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...
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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 ...
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Lytro says its light-field camera, due to ship later this year, will let people change the focus of their photos after the fact.
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Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus, and he's equipped with the latest in satellite-based technology to get you your toys on time (and in one piec...
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Projects designed to help communities improve access to clean water, cook with clean-burning fuel, fortify salt to maintain nutrients, and use mobil...
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There is no plane I feel safer in than a Boeing 747. Its sheer size and its apparent effortlessness offer something no other plane seems to manage: t...
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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...
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Looks like a thermos, but it&39's a laptop in disguise.
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Back in 2009, more than a few people drooled over a concept video fr...
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As the US presidential election winds up to a fever pitch in these last few campaign months, there''s no doubt passionate supporters in both camps are...
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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...
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Marathons and races have long been used as a way to raise money for charity, but opportunities to participate in such fundraising efforts are typicall...
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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla.--With commander Mark Kelly at the controls, the shuttle Endeavour caught up with the International Space Station early tod...
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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...
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Pleo the pet robot dinosaur is back after basically going extinct in 2009.
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LAS VEGAS--Pleo is an autonomous toy dinos...
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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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McDonald&39's shows off a touch-screen kiosk installed in France in 2009.
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An iRobot PackBot crawls through the Unit 3 reactor building at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant.
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TOKYO--iRobot PackBots are b...
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The glove in the SudoGlove system contains flex, force, and vibration sensors, plus a 2D gyroscope on the wrist.
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I don't know about you, but I'm rather partial to a nice smell. Somehow, some people just offer a better odor than others, and one reacts to them mor...
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Given that we are unlikely to get past 2012, perhaps it's churlish to even think of what 2025 might look like.
However, the indelible optimists at NA...
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