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5/22/2013 Mechanical Breakdowns can't HyDE
5/21/2013 Ultimate Weapon in Ear Bud Wars
5/20/2013 Taking the 'Search' Out of Search and Rescue
5/17/2013 Can Semiconductors Be Grown?
5/16/2013 Algae Lamps Absorb Carbon Dioxide
5/15/2013 Futuristic Healing Gel
5/14/2013 How to Build a Better Bot for Mars
5/13/2013 GPS Backup that Fits on a Penny
5/10/2013 Fishing for Innovation
5/9/2013 Fused Reality:Blending Reality and Simulation
5/8/2013 New Spy Tech Keeps Satellites From Colliding
5/7/2013 Navigating by Cosmic Beacon
5/6/2013 Bouncing Camera Sees Danger
5/3/2013 Locating Flawed Materials By Their Heat
5/2/2013 Drifting Fish Farm
5/1/2013 Where's the Leak?
4/30/2013 Hospital Robots Have Mars Rover Roots
4/29/2013 Space Underwear You Can Wear
4/26/2013 The Wireless Heart Monitoring Shirt
4/25/2013 NASA Finds Itself Inside Your Video Games
4/24/2013 Live 3-D Ultrasound From Inside a Beating Heart
4/23/2013 Wanted: Radios That Dissolve into VAPR
4/22/2013 Searching for Cures on the ISS
4/19/2013 From Deep Space to Deep in the Heart of Texas
4/18/2013 Wireless Sensors Pinpoint Vibration Troubles
4/17/2013 Speech Recognition Interfaces Improve Flight Safety
4/16/2013 NASA-Derived Detectors Ensure Safer Wiring
4/15/2013 NASA's Danger Twins Uncover New Surprise
4/12/2013 Health Drinks Made with NASA Know-How
4/11/2013 The Power of Solar Electricity, Magnified
4/10/2013 From Up in the Sky - To Inside an MRI
4/9/2013 Reading the Social Soundtrack
4/8/2013 Bug Technology Comes of Age
4/5/2013 Lightweight Trauma Module
4/4/2013 NASA's Green Anti-Icing Formulas
4/3/2013 The Human Brain Project
4/2/2013 Catching a Gravity Wave
4/1/2013 The Hardest Working Mineral
3/29/2013 Snail Teeth, Solar Cells and Batteries
3/28/2013 Sky-Scraper Buildings that Scrape Pollution Out of the Air
3/27/2013 Space Trash May Make Radiation Shields
3/26/2013 Foiling Forgeries with Fluorescence
3/25/2013 RASSOR the Lunar Mining Robot
3/22/2013 What's in Your Drink May Make it Smarter
3/21/2013 New Supergel Has Strange Biological Properties
3/20/2013 This Snowflake Camera Catches Them in Mid-Air
3/19/2013 Robotic Explorers May Usher in Lunar Water Rush
3/18/2013 USB Drive Made of Paper
3/15/2013 The Hundred-Million-Year Old CD-ROM
3/14/2013 Buildings That Breathe
3/13/2013 A Thousand-Needle Injection that Doesn't Hurt
3/12/2013 Lens-less Camera May Reduce Car Crashes
3/11/2013 Kepler Space Telescope
3/8/2013 A Dirty Story about Hydrophobic Coatings
3/7/2013 Warm-White LED Lights
3/6/2013 DISCOVER-AQ
3/5/2013 A Mystery in Titan's Craters
3/4/2013 MIT Developing Self-Healing Materials
3/1/2013 Embracing Boredom
2/28/2013 Smart SPHERES
2/27/2013 Goldilocks Principle of Noise
2/26/2013 Inflatable Room for the Space Station
2/25/2013 Anti-Concussion Helmet Technology
2/22/2013 Planet Four Needs Your Help
2/20/2013 The Mouse-less Mouse
2/19/2013 Green Propellant Infusion Mission
2/18/2013 Moona Lisa Hacks Moon Probe
2/15/2013 Brain Control of Prosthetic Limbs
2/14/2013 Z-1 Spacesuit for the Future Astronaut
2/13/2013 Cyborg Roaches as First Responders
2/12/2013 Light Gets Smaller- Potential Get Bigger
2/11/2013 Fermi Telescope Discovers the Connection
2/8/2013 Red Wine Rover, Come on Over
2/7/2013 DARPA Robotics Challenge
2/6/2013 Putting the Spin in Spinoff
2/5/2013 Super charged Solar Cells
2/4/2013 A New Player in the Flu Vaccine Races
2/1/2013 See-through Soil Reveals Root Development
1/31/2013 Plasma Beams Seem Effective Against Leukemia
1/30/2013 What Penguins Know About Fluid Dynamics
1/29/2013 Time-Reversed Radio Waves
1/28/2013 Sensing Magnetic Lines at the Edge of Infinity
1/25/2013 NASA Innovator of the Year and Her Hunt For Amino Acids
1/24/2013 Little Satellites Win a Big Award
1/23/2013 How Eye Tracking Will Change Your Life
1/22/2013 Microfilm Projector Improves Literacy in Africa
1/21/2013 Game-Changing Computers Go Analog
1/18/2013 Graphene: When Carbon Becomes a Super-Sensor
1/17/2013 Getting Drone Aircraft to Talk Back To You
1/16/2013 Camilla the Space Chicken
1/15/2013 FASTSAT: The Space Hitchhiker
1/14/2013 Flexible Solar-Cell Fabrics
1/11/2013 From Armstrong's Footprints to Tomorrow's Weather Report
1/10/2013 An ATM in Your Pocket
1/9/2013 A Sunny 17 Years of Success for SOHO
1/8/2013 Ghost Implants
1/7/2013 Dodgeball with Pluto's New Moons
1/4/2013 Self-Heating Chickens
1/3/2013 Going Deeper for the Next Space Station
1/2/2013 Relatable Robots
12/31/2012 Solar Roadways
12/28/2012 Modular Cast
12/27/2012 Paintballs Could Save the Earth From Asteroids
12/26/2012 What Your Video Games Have In Common With Super Computers
12/25/2012 Will London’s Next Airport Rule the Waves?
12/24/2012 Tooth-Mounted Hearing Aid
12/21/2012 Lab on a Chip Has Multiple Uses
12/20/2012 Wind Power Without the Tower
12/19/2012 Space Station Paves the Way to Mars
12/18/2012 Waterbox For Plants in a Desert
12/17/2012 Kepler's Open House Lets You Hunt for New Planets
12/14/2012 Getting to the Bottom of Future Sanitation
12/13/2012 NASA's Head of the Class
12/12/2012 Ten Dollar Robots
12/11/2012 Inflatable Tunnel Plugs
12/10/2012 2013 Sample Return Robot Challenge Announced
12/7/2012 21st Century Parachute
12/6/2012 Heart Implants Without Batteries
12/5/2012 X-1 Exoskeleton
12/4/2012 Experts Put the Speed in Speedo Swimsuits
12/3/2012 The Danger Twins
11/30/2012 Inflatable Satellites
11/29/2012 Tooth Tattoos Detect Sickness
11/28/2012 Shining a Light on Dark Matter
11/27/2012 Folding Car Goes Into Production
11/26/2012 Transformer Apartment Folds and Changes
11/23/2012 Curiosity's Martian Arm Points to Spin-Offs on Earth
11/22/2012 When Your Car Becomes a Back-Seat Driver
11/21/2012 How Green Is Your Rocket Fuel?
11/20/2012 Smart Wings
11/19/2012 Open Source Airplanes for the Masses
11/16/2012 The First 100 Feet are the Hardest
11/15/2012 The Saltiest Sea
11/14/2012 Spider-Fab Robot
11/13/2012 Quantum Teleportation Comes a Step Closer To Practicality
11/12/2012 If Heat Shields Could Talk
11/9/2012 High-Temp Superconductors Controlled by Light
11/8/2012 Water Quality App
11/7/2012 The River Maker
11/6/2012 Operation Icebridge
11/5/2012 Making Your Building More Like a Spaceship
11/2/2012 Hydrogel Breakthrough
11/1/2012 Missile Seeking Cameras and the NBA
10/31/2012 Smile Scanner
10/30/2012 Print Your Own Spacecraft
10/29/2012 Disease Detecting Breathalyzer
10/26/2012 Jellybots
10/25/2012 iFloor?
10/24/2012 The Math and Science of Hair
10/23/2012 Astronaut Toothpaste
10/22/2012 Exit Signs Go Green
10/19/2012 No Wires, No Problem
10/18/2012 A New Class of Safety Belts
10/17/2012 Space Weather Forecast
10/16/2012 Power from Wasted Heat
10/15/2012 New Cameras Go the Distance
10/12/2012 Paper Power
10/11/2012 Diseases Spotted from Space
10/10/2012 Light Up Wi-Fi
10/9/2012 Glowing Bacteria Sensors
10/8/2012 Super Slow Motion
10/5/2012 Bio-mining Bacteria
10/4/2012 Itty-bitty Bubbles
10/3/2012 Mental Gymnasium
10/2/2012 A Screenless Touch Screen?
10/1/2012 New Firefighting Technology Blasts Off
9/28/2012 Heat Shield Coating Protects More than Spacecraft
9/27/2012 An Innovative Spin on Power Storage
9/26/2012 Software to Speed Up Your Flight
9/25/2012 Interactive Touch Controls Everywhere
9/24/2012 Future-Proofing Vatican Archives
9/21/2012 Space Research Feeds More Than Your Mind
9/20/2012 Atomic Antiseptic Restores Paintings
9/19/2012 Future Aircraft Shape Up
9/18/2012 Quantum Dots Could Lead to Solar Paint
9/17/2012 The Smell of Earthquakes
9/14/2012 Fabric Technology Has You Covered
9/13/2012 Big Rigs Get a Boost with Space Technology
9/12/2012 Wing Tips Save Billions in Fuel Cost
9/11/2012 An Easy Way to Get NASA Tech
9/10/2012 Magnetic Sensors Warn of Car Crashes
9/7/2012 Reinforced Foam Core Adds Strength
9/6/2012 Space Technology Transforms Hairstyling
9/5/2012 A Riveting Aircraft Innovation
9/4/2012 Quick Access to Data Saves Lives
8/31/2012 Working to Develop Practical Hydrogen Fuel
8/30/2012 X-ray Lasers from a Tabletop Device
8/29/2012 Prospecting for Lunar Resources
8/28/2012 Tooth Tattoo Detects Harmful Bacteria
8/27/2012 Edible Food Wrappers
8/24/2012 Aerogels are In
8/23/2012 Biological Machinery
8/22/2012 The Tiny House Movement
8/21/2012 Dark Matter is Coming to Light
8/20/2012 Compact Methanol Fuel Cell Runs Clean and Quiet
8/17/2012 Cubesats
8/16/2012 Clot-busting Technology
8/15/2012 Water and Air Displays
8/14/2012 Lasers Help Find Possible Lost City
8/13/2012 Fly Like a Bird
8/10/2012 Smarter Shopping Carts
8/9/2012 LED-Based Lighting Treatment for Wound Healing
8/8/2012 One-Stop Shop for NASA Technologies
8/7/2012 Water-safe Coating for Electronic Devices
8/6/2012 Automated Construction of Moon Bases
8/3/2012 Improving Brain Health with Math
8/2/2012 Going to Mars with a Bang
8/1/2012 YouTube Spacelab
7/31/2012 Technology to Explore Moon Caves
7/30/2012 Mosquito Flying Lessons
7/27/2012 Missile Seeking Cameras are Remaking the NBA
7/26/2012 Cubesat Docking for Longer Missions
7/25/2012 Farmers Market Re-imagined
7/24/2012 Astronaut Vision
7/23/2012 Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer
7/20/2012 Building 45 Payloads for Balloons
7/19/2012 Smile Detector
7/18/2012 Mars Tumbleweeds
7/17/2012 Ceilingless Clean Room
7/16/2012 Emerging Optics Technology to Fly on Microsatellite
7/13/2012 Zapping Deadly Bacteria Using Space Technology
7/12/2012 Magnetic Gliding Pods
7/11/2012 3D Monument Models Using UAVs
7/10/2012 Smart Ink
7/9/2012 Tiny Planet-Finding Mirrors
7/6/2012 Folding Cars
7/5/2012 HIAD Mission Infusion
7/3/2012 A New Spin on Manufacturing Spacecraft
7/2/2012 YouTube Spacelab
6/29/2012 Hi Tech Blanket
6/28/2012 No More Bottlenecks at the Lunch Table
6/27/2012 Touch Photography
6/26/2012 Printable Spacecraft
6/25/2012 Silicene
6/22/2012 The Rise of Online Education
6/21/2012 Disease Diagnostics Breathalyzer
6/20/2012 Cellphone Radar
6/19/2012 V2 Suit
6/18/2012 Seeing Through the Fog
6/15/2012 Inflatable Robots
6/14/2012 Nanosponge Could Fix Oil Spills
6/13/2012 The Perfect Glass?
6/12/2012 VAB Gets New Life After Space Shuttles
6/11/2012 Surgical Light Saber
6/8/2012 Go and Get It NASA's Next Challenge
6/7/2012 SPS-ALPHA (Beaming Down the Power)
6/6/2012 Nano-soccer
6/5/2012 Winglets
6/4/2012 Urban OS
6/1/2012 Using the Moon as a Mirror
5/31/2012 Smart Transformers
5/30/2012 The Lowdown on New Urban Parks
5/29/2012 Gestural Control, Without the Green Suit
5/25/2012 Breathing Batteries Add Range to Electric Cars
5/24/2012 Unlocking the Puzzle of Genetics
5/23/2012 Smart Sand and Robot Pebbles
5/22/2012 A Future Tech That Could Floor You
5/21/2012 Deep Space Atomic Clock
5/18/2012 Kidney Stones Rolled Away by Ultrasound
5/16/2012 Emergency Responders REACT with Confidence
5/15/2012 Virtual Reality Contact Lens
5/14/2012 The Biggest Ear(Square Kilometer Array)
5/11/2012 Fishing with Satellites
5/10/2012 ChemScan Knows What's in Your Water
5/9/2012 Atomic Teabag
5/8/2012 A Picture of Innovation
5/7/2012 What Butterflies Know About Thermal Vision
5/4/2012 Flying Cars at Last
5/3/2012 Miniature Space Medicine Chest
5/2/2012 Looking for Clean Ideas on Waste
5/1/2012 Google Glasses
4/30/2012 A Map of the Entire Infrared Sky
4/27/2012 A Robotic Handyman Gets to Work in Space
4/26/2012 Rapunzel Number Helps Scientists Quantify Ponytails
4/25/2012 Electron Microscope Improvement is the Biggest Thing in Years
4/24/2012 HIAD-Changing the Way We Explore
4/23/2012 Liquid Metal Alloy
4/20/2012 No Ice Please
4/19/2012 Space Toothpaste
4/18/2012 Robot Food Coach
4/17/2012 Everybody Gets Their Turn
4/16/2012 Hyperspectral Imaging
4/13/2012 Sailboat Racing Computer
4/12/2012 A Brighter Choice for Safety
4/11/2012 Cooler Car Air Conditioning in a Can
4/10/2012 The Rebar Doctors
4/9/2012 The Navy's Robot Firefighters
4/6/2012 Lifeshears Cut Through Emergencies
4/5/2012 More Power To You
4/4/2012 Atomic Innovation for Artwork
4/3/2012 End of the Wire
4/2/2012 Robo-Glove
3/30/2012 What Airplane Designers and Chefs Have in Common
3/29/2012 A Fire-Fighting Nozzle with the Power of a Rocket
3/28/2012 Inflatable Safety Belts
3/27/2012 Biofeedback Monitors Track Fitness and Safety
3/26/2012 World Wind Tools Reveal Environmental Change
3/23/2012 Crab-like Robot to Remove Stomach Cancer
3/22/2012 Safe Pressure Coupling Makes the Connection
3/21/2012 From Spaceships to Barbeque Pits
3/20/2012 Tooling Techniques Enhance Medical Imaging
3/19/2012 Cryoscope Gives You a Feel for the Weather
3/16/2012 Weather Forecasting Goes Beyond Hot
3/15/2012 Flying at the Speed of Trees
3/14/2012 New Thermoelectrics are Hot Stuff
3/13/2012 Protein Innovations Advance Drug Treatments
3/12/2012 Cafeteria Psychology
3/9/2012 Flywheels Put a New Spin on Power Storage
3/8/2012 Robot Hummingbird
3/7/2012 Software Framework Connects the Dots
3/6/2012 Magnetic Soap
3/5/2012 Your Plane May Know a Shortcut
3/2/2012 Small Business Gains Fans with NASA Tech
3/1/2012 Touch Sensors Everywhere
2/29/2012 Tough Textiles Protect More Than Spacecraft
2/28/2012 The First 1800 Years are the Hardest
2/27/2012 Robot Tails
2/24/2012 Paper-powered Batteries Turn Junk Mail to Joules
2/23/2012 From Cockpits to Operating Rooms
2/22/2012 Building a Better Mosquito to Fight Malaria
2/21/2012 A Formula for More Nutritious Baby Food
2/17/2012 Spotting Diseases from Space
2/16/2012 Fantastic Voyager Propelled by MRI
2/15/2012 The Shape of Future Jetliners
2/14/2012 Flickering Lights for Wi-Fi
2/13/2012 Bacteria Light the Way to New Sensors
2/10/2012 Rocket Alloy
2/9/2012 Paint-on Solar Cells
2/8/2012 HIAD
2/7/2012 Self-healing Electronics
2/6/2012 Whispers of Sonic Booms
2/3/2012 Trillion-frame Camera
2/2/2012 University Students Tackle Space Junk
2/1/2012 Shooting Down Space Debris With Air
1/31/2012 Mining With Bacteria
1/30/2012 Rockets with the Muscle for Mars
1/27/2012 Ozone and Earthquakes
1/26/2012 NEO Flex Missions
1/25/2012 Micro Rover Powered by Bacteria
1/24/2012 Antibacterial Floors
1/23/2012 Tiny Bubbles
1/20/2012 Hop Around the Comet
1/19/2012 Wave Gliders Spanning the Ocean
1/18/2012 Lunar Settlement Concepts Competition
1/17/2012 Recharging Devices by Walking Around
1/13/2012 Automated Construction of Moon Bases
1/12/2012 From Spacesuits to Stadium Domes
1/11/2012 Students Working on Mars (RASC-AL)
1/10/2012 Building Spacecraft Out of Nothing
1/9/2012 Smart Crowds are Living Sensors
1/6/2012 Apollo Life Rafts Still Saving Lives
1/5/2012 Alternatives to Antibiotics
1/4/2012 Tractor Beams
1/3/2012 Thermoelectric Cooling
12/30/2011 BLAST (Bonding with Laser Ablative Surface Technique)
12/29/2011 Turning Down the Volume on Radio Interference
12/28/2011 ResQPod
12/27/2011 Supertrucks
12/22/2011 Gyms for Your Brain
12/21/2011 Sunblock Suits from Space
12/20/2011 High Performance Batteries Charging Ahead
12/19/2011 CAFE Green Flight Challenge
12/16/2011 Mind Controlled Prosthetics
12/15/2011 Robots Save Soldiers Lives
12/14/2011 Magnetic Crash Sensors
12/13/2011 Super Strong Foam Core
12/12/2011 Nanomaterials Transform Hairstyling Tools
12/9/2011 Focus After the Fact
12/8/2011 OmniTouch Projected Touch Screen
12/7/2011 Next Generation Satellite
12/6/2011 Microwave Radiometer Breakthrough
12/5/2011 What's cooking...in Solar Cell Research
12/2/2011 A Lab in the Palm of Your Hand
12/1/2011 New Year, New Discoveries (GRAIL)
11/30/2011 Laser Wind Monitoring
11/29/2011 In-Space Solar Sail Demo
11/28/2011 Google's Garage Workshops
11/23/2011 Sustainability Base
11/22/2011 Hybrid Capacitors
11/21/2011 Darker Than Black Metamaterial
11/18/2011 Wearable Antennae for Rescue
11/17/2011 Driverless Car
11/16/2011 Laser Communications Relay Demo Mission
11/15/2011 Cell Phone Chemical Sensor
11/14/2011 Intelligent Structures
11/11/2011 Laser Guide Pod Cars
11/10/2011 Deep Space Atomic Clock
11/9/2011 Collaborative Online Game Advances Science
11/8/2011 Star-mapping Algorithm Spots Endangered Animals
11/7/2011 Nanotechnology Biosensor
11/4/2011 Google Art Project
11/3/2011 Clean Space Clothes
11/2/2011 Little WINCs for Ultra-Small Satellites
11/1/2011 Space Tires That Never Go Flat
10/31/2011 Shaking Up Osteoporosis
10/28/2011 Smart Helicopter Blades
10/27/2011 From Space to the Farm
10/26/2011 EHD Heat Pump
10/25/2011 Power Beaming Challenge
10/24/2011 Gravity Probe B
10/21/2011 Sample Return Centennial Challenge
10/20/2011 X-Flex Blast Protection
10/19/2011 Nano-Sat Centennial Challenge
10/18/2011 Artificial Energy Leaves
10/17/2011 Night Rover Challenge
10/14/2011 NeoNurture Incubator
10/13/2011 NASA Centennial Challenges
10/12/2011 Parachutes for Entire Aircraft
10/11/2011 Aerogel Insulation
10/10/2011 Battery Powered Eyeglasses
10/7/2011 MEMs Deformable Mirrors
10/6/2011 Repair Patches for Racecars
10/5/2011 Heads Up Sport Goggles
10/4/2011 Hi-Tech Tool
10/3/2011 Power Aware Cord
9/30/2011 Sensors With No Electrical Connections
9/29/2011 NASA Tech Helps Treat Cancer
9/28/2011 Transition Airplane
9/27/2011 Advanced Math in the Airport
9/26/2011 ArterioVision
9/23/2011 Highway Safety Grooving
9/22/2011 The (Almost) Waterless Washing Machine
9/21/2011 Lifeguard Robot
9/20/2011 Steering Clear of Choppy Air
9/19/2011 Bloom Energy
9/16/2011 Housecalls for Plants
9/15/2011 Bionic Legs
9/14/2011 Airplane Feathers
9/13/2011 Straddle Bus
9/12/2011 Advanced Plastic Touches the Heart
9/9/2011 Body Powered Devices
9/8/2011 Eagle Eyes
9/7/2011 Mosquito Laser
9/6/2011 Inflatable SatCom Systems
9/2/2011 Insulating Paint
9/1/2011 ArterioVision
1/1/0001 The Sunjammer Project
1/1/0001 Slingshot Drones