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NASA's 'meatball' logo. The US House of Representatives voted late Wednesday to accept the Senate’s version of NASA’s $19 billion fiscal 2011 budget proposal. The bill will now go to President Obama...

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Chicken Burger USB HubThis tasty looking thing is the latest addition to the never ending stream of weird computer accessories. It’s a 4-port USB 2.0 compliant hub designed to look like a chicken burger...

By Olivia Solon The Ecole Polytechnic Federale de Lausanne in Switzerland is developing swarms of flying robots that could be deployed in disaster areas to create communication networks for rescuers...

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Google’s Project 10^100 — an initiative that began two years ago today as a call for ideas that would help improve the lives of people around the world, some of which Google would fund — is finally...

From the SPIE meeting, where he gave a nice talk on LSST, Tony Tyson gives us his take on new large telescopes: "Over the past decade, sky surveys such as the Sloan Digital Sky Survey have proven...

by Saul Kaplan It seems fitting during Labor Day week to reflect on the future of work. Today’s concept of work, employment, and jobs are an outgrowth of an industrial era that is long gone. The...

Fig. 1: An image of Beta Pic's companion taken with the apodising phase plate on VLT/NaCo, after processing. The light from the central star was blocked out (in processing). Credit: ESO via Sarahaskew...

EPOXI see its target: Comet Hartley 2. Click for larger. Credit: NASA/JPL Wow, finally the wait is about over.  The recycled Deep Impact spacecraft now called EPOXI is heading to Comet Hartley...