Reconnaissance

A secret mission came to a public end as the US Air Force’s top secret X-37B spaceplane landed at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. The unmanned reusable spacecraft touched down on the runway like a conventional aircraft this morning at 9:24 am EDT after a record-breaking 674 days in orbit.

Researchers have been able to non-invasively control the walking paths of turtles.

MIT has developed a wearable system that automatically creates a digital map of a building, as the wearer walks through that structure.

Google Earth can now compare historical WWII imagery with present day satellite images.