The X-47B comes in for a landing on March 4 at Edwards Air Force Base in California.
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Almost from the very beginning sev...
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Somehow, freaky sci-fi movies don't seem to be favored by Oscar voters.
However, I think I may have found some subject matter that Peter Guber, the ...
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Some people believe the future is something to look forward to. And, indeed, there is some evidence that, for a small number of people--especially t...
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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla.--The shuttle Discovery's external tank was loaded with more than a half million gallons of supercold liquid oxygen and hyd...
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Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus, and he's equipped with the latest in satellite-based technology to get you your toys on time (and in one piec...
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This false-color image of the soil in front of the rover Spirit highlights differences in the surface soil (dark red) and the deeper soils expose...
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High-speed railroads currently under construction in the U.S., as well as corridors under development, and proposed lines under study from the cu...
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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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Cancer survivor and physician Daniel Fiandra practices swallowing for the first time in two years.
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Surgeon Peter ...
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Babyloid is perfect for caring humanoids.
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The nightmare of robot babies continues apace in Japan, a rapidly aging soc...
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Will Japan's astro-droid look cute like Actroid
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MSCI's CommStellation Microsat
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A Canadian satellite maker plans to launch a network of 78 small, relatively low-flying satellites ...
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The human brain is truly awesome.
A typical, healthy one houses some 200 billion nerve cells, which are connected to one another via hundreds of tril...
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A food delivery robot shows off the goods at a robot restaurant in Jinan, in China's Shandong Province (click to enlarge).
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Lingodroids agreed on randomly created words to represent location, distance, and direction with surprising accuracy.
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Floor bots: The new Roomba 760 (back) for vacuuming and Scooba 230 (front) for scrubbing.
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LAS VEGAS--iRobot demoed it...
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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...
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Mobile gadgets like
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Academics working with carbon nanotubes have developed a low-power memory technology with application for smartphones, cameras, and other consumer ga...
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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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