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A New Website Sharing ISS Benefits For HumanityHouston TX (SPX) Mar 05, 2012 When the International Space Station was first imagined, the idea was to create an unprecedented research platform to support microgravity investigations for the benefit of all humankind. That goal is now a reality, and researchers have not waited for completion to begin working on studies to build on our knowledge of science and technology in space. Because of this, we can already see some amazing breakthroughs. So just what has the space station yielded to humankind? You can discover the benefit ... read more |
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  MSU satellite surpasses goal; NASA taps MSU to queue up for another launch The Montana State University satellite that rode into space on a NASA rocket has now gathered information longer than the historic U.S. satellite it was built to honor, says the director of MSU's Sp ... more | .. |
  NASA Official Announces Chair of New Mars Program Planning Group NASA's associate administrator for the Science Mission Directorate, John Grunsfeld, has named former veteran NASA program manager Orlando Figueroa to lead a newly established Mars Program Planning G ... more | .. |
 Surface of Mars an unlikely place for life after 600 million year drought Mars may have been arid for more than 600 million years, making it too hostile for any life to survive on the planet's surface, according to researchers who have been carrying out the painstaking ta ... more | .. |
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  Tech giants get lecture on perils of gadget worship Silicon Valley giants at the prestigious TED innovation conference here on Tuesday were warned that the worship of technology will ruin the world before it saves it. ... more | .. |
  Technology and creativity go "full spectrum" at TED Technology, art and magic will mix in perspective-bending ways this week as the prestigious TED conference continues transforming from an elite retreat to a global movement for a better world. ... more | .. |
  Humanoid Robot Exhibition Opens Drexel Engineers Week Drexel's College of Engineering will kick off its National Engineers Week celebration with an unprecedented unveiling of seven adult-size humanoid robots as part of nationwide research collaboration ... more | .. |
  Harvard's Wyss Institute develops DNA nanorobot to trigger targeted therapeutic responses Researchers at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University have developed a robotic device made from DNA that could potentially seek out specific cell targets with ... more |
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Heavy snow in US strands drivers in 100-vehicle crash
Chile wildfires rage for third day, entire towns wiped out
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 Mars rocks indicate relatively recent quakes, volcanism, on Red Planet Images of a martian landscape offer evidence that the Red Planet's surface not only can shake like the surface of Earth, but has done so relatively recently. If marsquakes do indeed take place, said ... more | .. |
  SD-built camera spots tiny shifts on moon The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) spacecraft has found evidence that areas of the moon's surface stretched some within the past 50 million years, creating tiny valleys. The discovery was ... more | .. |
 A robot sketches portraits An industrial robot as artist? From March 6-10, 2012, researchers will be presenting what may at first seem to be a contradiction at CeBIT in Hanover, Germany. There, interested visitors can view th ... more | .. |
 In new mass-production technique, robotic insects spring to life A new technique inspired by elegant pop-up books and origami will soon allow clones of robotic insects to be mass-produced by the sheet. Devised by engineers at Harvard, the ingenious layering and f ... more |
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 Back to the Moon A Modern Redux The moon is again in the focus of world space exploration. Recently water was discovered on the moon - something scientists did not expect to find. This could lead to the establishment of lunar base ... more | .. |
  Computer scientist developing intersections of the future with fully autonomous vehicles Intersections of the future will not need stop lights or stop signs, but will look like a somewhat chaotic flow of driverless, autonomous cars slipping past one another as they are managed by a virt ... more | .. |
  Shenzhou 9 To Carry 3 Astronauts To Tiangong-1 Space Station Chinese space officials said Friday that three astronauts will fly to Tiangong 1 aboard Shenzhou 9. This reverses previous published state media reports that the Shenzhou 9 mission would be unmanned. ... more | .. |
 New system allows robots to continuously map their environment Robots could one day navigate through constantly changing surroundings with virtually no input from humans, thanks to a system that allows them to build and continuously update a three-dimensional m ... more |
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Almost half of Kyiv without heat, power, after Russian attack
Denmark proposes NATO surveillance mission for Greenland
Military aircraft to arrive in Greenland for 'long-planned' activities: US-Canadian command | .. |
 Robot reconnoiters uncharted terrain Mobile robots have many uses. They serve as cleaners, carry out inspections and search for survivors of disasters. But often, there is no map to guide them through unknown territory. Researchers hav ... more | .. |
 Human tests for first wirelessly controlled drug delivery chip About 15 years ago, MIT professors Robert Langer and Michael Cima had the idea to develop a programmable, wirelessly controlled microchip that would deliver drugs after implantation in a patient's b ... more | .. |
 'Duet of 1' possible with hand-controlled voice synthesizer New technology at the University of British Columbia makes it possible for a person to speak or sing just by using their hands to control a speech synthesizer. UBC researcher Sidney Fels says the ge ... more | .. |
 New 'soft' motor made from artificial muscles "Perhaps the earliest public demonstration of an electric motor," writes a team of researchers from the University of Auckland in New Zealand, "involved the automatic rotation of a turkey on a spit ... more |
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  Unmanned version of A-10 on way Aurora Flight Sciences has been selected to work on a U.S. military project for an unmanned version of the A-10 close support aircraft. ... more | .. |
 ISS may become Martian flight simulator Russia's Roscosmos space agency has suggested expanding the length of future expeditions to the International Space Station from the current six months to a year and even longer to provide for the n ... more | .. |
 Robot seals heal hearts of Japan tsunami survivors High-tech fluffy seals that respond to human touch are the latest weapon in the battle against depression for survivors of Japan's tsunami disaster. ... more | .. |
  Adept Technology Receives Order From International Equipment OEM Adept Technology has announced it has received a $1.4 million order for high-precision robots from a major international manufacturer of sophisticated automation equipment for use in the consumer el ... more |
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Russia says US has not released crew from detained tanker
Inside China's buzzing AI scene year after DeepSeek shock
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  Hovering not hard if you're top-heavy Top-heavy structures are more likely to maintain their balance while hovering in the air than are those that bear a lower center of gravity, researchers at New York University's Courant Institute of ... more | .. |
 NASA Reaches Higher With Fiscal Year 2013 Budget Request NASA has announced a $17.7 billion budget request for fiscal year 2013 supporting an ambitious program of space exploration that will build on new technologies and proven capabilities to expand Amer ... more | .. |
 Advanced Communications Testbed for Space Station New and improved ways for future space travelers to communicate will be tested on the International Space Station. The SCaN Testbed, or Space Communications and Navigation Testbed - designed and bui ... more | .. |
 NASA kills Mars deal with Europe The United States will scale back Mars exploration under a proposed budget by President Barack Obama released Monday that has some scientists fuming over the risk of a NASA brain-drain. ... more |
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  S. Korea vows tight security for nuclear summit South Korea Wednesday showed off high-tech bomb-disposal robots and anti-terrorism drills by special police commandos to ensure that a nuclear summit passes off safely next month. ... more | .. |
 Unique Testbed Soon Will Be in Space New and improved ways for future space travelers to communicate will be tested on the International Space Station after a launch later this year from Japan. The SCaN Testbed, or Space Communications ... more | .. |
 Scientists say Obama Mars cuts to hit research The United States will scale back Mars exploration under a proposed budget by President Barack Obama released Monday that has some scientists fuming over the risk of a NASA brain-drain. ... more | .. |
 Obama budget slashes Mars exploration The budget proposed Monday by US President Barack Obama for fiscal year 2013 would slash $226 million from the US space agency's Mars exploration program, likely axing a planned partnership with Europe. ... more |
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