Science
The term "Science" is extensive and covers a wide range of specialized topics. Science is an essential component of understanding the world around us. Children and adults alike are often fascinated by the scientific study and exploration of everything from technological advances to the countries of the world and even beyond earth - into outer space.
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NPR Topics: Space
A California company is introducing shoebox-sized do-it-yourself satellite kits that will enable students and hobbyists to conduct their own space experiments. But at $8,000 a pop, who's buying?
After 30 years, two tragedies, and 130 successful missions that seemed to make space flight almost routine, the shuttle program is coming to a close. What's next in human space flight for America is unclear.
Earlier this week, scientists released their discovery of what is the most massive star ever recorded. R136a1 once weighed almost 320 times as much as our sun, and shines with nearly 10 million times the luminosity of it. Host Scott Simon talks with Michael Shara, curator of astrophysics at the American Museum of Natural History in New York, about the discovery.
Photographing the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico from space isn't as easy as you might think. Cloud cover, water smoothness and the reflection of sunlight off the water make gathering useful satellite photos a difficult task for NASA.
NASA's WISE mission has just completed photographing the entire sky. And much like the paparazzi, it has brought failed stars to the foreground.
NPR Topics: Technology
Video blogger Dan Brown has answered a lot of questions about his Dan 3.0 project. Here are 10 more.
In "Dan 3.0," the popular video blogger will ask his Web viewers what he should do with his life. And every day for the next year they'll be able to vote on the suggestions. "I have no freaking idea," what will happen, he says.
A vice president at Amazon says the new e-reader, which will become available at the end of August, fits in a coat pocket or a relatively small purse.
The Obama administration reportedly wants to make it easier for the FBI to obtain records on individual Internet activities without first obtaining a court order when it involves terrorism or intelligence investigations.
Ivy Bean had become an online celebrity for her embrace of microblogging at such an advanced age. She had accumulated about 57,000 Twitter followers and maxed out at 5,000 friends on Facebook. Her tweets ranged from the mundane to the gossipy.
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Amazon.com, the maker of the Kindle e-reader, is introducing two new smaller, lighter versions with high-contrast screens and crisper text.
Like DVDs, electronic books for the iPad are now being loaded with extras, including video clips that are integrated with text.
Under pressure to find new revenue sources, Congress is reconsidering legalizing, and taxing, Internet gambling.
The New Meadowlands Stadium will give fans free smart-phone applications and enhanced video.
Motorola shipped 8.3 million phones in the quarter, including 2.7 million smartphones based on Android software from Google.
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