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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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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No massage could ever come close to those given by Eleanor, the miracle worker who is CNET's in-house masseuse (we do have to ...
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Orbital Debris-Debris Collision Avoidance
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What to do with all the space junk now in orbit around Earth Each year, that questio...
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This map issued Saturday shows the entire coast of Japan under tsunami alert, with red lines indicating waves more than 3 meters (about 10 feet).
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A cardiologist at Glenfield Hospital in Leicester, England, tomorrow will try to perform the world's first heart procedure using a robotic arm paired...
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On the electron microscopy drawing board: programmable nanowire nanoprocessors.
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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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Cancer survivor and physician Daniel Fiandra practices swallowing for the first time in two years.
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Surgeon Peter ...
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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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A shining example of crowdsourcing at work, Ushahidi is mobilizing citizens to report and map conflicts. The project began as a way for Kenyans to log...
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GoPro&39's 3D videocamera system
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The camera market might be dominated by giants such as Canon and Panasonic, but a small start-up...
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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...
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It's inspiring to visit a university laboratory and see fresh-faced college students working on experiments that may some day have huge impacts on o...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL--The shuttle Discovery's launch on a space station resupply mission tomorrow was delayed at least 24 hours, to no earlier th...
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You may have heard of Fold-It, which involves different approaches to folding proteins, and EteRNA, which lets players propose new molecular structur...
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Global Observer&39's first flight.
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When it comes to unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV), hydrogen is all the rage.
The fi...
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Michelangelo's "David" has seen better days. He's spent centuries on his feet. He's tired, yet he cannot take a seat.
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