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Plants Use Sixth Sense for Growth Aboard the Space Station

Apr 09, 2015 (SPX)

Although it is arguable as to whether plants have all five human senses - sight, scent, hearing, taste and touch - they do have a unique sense of gravity, which...

How To Train Your Astronauts

Apr 08, 2015 (SPX)

Training an astronaut is no easy task. Astronauts go through years of rigorous technical, health and safety training to learn simple and complex tasks for a typ...

Air Scrubber Plus Brings Space Age Technology Down To Earth

Apr 07, 2015 (SPX)

Air Scrubber Plus with ActivePure technology is the only IAQ product featured in this year's Spinoff magazine, a publication of NASA. ActivePure is the only tec...

Russia, US to Jointly Prepare Mars, Moon Flight Road Map

Mar 31, 2015 (Sputnik)

Russia and the United States will work together on a roadmap to send humans to Mars and the Moon, according to NASA Administrator Charles Bolden. The Russian Fe...

NASA Announces New Partnerships with Industry for Deep-Space Skills

Mar 31, 2015 (SPX)

Building on the success of NASA's partnerships with commercial industry to date, NASA has selected 12 Next Space Technologies for Exploration Partnerships (Next...

A Year in Space

Mar 30, 2015 (SPX)

Two humans are getting ready to say farewell to Earth for nearly 12 months. On March 27, 2015, NASA astronaut Scott Kelly and Russian Cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienk...

Russia to Consider Training First Guatemalan Cosmonaut

Mar 30, 2015 (Sputnik)

Moscow will consider a request for a Guatemalan cosmonaut to be trained in Russia, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Thursday. "We have received a req...

Feud on Earth but peace in space for US and Russia

Mar 26, 2015 (AFP)

Hundreds of kilometres below on Earth, their governments are locked in a standoff over Ukraine -- but up in space, Russian cosmonauts and American astronauts ar...

Russia Plans to Boost Space Tourism at Orbital Outpost

Mar 26, 2015 (Sputnik)

Russia may reduce the number of cosmonauts on board the International Space Station (ISS) in order to optimize the commercial use of its ISS segment, the Federa...

50 years ago today, space welcomed its first sandwich

Mar 24, 2015 (UPI)

Fifty years ago, on March 23, 1965, space welcomed a sandwich -- a corned beef sandwich, snuck aboard the Gemini 3 probe. The sandwich was smuggled into space b...

Small Staff has Big Impact Showing How NASA Can Engage Students

Mar 22, 2015 (SPX)

Just left of the Space Shuttle flight deck, there's a room that for more than 17 years has helped tens of thousands of teachers use NASA to inspire hundreds of ...

The Science Of The Start-Up

Mar 19, 2015 (SPX)

The Science of the Startup addresses the three pillars of any business operation, namely Admin, Sales and Delivery (ASD). It focuses on identifying the market t...

TED Prize winner wishes for archive of human wisdom

Mar 18, 2015 (AFP)

StoryCorps founder Dave Isay on Tuesday unveiled a wish to use smartphone applications to archive the spoken wisdom of humanity. As this year's TED Prize winner...

Expandable addition on ISS will gather data for future space habitats

Mar 18, 2015 (SPX)

NASA and Bigelow Aerospace are preparing to launch an expandable habitat module to the International Space Station this year. The agency joined Bigelow Thursday...

Have a digital day -- new tech toys at German IT fair

Mar 17, 2015 (AFP)

There's the intelligent yoga mat, the coffee flask that'll give you and your smartphone a jolt, and a super-smart dinosaur toy with his head in the cloud. Love ...

From cancer-battling bacteria to life on Mars at TED

Mar 17, 2015 (AFP)

Brilliant minds wrapped around heady notions ranging from injecting medicine by laser to cherishing life on Earth while seeking a future in the stars as the TED...

S3 offers general public chance to be part of the Swiss space adventure

Mar 16, 2015 (SPX)

Swiss Space Systems (S3) announced last September negotiations with investors. This process was a success and will conclude with an Initial Public Offering (IPO...

China's ambitious IT sector lays claim to global role

Mar 16, 2015 (AFP)

China's huge IT sector is out in force in Germany this week, signalling to the world it is ready to not just copy but lead as a tech superpower. Bucking China's...

Merkel to open IT fair with China showcasing tech's shift east

Mar 15, 2015 (AFP)

German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Sunday opens a major IT business fair where official partner China will showcase its rise as a high-tech power. Merkel -- who...

Chinese descend on remote Palau as wanderlust deepens

Mar 15, 2015 (AFP)

Chinese tourists are flocking to the remote Palau islands as China's growing number of rich seek new frontiers abroad, but not everyone in the Micronesian parad...