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Superaccurate GPS Chips Coming to Smartphones in 2018

21 Sep

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Video Friday: SpaceX Rocket Mishaps, Robot Puppy, and Lean Robotics

15 Sep

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Gyrotron Simulation with CST STUDIO SUITE

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Cheaper, Lighter, Quieter: The Electrification of Flight Is at Hand

22 Aug

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Defending 3D Printers From Hackers

16 Aug

Videos

Photo: DARPA

Robot Mechanic Could Prevent Satellites From Becoming Space Junk

29 Jul

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NASA Tests Origami-Inspired Robot That May One Day Explore Mars

13 May

A Gyroscope Jetpack for Astronauts

23 Nov 2015

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Andy Weir on The Martian, Mars, and the Movie

2 Oct 2015

U.S. Navy Readies a Full-Scale Railgun for Sea Trials

13 Mar 2015

Famed Physicist Freeman Dyson Predicts the Future

30 Jun 2014

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Features

Illustration: Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency

Inside DARPA’s Mission to Send a Repair Robot to Geosynchronous Orbit

8 Mar

Photo-illustration: Edmon de Haro

Autonomous Air Taxis Will Take Off in 2017, but Won’t Go Far

30 Dec 2016

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Commercial Spaceflight Hits a Milestone

30 Dec 2016

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A Parallel Air Traffic Control System Will Let Delivery Drones Fly Safely

29 Dec 2016

Why Did the Mule Climb the Mountain? Because NASA Said So

26 May 2016

How I Designed a Practical Electric Plane for NASA

24 May 2016

More Aerospace

A black satellite in a white room appears to have a small nose and prominent ears

Sapcorda Plans Centimeter-Scale GPS for Europe

15 Aug

Commentary: Trump, Engineering Advisers, and the North Korea Crisis

10 Aug

AREE Venus rover

JPL's Design for a Clockwork Rover to Explore Venus

8 Aug

Photo: Patrick T. Fallon/The Washington Post/Getty Images

Is There a Giant Planet Lurking Beyond Pluto?

31 Jul

Stanford students experience Navy SEAL training as part of research for the university's Hacking for Defense class

U.S. Defense Budget May Help Fund "Hacking for Defense" Classes at Universities

25 Jul

An illustration of satellites orbiting earth and connected to each other by beams and arcs of various colors

Quantum Cryptography System Breaks Daylight Distance Record

24 Jul

Photo: Jin Liwang/Xinhua/Getty Images

Unhackable Quantum Networks Take to Space

21 Jul

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The Nuclear Weapons Complexities

19 Jul

STA2056 GPS Receiver chip

Chip Hall of Fame: STMicroelectronics STA2056 GPS Receiver

30 Jun

The most efficient way to exploring other planets may be sending humans to orbit, and letting robots do everything else

Are Telepresence Robots the Best Way to Explore Other Worlds?

22 Jun

Illustration: University of Science and Technology of China/Science/AAAS

Quantum Networks in Space Closer to Reality

15 Jun

surefly air taxi

SureFly, a New Air Taxi That Runs on Electricity—and Gasoline

9 Jun

Japan's space agency is developing a small robotic explorer that uses a single solid fuel rocket to launch itself into the air and some braking rockets to help it make pinpoint landings

A Rocket-Propelled Miniature Robot for Planetary Exploration

6 Jun

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How to Become an FAA-Approved Drone Pilot

23 May

NASA JPL's PUFFER, or Pop-Up Flat Folding Explorer Robot, is a small, origami-inspired robot for space exploration

PUFFER: JPL's Pop-Up Exploring Robot

8 May

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Scientists Figure Out Possible New Threat to Spacecraft

3 May

Meeting DC-DC Power System Requirements in Defense Applications

Facebook's Yael Maguire explains the company's Tether-tenna, a helicopter and cable system designed to replace traditional cell phone antennas

Facebook Aims to Remake Telecom With Millimeter Waves and Tether-tennas

19 Apr

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