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Nasa to Send Sample-Return Mission to Earth-Bound Asteroid
NASA has long wanted to send a mission to Mars to grab some of its surface and sling it back to Earth.
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Where to Grab Space Debris
Objects in space tend to spin—and spin in a way that's totally different from the way they spin on earth.
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Kbase Harnesses Gene Data For Researchers
A computational platform developed by the U.S. Department of Energy's national research laboratories will make complex analysis of gene data more efficient.
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Map of Body's Protein-Folding Machinery Wins a Major Medical Prize
It's speculation season once again for Nobel Prize watchers.
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No Easy Parking Spot For First-Ever Comet Landing
Landing on a comet will be even harder than we thought.
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The Amazon.com of Stolen Credit Cards Makes It All So Easy
On Sept. 1, the website Rescator.cc alerted customers to a big new batch of product about to hit its digital shelves. "Load your accounts and prepare for an avalanche...
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Our Cyborg Future
In June 2014, the Supreme Court handed down its decision in Riley v. California, in which the justices unanimously ruled that police officers may not, without a...
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Networked Home Gadgets Offer Hackers New Opportunities
Connecting a new home appliance to a personal Wi-Fi network or broadband modem could increase the risk that data will be taken from other computers in the house...
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Airlines Take the Bump Out of Turbulence
Just a few years ago, airlines got their weather reports by telex.
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The Man Who Will Build Google's Elusive Quantum Computer
John Martinis is one of the world's foremost experts on quantum computing, a growing field of science that aims to process information at super high speeds using...
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NASA Instrument on Rosetta: First Science Results
A NASA instrument aboard the European Space Agency's Rosetta orbiter has successfully made its first delivery of science data from comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko...
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Andrew Kay, Pioneer in Computing, Dies at 95
Andrew Kay, designer of the Kaypro II, died Aug. 28 in Vista, CA. He was 95.
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Earth's New Address: 'solar System, Milky Way, Laniakea'
The supercluster of galaxies that includes the Milky Way is 100 times bigger in volume and mass than previously thought, a team of astronomers says.
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Nato Agrees Cyber Attack Could Trigger Military Response
NATO leaders agreed on Friday that a large-scale cyber attack on a member country could be considered an attack on the entire U.S.-led alliance, potentially triggering...
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The Hazards of Going on Autopilot
At 9:18 P.M. on February 12, 2009, Continental Connection Flight 3407, operated by Colgan Air, took off from Newark International Airport.
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Earthquake Alert? An App For That Is On the Way
Saving your life when the Big One finally rocks California? Yeah, there's an app for that.
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E-Sports Set Video Gamers Fighting For Real Money in Virtual Contests
A bewitching creature—half woman, half deer—battles a shaman and a sentient tree.
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Light Particles May Hold the Keys to a Revolution in Encryption
A new device harnesses the random spin of light particles to produce a random number for use in a cryptographic key.
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Programmers Could Get Repl in Official Java
Proponents of open source Java are formally considering adding a Read Evaluate Print Loop tool to the programming language.
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