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HUMANOID robot hitches one-way ride to the International Space Station aboard final flight of space shuttle Discovery.
ISS trip is one giant leap for tinmankind
HUMANOID robot is hitches one-way ride to the International Space Station aboard final flight of space shuttle Discovery.
ISS trip is one giant leap for tinmankind
HUMANOID robot is hitches one-way ride to the International Space Station aboard final flight of space shuttle Discovery.
Astronauts want ship to rear-end asteroids
COUNTRIES must team up to prevent an asteroid from slamming into Earth, scientists and former astronauts say.
US tries to do away with France's kilogram
US spoilsports don't like the idea of France having Earth's only kilogram. Solution? Ban it all.
Want to see an asteroid travelling through space?
PHOTOGRAPHS taken from over 180 million kilometres away shine a new light on how an asteroid travels through space.
Want to know how to build a Mars rover?
NASA'S next rover will search for life on Mars - and now you can watch their technicians build it.
NASA flags '100-year spaceship' project
NASA official promises to deliver a spaceship that will travel to alien worlds "within a few years".
Humans take robot punches for science
SOMEWHERE in a laboratory in central Europe, six men are being beaten up by a sadistic robot.
Aussies hope to land rover on Moon, $30m
AUSSIE engineer mixes aerospace engineering and indoor volleyball in bid to land the first Australian flag on the Moon.
Father, son team up to film stratosphere
MEET the real balloon boy - he got a space flight experience without dad going to jail.
Student wings it for record-breaking flight
IT'S taken 525 years, but finally a human being has built a flying machine with flapping wings.
Scientists find key to self-healing plastic
FLAT tyres and burst balloons may be a thing of the past after material found that can heal itself.
Red rain from space may hold alien life
CELLS from India's red rain of 2001 multiply under extreme heat - and they don't contain DNA.
Sun storm to hit with 'force of 100m bombs'
AFTER 10 years of comparative slumber, the sun is waking up - and astronomers are on full alert.
Chickens aren't bird-brains after all
PRIZE-winning research finds that chickens speak their own language and could possess human-like tendencies.
Terrorists - we know what you're thinking
READING the minds of terrorists to know where and when the next attack will occur is no longer the stuff of sci-fi films.
Penile electrosurgery? Proceed with care
A GROUP of brave surgeons in Taiwan have been exploring the effects of electricity on penises.
Monkeys 'can't be trained to shoot people'
SOME good news for our Diggers in Afghanistan - you won't be fighting Taliban-trained monkeys.
Ecobot III eats, poos and leaves - slowly
MOVE over Kenny – the Brits have built a robot that could spell the end of sewage as we know it.
Scientists begin countdown to extinction
SCIENTISTS are now 99 per cent certain mass extinction events on Earth are regular as clockwork.
Invisible Gorilla returns - pay attention
THE greatest trick the gorilla ever played was convincing us he didn't exist. Has he done it again?
New plant named after vuvuzela
A NEWLY-discovered iris plant has been named after South Africa's vuvuzela as a lasting memory of the World Cup.
Spacecraft captures rare asteroid photos
NEW pictures of a massive space rock 134km in diameter could one day help protect Earth from rogue asteroid collisions.
Nanobots - now they can control your mind
US scientists use nanoparticles to remote control worms, then claim "whole animals" are next.
Scientists hope capsule contains asteroid
A JAPANESE space capsule thought to contain asteroid dust ended a multi-billion-kilometre journey into deep space and back when it arrived on Friday at a research centre outside Tokyo.
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