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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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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I remember programming turtle graphics in Logo when I was in high school. These days, students can learn basic ...
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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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NASA's aging Voyager spacecraft, more than three decades outbound from Earth and approaching the outermost limits of the solar system, may be seeing ...
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The X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle taxis on the flight line in 2010.
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A second mysterious, robotic space plane was launched i...
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Best Buy is offering a deal to people who don't hold onto gadgets for long.
Through Saturday, customers...
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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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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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A cardiologist at Glenfield Hospital in Leicester, England, tomorrow will try to perform the world's first heart procedure using a robotic arm paired...
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Venture capitalists expect greater investment next year, while CEOs of VC-backed firms are looking at more work and more hiring, according to a repor...
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This is it. No, really. I know you might have been temporarily fooled two years ago when it seemed as if the Lost City of Atlantis had turned up on G...
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A Lufthansa Airbus A380 departs Frankfurt.
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Though I mostly write about cell phones at CNET, you may have noticed that I'm rat...
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In December, Boeing&39's Phantom Ray hitched a ride to California on the back of NASA&39's Shuttle Carrier Aircraft.
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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...
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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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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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The camera market might be dominated by giants such as Canon and Panasonic, but a small start-up...
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It's inspiring to visit a university laboratory and see fresh-faced college students working on experiments that may some day have huge impacts on o...
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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla.--An electrical glitch with the shuttle Endeavour's hydraulic power system forced NASA managers to scrub today's planned la...
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