Web search company Google Inc. said on Wednesday it plans to partner with U.S. space agency NASA on space research and to build a new campus at the agency's research center in the heart of Silicon Valley.

We tour several of the leading tech research labs in the US to discover which 10 research projects could soon change the world

Computational science causing revolution in research.

Life would be easier if we didn’t have to patch our operating systems and apps. Patrick Gray explores the real reasons why updating is important.

Research under fire for falling way short of specifications.

Father of the World Wide Web wants to make it an object of scientific inquiry.

Marc Abraham's Ignobel Prizes is the latest book in a series that seeks to highlight some of the strangest scientific research papers to be published. From the founder of the esteemed Annals of Improbable Research (www.improbable.com), the Ignobel Prizes award scientists for some truly bizarre work, including the research into dunking biscuits (see How to Dunk a Donut).

Stitches together thousands of images into one.

A fortnight ago we reviewed the worst villains in computing history. But what would a villain be without a hero to battle with?

From Silicon Valley to Station X during the Second World War, why Romania is teeming with software developers, and Zhongguancun in China where Microsoft is building its Chinese headquarters.

PC Authority takes a trip down computer memory lane and discovers just how PC technology has evolved... and how Microsoft and IBM nearly destroyed each other.

Game on for University of Manchester scientists.

The European Organisation for Nuclear Research (Cern) has moved swiftly to play down the significance of the arrest on terrorism charges of a nuclear physicist who worked at the Hadron Collider for six years.

Daniel Reed heads for Redmond.

The GENI is out of the bottle.

From webcasting to the DMCA to net neutrality - a list of top ten IT priorities for the new president.

Research makes happy reading in Redmond.

ABI Research predicts huge potential for white-label video providers.

A new report is predicting a slow market for enterprise adoption of Microsoft's upcoming Windows 7 release..

As futuristic technology concepts go, 3D screens have been right up there with the teleporter as an aspirational idea that could change the way we see the world, yet the idea still resides in the realm of the science fiction.