Stories tagged "nasa"

New software could recognize you by your signature gait by analyzing the movements of your shadow from aerial videos. The technique, developed by Engineer Adrian Stoica at NASA's Jet Propulsion

The game of chess has been played on park tables, in homes, at school, on television and in arenas as a spectator sport. Chess has now taken the next giant leap in a match that pits space against Earth.

Next April, NASA astronomers are going to glimpse a secret layer of the sun.

Since many of the tried and true tools we use on Earth will be impossible to bring, some scientists are hard at work inventing from scratch the machines we'll need to make life possible on the moon.

The 200,000 processor core system known as Blue Waters got the green light recently as the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign said it has finalized the contract with IBM to build the world's first sustained petascale computational system.

In preparation for a possible manned return to the Moon in just over a decade, NASA decided to tap into the ingenuity of students from the design school to arrive at novel some ideas as to how eliminate the risk of letting lunar dust into a future moon...

The virus recently found on a space station laptop is only the latest extraterrestrial computer glitch another was caused by floating urine

From rocket science to brain surgery: a device designed to sniff out leaks on the space shuttle may soon guide surgeons as they operate on cancer patients.

On the eve of one of their biggest busts yet, PM contributing editors Jamie Hyneman and Adam Savage explain how they made their own fake photos, built a moon set in an hour—and even went weightless themselves.

NASAs Mars Exploration rover Opportunity is heading back out to the Red Planets surrounding plains nearly a year after descending into a large Martian crater to examine exposed ancient rock layers.