(Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech) It keeps going and going. NASA's Opportunity rover has logged a total of more than 30 kilometers (18.64 miles) of tr... read more »
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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 »
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Let me tell you, this baby comes in handy...well...almost never. (Credit: Josh Lowensohn/CNET) In the biggest development to rock the popular-sc... read more »
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In October 2010, this Boeing 787 Dreamliner, designated ZA006, became the sixth and final 787 to join the flight test program. (Credit: Boeing) R... read more »
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The U.S Air Force seems to do a lot to make the lives of its pilots and air crew more comfortable. Just the other day, one heard about a new chair t... read more »
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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... read more »
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I think I&39'd fail this eye test. (Credit: Video screenshot by Tim Hornyak/CNET) Since researchers around the world are experimenting with Will... read more »
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Tethys floats at the surface in Monterey Bay. (Credit: Todd Walsh/MBARI) A new breed of undersea robot promises to give oceanographers a deeper un... read more »
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Using a powerful new camera on the Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have discovered what appears to be the most distant object ever observed, a sm... read more »
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Affetto means 'affection' in Italian. Who couldn't love this little guy (Credit: Video screenshot by Tim Hornyak/CNET) Japanese engineers have cr... read more »
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It seems the scientific search has been going on for some time. (Credit: CC Kerry Vaughan/Flickr) Many years ago, there was a cricket match bet... read more »
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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla.--After a last-minute Air Force computer glitch threatened to derail launch, the shuttle Discovery, carrying an all-veteran... read more »
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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... read more »
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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, ... read more »
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GoPro&39's 3D videocamera system (Credit: GoPro) The camera market might be dominated by giants such as Canon and Panasonic, but a small start-up... read more »
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One end of the CMS detector during the LHC&39's assembly in 2007. (Credit: Maximilien Brice/CERN) The Large Hadron Collider, CERN's particle acce... read more »
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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... read more »
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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla.--After three launch delays due to technical problems and bad weather, the shuttle Discovery was grounded again Friday. Its... read more »
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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... read more »
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Researchers in Germany are reporting two thumbs up for their first clinical trial testing a remote-controlled capsule endoscope in the stomachs of he... read more »
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