In days of old, when knights were bold, and they kept their data on large reels of magnetic tape, the tapes were stored in a central tape library, and were mounted by request on mainframe computers…

Earlier this week Zimmer asked readers to help out science journalists and participate in a survey about where we get our science news. He's got the results up. You can go see for yourself what…

Indiana and Rutgers researchers have modified Playstation 3 video game systems to help teenagers with cerebral palsy improve their hand functions. In a pilot trial with three participants, the system…

Warner Music Group tries to protect property it doesn't even own: In the first installment of a planned video blog of their American tour, A23’s Tom Shear recorded a nine-and-one-half minute video…

The "humble hooter" could be added to the list of features used to identify an individual, according to scientists at the University of Bath. Researchers created a system called PhotoFace to scan the…

Forgive me if this has been covered already, but I am curious about the use of computers in Science I have to add a quick sentence here just to prevent the questions overlaying the initial graphic I…

SAN FRANCISCO, March 9, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- Bigpoint will be demonstrating the next generation of client-free PC gaming at Game Developers Conference 2010. Leading its product slate for 2010 will be…

This New Scientist article reminds me of a project I worked on about ten years ago. The article talks about analyzing mobile-phone location data to establish patterns of how the users move around.…

New Scientist tells us that some of my former IBM Research colleagues have been busy looking at ways to give bloggers inspiration: Want to get more people to read your blog? A software tool that…

Let's Start Using Our (Si) Brains scientists have sequenced the human genome -- the blueprint for all of the proteins in biology -- but how can we understand what these proteins do and how they work…