A first-time collaboration between Australian, Chinese and Japanese scientists has allowed new high-resolution images of black holes to be produced by linking together radio telescopes.
Computing giant IBM has built a supercomputer that can operate at one petaflop 1,000 trillion floating point operations per second twice as fast as the world's previous fastest computer, IBM's Blue Gene.
Microsoft on Monday launched its WorldWide Telescope, a free Web-based program that allows Web surfers to explore galaxies, star systems and distant planets.
British scientists have created what they claim is the world's smallest transistor, measuring one atom in thickness and 10 atoms in width.
Simon Worden, director of the NASA Ames Research Centre, talks on climate change, astrobiology, Google, elections and peace.
Yes, I confess. I used the high-speed AARNet network built for academics for hours and hours for years on end to kill people in Quake.
A group of researchers have found a way to transfer the equivalent of three DVDs per second.
Experimental network excels at long-distance collaboration; researchers hope to up ante with hybrid optical packet infrastructure.
Microsoft's chairman says that despite today's outsourcing trend, the United States needs to refocus on leading in computer science -- starting at its universities.
Commentary: The strangest wireless system has become more mainstream, but may still be the last thing you need.
Commentary: The strangest wireless system has become more mainstream, but may still be the last thing you need.
While the Mt Stromlo observatory was largely destroyed by fire, millions of units of data have been salvaged thanks to a comprehensive disaster recovery plan.
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