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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Let's just say it's a good thing this breakthrough didn't come around when I was in my early twenties, or I may have been tempted to spend a littl...
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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla.--Engineers believe they have zeroed in on the root cause of cracks in the shuttle Discovery's external tank, NASA official...
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Commercial spacecraft will replace NASA&39's shuttle program.
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Two companies tied to prominent technology entrepreneurs are among th...
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This map issued Saturday shows the entire coast of Japan under tsunami alert, with red lines indicating waves more than 3 meters (about 10 feet).
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Have you ever forgotten to turn your cell phone off during a flight Did you survive
The question might seem slightly churlish, but the airline indu...
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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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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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I don't know about you, but I'm rather partial to a nice smell. Somehow, some people just offer a better odor than others, and one reacts to them mor...
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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...
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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 ...
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Germany&39's Festo says it has &34'succeeded in deciphering the flight of birds.&34'
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Bird flight has fascinated mankind for cen...
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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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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.
But ...
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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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If you, on your lesser days, could reach for a thinking cap to make you a little brainier, what would you expect
Would you expect to solve math probl...
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It's been a week since Japan's devastating 9.0-magnitude earthquake and resulting tsunami. Amid the disaster cleanup and relief efforts, new problems...
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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...
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Physicists at CERN have taken a major step forward in antimatter research, according to the European science organization. For the first time, scien...
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I remember programming turtle graphics in Logo when I was in high school. These days, students can learn basic ...
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