Henrik Scharfe checks out his robot clone Geminoid DK, the perfect stand-in for professors who want to skip class.
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A concept image of a flying refueling craft for satellites, similar to what NASA hopes to achieve for other spacecraft.
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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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The Proteus approaches the Global Hawk in a flight test on January 21.
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Best Buy is offering a deal to people who don't hold onto gadgets for long.
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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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Pleo the pet robot dinosaur is back after basically going extinct in 2009.
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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla.--After three launch delays due to technical problems and bad weather, the shuttle Discovery was grounded again Friday. Its...
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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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Space Exploration Technologies, or SpaceX, plans to build a commercial heavy-lift rocket that will carry more than twice the payload of existing larg...
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Jill Tarter, director of the SETI Institute, wants individuals to help in the search for intelligent life in the universe.
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Ground crew rolls the Solar Impulse into its hangar in Brussels after the successful flight. The vast array of solar cells is visible on the win...
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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...
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There are those who believe that a full moon puts them in a strange mood and even causes them to behave in a peculiar manner.
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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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We at Springwise are always happy to chronicle the spread of a good idea, but never more so than when those doing the spreading are part of the Spring...
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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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I know that, for some, bees are something of an irritant. The same, however, can be said of computers.
While bees sometimes pester us with their pro...
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A timeline of supercomputing speed.
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The Jaguar supercomputer, housed at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory at the University of Ten...
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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla.--After a last-minute Air Force computer glitch threatened to derail launch, the shuttle Discovery, carrying an all-veteran...
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