KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla.--Even using shuttle-derived hardware, established contractors, and long-standing engineering expertise, NASA's projected b...
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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla.--A version of the Bush administration's Orion moon capsule, written off by the Obama administration and then resurrected a...
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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, ...
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NASA management miscues threaten to drive up the cost of the agency's next generation space telescope by some $1.5 billion, an independent review pan...
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To the Japanese, wrapping a gift well can be as meaningful as the gift itself, elevating the simple act of wrapping to an art that is in itself a vis...
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A concept image of a flying refueling craft for satellites, similar to what NASA hopes to achieve for other spacecraft.
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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla.--Veteran shuttle commander Frederick Sturckow will replace Mark Kelly in near-term training for a flight aboard the shuttl...
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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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You have probably become used to dropped calls. It is a fact of life, like sofas that won't stay clean and bankers who won't be reasonable.
I would, ...
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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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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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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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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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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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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla.--The crew of the shuttle Discovery, given a "Star Trek" send off by actor William Shatner, undocked from the International...
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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 ...
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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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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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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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