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NASA's Dawn spacecraft, illustrated in this artist's concept, is propelled by ion engines.

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A "sun grazing" comet as caught by SOHO's LASCO C2 camera as it dived toward the sun on July 5 and July 6, 2011. SOHO is the overwhelming leader in spotting sungrazers, with over 2000 spotted to date, aided by the fact that the sun's bright light is itself blocked out by a coronograph.

In the near future, large groups of people will demand apps and devices to help manage their potentially serious conditions.

An IBM poll of 3,000 CIOs reveals that business analytics, mobility solutions and virtualization are the top three priorities for increasing their enterprise's competitiveness.

IBM's phase change memory test chip was fabricated in its 90-nanometer complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) process.

This is an artist's concept of that planet, HAT-P-7b. It is a "hot Jupiter" class planet orbiting a star that is much hotter than our sun. Hubble Space Telescope's millionth science observation was trained on this planet to look for the presence of water vapor and to study the planet's atmospheric structure via spectroscopy.

The latest satellite data of Pacific Ocean sea surface heights from the NASA/European Ocean Surface Topography Mission/Jason-2 satellite show near-normal conditions in the equatorial Pacific. The image is based on the average of 10 days of data centered on June 18, 2011. Higher (warmer) than normal sea surface heights are indicated by yellows and reds, while lower (cooler) than normal sea surface heights are depicted in blues and purples. Green indicates near-normal conditions.

Apple could be prepping for a fall release of a new iPad on top of the iPhone 5, according to a new report by Taiwanese publication DigiTimes.

Teamly CEO Scott Allison