NASA

NASA invested in a company that's developing a 3D printer for pizza.

5 | May 21, 2013 1:03pm | By Tyler Falk

For many corporate leaders, it's counter-intuitive to let employees go off and be free-thinkers on company time. Ultimately it may pay off.

7 | May 20, 2013 2:43pm | By Joe McKendrick

The same machine that analyzes those cloth swatches that TSA agents wipe against your carry-on could now be retrofitted to detect black powder explosives.

May 8, 2013 2:00pm | By Janet Fang

The helium is gone! And now the world's largest, most powerful infrared telescope ever flown will be propelled to an orbit around the sun, where it will remain indefinitely.

May 2, 2013 10:15am | By Janet Fang

It took the Curiosity eight months to get to the Red Planet. The Fusion Driven Rocket could slash journey time and open up space travel.

11 | April 12, 2013 3:51am | By Mark Halper

By pulling the wheels, instead of pushing them forward, wheelchair users can prevent damage to their shoulders and save hundreds of thousands of strokes per year.

13 | April 11, 2013 10:33pm | By Janet Fang

A grant to bring an asteroid into orbit will be one of NASA's future goals.

14 | April 9, 2013 5:53am | By Charlie Osborne

James Hansen has been campaigning against global warming for decades. He retired as boss of NASA's Goddard Institute of Space Studies this week, giving lift-off to his latest call for nuclear.

20 | April 5, 2013 3:41am | By Mark Halper

A French architecture firm has designed an aquatic farm in the Indian Ocean to help absorb excess carbon dioxide.

12 | April 4, 2013 1:36pm | By Janet Fang

Planning on working every muscle group? What if your clothing could tell you where to focus on next?

April 4, 2013 12:11am | By Charlie Osborne

Woods Hole will incorporate innovations from the Deepsea Challenger into existing vehicles and future exploration platforms. The main goal "is to get the technology out there."

March 26, 2013 1:58pm | By Janet Fang

As we mark World Water Day, it's time to get smarter about water usage.

Sponsored | March 22, 2013 8:05am | By Peter Williams

As SmartPlanet has long noted, there are better, safer ways to harness atoms than how the nuclear industry has gone about it for decades. Must be true, because now the paper of record says so.

8 | March 18, 2013 6:14am | By Mark Halper

SkyTran is about as close to flying cars as we'll get, and it could be coming to Tel Aviv.

3 | March 14, 2013 4:00am | By Tyler Falk

Japan made a major breakthrough in the production of a new energy source that has implications for the energy-poor country and the rest of the world.

5 | March 13, 2013 4:00am | By Tyler Falk

One of the proposed solutions involves using astronaut waste as a radiation shield.

5 | March 6, 2013 3:28pm | By Janet Fang

Grandma's next cane might rival the high tech gadgetry of your smartphone (and her robot will be way cooler).

1 | February 28, 2013 9:41pm | By David Worthington

You smartphone could soon determine how healthy you are by analyzing your liquid output.

February 27, 2013 8:49pm | By David Worthington

For Dennis Tito, being the first private citizen in space isn't enough -- Mars is next on his calendar.

2 | February 22, 2013 6:23am | By Charlie Osborne

"The Morning Briefing" is SmartPlanet's daily roundup of must-reads from the web. This morning we're reading about space and satellites.

February 20, 2013 1:05am | By Charlie Osborne