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Forget Flying Cars. Google's Brin Secretly Builds An Airship
Larry Page has his flying cars. Sergey Brin shall have an airship. Brin, the Google co-founder, has secretly been building a massive airship inside of Hangar 2 at the NASA Ames Research Center, according to four people with knowledge of the project. It's unclear whether the craft, which looks like a zeppelin, is a hobby or something Brin hopes to t...
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Scientists Captured Incredible Photographic Proof Of A Landslide On A Comet
It was 3 a.m., and astronomer Maurizio Pajola had been up for hours looking through images taken by the Rosetta spacecraft of its dumpy, duck-shaped comet. Pajola had just started a new job studying Mars' moon Phobos at NASA's Ames Research Center. The only time he could continue this work on the Rosetta mission was the middle of the night.
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Why Scheduling Naps Is One Of NASA's Most Important Jobs
Russian astronaut Vasily Tsibliyev hadn't had a good night's sleep for 12 days. He was being kept awake on purpose, as part of a study about sleeping on board the space station Mir. On the 13th day, June 25, 1997, he was assigned to guide a cargo ship to dock with the space station. But the ship came in too fast, crashing into Mir and knocking out ...
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Science's 'Breakthrough' Winners Earn Over $21 Million in Prizes
Academia just turned a little more glitzy for a select group of scientists.
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NASA Completes Heat Shield Testing for Future Mars Vehicles
NASA has successfully completed key heat shield tests for the future exploration spacecrafts that will scout the Red Planet for signs of life.
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NASA Probe Finds Second Mountain Range in Pluto's 'Heart'
The New Horizons probe has found a second mountain range situated between bright, icy plains and dark, heavily-cratered terrain on the lower-left edge of Pluto.
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Heart-Shaped Feature Viewed on Pluto's Surface
A heart-shaped feature was viewed on Pluto's surface in the most detailed photo yet returned by NASA's New Horizons probe, which has now begun its final run of its historic flyby of the planet.
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Google Starts Quantum Computing Research Project
The Quantum Artificial Intelligence Lab is a collaboration between Google, NASA Ames Research Center and the Universities Space Research Association (USRA) to study the application of quantum optimization related to artificial intelligence.
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Google to manage Moffett Federal Airfield, including Nasa's Hangar One
The airfield, which was built in the 1930s, has been managed by Nasa's Ames Research Center for the past 23 years.
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Google executives' planes saved millions by buying fuel at below-market rates
Google executives Larry Page, Sergey Brin and Eric Schmidt improperly bought fuel from the government at below-market rates, for a savings of up to $5.3 million according to a report released by the NASA.
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Forget Flying Cars. Google's Brin Secretly Builds An Airship
Larry Page has his flying cars. Sergey Brin shall have an airship. Brin, the Google co-founder, has secretly been building a massive airship inside of Hangar 2 at the NASA Ames Research Center, according to four people with knowledge of the project. It's unclear whether the craft, which looks like a zeppelin, is a hobby or something Brin hopes to t...
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Scientists Captured Incredible Photographic Proof Of A Landslide On A Comet
It was 3 a.m., and astronomer Maurizio Pajola had been up for hours looking through images taken by the Rosetta spacecraft of its dumpy, duck-shaped comet. Pajola had just started a new job studying Mars' moon Phobos at NASA's Ames Research Center. The only time he could continue this work on the Rosetta mission was the middle of the night.
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Why Scheduling Naps Is One Of NASA's Most Important Jobs
Russian astronaut Vasily Tsibliyev hadn't had a good night's sleep for 12 days. He was being kept awake on purpose, as part of a study about sleeping on board the space station Mir. On the 13th day, June 25, 1997, he was assigned to guide a cargo ship to dock with the space station. But the ship came in too fast, crashing into Mir and knocking out ...
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Science's 'Breakthrough' Winners Earn Over $21 Million in Prizes
Academia just turned a little more glitzy for a select group of scientists.
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NASA Completes Heat Shield Testing for Future Mars Vehicles
NASA has successfully completed key heat shield tests for the future exploration spacecrafts that will scout the Red Planet for signs of life.
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NASA Probe Finds Second Mountain Range in Pluto's 'Heart'
The New Horizons probe has found a second mountain range situated between bright, icy plains and dark, heavily-cratered terrain on the lower-left edge of Pluto.
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Heart-Shaped Feature Viewed on Pluto's Surface
A heart-shaped feature was viewed on Pluto's surface in the most detailed photo yet returned by NASA's New Horizons probe, which has now begun its final run of its historic flyby of the planet.
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Google Starts Quantum Computing Research Project
The Quantum Artificial Intelligence Lab is a collaboration between Google, NASA Ames Research Center and the Universities Space Research Association (USRA) to study the application of quantum optimization related to artificial intelligence.
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Google to manage Moffett Federal Airfield, including Nasa's Hangar One
The airfield, which was built in the 1930s, has been managed by Nasa's Ames Research Center for the past 23 years.
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Google executives' planes saved millions by buying fuel at below-market rates
Google executives Larry Page, Sergey Brin and Eric Schmidt improperly bought fuel from the government at below-market rates, for a savings of up to $5.3 million according to a report released by the NASA.
