working with carbon nanotubes have developed a low-power memory technology with application for smartphones, cameras, and other consumer ga...
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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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Austin Whitney straps on his customized exoskeleton and walks around campus with the help of UC Berkeley mechanical engineering graduate students...
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The nucleus of Hartley 2 is about three-quarters of a mile across.
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A recycled NASA spacecraft passed within ...
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Unreliable electricity and spotty internet access are a fact of life in many parts of the developing world&8212'and part of the reason the digital div...
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Twelve years after launch and seven years after it collected dust from comet Wild 2, NASA's Stardust probe streaked past comet Tempel 1 late Monday, ...
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Jill Tarter, director of the SETI Institute, wants individuals to help in the search for intelligent life in the universe.
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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).
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