Researchers found that the silver nanoparticles penetrated the paper surface to a depth of more than 1 micrometer (or 1,000 nanometers), resulting ...
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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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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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The Dragon spacecraft from SpaceX.
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SpaceX has won the first-ever license from the Federal Aviation Administration allowing a priv...
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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla.--Even using shuttle-derived hardware, established contractors, and long-standing engineering expertise, NASA's projected b...
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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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The first live Twitter messages from space were less than a year ago, but alread...
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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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Will Japan's astro-droid look cute like Actroid
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NASA's tough-looking Robonaut 2 ...
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On the electron microscopy drawing board: programmable nanowire nanoprocessors.
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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...
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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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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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HOUSTON--The shuttle Discovery glided to a picture-perfect docking with the International Space Station on Saturday, the veteran space plane's 13th a...
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Intel Labs will invest $100 million in U.S. university research over the next five years, the chipmaker announced today.
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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...
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The three-year wait for a recreational jetpack may be almost over--assuming regulators give their approval.
New Zealand...
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The Jaguar has fallen from the top of the food chain.
When the Top 500 list of the world's most powerful supercomputers is released today, the Cray...
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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.
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It's been a week since Japan's devastating 9.0-magnitude earthquake and resulting tsunami. Amid the disaster cleanup and relief efforts, new problems...
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