The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket successfully blasted off from Florida's Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Sunday night, marking a new chapter in America's space program. The rocket, carrying the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft, lifted off at 8:35 p.m. ...
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The American Textile History Museum in Lowell, MA proudly presents Suited for Space, a stunning new exhibition from the Smithsonian Institution's National Air and Space Museum, exploring the "wearable spacecraft" that keep astronauts alive ...
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U.S. ISPs are reporting a significant rise in IPv6 traffic during the last three months, even though the overall numbers remain tiny -- less than 1% of Internet traffic. RELATED: How the U.S. is winning the race to next-gen Internet ...
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After almost a year of preparation, The OpenStack Foundation has launched as a stand-alone nonprofit organization, freeing its namesake stack of open source cloud hosting software from the management of hosting provider Rackspace. ...
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In 1859, there was a solar event so extreme that witnesses reported seeing brilliant lights, electrical flashes, red glows and other aurora events, even in the South. It was the lead story on Sept. 3 of that year in the Memphis Daily, ...
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When NASA's newest and largest robotic rover lands on Mars early Monday morning, it will use a supersonic parachute, a tether and rockets to safely alight 350 million miles from home. Seven minutes will elapse between the time the ...
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NASA's Mars Curiosity rover wiggled its wheels Tuesday and is ready to make its first -- if brief -- test drive on Wednesday. As part of a series of major tests that have been running over the past several days, the robotic rover on ...
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Nasa has committed to spend $11.2 million (£6.9 million) on developing a colour-changing LED system which will encourage astronauts to sleep by mimicking their natural circadian rhythms. It is hoped that the space agency’s ...
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U.S. officials today expressed dismay over the U.K. government's refusal to extradite British hacker Gary McKinnon, but insisted the broader extradition relationship between the two countries is as strong as ever. In separate statements, ...
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While the Mars Curiosity rover is the most complex machine NASA has ever sent to another planet, the computer that runs it is no more powerful than the one in your smartphone. The robotic rover, which landed in the Gale Crater on Mars ...
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A nearby Sun-like star is host to a planet that may be capable of supporting life, according to an international group of astronomers. The planet is one of five orbiting one of the closest Sun-like stars to Earth, Tau Ceti. It's in a ...
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With the Mars rover's software successfully upgraded, Curiosity is a big step closer to beginning its mission of finding out whether life has ever existed on Mars. Curiosity, NASA's super robotic rover, has been on the surface of Mars for ...
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Bill Moggridge, the British-born industrial designer credited with the creation of the first laptop computer in 1982, has died of cancer aged 69. Until his death, Moggridge was best known for his design of the Grid Compass, the first ...
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The hacktivist collective Anonymous celebrated Guy Fawkes Day on Monday by claiming it had stolen data from Symantec and ImageShack servers and had found a zero-day flaw in ZPanel. Fawkes was arrested over an alleged Nov. 5, 1605 botched ...
LOWELL, Mass. – December 5, 2012 - The American Textile History Museum in Lowell, Mass., proudly presents Suited for Space, a stunning new exhibition from the Smithsonian Institution’s National Air and Space Museum, exploring ...
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