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EADS Astrium plans a variant of its space station truck, the ATV, that could fly European astronauts.

Hewlett-Packard buys information technology provider EDS for $12.6bn in a bid to take on rival IBM.

Microsoft launches a free tool that allows amateur star-gazers to explore the universe from their computers.

The search giant Google is the latest company to launch a service aimed at making the web more social.

A robot which cares for millions of frozen biological samples is among four finalists for a top engineering award.