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While the United States might be done with the Space Shuttle, the rest of the world is picking up the slack. Iranians are planning new space capsules, China is launching Martian satellites... and India wants to put a man on the moon

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A new machine lets first responders find people trapped at disaster sites by detecting individual molecules of breath, sweat, and urine that float up through the concrete. Firefighters and other first responders rushing to collapsing buildings and disaster situations will soon have a new weapon in their arsenal, replacing dogs, cameras, and robots: a series of sensors that find individual molecules of sweat and spit coming from victims trapped under concrete, locating them by their emissions. The high-tech emergency solution, which was unveiled in a research paper for the actually existing Journal of Breath Research, was created by a joint European team that reconfigured a series of commercially available detectors to hunt for unique human emanations.

The little black boxes in airplanes provide useful information after a crash has taken place. Now researchers have devised a way to use black box info from planes that do not crash--to help prevent accidents from ever happening. Some airlines already use a program that checks 88 flight parameters in the black box.

More than 50 new alien planets -- including one so-called super-Earth that could potentially support life -- have been discovered by an exoplanet-hunting telescope from the European Southern Observatory (ESO). The newfound haul of alien planets includes 16 super-Earths , which are potentially rocky worlds that are more massive than our planet. One in particular - called HD 85512 b - has captured astronomers' attention because it orbits at the edge of its star's habitable zone, suggesting conditions could be ripe to support life

Jamie Donaldson shot a 6-under 65 Saturday to pull ahead of Lee Westwood and Rory McIlroy and lead the European Masters after three rounds.

Jamie Donaldson shot a 6-under 65 Saturday to pull ahead of Lee Westwood and Rory McIlroy and lead the European Masters after three rounds.

Rory McIlroy shot a 2-under 69 Friday to share the lead after the second round of the European Masters.

The latest batch of leaked State Department cables from WikiLeaks reveals the U.S. government's deep interest in how tech giants like Apple and Oracle perform overseas.

The activity of online communities does not grow in line with the number of users, according to a model recently published in the European Physical Journal B.

CRANS-SUR-SIERRE, Switzerland (AP) -Rory McIlroy shot a 6-under 65 in the European Masters first round on Thursday to share the early lead with Martin Kaymer.

U.S. Open champion Rory McIlroy says an arm injury won't keep him out of the European Masters next week in Switzerland, and confirmed Thursday that he's dating top-ranked women's tennis player Caroline Wozniacki

This and more important news from your Fast Company editors, with updates all day. Wikileaks Outs More Diplomatic Cables . As announced by a flurry of tweets from its Twitter account, Wikileaks has released another tranche of data from its secret diplomatic cables haul

Using new satellite data, scientists have plotted exactly how the ice moves around the South Pole, shining new light on exactly how much water is going to flood into the ocean as the ice melts. Antarctica is not just a solid block of ice. It's a living, moving area, where floes slide against each other

You might be forgiven for drawing a blank at the mention of the name Zenvo, but the boutique European automaker is poised to make its existence known in a big way. The company’s ST1 supercarthe first exotic sports car designed, engineered, and built in Denmark debuted in 2008 with a ...