Emerging Tech

Here's what the space around Earth sounds like

One of NASA's newest missions has recorded the radio waves coming from our magnetosphere.

Emerging Tech

DHS and academic researchers build a better shoe bomb . . . detector

Northeastern University obtains $1.1 million grant to outfit CT scans with tools for recognizing explosives triggers.

Emerging Tech

Military scientists devise surveillance malware to track surroundings in 3D

Tool could hide within seemingly harmless camera app.

Emerging Tech

Snakes on a plane! That are actually laser-wielding robots!

Why tiny, wriggling machines could be the future of airplane repair

Emerging Tech

Watchdogs give multi-agency FOIA portal a thumbs up

Module could save $200 million over five years if adopted governmentwide.

Emerging Tech

Video: Clay Shirky on how the Internet will (one day) transform government

Why we should both temper -- and embrace -- our optimism about the digital world

Emerging Tech

TSA awards contract for explosives detection systems

Acquisition program has $550M revenue potential for L-3.

Cybersecurity

Toy drone duel outwits FAA, but not hackers

Stunt with store-bought robotic helicopters teaches a lesson in cybersecurity and inadequate airspace regulations.

Emerging Tech

This house consumes less net energy than an urban studio

Meet the federal government's four-bed, three-bath, two-car garage, 2,700-square foot suburban net-zero home.

Cybersecurity

Feds, Ahmadinejad security detail at UN face communication issues

Smartphone apps providing temporary secure lines of communications may solve trust and compatibility problems at future high-profile events.

Digital Government

Meet Mira, the supercomputer that makes universes

Next month, one of the world's fastest supercomputers will run the largest, most complex universe simulation ever attempted.

Emerging Tech

China will deploy drones for maritime surveillance

Notice comes amid a territorial dispute with Japan.

Emerging Tech

Space is the new frontier of the 2012 presidential campaign

A Romney presidency, the candidate says, would "rebuild NASA" without more funding.

Digital Government

China's first aircraft carrier won't carry aircraft yet

The carrier has been in sea trials since last August, and in the near future will be used mostly for research and training.

Emerging Tech

Law enforcement UAV wanted in Fort Jackson, S.C.

Tender comes as drones have been cleared in U.S. skies.

Emerging Tech

Lawmakers offer Internet radio legislation

Bill would require the same standard for setting rates for paying performers as it does for satellite and radio.

Digital Government

Video: NASA satellites capture the ground impact of droughts, from 2002 to today

Ten years' worth of Earth's wetness and aridity, as observed from space