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OMPS, one of five instruments set to launch on the JPSS-1 weather monitoring satellite, is ready to be integrated with the spacecraft bus.

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What We Tried: The Dreampad, Integrated Listening Systems' recently launched relaxation pillow, which has been described as a "massage to the nervous system." Where: This is one gadget we'll allow in the bedroom. What We...

Australian police have issued a warning about a new drug called Snapchat, branded with the Snapchat logo and based on bath salts.

A smartphone-linked "pancreas" removes the need for people with type 1 diabetes to constantly monitor and tweak their blood sugar – with profound results

The precise cellular signalling responsible for kidney regeneration and exposing the multi-layered nature of kidney growth has been pinpointed in a new study. The research paves the way for novel cellular and molecular t...

A teaser video posted to YouTube has shown off a few glimpses of a portable gaming device designed to play your Steam library on the go.

Would you install malware on your computer if someone paid you to do it?

A single bitcoin mining network has repeatedly supplied more than half the computational power necessary to mint new bitcoins, undermining the decentralized nature of the digital currency and creating new security concer...

Samples scooped from the Martian atmosphere could provide scientists with their first hands-on experience with the red planet.

The National Interest Analysis of the new Korea-Australia free trade agreement has said Australia's copyright laws need to be amended to make ISPs crack down on online copyright infringement.

For a besieged soldier or a disaster victim, a plane dropping supplies is the most welcome sight in the world - unless the drop ends up drifting off out of reach. To help make sure that airdrops end up where they belong,...

Printers that output 3D objects are all the rage. And now astronauts in space plan to use them for on-board repairs. A new 3D printer by California-based startup Made in Space, in cooperation with NASA, has just passed a...

High-mass stars are rarely solitary. This is what Bochum's astronomers found out at the Ruhr-Universität's (RUB's) observatory in Chile. For several years, they observed 800 celestial objects that are up to one hundred ...

Well, the above image might look pretty straightforward, but when the shot from France's Karim Benzema bounced off the far post and deflected off the keeper into goal, in the midst of a World Cup match, there was more th...

A 3D-printed Portal turret makes for the perfect watchdog for your very own Enrichment Center.

Having initially taken a conservative, low-risk approach to cloud, the professional services giant now plans to move up to 90% of its IT needs to private or public cloud over the next 18 months.

An anonymous reader writes Ars Technica reports that for the first time in Bitcoin's five-year history, a single entity has repeatedly provided more than half of the total computational power required to mine new digital...

Study reveals how shape and chemistry let feathers shed water after emerging from great depths.

itwbennett (1594911) writes "In a victory for the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), which is suing to make the DOJ release information about surveillance on U.S. citizens, a California judge on Friday ordered the Dep...

SwiftKey's app for Android, which the London start-up made available free last week, is used on almost 250 million handsets. Now the company hopes to develop a relationship with Apple.

After having been available for preorder since the beginning of the year, the privacy-centric Blackphone will be shipping in three weeks for $629. The device is pitched as an Android smartphone that's designed around sec...