University of Michigan computer scientists and engineers are at the International Solid-State Circuits Conference in San Francisco today presenting p...
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A timeline of supercomputing speed.
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The Jaguar supercomputer, housed at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory at the University of Ten...
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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.--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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On the electron microscopy drawing board: programmable nanowire nanoprocessors.
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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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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...
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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...
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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.
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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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Pay attention students' here's yet another reason to do your advanced math homework. Mathematicians have conducted a new analysis that could have a p...
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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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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.
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An RQ-4 Global Hawk, a reconnaissance drone, will be used to help survey damage to towns and industrial facilities in Japan.
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Researchers are ready to advance their tests of a novel brain-computer interface (BCI) from animals to human subjects, and the Defense Advanced Resea...
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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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It''s a tragic fact of life today that one in five African children die before their fifth birthday from simple causes like dehydration from diarrhoea...
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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...
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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
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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...
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