Necessity is the mother of invention, as they say, and it''s also widespread in Paraguay, where some 300,000 families lack adequate housing. Motivated...
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The nucleus of Hartley 2 is about three-quarters of a mile across.
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A recycled NASA spacecraft passed within ...
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GoPro&39's 3D videocamera system
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The camera market might be dominated by giants such as Canon and Panasonic, but a small start-up...
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McDonald&39's shows off a touch-screen kiosk installed in France in 2009.
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"Welcome to McDonald's. My name is HAL 90...
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One thing we can probably all agree on is that in the future, robots will be everywhere. But will they play the role of master or servant
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A Lufthansa Airbus A380 departs Frankfurt.
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Though I mostly write about cell phones at CNET, you may have noticed that I'm rat...
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Micron Technology tomorrow is set to disclose a hybrid memory technology that it claims will boost performance 20-fold over the memory chips used in ...
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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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In case a name and phone number on Fido's dog tag aren't enough to bring him home from his wanderings, a new tag from online pet community PetHub inc...
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This is it. No, really. I know you might have been temporarily fooled two years ago when it seemed as if the Lost City of Atlantis had turned up on G...
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China will soon overtake Japan as the world's second heaviest spender on research and development, according to a report from the Battelle Memorial I...
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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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A cardiologist at Glenfield Hospital in Leicester, England, tomorrow will try to perform the world's first heart procedure using a robotic arm paired...
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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla.--With commander Mark Kelly at the controls, the shuttle Endeavour caught up with the International Space Station early tod...
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Just one month after U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.) was shot in the head in Tucson, Ariz., her husband, astronaut Mark Kelly, announced Frida...
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Intel Labs will invest $100 million in U.S. university research over the next five years, the chipmaker announced today.
Intel will open Intel Sc...
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A shining example of crowdsourcing at work, Ushahidi is mobilizing citizens to report and map conflicts. The project began as a way for Kenyans to log...
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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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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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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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