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...
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A shining example of crowdsourcing at work, Ushahidi is mobilizing citizens to report and map conflicts. The project began as a way for Kenyans to log...
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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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We tend to think of paper planes as small things, thrown in class in order to get 7-year-olds through the crushing boredom of, say, arithmetic.
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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...
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An RQ-4 Global Hawk, a reconnaissance drone, will be used to help survey damage to towns and industrial facilities in Japan.
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Researchers in Germany are reporting two thumbs up for their first clinical trial testing a remote-controlled capsule endoscope in the stomachs of he...
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Orbital Debris-Debris Collision Avoidance
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What to do with all the space junk now in orbit around Earth Each year, that questio...
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Micron Technology tomorrow is set to disclose a hybrid memory technology that it claims will boost performance 20-fold over the memory chips used in ...
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Using a powerful new camera on the Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have discovered what appears to be the most distant object ever observed, a sm...
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Can Spirit be revived
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The Spirit rover, currently out of commission on the surface of Mars, could be awakened in the coming weeks.
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The X-47B comes in for a landing on March 4 at Edwards Air Force Base in California.
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Air Force personnel in &34'self-contained atmospheric protective ensemble suits&34' perform initial post-orbit checks on the X-37B space plane earl...
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Since moving its not-for-profit venture online in 1995, New York-based Green Map System has made online maps of sustainable initiatives accessible to ...
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The Proteus approaches the Global Hawk in a flight test on January 21.
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The phrase "fill 'er up" is be...
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