The Near Space Corporation this week said it would begin developing a $6.9 million phase of what it says is the first commercial high altitude balloon flight facility in the country.
International police organization Interpol today said it arrested 25 people, aged between 17 and 40, and seized a variety of computer equipment it said were part of the hactivist group Anonymous. The Interpol web site was promptly hit by a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack and shut down.
Natural gas has never been much of an option for US car drivers and its going to take a lot of effort by the government and auto manufactures to make it a viable alternative to gas.
The world's biggest planned radio telescope will need the world's most massive supercomputer to crunch its data - think more than 15 million iPods worth of power and storage according to one of the group's developing systems for the ambitious project.
When you have some of the largest IT organizations on the planet, it probably comes as no surprise - though no less of a costly problem --when you find out you have multiple redundant systems.
The Internal Revenue Service today issued its annual "Dirty Dozen" ranking of tax scams the agency say tend to surface around tax season each year. "Taxpayers should be careful and avoid falling into a trap with the Dirty Dozen," said IRS Commissioner Doug Shulman in a statement. "Scam artists...
If the US government really considers getting rid of the paper $1 bill in favor of a coin it could save $4.4 billion over 30 years, or an average of about $146 million per year.
Researchers at Penn State have come up with an iPhone, iPad app that lets you know the optimal time of the day you should have that quad-shot of espresso so that it boosts your mental alertness without keeping you from sleeping later.
If you can stand your house being pained garish green, orange and purple, and you need help paying your mortgage, then you might be a candidate for an offer from the folks at Brainiacs From Mars.
If this year is like the recent few, hunting season on NASA programs started today when the White House submitted its 2013 budget which included a $17.7 billion piece for NASA - an almost $60 million reduction from last year's contentious budge
It's somewhat hard to imagine that NASA doesn't need the computing power of an IBM mainframe any more but NASA CIO posted on her blog today at the end of the month, the Big Iron will be no more at the space agency.
"Virginia is for drones" might be the new catch-phrase for the state if its senators succeed in bringing a major unmanned aircraft flight test center to the area.
IBM says it has developed a silicon carbide tip for nanomanufacturing applications that it claims is a thousand times more wear-resistant than current tool bits and 100,000 times smaller than a pencil tip.IBM scientists say the the new tip can be used to fabricate all manner of bio sensors, for example...
The FBI today released a background check it did on Apple's founder Steve Jobs founder when he was being considered for a position on George H.W. Bush to the President's Export Council in 1991.
NASA today said it was looking to for technology that could offer green rocket fuel alternatives to the highly toxic fuel hydrazine used to fire up most rockets today.
The first version of the Internal Revenue Service's IRS2Go smartphone app had 350,000 downloads and while that doesn't make it the Angry Birds of the taxpaying set, the new version could be even more popular.More news: White House fires-up science/technology extravaganza
The US Navy wants to develop the power system necessary to get its prototype electromagnetic railgun to fire hundreds of rounds per minute rather than the single shot it is capable of today.
Technologists from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency will this month detail a new program it wants to develop that can secure embedded ssyems in everything from large supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems that manage physical infrastructure, to medical devices, computer...
Stephen Colbert, host of the nightly 'The Colbert Report,' and NASA supporter says he loves space and loves it more now because of what research work NASA is doing with the International Space Station.In a public service announcement released today Colbert says: "I love looking up at the stars and wondering...
Drastically reduce the costs of safely and reliably getting into space; more effectively mitigate the impact of space radiation on humans; develop more robust mobile robotics and build a new generation of space telescopes to more effectively study space are just a few of the 16 high-priority technologies...
