It''s a tragic fact of life today that one in five African children die before their fifth birthday from simple causes like dehydration from diarrhoea... read more »
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You have probably become used to dropped calls. It is a fact of life, like sofas that won't stay clean and bankers who won't be reasonable. I would, ... read more »
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Physicists at CERN have taken a major step forward in antimatter research, according to the European science organization. For the first time, scien... read more »
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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... 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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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... read more »
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The nucleus of Hartley 2 is about three-quarters of a mile across. (Credit: NASA/University of Maryland) A recycled NASA spacecraft passed within ... read more »
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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... read more »
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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla.--A version of the Bush administration's Orion moon capsule, written off by the Obama administration and then resurrected a... read more »
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Looks like a thermos, but it&39's a laptop in disguise. (Credit: myRolltop) Back in 2009, more than a few people drooled over a concept video fr... read more »
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The six-member, all-veteran crew of the shuttle Discovery flew to Florida today to await their blastoff Monday on a space station resupply mission th... read more »
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In October 2010, this Boeing 787 Dreamliner, designated ZA006, became the sixth and final 787 to join the flight test program. (Credit: Boeing) R... read more »
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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... 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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editor's notebook The future just keeps getting closer and closer these days. Not only do we have iPhones with FaceTime--which, when combined wit... read more »
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Certification testing of Honeywell Phase 3 Display Units on Boeing 737NG aircraft revealed the potential for interference from Wi-Fi for those spec... read more »
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The clean-energy geeks (definitely a term of endearment) at Stanford University have come up with a way to turn every river in the world into a power... 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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Floor bots: The new Roomba 760 (back) for vacuuming and Scooba 230 (front) for scrubbing. (Credit: Tim Hornyak/CNET) LAS VEGAS--iRobot demoed it... read more »
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Researchers have unveiled encouraging results of the first human randomized control trial of a procedure called therapeutic renal denervation to redu... read more »
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