A robot deceives an enemy soldier by creating a false trail and hiding so that it will not be caught. While this sounds like a scene from one of the Terminator movies, it's actually the scenario of an experiment conducted ...
Robotics
Sep 9, 2010
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(AP) -- The turtle rescue effort at NASA's Kennedy Space Center is winding down.
Environment
Sep 8, 2010
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Their emergencies happened hundreds, if not thousands, of miles from one another, but the captain whose vessel had become disabled near Kamalino, Hawaii, the pilot who crashed onto the Knik Glacier near Anchorage, Alaska, ...
Other
Sep 3, 2010
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Thirteen pilot whales that survived a mass stranding in the far north of New Zealand were transported nearly a kilometre to calm waters and refloated on Saturday, conservation officials said.
Plants & Animals
Aug 21, 2010
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(AP) -- NASA is getting hit up for extra launch passes, and mission stickers and pins are flying off the shelf. Another Twittering crowd is descending on the space center. Even science fiction writers want in on the action.
Space Exploration
May 12, 2010
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Its long, brown neck held firmly in a blue towel, the northern gannet struggled for freedom, unaware of how very lucky it is to have been found swimming in a sea of oil off the Louisiana coast.
Environment
May 2, 2010
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(PhysOrg.com) -- University of Warwick (UK) students are poised to take their "rescue robot" to the RoboCup Rescue Championship in Germany next week. The students developed their robot in a team project bringing together ...
Robotics
Apr 12, 2010
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On September 11, firefighters, police officers and ambulance workers faced a terrifying rescue effort in the World Trade Center complex. They battled to save people from the collapsing Twin Towers, searched for survivors, ...
Telecom
Nov 25, 2009
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A workshop at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama has dramatically improved the ability of conservationists and regulatory agencies to monitor the spread of chytridiomycosis—one of the deadliest frog diseases ...
Plants & Animals
Oct 19, 2009
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at the University of Utah, USA, have discovered that variations in signal strengths in wireless networks can be used to "see" movements of people on the other side of walls or doors.
