After a six-and-a-half-year fall into the inner solar system, NASA's compact Messenger probe fired its main engine for 15 tense minutes today to brak...
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Unreliable electricity and spotty internet access are a fact of life in many parts of the developing world&8212'and part of the reason the digital div...
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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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A Puerto Rican moonbuggy team in action.
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The space shuttle program may be drawing to a close, but a little bit to the south of...
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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...
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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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You're in a dense urban neighborhood, and you're looking for parking. You could circle for half an hour, swearing at the guy who stole the space you ...
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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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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 Endeavour astronauts installed a $2 billion cosmic ray detector on the International Space Station today, a powerful ...
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How would you feel about putting your head in the arms of this robot
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If you've tried every potion available to st...
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Henrik Scharfe checks out his robot clone Geminoid DK, the perfect stand-in for professors who want to skip class.
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The first live Twitter messages from space were less than a year ago, but alread...
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Researchers have unveiled encouraging results of the first human randomized control trial of a procedure called therapeutic renal denervation to redu...
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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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Space Exploration Technologies, or SpaceX, plans to build a commercial heavy-lift rocket that will carry more than twice the payload of existing larg...
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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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For aviation junkies, it doesn't get any better than the biggest air show of the year. CNET's coverage includes on-the-scene reporting from our own D...
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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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NASA's aging Voyager spacecraft, more than three decades outbound from Earth and approaching the outermost limits of the solar system, may be seeing ...
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