The Fukushima nuclear plant&39's Unit 3 reactor before the blast.
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NASA management miscues threaten to drive up the cost of the agency's next generation space telescope by some $1.5 billion, an independent review pan...
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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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Looks like a thermos, but it&39's a laptop in disguise.
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Back in 2009, more than a few people drooled over a concept video fr...
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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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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...
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editor's notebook The future just keeps getting closer and closer these days. Not only do we have iPhones with FaceTime--which, when combined wit...
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Michelangelo's "David" has seen better days. He's spent centuries on his feet. He's tired, yet he cannot take a seat.
Now some are wondering whether ...
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Can Spirit be revived
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The Spirit rover, currently out of commission on the surface of Mars, could be awakened in the coming weeks.
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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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There are those who believe that a full moon puts them in a strange mood and even causes them to behave in a peculiar manner.
Some, though, want to c...
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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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An iRobot PackBot crawls through the Unit 3 reactor building at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant.
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TOKYO--iRobot PackBots are b...
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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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The &39'NASA Explorer&39' badge on Foursquare
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The first live Twitter messages from space were less than a year ago, but alread...
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The Proteus approaches the Global Hawk in a flight test on January 21.
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The phrase "fill 'er up" is be...
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There is no plane I feel safer in than a Boeing 747. Its sheer size and its apparent effortlessness offer something no other plane seems to manage: t...
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LHS experiments are assembled underground. Here, a silicon tracking detector--a cousin to an ordinary digital camera sensor--is inserted into one o...
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The Active Scope Camera can worm its way into debris to seek survivors.
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Rescue robots are making...
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Jill Tarter, director of the SETI Institute, wants individuals to help in the search for intelligent life in the universe.
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