Cancer survivor and physician Daniel Fiandra practices swallowing for the first time in two years. (Credit: UC Davis Health System) Surgeon Peter ... read more »
Discuss   Add this link to...  Bury
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla.--Engineers successfully repaired and retested new quick-disconnect fittings in one of the shuttle Discovery's aft rocket p... read more »
Discuss   Add this link to...  Bury
Germany&39's Festo says it has &34'succeeded in deciphering the flight of birds.&34' (Credit: Festo) Bird flight has fascinated mankind for cen... read more »
Discuss   Add this link to...  Bury
Motion can present major challenges in photography in general, not to mention with medical imaging techniques such as MRIs. But a new method using si... read more »
Discuss   Add this link to...  Bury
Faced with reduced funding and an uncertain outlook, NASA's $18.7 billion fiscal 2012 budget prioritizes the Obama administration's major goals and o... read more »
Discuss   Add this link to...  Bury
Floor bots: The new Roomba 760 (back) for vacuuming and Scooba 230 (front) for scrubbing. (Credit: Tim Hornyak/CNET) LAS VEGAS--iRobot demoed it... read more »
Discuss   Add this link to...  Bury
The Proteus approaches the Global Hawk in a flight test on January 21. (Credit: NASA Dryden Flight Research Center) The phrase "fill 'er up" is be... read more »
Discuss   Add this link to...  Bury
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 »
Discuss   Add this link to...  Bury
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... read more »
Discuss   Add this link to...  Bury
(Credit: Screenshot by Don Reisinger/CNET) Best Buy is offering a deal to people who don't hold onto gadgets for long. Through Saturday, customers... read more »
Discuss   Add this link to...  Bury
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 »
Discuss   Add this link to...  Bury
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 »
Discuss   Add this link to...  Bury
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 ... read more »
Discuss   Add this link to...  Bury
A nearly-completed Boeing 777 sits on the company&39's production line in Everett, Wash. (Credit: Kent German/CNET) In two days the annual Paris ... read more »
Discuss   Add this link to...  Bury
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla.--Less than six weeks before launch, astronaut Timothy Kopra, injured in a bicycle accident Saturday, was removed from the ... read more »
Discuss   Add this link to...  Bury
The idea of human beings flying around in the sky like Michael Jackson used to fly into concerts--via jetpack--might seem a trifle outlandish. Howeve... read more »
Discuss   Add this link to...  Bury
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 ... read more »
Discuss   Add this link to...  Bury
USC researcher Martin Hilbert (Credit: USC) What do you get if you pile up all those USB thumb drives, CDs, chip-enabled credit cards, moldering ... read more »
Discuss   Add this link to...  Bury
Will Japan's astro-droid look cute like Actroid (Credit: Tim Hornyak/CNET) NASA's tough-looking Robonaut 2 ... read more »
Discuss   Add this link to...  Bury
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... read more »
Discuss   Add this link to...  Bury