Can the just-flown Orion spacecraft truly get us to Mars? NASA has been portraying the mission as part of the roadmap to the Red Planet, but there are observers who say a human landing mission is an unrealistic goal given ...
Space Exploration
Dec 11, 2014
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Google is locking Spanish publishers out of its popular Google News service in response to a new Spanish law that imposes fees for linking to the headlines and news stories on other websites.
Internet
Dec 11, 2014
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Dr. Damon Little, Associate Curator of Bioinformatics in the Cullman Program for Molecular Systematics at The New York Botanical Garden, has just published a new study in the journal Genome investigating the use of DNA barcoding ...
Biotechnology
Dec 11, 2014
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Almost immediately after NASA's twin Voyager spacecraft made their brief visits to Saturn in the early 1980s, scientists were hungry for more. The Voyagers had offered them only a brief glimpse of a family of new worlds—Saturn's ...
Space Exploration
Dec 11, 2014
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Unprecedented volumes of information about political behaviour, previously only accessible to experts, are to be made available by Britain's oldest study of electoral behaviour.
Social Sciences
Dec 11, 2014
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Following the catastrophic Oct. 28 failure of an Orbital Sciences Corporation Antares rocket on a critical resupply mission to the space station for NASA, the company is seeking to quickly make up the loss to NASA by announcing ...
Space Exploration
Dec 11, 2014
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To the theme song of "2001: A Space Odyssey," a robot with a twisty spine rolled toward Thomas Rosenbaum, the new president of the California Institute of Technology, on Oct. 24, as he stood on a stage at NASA's Jet Propulsion ...
Robotics
Dec 11, 2014
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Would-be 2016 presidential candidates take note: the Internet may potentially make or break your campaign.
Internet
Dec 11, 2014
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The mallard, the mottled duck, the American black duck, the Mexican duck.
Plants & Animals
Dec 11, 2014
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A "Driving While Black" smartphone application is set for release this month, but its developers say motorists should be careful when they use it.
Software
Dec 11, 2014
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