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IBM has launched a system designed to help cities ease parking congestion and collect more parking fees, the company announced Wednesday. The service could also help motorists find parking spaces more easily in crowded urban areas.  read more »

The Japanese earthquake may trigger shorter days, spurring changes in computer time-keeping  read more »

NASA said it is in the process of choosing its next space venture from three options. The decision will be made by mid-2011, NASA said.  read more »

NASA reported Thursday that its Kepler spacecraft has begun to search for other Earth-like planets.  read more »

Winding up a space walk in the wee hours of Tuesday morning, an astronaut and a cosmonaut installed a probe on the outside of the International Space Station to monitor electromagnetic energy.  read more »

NASA has scheduled a May 12 shuttle mission to take a computer to the Hubble telescope after a failed system left the device offline for several weeks this fall.  read more »

Using computer modeling, researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are working to boost the output and efficiency of solar cells, while lowering the cost of solar power.  read more »

After the excitement of scraping up slivers of what turned out to be ice on Mars this summer, NASA announced late Thursday that it's discovered vast glaciers hidden under rubble.  read more »

Scientists have successfully tested the first deep space communications network modelled on the Internet, claimed the American space agency, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).  read more »

Robots, already widely found on factory floors, are increasingly encroaching on the human world and a number of robots on display at the RoboDevelopment conference in Santa Clara, California, were programmed to not only entertain, but to secure homes, direct lost people to stores in malls and teach English.  read more »