Research

Amazon workers are in a warehouse of pain, independent report finds

6.9 injuries per 100 employees? Try 69 percent taking time off for injuries, exhaustion, survey concludes

Personal Tech26 Oct 2023 | 47

Hot fuzz: Cascade finds dozens of RISC-V chip bugs using random data storm

Video ETH Zurich boffins say they've devised a better CPU fuzzer to find flaws

Security24 Oct 2023 | 5

Want a clean energy transition? Better start putting cash into electrical grid

Spending needs to double to $600B by 2030 if we want to stay within 2°C warming

Science18 Oct 2023 | 91

Buyer's remorse haunts 3 in 5 business software purchases

They never do tell you about the unexpected costs and overly complex implementations

Applications18 Oct 2023 | 41

GoldDigger Android trojan targets Vietnamese banking apps, code contains hints of wider targets

More malware scum using acessibility features to steal personal info

Security06 Oct 2023 |

Boffins propose RISC-V microcontroller to power cubesats

Test chip promises crunching on par with 20-year-old chips while sipping power

Systems05 Oct 2023 |

NASA awards $1.5m for 'three steps to Mars' astronaut health program

One (very) small leap for humanity's future in space

Science02 Oct 2023 | 3

DoD hopes $30M BEACONS will light the way to next-gen American battery designs

And less than half the cost of a single F-35 – bargain!

Science19 Sep 2023 | 8

Okay, SMART ePANTS, you tell us how to create network-connected textiles

Soldiers, first responders may eventually be able to phone home from their clothes

Science09 Sep 2023 | 31

Official science: People do less, make more mistakes on Friday afternoons

Why 'dont deploy on Frday' is a thnng

Bootnotes04 Aug 2023 | 63

Uncle Sam to put Aurora supercomputer to work on catalyst conundrums

Meanwhile, ORNL's Summit simulates bacteria battling cicada wings

HPC17 Jul 2023 | 5

Tech execs turn to drink and drugs as job losses mount

34% of those surveyed are on stimulants including amphetamines

Sysadmin Month11 Jul 2023 | 32

NIST boffins shrink atomic beam clock to the size of a postage stamp

It's not the most accurate atomic clock in the world, but the NIST team behind it believes they can fix that

Science27 Jun 2023 | 14

Large language models' surprise emergent behavior written off as 'a mirage'

Analysis Forget those huge hyped-up systems, that smaller one might be right for you. And here's why

AI + ML16 May 2023 | 27

Open source at America's famous Los Alamos Lab: Pragmatism as its nucleus

Its 20,000-node cluster uses outdated MariaDB – for very good reasons

HPC10 May 2023 | 10

Beijing raids consultancy, State-sponsored media warns more to come

Retaliation or national security?

Security09 May 2023 | 7

Deplatforming hate forums doesn't work, British boffins warn

Updated Industry intervention alone can't deal with harassment

Personal Tech18 Apr 2023 | 122

Trade ministers flag researchers as possible vector of tech sanction-busting

G7 meeting agrees that sales bans are here to stay

Legal05 Apr 2023 | 6

Hey Siri, use this ultrasound attack to disarm a smart-home system

We speak to the boffins behind latest trick to fool Google Assistant, Cortana, Alexa

Security04 Apr 2023 | 61

Today's old folks set to smash through longevity records

Except maybe in America, where life expectancy keeps dropping

Science31 Mar 2023 | 117

Boffins claim discovery of the first piezoelectric liquid

Move over, magic crystals – electric syrup is here

Science29 Mar 2023 | 28

Workers don't want these humanoid robots telling them to be happy

Shocking!

Personal Tech16 Mar 2023 | 112

China leads the world in tech research, could win the future, says think tank

US comes in second, rest of the world is a distant third in fields from biotech to batteries

Science03 Mar 2023 | 27

MIT Press to trial open access journals, so long as someone else pays for it

Great: Fewer paywalls. Not great: Long-term funding is still a question

Science07 Feb 2023 | 17

Rate of disruptive tech and science discoveries has slowed over the decades, claims study

Makes the repetitive strain injury you got from hours of pipetting all worth it, hey lab scientists?

Science05 Jan 2023 | 42

IT security teams, business execs still not on same page

In brief Also: Guri the air-gap guru strikes again, while pro-Ukraine hackers set up a proxy network in Russia

Security12 Dec 2022 | 6

Locked out of Horizon Europe, UK commits half a billion to post-Brexit research

EU still fixated with Britain keeping its word on trading arrangement

Science22 Nov 2022 | 184

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 | 96

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 | 138

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 | 203

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 | 13

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