Features

• The industrial robot revolution

  By Sandra Gittlen | 20 February, 2012 22:25

  One small step for man, a giant leap for robot-kind.

• Earth to satellite: When will you hit?

  By AAP | 22 September, 2011 09:13

  NASA scientists are doing their best to tell us where a plummeting six-ton satellite will fall later this week. It's just that if they're off a little bit, it could mean the difference between hitting Florida or landing on New York. Or, say, Iran or India.

• NASA amps up wicked cool competitive prize program

  By Michael Cooney | 16 July, 2010 11:52

  NASA this month greatly expanded its public prize competition program known as the Centennial Challenges.

• 10 Apollo-era technologies used today

  By Keith Shaw | 31 July, 2009 17:32

  It's been 40 years since Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins launched into space in Apollo 11, with the historic moon landing occurring four days later.

• NASA research finds way into IT, consumer products

  By Sharon Gaudin | 18 November, 2008 09:02

  Aware of a history of heart disease in his family, then-50-year-old Gary F. Thompson saw his doctor for a checkup before he ran a Los Angeles marathon in the mid-1990s.