Research

This ancient quasar may be the remains of the first-gen star that started us all

Ah, so now we know who to blame for all of this

Science09 Nov 2022 | 58

Millennials, Gen Z actually suck at workplace security

OK, boomer – how do I turn off cookies?

CSO19 Oct 2022 | 76

Collapsed Arecibo telescope to be replaced by school

Space scientists lament loss, say it won't be the same without actual working instruments

Science17 Oct 2022 | 40

Water pipes hold flood of untapped electricity potential

1.41GW, in fact – enough to power around one million homes

Science13 Oct 2022 | 100

Boffins rejoice: US Energy Department's research network gets a 400G upgrade

Because 100G was so 2011

Networks12 Oct 2022 | 2

No, no, hear us out, say boffins: Foot fungus to measure your walk

Posture, posture, posture, posture, posture, posture, mushroom, mushroom

Science10 Oct 2022 | 27

Apropos of nothing, US intel wants to improve low-dose radiation detection

IARPA unleashes TEI-REX to better track nuclear sources

Science30 Sep 2022 | 7

China spins up giant battery built with US-patented tech

World's largest VRFB was built with inadvertent help from the Department of Energy

Science30 Sep 2022 | 64

Scientists, why not simply invent a working fusion plant using $50m from Uncle Sam

You even have until the end of the 2030s to get it done

Science29 Sep 2022 | 97

Wind, solar fulfill 10% of global electricity demand for first time

Curb your enthusiasm – coal-fired power went up too

Science29 Sep 2022 | 54

Uncle Sam to unmask anonymous writers using AI

Along with revealing authors, IARPA also wants bot to disguise scribes

AI + ML28 Sep 2022 | 50

White House puts $50m into floating wind turbine projects

Government wants access to the 60% of offshore wind potential stuck in deep waters

Science16 Sep 2022 | 46

Testing of Starlink internet under way in Antarctica

Bandwidth-starved researchers rejoice

Networks15 Sep 2022 | 12

Government buyers take 22 months on average to procure tech

Teams too big, operate in silos, lack subject matter experts and C-suite exec buy-in

On-Prem06 Sep 2022 | 32

Network congestion algorithms have design flaw, says MIT

In the battle between bandwidth, latency, and starvation, we'll always be choosing two

Networks22 Aug 2022 | 22

Scientists use supercritical carbon dioxide to power the grid

Sandia has been working on the project for more than a decade – now comes scaling

Science19 Aug 2022 | 140

Modeling software spins up plans for floating wind turbines

Saaaaandia, where the wind comes sweeping 'cross the sea …

Science17 Aug 2022 | 38

Scientists unveil a physics-defying curved space robot

It can move without anything to push off from, but only via curved spacetime

Science11 Aug 2022 | 53

Report slams UK plan to become 'science superpower' by 2030

Lords cite 'frequent' policy changes, lack of metrics, post-Brexit funding as top issues

Science09 Aug 2022 | 103

Pull jet fuel from thin air? We can do that, say scientists

Vid Thanks, we'll take any good news, large or small, right now

Science04 Aug 2022 | 206

Anti-piracy messaging may just encourage more piracy

Behavioral economics study suggests rights holders don't understand psychology

Bootnotes02 Aug 2022 | 88

MIT, Autodesk develop AI that can figure out confusing Lego instructions

But can MEPNet make sense of that Ikea manual too?

AI + ML27 Jul 2022 | 22

Here's one way past Moore's law: Chips that mix photonics and electronics

Boffins see promise in optoelectronic accelerators running faster with less energy than traditional components

Systems13 Jul 2022 | 14

More and more CS students are interested in AI – and there aren't enough lecturers

Brain drain of researchers flocking to industry is not the real problem here, report suggests

AI + ML07 Jul 2022 | 18

Mega's unbreakable encryption proves to be anything but

Boffins devise five attacks to expose private files

Research22 Jun 2022 | 39

A miserable work week spent toiling inside 'the metaverse'

Nausea, eye strain, inability to take notes, migraines are just a few of Metaverse work 'perks'

Offbeat22 Jun 2022 | 68

AWS buys before it tries with quantum networking center

Fundamental problems of qubit physics aside, the cloud giant thinks it can help

Science22 Jun 2022 | 5

Drone ship carrying yet more drones launches in China

Zhuhai Cloud will carry 50 flying and diving machines it can control with minimal human assistance

Bootnotes29 May 2022 | 29

World’s smallest remote-controlled robots are smaller than a flea

Video So small, you can't feel it crawl

Science27 May 2022 | 34

US won’t prosecute ‘good faith’ security researchers under CFAA

Well, that clears things up? Maybe not

Security20 May 2022 | 37

MIT's thin plastic speakers fall flat. And that's by design

Video The walls are alive with the sound of music

Science29 Apr 2022 | 35

Take this $15m and make us some ultra-energy-efficient superconductor chips, scientists told

A fair price to get everyone to stop talking about Moore's Law for good

Science22 Apr 2022 | 21

Intel’s neurochips could one day end up in PCs or a cloud service

The brain-like chip technology could aid with low-power AI tasks like speech recognition

Systems15 Apr 2022 | 9

US House passes bill to boost chip manufacturing and R&D

Draft law enters final stages, proposes $52bn injection

On-Prem05 Feb 2022 | 55

Intel R&D spending surges after years of neglect as Gelsinger pledges to make Chipzilla great again

Analysis A timeline of the x86 giant's stumbles – and commitments for the future

On-Prem31 Jan 2022 | 43

CompSci boffins claim they can recreate missing lines in log files

'Event imputation' draws on lots of other sources to fill in gaps

Applications15 Dec 2021 | 58

Boffins demonstrate a different kind of floppy disk: A legless robot that hops along a surface

This is fine

Science08 Dec 2021 | 20

Academics tell Brit MPs to check the software used when considering reproducibility in science and tech research

It's seldom subject to the same rigour as conventional apparatus

Software25 Nov 2021 | 89

British govt emits fuzzy vision for UK version of American boffin special forces group Darpa

Aria. Doesn't have quite the same ring to it, does it?

Science19 Feb 2021 | 53

MIT professor charged with failing to disclose China ties while hitting up US Dept of Energy for research grant

Updated Update: Charges dismissed against academic

Science15 Jan 2021 | 11

Boffins from China push quantum computing envelope for 'supremacy' in emerging photon field

Light-based quantum system bests classical supercomputer

Science04 Dec 2020 | 37

Hey, over here, I'm talking... Academics help computers figure out which way you're facing when you speak

Video Which could be useful for AI assistants as they'll know whether you're barking orders at them or the kids or the TV

Science06 Nov 2020 | 6

Shocked I am. Shocked to find that underground bank-card-trading forums are full of liars, cheats, small-time grifters

No honor among thieves

Security23 Jul 2020 | 31

LCD pwn System: How to modulate screen brightness to covertly transmit data from an air-gapped computer... slowly

To be honest, it was the impracticality and inefficiency that first attracted us to this otherwise cunning exfiltration

Security06 Feb 2020 | 43

Amazing peer-reviewed AI bots that predict premature births were too good to be true: Flawed testing bumped accuracy from 50% to 90%+

'These models should not go into clinical practice at all,' academic tells El Reg

AI + ML24 Jan 2020 | 18

Hash snag: Security shamans shame SHA-1 standard, confirm crucial collisions citing circa $45k chip cost

Unsafe hashing algorithm really is unsafe

Security08 Jan 2020 | 24

LightAnchors array: LEDs in routers, power strips, and more, can sneakily ship data to this smartphone app

Video Talk about gone in a flash

Security12 Dec 2019 | 74

Brilliant Boston boffins blow big borehole in Bluetooth's ballyhooed barricades: MAC addy randomization broken

Scrambling addresses can't always hide you from stalkers, say eggheads

OSes12 Jul 2019 | 25

Open-heart nerdery: Boffins suggest identifying and logging in people using ECGs

Heartbeat rhythms could be the next biometric authentication method

Security25 Jun 2019 | 50

Defense against the Darknet, or how to accessorize to defeat video surveillance

Boffins from Belgium break people recognition software with a colorful placard

Security19 Apr 2019 | 155

Altered carbon: Boffins automate DNA storage with decent density – but lousy latency

An entire data centre the size of a sugar cube? Sweet!

Storage22 Mar 2019 | 56

Boffin suggests Trappist monk approach for Spectre-Meltdown-grade processor flaws, other security holes: Don't say anything public – zip it

Prof asks: What good comes from letting everyone know a vulnerability exists?

Security04 Feb 2019 | 69

Hey boffin, take a walk on the wild side: Stuffy academics need to let out their inner black hat

If hackers and nerds played together nicely, security would benefit, reckons compsci boffin

Security29 Jan 2019 | 7

New side-channel leak: Boffins bash operating system page caches until they spill secrets

Novel data-siphoning attack is hardware agnostic

Security05 Jan 2019 | 26

I found a security hole in Steam that gave me every game's license keys and all I got was this... oh nice: $20,000

Sorry kids, it was patched weeks ago by Valve

Security09 Nov 2018 | 38

Transformers: Robots... at least it tries: Watch boffins' Optimus Dime rearrange on the fly

Its creators see this shape-shifter droid as more like Big Hero 6 than cheesy Autobots

Science02 Nov 2018 | 11