Most of us learned what a prime number is in our early days of math class: An integer divisible only by itself and by one. But what you may not have realized is the search for the rarest of them is an international one, with ...
The mysteries of the universe – from the first stars and supernovas to galaxy clusters and dark matter - are being revealed in stunningly beautiful full-color, high-definition 3-D videos played on a huge screen ...
Flat, hard packages will be welcome this year. Tablet computers are extremely popular, and electronic reading devices such as the Kindle have matured and come down in price.
It's the question I field most often from readers: Which e-reader should I buy?
(PhysOrg.com) -- The world's largest and longest-running volunteer computing project, SETI@home, celebrates its tenth anniversary this month with 140,000 participants and 235,000 computers powering the search for intelligent ...
Google announced the Google Pack beta, a free collection of useful software from Google and other companies that improves the user experience online and on the desktop. In just a few clicks, users can install and maintain ...
The Einstein@Home distributed computing project is enlisting a rapidly growing army of computer users in a search for Einstein’s elusive gravitational waves. Only three weeks after its February 19th kick-off, the Einstein@Home ...
The security challenges in the mobile environment are similar to the problems we have encountered in the PC world. Open platforms are becoming popular in smartphones, for example the Symbian operating system is used in more ...
