Stories by Larry Greenemeier

Researchers find success using a massive distributed computing network to search radio waves for pulsars. In the coming decade they hope to find evidence of gravitational waves

A camera with a unique, spherical lens may bring single-shot gigapixel cameras closer to reality

Having tested their mettle in the Gulf of Mexico following the Deepwater Horizon disaster, automated sea gliders are deployed in polar-opposite conditions to investigate short-lived phytoplankton blooms

Christchurch copes with a tragedy it did not see coming

One aid group working in Haiti is turning to SMS text messaging to ensure Haitians are keeping their drinking water free of cholera-causing bacteria

Nature still has the upper hand in terms of information storage and computational capacity, but this will not always be the case

Get ready for IPv6: The explosive global growth of connected devices has nearly depleted the 4.3 billion addresses of Internet protocol version 4

Egypt's Internet shutdown and recent U.S. legislation proposing expanded White House control of critical infrastructure cyber security have conjured images of a government-controlled Internet kill switch

Never mind electric-vehicle range anxiety, how will power utilities and home systems handle the growing load of a burgeoning fleet of electric cars? A maker of home battery-charging stations partners with networking giant Cisco Systems to enable energy monitoring and management from a single touch-screen device

Preliminary investigations indicate that most of the country's ISPs cut Internet access within a 20-minute period, likely at the government's behest

Here is a bit of what an estimated 140,000 attendees saw at last week's CES

General Motors offers a taste of its Electric Networked Vehicle at the 2011 Consumer Electronics Show