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Vote Curiosity for “Person” Of The Year

Should Curiosity become the first robot to win Time Magazine’s Person of the Year award? Universe Today wants it to happen, and you can help. As of Monday morning, Curiosity stood in sixth place in...

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Could a Moon Visit Be in Your Future? Maybe.

The Moon as seen by an observer from Earth. Some people claim that private ownership of the Moon might be possible. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) If you happen to be young or very wealthy, you may have the...

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How We Thought About Space Stations 40 Years Ago

NASA In the early 1970s, just after Man had landed on the Moon, the idea of returning to space—and living there—seemed like destiny. Well, if it is destiny, then it has been destiny deferred. Right...

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Mars Rover Curiosity Will not be “Person” of the Year

Remember me (and others) urging you to vote for Curiosity as Time’s first robotic person of the year? It’s not going to happen. I checked the standings this morning. Curiosity currently stands in 16th...

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Which is More Important: SpaceShipOne or the International Space Station?

English: The International Space Station is featured in this image photographed by an STS-134 crew member on the space shuttle Endeavour after the station and shuttle began their post-undocking...

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Is Space the Next Frontier for 3D Printing?

Full Moon view from earth In Belgium (Hamois). Français : Pleine Lune vue de la Terre en Belgique à Hamois. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) How do you deal with the cold reality that parts will break down in...

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NASA Alum Aims High to End World Hunger

A view inside a proposed Cybernated Farm System. Douglas Mallette wants to apply rocket science to developing world farming. The former NASA engineer recently launched an indiegogo campaign to build...

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How Can You Go to Mars? Via Reality TV

Netherlands-based Mars One plans to give at least 24 people the chance to travel to Mars, in what they’re calling one of the biggest media events in human history. Besides the fact that the media...

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Tech, the Body and the Warp Drive Weapon

Blood Clot Hsieh Chen Today’s BitList is almost entirely about the body—taking inspiration from it, protecting it and repairing it. Here’s the list: IBM predicts that, in five years, computers will...

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Robot Rats on Mars

A group of researchers at Boston University’s Neuropmorphics lab are working on the next generation of Mars explorers: a set of autonomous robots with the intelligence of a rat. The bots, which have...

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