High-speed railroads currently under construction in the U.S., as well as corridors under development, and proposed lines under study from the cu... read more »
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For aviation junkies, it doesn't get any better than the biggest air show of the year. CNET's coverage includes on-the-scene reporting from our own D... read more »
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The Proteus approaches the Global Hawk in a flight test on January 21. (Credit: NASA Dryden Flight Research Center) The phrase "fill 'er up" is be... read more »
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Given that we are unlikely to get past 2012, perhaps it's churlish to even think of what 2025 might look like. However, the indelible optimists at NA... read more »
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Intel Labs will invest $100 million in U.S. university research over the next five years, the chipmaker announced today. Intel will open Intel Sc... read more »
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X Prize President Bob Weiss (far left) announcing the X Prize Competition with (from left to right) Google co-founder Larry Page, X Prize Founder P... read more »
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Let me tell you, this baby comes in handy...well...almost never. (Credit: Josh Lowensohn/CNET) In the biggest development to rock the popular-sc... read more »
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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... read more »
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An iRobot PackBot crawls through the Unit 3 reactor building at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant. (Credit: Tepco) TOKYO--iRobot PackBots are b... 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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An RQ-4 Global Hawk, a reconnaissance drone, will be used to help survey damage to towns and industrial facilities in Japan. (Credit: U.S. Air Forc... read more »
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Twelve years after launch and seven years after it collected dust from comet Wild 2, NASA's Stardust probe is making a bonus Valentine's Day flyby la... read more »
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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla.--The crew of the shuttle Discovery, given a "Star Trek" send off by actor William Shatner, undocked from the International... read more »
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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... read more »
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Germany&39's Festo says it has &34'succeeded in deciphering the flight of birds.&34' (Credit: Festo) Bird flight has fascinated mankind for cen... 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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MIT's high-rank 3D approach places a special image over the rear one to create the 3D illusion. (Credit: MIT) Researchers at MIT have been devel... read more »
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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... 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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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla.--Engineers have traced an electrical problem blamed for grounding the shuttle Endeavour Friday to a power distribution box... read more »
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