Latest SciTech Videos
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Play CBS Video September 28, 2011 | 1:04 PM PDT
Unmanned travel pods launch at Heathrow Airport
On demand, unmanned, laser guided travel pods are now transporting passengers to and from the terminals at London's Heathrow Airport. CBSNews.com's Nick Dietz reports.
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Play CBS Video September 28, 2011 | 11:01 AM PDT
Amazon unveils Kindle Fire
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos announced the Kindle Fire, the company's first tablet computer, at an event in New York.
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Play CBS Video September 28, 2011 | 10:00 AM PDT
Amazon announces Kindle Touch
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos announced the Kindle Touch, the company's next generation e-reader, at an event in New York.
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Play CBS Video September 27, 2011 | 12:39 PM PDT
Southern lights spectacle from space
CBS News RAW: NASA has released a video of astonishing images taken by astronauts aboard the International Space Station of Aurora Australis lighting up the southern sky. (no audio)
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Play CBS Video September 23, 2011 | 12:51 PM PDT
Astronomer captures satellite falling to Earth
CBS News RAW: Video captured by an amateur French astronomer shows the defunct NASA UARS satellite as it falls toward Earth. (No Audio)
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Play CBS Video September 23, 2011 | 11:32 AM PDT
Okla. woman is lone victim of space debris
A satellite is falling toward Earth and is expected to make landfall sometime Friday. Chances of a person being hit by the space debris is very slim. It happened once in 1997 in Tusla, Okla.
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Play CBS Video September 22, 2011 | 1:18 PM PDT
Tropical storm unearths rare dinosaur bone
A dinosaur fossil found in Laurel, M.D. may not look like much to the untrained eye, but for archaeologists, it's a very rare find. WJZ-TV's Alex DeMetrick reports.
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Play CBS Video September 21, 2011 | 12:15 PM PDT
Google chief: "We've not cooked anything"
Eric Schmidt, Google's Executive Chairman, answers questions from Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) and defends his company's product search ranking process at a Senate Judiciary Hearing in Washington DC.
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Play CBS Video September 8, 2011 | 8:27 AM PDT
Space junk reaches "tipping point"
Half a century of space exploration has left thousands of particles orbiting the planet. Scientists say the so-called "space junk" poses a risk to future space missions and they're now considering a variety of ideas to clean it up.
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Play CBS Video August 31, 2011 | 11:01 AM PDT
Plant parasite poisoning Florida's palm trees
A plant hopping bug carrying a deadly disease is devastating Lakeland, Florida's palm trees, and as Preston Rudie reports, the city has been waging a war against just such an insect for the last five years.
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Play CBS Video August 31, 2011 | 10:51 AM PDT
Egrets overrun neighborhood, leave behind stinky mess
A Carrollton, Texas neighborhood was overrun by egrets during their annual nesting cycle, and as Carol Cavazos reports, the birds left behind a foul mess of feathers, feces, and regurgitated food.
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Play CBS Video August 31, 2011 | 11:06 AM PDT
Toxic algae endangers Okla. swimmers
Blue-Green Algae could ruin the holiday weekend for folks is headed to Oklahoma lakes. KOTV's Craig Day reports the sickening slime is making many places off-limits for swimming.
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Play CBS Video August 31, 2011 | 11:12 AM PDT
7,500 acre blaze burns through Texas
Families who live in Palo Pinto County near Possum Kingdom Lake once again have to deal with brush fires. This time a 7,500 acre blaze is leaving many residents homeless. Arazow Doost reports.
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Play CBS Video August 25, 2011 | 6:49 PM PDT
Launch of failed Russian cargo rocket
CBS News RAW: A Russian Progress M-12M cargo ship carrying supplies for the International Space Station (ISS) launches from the central Asian spaceport of Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Later, a malfunction caused the rocket's engine to shut down and sent it crashing back to Earth.
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Play CBS Video August 23, 2011 | 10:30 AM PDT
Space hotel coming in 2016
Russian company Oribital Technologies has unveiled their plan to have a hotel in space by 2016. Felipe Maya reports.
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Play CBS Video August 19, 2011 | 8:22 AM PDT
IBM chip mimics human brain
IBM unveiled its plan for the future of computing with one small chip. KPIX-TV's Kiet Do reports.
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Play CBS Video August 4, 2011 | 9:28 AM PDT
Electric car charges wirelessly by parking on pad
An electric car developed by the British company HaloIPT can charge wirelessly by parking on a specific pad that "communicates" with the car and picks up charge. Reuters TV's Jim Drury reports.
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Play CBS Video August 2, 2011 | 12:46 PM PDT
Smartphone usage dulls vision, research shows
A new study shows that habitual smartphone usage dulls vision as users generally hold their devices too close to their eyes. KENS-TV's Wendy Rigby reports.
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Play CBS Video August 1, 2011 | 11:56 AM PDT
NASA releases hi-def asteroid images
The first stunning images of an asteroid known as Vesta which is twice the size the state of California are providing new possible clues on the evolution of earth and the solar system. The images were captured by NASA's Dawn spacecraft which launched in 2007.
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Play CBS Video July 26, 2011 | 11:39 AM PDT
Study: Internet as addictive as alcohol, tobacco
A new study shows that the Internet can be as addictive as alcohol and cigarettes as deprivation may lead to feelings of unhappiness. KENS-TV's Wendy Rigby reports.
