To the Japanese, wrapping a gift well can be as meaningful as the gift itself, elevating the simple act of wrapping to an art that is in itself a vis...
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X Prize President Bob Weiss (far left) announcing the X Prize Competition with (from left to right) Google co-founder Larry Page, X Prize Founder P...
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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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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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The first live Twitter messages from space were less than a year ago, but alread...
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Academics working with carbon nanotubes have developed a low-power memory technology with application for smartphones, cameras, and other consumer ga...
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The Dragon spacecraft from SpaceX.
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SpaceX has won the first-ever license from the Federal Aviation Administration allowing a priv...
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University of Maryland biology student Judy Wexler sits in the Gamera. It doesn&39't look like a turtle.
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The Active Scope Camera can worm its way into debris to seek survivors.
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After a two-day orbital chase, a Russian Soyuz spacecraft docked with the International Space Station Friday, bringing three fresh crew members to th...
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It seems the scientific search has been going on for some time.
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Many years ago, there was a cricket match bet...
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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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It's been a week since Japan's devastating 9.0-magnitude earthquake and resulting tsunami. Amid the disaster cleanup and relief efforts, new problems...
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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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Everyone knows that speed cameras work.
They create the discipline of a lissom lady in leather and make sure everyone understands just what the rules...
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Get a whiff of this, space geeks. A pair of artists has created a batch of scratch-and-sniff prints that smell lik...
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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...
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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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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...
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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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