NASA planning Europa mission, Jupiter's potentially life-hosting moon
The big ticket items - the Space Launch System, the Orion capsule, the Commercial Crew program - grabbed the big bucks and the headlines, as NASA unveiled the White House's 2015 budget proposal. But some astronomers and science fans are most excited about the inclusion of a new mission: a trip to Europa, Jupiter's fourth largest moon. ... more
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Robot acquires chef skills via YouTube instructional vids
The Internet is filled with useless info, but buried in the rubble are nuggets of information - whole instructional videos, in fact. Building off of previous artificial intelligence work, scientists have engineered a robot capable of acquiring and demonstrating cooking skills learned by watching YouTube videos. ... more
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'The war of tomorrow will begin in space': Macron
UN watchdog calls on Iran to urgently allow 'long overdue' uranium stockpile verification
How drones are altering contemporary warfare
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Canadian students design robotic sailboat for Atlantic challenge
Crossing the Atlantic Ocean by an unmanned sailing boat? Yes, this is a dream of a group of students from the University of British Columbia (UBC) in Vancouver in west Canada. They've designed a rob ... more
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NASA's CATS Installed on ISS by Robotic Handoff
On Jan. 22, 2015, robotic flight controllers successfully installed NASA's Cloud Aerosol Transport System (CATS) aboard the International Space Station through a robotic handoff - the first time one ... more
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Privacy is dead, Davos hears
Imagine a world where mosquito-sized robots fly around stealing samples of your DNA. Or where a department store knows from your buying habits that you're pregnant even before your family does. ... more
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Scientists find translucent fish living under Antarctic ice shelf
It shouldn't be all that surprising at this point - living organisms defying the odds, that is. Life continues to turn up in the oddest places. This time, it's a fish scrounging out a lonely, frigid existence some 2,500 feet under the surface of Antarctica in a tiny wedge of seawater surrounded by ice. ... more
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UNL drillers help make new Antarctic discoveries
Using a hot-water drill and an underwater robotic vehicle designed, built and operated by a University of Nebraska-Lincoln engineering team, scientists have made new discoveries about Antarctica's g ... more
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Rise of the robots: the promise of physical AI
Amazon robotics lead casts doubt on eye-catching humanoids
'Western tech dominance fading' at Lisbon's Web Summit
