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NASA Ames instructs employees at its California research center to work from home after a worker tested positive for coronavirus
"Out of an abundance of caution, Ames will temporarily go to a mandatory telework status until furt…
Rosie Perper,Rosie Perper
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NASA once envisioned life after Earth in these funky floating colonies
In the 1970s, physicists from Princeton University, the NASA Ames Research Center, and Stanford Uni…
Leanna Garfield
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Sergey Brin is secretly building a massive zeppelin in a NASA hangar, report says
According to the report, Alphabet has nothing to do with Brin's blimp project - though, as Vance po…
Matt Weinberger
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Google and NASA campuses sit on a hazardous waste site with contaminated soil. It's part of a toxic legacy across Silicon Valley.
That land had already been contaminated with TCE from another source, though: Before NASA took over…
Aria Bendix
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NASA's wild new plan to hunt for life on Mars would test SpaceX in ways never done before
Despite no funding in site, Gonzales is still actively pushing for the project, which he discussed …
Jessica Orwig
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LIVE: NASA Announces An Earth-Like Planet That May Have Liquid Water
The planets were discovered using the Kepler spacecraft, launched in 2009 to look for Earth-sized p…
Dina Spector
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Evidence of water on moon’s surface, but terms and conditions apply
This development comes from studying the infrared measurements taken by NASA’s moon mineralogy m…
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NASA's Newest Robot Doesn't Need Wheels To Get Around
The biggest benefit of the Super Ball is its size and weight - it has the potential to be smaller a…
Dina Spector
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Google cofounder Sergey Brin has been working on a secretive airship company for over 4 years. Here's how the billionaire plans to use the 'air yacht' to deliver humanitarian aid.
If Sergey Brin has anything to do with it, the future of humanitarian aid could come in the form of…
Avery Hartmans
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Zuckerberg Wants To Fill The Sky With 'Drones, Satellites And Lasers' To Deliver The Internet To Everyone
Facebook is working with NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab, the Ames Research Center, and Ascenta, a U.K. c…
Jim Edwards
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'This is the first time NASA has been in this situation:' NASA is forcing nearly all 17,000 of its staff to work from home after coronavirus cases appear at 2 space centers
Jim Bridenstine, the US space agency's administrator, made the announcement Tuesday evening.…
Dave Mosher
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MIT and NASA created a futuristic, ultra-flexible airplane wing that could change the way we fly
The wing is made of hundreds of small, identical pieces that contain both rigid and flexible compon…
Mark Matousek
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Google's Research Director Created This Hilarious Spoof Website
1. Lego announced the "Research Institute" kit; that sounded cool. 2. My various friends had new r…
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Scientists have solved one of Pluto's most puzzling mysteries
NASA scientists think the same process happens on Pluto. But this could only be possible if Pluto h…
Gene Kim,Jessica Orwig
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In The Heart Of Silicon Valley, A Small NASA Team Is Busy Figuring Out How Drone Traffic Should Work
Dr. Kopardekar's team wants to create an air traffic control system for drones that would keep trac…
Jillian D'Onfro
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What Next, Taking Google Blimps To Work?
The announcement could mark the end of a battle to preserve the landmark that once housed the U.S.S…
Karyne Levy
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These cancer patients saw their own deaths while tripping on shrooms - and it drastically changed their lives
Many of the initial studies into psychedelic drugs - particularly LSD - suggested that they could h…