The X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle taxis on the flight line in 2010.
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A second mysterious, robotic space plane was launched i...
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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla.--Enduring the heat of re-entry one last time, the shuttle Discovery dropped out of orbit and returned to Earth today to wr...
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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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Pacemaker patients who opt for magnetic resonance imaging risk serious complications, including damage to the pacemaker's parts or a change in the de...
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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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An iRobot PackBot crawls through the Unit 3 reactor building at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant.
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TOKYO--iRobot PackBots are b...
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How do you expect to achieve immortality
Well, should sporting prowess have passed you by, or should you have suffered an unfortunate career-ending i...
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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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It's inspiring to visit a university laboratory and see fresh-faced college students working on experiments that may some day have huge impacts on o...
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Those who survive will think to themselves that it could have been worse.
Awful though some images of the Japanese earthquake and tsunami truly are, ...
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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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The da Vinci Surgical System is often used in robot-assisted prostate cancer operations.
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Robot-assisted surgery to ...
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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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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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Even those of us who cover e-commerce often overlook the reality of connecting the "e" part of the equation to the real world. Webvan and Kozmo.co...
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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...
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RoboDynamics' Fred Nikgohar poses with Luna.
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Rumor had it that Apple or Google was going to release this vaguely humanoid...
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I think I&39'd fail this eye test.
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Since researchers around the world are experimenting with Will...
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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...
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Micron Technology tomorrow is set to disclose a hybrid memory technology that it claims will boost performance 20-fold over the memory chips used in ...
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