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Boeing opens commercial spaceship plant in Florida
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Boeing Co took the wraps off an assembly plant on Friday for its first line of commercial spaceships, which NASA plans to use to fly crews to the International Space Station, officials said.
Three-man international crew safely reaches space station
ALMATY - A Russian Soyuz spaceship safely delivered a three-man international crew, including Denmark's first astronaut, to the International Space Station (ISS) on Friday, a day after having had to maneuver to avoid colliding with space debris. | Video
Toyota partners with Stanford, MIT on self-driving car research
DETROIT - Toyota Motor Corp is collaborating with two top U.S. universities on artificial intelligence and robotics research aimed at ramping up the Japanese automaker's efforts to develop self-driving cars.
Snot-filled whale research takes flight
Gloucester, Mass. - Snotbot is a drone whose name describes it perfectly, it's a robot that collects snot, specifically whale snot. | Video
Key radar fails on $1 billion NASA environmental satellite
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - A key instrument on a $1 billion NASA satellite has failed, reducing scientists' ability to capture data to measure the moisture in Earth's soil in order to improve flood forecasting and monitor climate change, officials said on Thursday.
Explosive news: Plants can fight back against TNT pollution - researchers
WASHINGTON - Scientists have discovered why TNT is so toxic to plants and intend to use this knowledge to tackle the problem of cleaning up the many sites worldwide contaminated by the commonly used explosive.
Scientists turn to aspirin to turbo-charge cancer immunotherapy
LONDON - Giving cheap aspirin to cancer patients may turbo-charge the effectiveness of expensive new medicines that help their immune systems fight tumors, experiments on mice suggest.
Robot mother builds and improves its own children
Scientists from the University of Cambridge have built a mother robot that independently builds its own children and then tests their performance to inform the design of the next generation. By analyzing the data it collects from observing the child, the mother robot ensures that preferential traits are passed down to the next iteration, while letting weaknesses fall by the wayside. | Video
20 kilometer high space elevator tower planned
Ambitious plans to build a twenty kilometer (12.4 miles) tall space elevator tower have been announced by a Canadian space technology firm. | Video
Odd ancient lizard-like reptile called earliest-known turtle
WASHINGTON - It was a creature that one scientist said resembled "a strange, gluttonous lizard that swallowed a small Frisbee."
Reproductive control can be a form of partner violence
(Reuters Health) - Intimate partner violence or abuse can take the form of birth control sabotage, pregnancy pressure or coercion, which can have devastating consequences including unintended pregnancy, abortion and psychological trauma, according to a new review.
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