KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla.--With commander Mark Kelly at the controls, the shuttle Endeavour caught up with the International Space Station early tod... read more »
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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... read more »
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When consumers buy fair-trade products, it''s typically because they are motivated more by ethical considerations than by price&8212'which tends to be... read more »
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Canadian firm BioLytical received FDA approval this week for the sale of its Insti HIV Rapid Antibody Test in the United States. The test, which, at... read more »
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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... read more »
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The X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle taxis on the flight line in 2010. (Credit: U.S. Air Force) A second mysterious, robotic space plane was launched i... read more »
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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla.--Signaling the beginning of the end for NASA's storied shuttle program, the Endeavour plunged back to Earth today, closing... read more »
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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... read more »
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Not long after creating a functioning rat lung in her lab, Yale University Professor of Anesthesiology and Biomedical Engineering Laura Niklason is t... 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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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla.--Engineers have traced an electrical problem blamed for grounding the shuttle Endeavour Friday to a power distribution box... read more »
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The Remora 6000 being launched in Cyprus. (Credit: Phoenix International ) An American-built remotely operated vehicle (ROV) has finally retriev... read more »
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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... read more »
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The Fukushima nuclear plant&39's Unit 3 reactor before the blast. (Credit: Video screenshot by Tim Hornyak/CNET) The fuel used in the Japanese ... read more »
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As the US presidential election winds up to a fever pitch in these last few campaign months, there''s no doubt passionate supporters in both camps are... read more »
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This thin section of brain has been treated with a pink neuropathological stain to show fine anatomic detail. (Credit: Allen Institute for Brain S... read more »
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Lingodroids agreed on randomly created words to represent location, distance, and direction with surprising accuracy. (Credit: Screen capture by E... read more »
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Austin Whitney straps on his customized exoskeleton and walks around campus with the help of UC Berkeley mechanical engineering graduate students... read more »
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One-ninth of the American ICBM strike force went offline on Saturday, according to a report on the Web site of the U.S. magazine The Atlantic, as a s... read more »
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University of Maryland biology student Judy Wexler sits in the Gamera. It doesn&39't look like a turtle. (Credit: Essential Eye Photographics, Earl... read more »
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