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BEAR robot might save your life
This BEAR robot might save your life, according to VECNA Robotics, which designed the robot to locate, lift, and rescue people injured on the battlefield, a mine shaft, or a toxic spill.
December 13, 2010
How to build an International Space Station (ISS)
It's not the great double wheel of a space station that so inflamed my imagination back in 1968, with Stanley Kubrick's film 2001: A Space Odyssey. Yet, the ISS is a space station, and humans will live and work there.
December 13, 2010
The end of cheap coal
The end of cheap coal worldwide might be less than ten years away, according to a comment article published in the U.K. science journal Nature.
December 13, 2010
Antimatter created and trapped for the first time
Antimatter has been created and contained for the first time by scientists at the European nuclear research organization CERN.
December 13, 2010
Mountain fox caught on camera after 20-year absence
"It doesn’t get any better than finding what you thought was lost," said Diane Macfarlane, speaking of two foxes captured by wildlife cameras. The mountain fox had not been seen in the area for 20 years.
December 13, 2010
Historic SpaceX commercial spaceflight recovery
The space transport company SpaceX made history by launching a spacecraft, Dragon, into orbit and recovering it safely, a feat only done by a few nations.
December 13, 2010
Why mammals never got big as biggest dinosaurs
The extinction of the dinosaurs allowed mammals to rapidly evolve a range of body sizes, but no land-dwelling mammals were able to get as large as the largest dinosaurs.
December 13, 2010
Oil and gas industry life-saving safety rules
Van Dijk is Vice President of Safety for Shell discusses life-saving rules for oil and gas. It’s his job to keep over 100,000 employees and many more contractors safe.
December 13, 2010
Flowering plants in storage, waiting to be named
Thousands of new flowering plants - unknown to the world - might sit in storage for 50 years before it earns the title of "new species," according to a new study.
December 9, 2010
SpaceX commercial rocket launches successfully
SpaceX successfully launched its Falcon 9 rocket today. It hopes to be the first commercial company to recover a capsule from space.
December 8, 2010
