Science fiction stories routinely conjure up black holes as portals for traveling across interstellar space. In reality, scientists say that's impossible. Or is it? New research suggests it could happen.
Major search engines are starting to mine their logs of searches to perdict trends and cultural fads.
Researchers at SETI@Home, the popular distributed computing project, are set to begin sifting through the mountains of data they have collected over the last 18 months. Over 2.6 million users logged in and donated spare CPU cycles on their home computers, giving the SETI@Home project a combined computing power that is twice as powerful as the leading supercomputer.
Researchers at the University of Washington have developed the first hybrid digital and analog electronic circuit that behaves that behave in many ways like cells in the brain.
A leading physicist has devised a new quantum computer search algorithm that may make Web searches and their ten pages of useless results a thing of the past.
Microsoft researchers are working on an ambitious database project, dubbed 'SkyServer', that would make the data from a massive survey of the cosmos available to everyone. The concept is known as a 'virtual telescope' and could have democratizing effects on the field of astronomy.
Federal researchers have created the most robust quantum computer yet. The breakthrough puts the timeframe for a working quantum computer at just five years.
Researchers at Bell Labs have for the first time managed to push an astonishing 3.28 terabits, roughly three times the current global internet traffic, per second of data over a long stretch of fiber-optic cable.
The appropriations subcommittee has recommended an 11 percent cut to next year&s proposed US$13.6 billion budget for NASA, threatening the survival of several long-term projects.