Let's just say it's a good thing this breakthrough didn't come around when I was in my early twenties, or I may have been tempted to spend a littl... read more »
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One end of the CMS detector during the LHC&39's assembly in 2007. (Credit: Maximilien Brice/CERN) The Large Hadron Collider, CERN's particle acce... read more »
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(Credit: Screenshot by Don Reisinger/CNET) Best Buy is offering a deal to people who don't hold onto gadgets for long. Through Saturday, customers... read more »
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Pay attention students' here's yet another reason to do your advanced math homework. Mathematicians have conducted a new analysis that could have a p... read more »
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This map issued Saturday shows the entire coast of Japan under tsunami alert, with red lines indicating waves more than 3 meters (about 10 feet). ... 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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Bill Gates gives keynote address at the 64th World Health Assembly in Geneva. (Credit: Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation) The Bill and Melinda G... read more »
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Telepresence robots are way cool, but way expensive. We've seen several platforms for these machines that let you remotely guide a robot around a d... read more »
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Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have announced that, using inexpensive components from ordinary liquid crystal display (LCD) proje... read more »
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Orbital Debris-Debris Collision Avoidance (Credit: Arxiv.org) What to do with all the space junk now in orbit around Earth Each year, that questio... read more »
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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla.--With commander Mark Kelly at the controls, the shuttle Endeavour caught up with the International Space Station early tod... read more »
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GoPro&39's 3D videocamera system (Credit: GoPro) The camera market might be dominated by giants such as Canon and Panasonic, but a small start-up... read more »
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McDonald&39's shows off a touch-screen kiosk installed in France in 2009. (Credit: McDonald&39's Europe) "Welcome to McDonald's. My name is HAL 90... read more »
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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... 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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A Japanese scientist says he has a "reasonable chance" of successfully cloning the long-extinct woolly mammoth within just a few years, according to ... 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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Pleo the pet robot dinosaur is back after basically going extinct in 2009. (Credit: Tim Hornyak/CNET) LAS VEGAS--Pleo is an autonomous toy dinos... read more »
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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... read more »
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The U.S Air Force seems to do a lot to make the lives of its pilots and air crew more comfortable. Just the other day, one heard about a new chair t... read more »
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