These stats are scary, though not surprising if you do any amount of driving: 1 in 5 drivers on the road today cannot meet the basic requirements to get a driver's license, meaning that nearly 37 million American drivers - roughly 18%- would not pass the written drivers test if taken today.
The lack of alternatives for supplying the International Space Station and launching science missions have all contributed to the need for commercial rockets. But delays and cost increases in those programs from Orbital Sciences Corporation and Space Exploration Technologies Corporation (SpaceX) may...
If you think you can build the next generation of unmanned flying aircraft, the scientists at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) want to hear from you.DARPA and the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center want "everyone from scientists, engineers, citizen scientists and dreamers" to...
The Oak Ridge National Laboratory today said it had completed the first 25 of 125 solar-assisted electric vehicle charging stations between Knoxville and Memphis, Tenn.
NASA today said it will make one last attempt on Wednesday to communicate with its long-lived Mars Exploration Rover Spirit, which last communicated with scientists on March 22, 2010.
NASA today said it will base a new spacecraft capable of carrying humans into low-earth orbit and beyond on existing technology developed for the now defunct Constellation system.
As the US Air Force's premier flight demonstration team, the Thunderbirds are used to flying on the edge. At the big air show at the Andrews Air Force base in Maryland this past weekend the team took that notion one step further by flying their F-16 jets on alternative jet fuel.
Researchers with the US Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity want to build a repository of metaphors. You read that right. Not just American/English metaphors mind you but those of Iranian Farsi, Mexican Spanish and Russian speakers.
NASA today said the final space shuttle flight should take place July 8 at about 11:40 am EDT from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. It will be the 135th and final mission of NASA's storied Space Shuttle Program
NASA said today its Cassini spacecraft was tracking a 3,000-mile-wide storm on Saturn that stretches around the ringed planet and could ultimately change its atmosphere.
Somewhere George W. Bush might be laughing. The BBC and others are reporting that China officials are looking for a man who allegedly threw an egg and shoes at the designer of the country's Great Firewall technology.
The US Department of Health and Human Services today said it would fund the development of a new generation of what it called novel, unconventional intelligent applications that could help people make complex health decisions.
In the past the SETI@Home group has blasted radio waves throughout a wide swath of space looking to perhaps serendipitously come across alien communications. But a new University of California, Berkeley project will aim the world's largest radio telescope at 86 planetary systems recently discovered...
Building highly-secure, vulnerability invulnerable cloud services is part of a new technology drive that will be announced by the scientists at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). The cloud program, known as Mission-oriented Resilient Clouds will be detailed at a meeting in Arlington,...
The single seat, solar powered aircraft known as Solar Impulse will today land in Belgium after taking 12 hours to fly 480 kilometers (300 miles) from western Switzerland to Brussels airport. This first international flight is but one step toward possible transamerican, transatlantic and round-the-world...
Cybersecurity breaches need to be made public in a more proactive and efficient way. That was the crux of a letter Senator John Rockefeller IV (D-W.Va.) and four other senators today sent to the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) asking the agency to bolster its corporate breach notification...
Researchers are touting a prototype of a seamless foldable mobile device display that folds in half without a visible crease in the middle. Researchers from the Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology in South Korea say fabricating a display that can fold in half would have the advantage of providing...
Somewhere the Jetsons Rosie is proud. Google today said it teamed with iRobot to create a family of Android applications for the iRobot Ava mobile robotics platform.According to iRobot, AVA already can use an Apple iPad and now Google Android as its "brain" along with the robots multiple sensors for...
The mobile computing technology explosion has brought out seriously organized, international, and profit-driven cybercriminals. That was just one of the key points made today by the US Department of Justice Deputy Assistant Attorney General Jason Weinstein to a Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on...
The US Air Force said today it would spend $6 million to set up a state-of-the-art cloud computing research center at the University of Illinois. The Air Force's Assured Cloud Computing (ACC) Center, will focus on developing technology to ensure mission critical data can get through the cloud securely...
The development of the commercial space industry has in the past been slow and deliberate but that seems like it's about to change with a whirlwind of developments that could shape or break its immediate future.
In its 90th year of existence, the famed White Castle fast-food restaurant has moved online with an Internet-based ordering system for cities in New York and New Jersey to Illinois. The company has 400 locations in seven states.
What started out as an idea about how to further explore the outer reaches of space is now beginning to take more serious shape as the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) today issued a call for
The US Air Force is preparing to take a long look at how commercial space technology can help it better operate in the cosmos.The Air Force today said it will host a space test program meeting next week ahead of expected contract offerings, or Broad Agency Announcements looking to recruit commercial...
Talk about finding a needle in a haystack. Investigators today said they had found the missing piece of the Flight Data recorder from the undersea Air France Flight 447 wreckage.
