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Teledyne Selected for NASA Engineering Contract

Mar 13, 2013 (SPX)

Teledyne Technologies has been selected as one of three contractors for NASA/Marshall Space Flight Center's (MSFC) Engineering Solutions and Prototyping (ESP) c...

Technology to detect Alzheimer's takes SXSW prize

Mar 12, 2013 (AFP)

Technology capable of diagnosing Alzheimer's disease long before its symptoms appear won a coveted honor for innovation Tuesday at the South by Southwest (SXSW)...

UK and Kazakhstan agree collaboration in space

Mar 11, 2013 (SPX)

The UK Space Agency and the National Space Agency of the Republic of Kazakhstan (KAZCOSMOS) have signed an agreement outlining cooperation in the area of space ...

Basketball legend Shaq talks tech at SXSW

Mar 11, 2013 (AFP)

Basketball legend Shaquille O'Neal on Monday credited the "geeks" who introduced him to computers during his troubled teenage years for making him the tech tyco...

Wyle To Provide NASA Ongoing Support For Human Space Flight

Mar 11, 2013 (SPX)

Wyle has been awarded a contract valued at nearly $1.76 billion over a 10-year span to provide comprehensive health, safety, science and engineering support to ...

Japan, US hold space cooperation talks

Mar 11, 2013 (AFP)

Japan and the United States held talks Monday on wide-ranging cooperation in space, including the satellite monitoring of ships, a joint statement said. The col...

Startups at SXSW in search of some better mousetraps

Mar 09, 2013 (AFP)

Not long after her husband left her "to live in a van down by the river" in Idaho, as she puts it, Elissa Shevinsky thought it was high time for a better mouse ...

How to predict the progress of technology

Mar 08, 2013 (SPX)

Researchers at MIT and the Santa Fe Institute have found that some widely used formulas for predicting how rapidly technology will advance - notably, Moore's La...

NASA Launches Website to Design Interplanetary Missions

Mar 07, 2013 (SPX)

A small group of engineers at NASA's Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif., have launched a new web-based tool for scientists and engineers to use when de...

Shadows over data sharing

Mar 07, 2013 (SPX)

In a paper about to be published in EPJ Data Science, Barbara Jasny, deputy editor for commentary at Science magazine in Washington, DC, USA, looks at the histo...

New tech aims to transform homes, shopping in Spain

Mar 06, 2013 (AFP)

With a flick of the wrist, residents of a futuristic home developed in Spain can browse Internet pages displayed on the living room walls, switch off a giant pr...

Gadgets and gizmos galore at world's top IT fair

Mar 06, 2013 (AFP)

From a glove that can be used as a mobile phone to a remote-controlled spy helicopter: this year's CeBIT, the world's top high-tech fair, showcases a bewilderin...

General Dynamics Modernizes Ground System Terminals for NASA's Next-generation TDRS Satellites

Mar 06, 2013 (SPX)

General Dynamics C4 Systems successfully completed critical ground system modifications and technology updates needed to support the mission of NASA's three, ne...

Sequestration and the Civil Space Industry

Mar 06, 2013 (SPX)

Amazingly, the space industry appears to have survived the so called "fiscal cliff" at the end of 2012. The next big and scary fiscal event is already upon us a...

Chinese probe in breakthrough outer space travel

Mar 06, 2013 (XNA)

China's second moon orbiter, Chang'e-2, has arrived in outer space about 20 million km from the Earth, marking a new breakthrough in the nation's efforts for de...

Tech sector rides on rich list

Mar 04, 2013 (AFP)

America's technology sector remained a driving force for the world's billionaires, led by Microsoft's Bill Gates and other familiar names, a Forbes survey showe...

Brazil inventor struggles to collect royalties

Mar 03, 2013 (AFP)

Fifteen years after he patented caller ID technology, Brazilian inventor Nelio Jose Nicolai is no millionaire. Quite the opposite: out of work since 1984, the c...

Stanford scientist closes in on a mystery that impedes space exploration

Feb 28, 2013 (SPX)

New research by Stanford aeronautics and astronautics Assistant Professor Sigrid Close suggests she's on track to solve a mystery that has long bedeviled space ...

U.S. research to be free online

Feb 27, 2013 (UPI)

The White House says major government agencies must make taxpayer-funded research freely available to the public within 12 months after publication. The directi...

NASA Creates Space Technology Mission Directorate

Feb 27, 2013 (SPX)

As part of the Obama Administration's recognition of the critical role that space technology and innovation will play in enabling both future space missions and...