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The agency announced a competition that will award $10,000 in prizes to the person or team who can enhance the sight and dexterity of Robonaut 2, who works on the International Space Station.
Recent studies suggest that Americans might be the worst research subjects on the planet. As one writer put it recently, “researchers had been doing the equivalent of studying penguins while believing that they were learning insights applicable to all birds.”
The California city may be the first in the nation to replace residential electric meters with smart meters that provide outdoor wi-fi through a separate channel.
New statistics suggest that Bolivia is successfully reducing the number of its farmers who make a living off growing coca plants which, when processed, is the essential ingredient in cocaine.
In the midst of Spain’s financial crises, a record number of its citizens are turning to Bitcoin, an online virtual currency used to exchange goods and services using complex computer software.
To allow society to prosper without sapping the planet of life, a new approach is needed. The economy must be seen as servicing society, which will only function properly with a thriving ecosystem.
“Society 2.0” — the label writer Richard Hollingham gives to future space colonies — will probably be a lot messier and more complicated than what’s been modeled via the “Star Trek” franchise.
iFixit CEO and co-founder Kyle Wiens says that as technology grows more advanced, the ability of individual owners to modify the items they’ve bought becomes more difficult, and existing copyright laws don’t make it any easier.
More than 75 percent of signers to an online petition live outside the US, and a number of those live in countries with active Internet censorship. They say Google Reader is their only pathway to uncensored material.
The ban is the result of a lawsuit filed by publishers who say textbook portions were illegally copied. Last week, a letter signed by over 300 academics asked them to drop the case.
Next month, a federal court will hear the case of one family whose request was granted, then overturned on the grounds that Germany’s anti-homeschooling policy “does not constitute persecution.”
Amra Babic, a trained economist, is challenging assumptions of Islam both in her native country and across a continent that struggles with accommodating diverse expressions of faith.
A new global warming study uses data going back to the end of the last ice age to demonstrate that the world is warmer now than at almost any other time since.
Enclosing acres of preserve may sound drastic, but a recent report suggests that without such measures, almost half of the lion population could disappear in the near future.
Since 2010, when a local man became his country’s first competitive Olympic skier, more young people in the snowy Naltar Valley are taking advantage of training provided by the military.
The country’s electoral commission distributed over 9 million copies of a popular comic book containing pledge forms for parents to sign.
In the past 18 months, the country has added an extra tax to certain packaged foods in an attempt to curb what some see as a public health crisis.
In addition to limiting how much executives and directors can make, the new referendum includes prison time and fines for “golden parachutes” and similar bonuses.
Before the end of the Second World War, officials from the Allied nations met up at a resort town in New Hampshire to create a new economic order for the […]
I had to plumb memories of a SchoolHouse Rock video this morning to sort out exactly what was so out of place at the Supreme Court during Wednesday morning’s oral […]
By 2017, over half of the almost-1,200 islands comprising the country of Maldives will come under guidelines set by two United Nations programs for preserving natural resources.
Predictably, the suggestion of a state-imposed “porn shield” has alarmed free-speech activists, who say the move undermines the country’s liberal Scandinavian image.
A long-term study conducted by MIT researchers explains how retaining America’s manufacturing base will prove essential to maintaining the country’s signature economic advantage: innovation.
A national network consisting of 165 fast electric chargers is now open for use in Estonia, representing the world’s first complete electric infrastructure for hybrid and electric cars.
A sustained and targeted environmentalist marketing campaign is at least partly responsible for Indonesia’s Asia Pulp & Paper’s decision to reexamine its manufacturing process.
Last week’s events have asteroid hunters feeling both vindicated and excited as they step up efforts to develop better detection methods.
A trade guild reports that top-end butcher shops are reporting sales increases of up to 30 percent as customers continue to steer clear of processed meals containing meat.
A Microsoft-funded project is bringing wi-fi to remote areas of Kenya using solar power and the bandwidth being freed up as TV goes from analog to digital. The country could find itself “in the global vanguard of white-space roll-out.”
According to recent FDA data compiled by a Pew Charitable Trusts project, the amount appears to be growing while the government “dithers with voluntary approaches to regulation.”
The US military has awarded an unspecified sum to a California company to improve on binoculars that capture 3D images of faces and send them to an identification database.