Cars // 

Carmakers have spent the past few years aggressively downsizing engines throughout their lineups to meet increasingly...

Staff Writers at 01:08 AM Aug 23 2011
Tech // 

Dual-core processors have been a computing mainstay for more than six years, allowing machines to handle two tasks ...

Staff Writers at 00:03 AM Aug 23 2011
Science // 

Clusters of islands poked through hot oceans 3.4 billion years ago, when the world still had no oxygen and the seas ...

Staff Writers at 03:01 AM Aug 22 2011
Science // 

A dog can accurately detect the early presence of lung cancer by sniffing patients' breath, doctors in Germany say. ...

Staff Writers at 05:54 AM Aug 20 2011
Tech // 

Digital recording binoculars aren't really new--there are some cheapie versions available--but Sony's new DEV-3 and ...

Staff Writers at 02:55 AM Aug 20 2011
Energy // 

Plenty of us head into the woods to find inspiration. Aidan Dwyer, 13, went to the woods and had a eureka moment ...

Staff Writers at 00:00 AM Aug 20 2011
Mobile // 

Today, in an almost insultingly brief statement in the middle of a press release about something else entirely, HP ...

Staff Writers at 08:16 AM Aug 19 2011
Cars // 

Brunico, Italy - A snowy K-Mart parking lot would have worked fine. But this being Ferrari, and the star its ...

Lawrence Ulrich at 06:28 AM Aug 19 2011

As promised, Lockheed Martin finally put its SAMARAI monocopter drone on display at AUVSI's drone extravaganza in DC ...

Clay Dillow at 05:26 AM Aug 19 2011
Space // 

If it's a space race the Russians want, a space race they shall have. But et tu, Europe? Russian news outlet Ria ...

Staff Writers at 04:33 AM Aug 19 2011
Robots // 

At AUVSI's (Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International) massive robot conference in Washington D.C., in ...

Staff Writers at 03:40 AM Aug 19 2011

Last week, DARPA's HTV-2 (Hypersonic Technology Vehicle 2) Falcon vehicle launched to near-orbital speeds aboard a ...

Staff Writers at 02:05 AM Aug 19 2011
Tech // 

A pair of brain-inspired cognitive computer chips unveiled today could be a new leap forward - or at least a major ...

Staff Writers at 00:30 AM Aug 19 2011
Energy // 

Every year, about 15 million pounds of alligator fat is dumped into landfills as a byproduct of alligator meat ...

Staff Writers at 07:18 AM Aug 18 2011
Science // 

In the future, all your government mail - jury duty slips, election notices, those Social Security earnings ...

Staff Writers at 05:33 AM Aug 18 2011
 
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