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MICHOUD, La.—Obviously, NASA's novel plans for its Space Launch System (SLS) and the Orion capsule require state of the art tools and engineering. But all those strategies, machines, and flight hardware don't appear out of thin air. While much of NASA's work is built on the shoulders of giants so to speak, they also find partners to continuously perform essential research and...
The Sun sets over the US South Pole station for the last time until this fall. (credit: NOAA)
The first day of spring causes most people in North America to think longingly of warmer days ahead in the summer months. But at the southern edge of the world—specifically, the US Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station—a northern spring marks the last...
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A security research firm announced Sunday its discovery of what is believed to be the world’s first ransomware that specifically goes after OS X machines.
"This is the first one in the wild that is definitely functional, encrypts your files and seeks a ransom,” Ryan Olson, of Palo Alto Networks, told Reuters.
In an interview Sunday...
You’ve got to hand it to the roboticists at the University of Washington: They’ve built a robotic hand modeled so closely on human...
