The U.S Air Force seems to do a lot to make the lives of its pilots and air crew more comfortable. Just the other day, one heard about a new chair t... read more »
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One-ninth of the American ICBM strike force went offline on Saturday, according to a report on the Web site of the U.S. magazine The Atlantic, as a s... read more »
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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... read more »
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The Fukushima nuclear plant&39's Unit 3 reactor before the blast. (Credit: Video screenshot by Tim Hornyak/CNET) The fuel used in the Japanese ... read more »
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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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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla.--The crew of the shuttle Discovery, given a "Star Trek" send off by actor William Shatner, undocked from the International... read more »
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Researchers are ready to advance their tests of a novel brain-computer interface (BCI) from animals to human subjects, and the Defense Advanced Resea... read more »
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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... read more »
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Just one month after U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.) was shot in the head in Tucson, Ariz., her husband, astronaut Mark Kelly, announced Frida... read more »
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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... read more »
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Bill Gates gives keynote address at the 64th World Health Assembly in Geneva. (Credit: Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation) The Bill and Melinda G... 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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(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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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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A Puerto Rican moonbuggy team in action. (Credit: NASA/MSFC) The space shuttle program may be drawing to a close, but a little bit to the south of... 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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Pacemaker patients who opt for magnetic resonance imaging risk serious complications, including damage to the pacemaker's parts or a change in the de... 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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After a six-and-a-half-year fall into the inner solar system, NASA's compact Messenger probe fired its main engine for 15 tense minutes today to brak... read more »
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On the electron microscopy drawing board: programmable nanowire nanoprocessors. (Credit: Photo courtesy of Charles M. Lieber/Harvard SEAS Communica... read more »
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