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A Muslim teenager arrested after a Texas teacher mistook his homemade clock for a bomb won invitations to the White House, Google and Facebook on Sept.16 in a surge of public support.

President Barack Obama congratulated Ahmed Mohamed, 14, on his skills in a pointed rebuke to school and police officials -- who defended his arrest -- amid accusations of Islamophobia.    

Ahmed Mohamed, the 14-year-old high school student in Irving, Texas who was arrested in a classroom on Monday after a teacher mistook his homemade clock for a bomb, has attracted admiration from a former secretary of state, a NASA scientist and even US President Barack Obama.

The Pentagon is teaming up with Apple, Boeing, Harvard and others to develop high-tech sensory gear flexible enough to be worn by people or molded onto the outside of a jet.

The rapid development of new technologies is forcing the Pentagon to seek partnerships with the private sector rather than developing its technology itself, defense officials say.

One by one, the empty boxes in the Drake Equation are being filled in with actual numbers, and it's looking good. So good that Yuri Milner is spending $100 million of his own money over the next ten years to fund the search for non-human civilisations orbiting other stars.

July was the hottest month ever recorded on Earth, according to scientists. Their predictions are even more alarming as 2015 will most certainly be the hottest year on record.

Astronauts living at the International Space Station took their first bites of space-grown lettuce on August 10, in what scientists described as another step toward enabling human missions to Mars.

NASA provided us with a different angle of the moon, one we rarely have the opportunity to see from our planet, as a special camera fitted on a satellite shot the dark side of Earth’s ‘natural satellite’. The shots were taken on July 16, just as the moon was passing over the Pacific Ocean, NASA said.

NASA has extended a contract with Russia's space agency for $490 million to carry US astronauts to the International Space Station amid a lack of Congressional funding, the US agency said on August 5.

Astronomers hunting for another Earth have found the closest match yet, a potentially rocky planet circling its star at the same distance as our home orbits the Sun, NASA said July 23.

Astronauts from Russia, Japan and the United States July 23 docked successfully with the International Space Station under six hours after they launched, NASA television showed.