Another day, another piece of bad news for space shuttle Discovery. The aging shuttle will launch on its last mission no earlier than Feb. 3, NASA announced today.
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Hungry? Better turn on your linear induction motor and send a metal capsule through an underground polyethylene tube to retrieve some groceries.
That's the vision of Foodtubes,
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So everyone chill out. It does raise interesting questions for alien life-hunters, however
Biologists have isolated a bacterium that can use a deadly chemical in place of one of life's key building blocks, in a finding NASA says could have major implications for astrobiology
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After months of calibration and testing, NASA's flying telescope made its first excursion this morning, and the space agency is looking forward to analyzing the
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An autopilot system modeled after honeybee flight is faster and more accurate than gyroscope-based programs, according to a new study. By imitating how honeybees sense their surroundings,
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It's been a strange few days in the world of genetically modified food. For the first time, a judge has ordered the
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A private spaceflight company that specializes in vertical takeoffs and landings is exploring launch services in Florida, hoping to
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Thanks to biotechnology and widespread genetic modification, the meal you'll enjoy tomorrow certainly isn't your grandma's feast
Since they were introduced 15 years ago, genetically modified foods have taken astonishing hold in North America. This time of
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A gigantic Chinese dairy farm is now the world's largest methane farm, turning a massive source of greenhouse gas emissions into a lucrative renewable energy source.
Huishan Dairy
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"Independent mobility is crucial in the development of typical infants," says the research
A baby transporter for mobility-impaired children would ensure confidence, independence and proper cognitive development, researchers say. So they recommend babies start driving
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It's getting to be real crowded up there. Today, Russian aerospace authorities had to shift the orbit of the International Space Station to get it out of the way of a piece of hurtling debris.
A similar maneuver was planned just a couple of months
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The Most Advanced R/C Car LOSI 1/10 TEN-T TRUGGY RTR Top speed: 72km/h Size: 34.3 x 45 cm. Price: US$500 Get it: losi.com
This 18-inch off-roader
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In 2002, Matthew Rosen won a NASA grant to study how gravity affects the lungs. He soon found out what lung specialists already know: An MRI scanner reveals how well a lung moves air, but it only works when the patient is lying on his back. What Rosen really wanted to
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Our computer doesn?t blow up. Is this really a Microsoft product?
That?s right, Popular Science
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The Pentagon's best (and best-funded) engineers have toiled for years, only to realize the supremacy of the canine schnoz
After six years and nearly $19 billion in spending, the Pentagon task force assigned to create better ways to detect bombs has revealed
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Looking to build a time machine but nervous about the classic grandfather paradox, aka the Marty McFly conundrum, aka the idea that you might unwittingly do something that causes you to never exist in the first place? An MIT professor and a few of his quantum quoting
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Civil authorities around the world have tried all kinds of tricks to get drivers to slow down: speed bumps, rumble strips, flashing lights, the decoy police cruiser, and of course the good old-fashioned speed trap. The British Columbia Automobile Association Traffic
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Quantum cryptography is one of the most secure known means of transmitting data, due to the fact that even if a third party does intercept a quantum signal, that interference changes the encryption key, making the tampering apparent to parties at both ends. But a handful
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Perhaps the most unsettling thing about a planet-killing asteroid is that we might never see it coming. But this infographic by Mechanicsville, Md.-based designer Zachary Vabolis helpfully visualizes which candidate
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The Missile Defense Agency's airborne laser weapon is supposed to save us all from imminent nuclear demise, but after yesterday's botched test firing - the second failure
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While Toyota and Volkswagen – the world’s two biggest car makers – are locked in a battle for global sales leadership over the next decade, driven by a new generation of hybrid and electric cars, Japanese maker Honda is working on technology that may well leapfrog them both. Most big
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Imagine a gesture-based mobile device with no screen, no keyboard, and no other peripheral inputs or outputs, a mobile device that's not really a device at all. Can you see it in your mind's eye? If so, you're probably picturing something akin to a new
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With every new technological advancement intended to make our lives somehow easier it’s always fun to mark such occasions by taking a look back at the humble roots of a particular line of technology. Take the mobile phone for instance: what used to be a rather cumbersome brick that was definitely
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Microsoft's Kinect, the controller-free, gesture-based gaming platform that finally saw an official unveiling at E3 this week continues to surprise us, but not always necessarily in good ways. For instance, we think it's awesome that the non-peripheral peripheral can
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A $136 million Earth-based telescope using brand new adaptive optics just trumped Hubble's deep space image clarity three-fold, but such high tech optics aren't just reserved for high-dollar observatories. A breakthrough in deformable liquid mirror technology
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Using only two months of data, the GOCE gravity-tracking satellite has built the first-ever full map of Earth's gravitational field.
The map, called a geoid, reflects the bumps and valleys of Earth's gravitational effects. The map shows what the Earth would look
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We live, work and play in a world that seems to be perpetually stuck in fast-forward. Our cars are fast, our food is faster and any task that can’t be simplified to a few minutes is rated in terms of its validity of even performing in the first place. If someone is ever to invent the ability
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We live in an age that seems to be perpetually torn between choosing from a smörgåsbord of choice as it relates to traditional values and contemporary approaches to life. This veritable selection of seemingly opposing ideologies makes presenting oneself in varying social situations difficult
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I’m not afraid of heights but I sure do respect them. To some, being afraid of heights and vertigo are interchangeable descriptions, but for someone who suffers from vertigo when looking down from a height, I can tell you it has very little to do with some deep-seeded fear resulting from
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It wasn’t so long ago that I was researching how many iPhone/iPod touch Apps were available in the iTunes Store. At the time, the figure was an impressive 85,000 Apps and climbing; nowadays that number is over 250,000 and still climbing. It’s gotten to the point where, not only is there
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