Take a walk through a human brain? Fly over the surface of Mars? Computer scientists at the University of Illinois at Chicago are pushing science fiction closer to reality with a wraparound virtual world where a researcher wearing 3-D ...
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CORNING — Perhaps the most famous artifact at the Corning Museum of Glass is the first failed cast for the giant mirror blank the company made 80 years ago and which is still used in the deep space telescope at Mount Palomar ...
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Few would-be food engineers are “willing to really roll up their sleeves” and engage with unskilled and semi-skilled operators, the boss of Nestlé in the UK and Ireland said. Few engineering graduates have adequate ...
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MaRS Discovery District—an innovation centre located in Toronto, Ont.—has appointed Elyse Allan, president and CEO of GE Canada to its board of directors. (Also appointed was Elaine Campbell, president of AstraZeneca Canada ...
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About 21 companies in the US have voluntarily lowered salt content in pre-packaged or restaurant foods products, in response to a salt reduction campaign led by New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg. New York launched the National Salt ...
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The Houston to Nederland, Texas, segment of Shell Pipeline's Houston to Houma, Louisiana, crude pipeline reversal project is open for shippers, a company spokeswoman said Wednesday. "The reversal is progressing on schedule, and the ...
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A NASA spacecraft is sending back evidence that a deep crater on Mars once held a groundwater-fed lake. The information is further evidence that the Red Planet has a history of water. Last fall, NASA scientists discovered evidence ...
Information flicks onto an iPad screen of its own accord as I walk through a technology exhibit at the Boston Museum of Science. Extra details about rovers and planetary exploration pop up as I sidle over to the Mars Yard, and are replaced ...
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Sony has faced up to its recent failures and admitted it's forgotten how to "wow" an audience at the first official day of CES 2013 in Las Vegas today. "We used to make people say 'wow' all the time," announced a voiceover before the ...
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Computerworld-Now that NASA's rover Curiosity has safely landed on Mars,it's time for the robot to get to work. And that's exactly what NASA engineers say is happening today. "The surface mission of Curiosity has now begun,"Michael ...
In initial tests, NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has discovered that Martian soil is an awfully lot like Hawaiian sand. The super rover, which has been working on Mars since this past August, ran its first soil samples over the past few ...
IDG News Service - The first week of class at Washington State University has been a tumultuous one for students and parents who depend on financial aid, due to a software glitch in a recently installed Oracle PeopleSoft system. Hundreds ...
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The rover Curiosity wrapped up its first full day on the Martian surface and is functioning perfectly,NASA officials said Tuesday. "Curiosity is asleep right now getting ready for tomorrow,"said Michael Watkins,a mission systems manager ...
A week after downplaying reports of a major discovery on Mars, NASA on Monday announced that the rover Curiosity has found complex chemicals on the surface of the planet. The space agency noted that it has yet to find definitive evidence ...
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NASA's rover Curiosity is set to spend the next several days using the camera on its mast in a search for the next route to travel on Mars. Scientists are already on the lookout for a rock on the surface of Mars to try out the rover's ...
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