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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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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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla.--Signaling the beginning of the end for NASA's storied shuttle program, the Endeavour plunged back to Earth today, closing...
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The Fujitsu-built K Computer in Kobe, Japan, is the fastest supercomputer in the world, according to the Top500 List of Supercomputers, to be anno...
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A timeline of supercomputing speed.
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The Jaguar supercomputer, housed at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory at the University of Ten...
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The three-year wait for a recreational jetpack may be almost over--assuming regulators give their approval.
New Zealand...
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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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Looks like a thermos, but it&39's a laptop in disguise.
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Back in 2009, more than a few people drooled over a concept video fr...
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One end of the CMS detector during the LHC&39's assembly in 2007.
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The Large Hadron Collider, CERN's particle acce...
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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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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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You may have heard of Fold-It, which involves different approaches to folding proteins, and EteRNA, which lets players propose new molecular structur...
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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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It keeps going and going.
NASA's Opportunity rover has logged a total of more than 30 kilometers (18.64 miles) of tr...
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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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Not long after creating a functioning rat lung in her lab, Yale University Professor of Anesthesiology and Biomedical Engineering Laura Niklason is t...
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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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The clean-energy geeks (definitely a term of endearment) at Stanford University have come up with a way to turn every river in the world into a power...
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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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Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have announced that, using inexpensive components from ordinary liquid crystal display (LCD) proje...
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