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 »
Discuss   Add this link to...  Bury
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 »
Discuss   Add this link to...  Bury
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 »
Discuss   Add this link to...  Bury
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 »
Discuss   Add this link to...  Bury
China will soon overtake Japan as the world's second heaviest spender on research and development, according to a report from the Battelle Memorial I... read more »
Discuss   Add this link to...  Bury
Not long after creating a functioning rat lung in her lab, Yale University Professor of Anesthesiology and Biomedical Engineering Laura Niklason is t... read more »
Discuss   Add this link to...  Bury
Twelve years after launch and seven years after it collected dust from comet Wild 2, NASA's Stardust probe streaked past comet Tempel 1 late Monday, ... read more »
Discuss   Add this link to...  Bury
A timeline of supercomputing speed. (Credit: AMD) The Jaguar supercomputer, housed at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory at the University of Ten... read more »
Discuss   Add this link to...  Bury
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 »
Discuss   Add this link to...  Bury
Researchers say they've used nanoparticles to create a material sensitive enough to analyze a patient's breath in real time and detect indicators of ... read more »
Discuss   Add this link to...  Bury
Canadian firm BioLytical received FDA approval this week for the sale of its Insti HIV Rapid Antibody Test in the United States. The test, which, at... read more »
Discuss   Add this link to...  Bury
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 »
Discuss   Add this link to...  Bury
There are those who believe that a full moon puts them in a strange mood and even causes them to behave in a peculiar manner. Some, though, want to c... read more »
Discuss   Add this link to...  Bury
A nearly-completed Boeing 777 sits on the company&39's production line in Everett, Wash. (Credit: Kent German/CNET) In two days the annual Paris ... read more »
Discuss   Add this link to...  Bury
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 ... read more »
Discuss   Add this link to...  Bury
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... read more »
Discuss   Add this link to...  Bury
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 »
Discuss   Add this link to...  Bury
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla.--Signaling the beginning of the end for NASA's storied shuttle program, the Endeavour plunged back to Earth today, closing... read more »
Discuss   Add this link to...  Bury
In December, Boeing&39's Phantom Ray hitched a ride to California on the back of NASA&39's Shuttle Carrier Aircraft. (Credit: Boeing) Boeing said ... read more »
Discuss   Add this link to...  Bury
The controls for some of the 2012 Infinit M Hybrid ADAS. (Credit: CBS Interactive) As Advanced Driver Assistance Systems become more prevalent in ... read more »
Discuss   Add this link to...  Bury