Hopes that the ongoing undersea search of the Air France Flight 447 wreckage had yielded one of the key items investigators were looking for - the flight data recorder - were set back this week as the robot subs scouring the ocean floor found the box only to find its memory part missing.
NASA's space shuttle Endeavor will fly three fingernail-sized satellites to the International Space Station this week where they will spend the next few years gathering all manner of information on the Sun's solar winds.
The X Prize Foundation got together some of the world's big brains this month to come up with a list of the world's greatest technical challenges and what sorts of competitions the foundation can create to address them.
Fuel is a major issue when it comes to long-duration spaceflights - its weight is a problem for launch and once a spacecraft runs out of fuel there's no place to get more. That's where in-space "gas" stations located in strategic spots along a route would be a boon to spaceflight.
The CIA has declassified the six oldest documents in its secret vault revealing a host of invisible ink recipes and one way to open sealed envelopes without being caught.
Taking aim at developing some progressive energy technologies the US Department of Energy said it will write a $130 million check to develop five areas, including plants engineered to replace oil, thermal power storage, rare earth alternatives and what it calls the energy equivalent of an Internet router.More...
Putting a finishing punch on what was a nasty online retribution attack, a federal court in New Jersey has sentenced a former programmer to two years in prison, plus three years of supervised release for building a botnet-based virus that infected about 100,000 PCs and attacked a number of media outlets...
The story of SCO and Unix gets a little surreal after a while, but news this week that a Utah-based company bought the rights to the company's Unix assets, at least could be a positive for its beleaguered customers.
The main idea behind saving energy in the high-tech world has been to buy newer, more energy efficient devices, but researchers say maybe that's the wrong way to look at the issue, since as much as 70% of the energy a typical laptop will consume during its life span is used in manufacturing the computer.
The US Department of Justice and FBI said today they had filed a civil complaint, executed criminal warrants, and a temporary restraining order as part of what they called the most comprehensive enforcement action ever taken by US authorities to disable an international botnet.The target of this massive...
After yet another incident where an air traffic controller fell asleep on an overnight shift, causing airliners to divert to other airports and raising general havoc, the FAA said today it will add controllers to 27 airports currently staffed by one person at night.One has to wonder what took so long?
You can bet that if there are little red aliens running around on Mars or spaceships patrolling other planet in our solar system for that matter, a recently powered-up telescope built by the researchers at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency might just be able to see them.
The closest I have come to visualizing warped space or time would probably be from Star Trek when crew member would beam up and down from the Starship Enterprise's Transporter room to other planets and dimensions. It was simple and required some imagination but not too much.
Google today said it invested $168 million in a solar energy plant known as a power tower that uses directed mirrors to concentrate the sun's rays onto a solar receiver at the top of a tall tower.
If you have ever wanted to go torpedo-to-torpedo with a submariner, now is your chance. The crowdsource-minded folks at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency rolled out an online game that lets players try to catch elusive, quiet enemy submarines.
Lingerie vendor extraordinaire Victoria's Secret today had to notify its clientele it had became just another Epsilon breach victim as customers got this nasty little email:Dear Valued Customer,Your privacy is extremely important to us, and we wanted to share the following information with you. We discovered...
NASA said this week four research teams would split $16.5 million to continue developing quieter, cleaner, and more fuel-efficient jets that the agency says will be three generations ahead of airliners in use today.
The cost of gold is skyrocketing, with the price today closing at $1,452.50 an ounce on the Comex division of the New York Mercantile Exchange. With that crazy number, which experts say is a result of US government shut-down uncertainty and the war in Libya, comes the scammers of course, and an uptick...
The Department of Justice today said two Chinese nationals have been indicted by a federal grand jury for trying to buy and smuggle thousands of radiation-hardened microchips meant for satellite and aerospace use but are prohibited US exports.
The undersea robots scouring a 3,900 square mile search of Atlantic Ocean bottom have found bodies and a large portion of Air France Flight 447 which crashed off the coast of Brazil nearly two years ago.
