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Q&A: Stephen Wolfram on the Power and Challenge of Big Data
Technology

Q&A: Stephen Wolfram on the Power and Challenge of Big Data

Popular Science editor Mark Jannot talks to the data wizard about big data, human understanding, and the origin of the universe

Video: A Company’s Algorithms Reveal Hidden Connections Among All That Data
Technology

Video: A Company’s Algorithms Reveal Hidden Connections Among All That Data

Understanding complex systems

Recording A Century of Night Skies Through A Scanner Darkly
Space

Recording A Century of Night Skies Through A Scanner Darkly

Harvard has a world-class trove of valuable astronomical data. But it's in the form of half a million glass photographic plates

What Are You Working on Today, Roadrunner?
Science

What Are You Working on Today, Roadrunner?

The Roadrunner supercomputer could tell you what it's doing, but then it would have to kill you. Seriously.

This Man Could Rule the World
Science

This Man Could Rule the World

How Albert-László Barabási went from mapping systems to controlling them

Can Technology Save the Military From a Data Deluge?
Drones

Can Technology Save the Military From a Data Deluge?

The U.S. military is drowning in data. This is how to save it from the flood

The World’s Most Amazing Databases: WorldCat
Technology

The World’s Most Amazing Databases: WorldCat

Linking all the world's libraries in the biggest bibliography you've ever seen

Rice Is Genetically Modified to Produce Human Blood Protein
Science

Rice Is Genetically Modified to Produce Human Blood Protein

The Unsplittable Bit
Physics

The Unsplittable Bit

James Gleick asks: as scientists crunch and quantize the world, will they ever reach the end?

Quantum Scheme Could Allow Submarines to Communicate Securely
Physics

Quantum Scheme Could Allow Submarines to Communicate Securely

Science

The Visible Universe, Then and Now

The Santa Cruz Experiment: Can a City’s Crime Be Predicted and Prevented?
Science

The Santa Cruz Experiment: Can a City’s Crime Be Predicted and Prevented?

By turning its crime problem into a data problem, Santa Cruz is reinventing police work for the 21st century

Chinese Officials Deny Hacking U.S. Environment-Monitoring Satellites
Technology

Chinese Officials Deny Hacking U.S. Environment-Monitoring Satellites

PopSci Q&A: How Digging Through Discarded Data Uncovered A Real Tattooine
Science

PopSci Q&A: How Digging Through Discarded Data Uncovered A Real Tattooine

One man’s noise is another man’s long-sought signal

Video: Humanoid Robot Petman Works Out
Technology

Video: Humanoid Robot Petman Works Out

Amazing Databases: The Wayback Machine
Internet

Amazing Databases: The Wayback Machine

A permanent archive of the Web--some 200 million sites' worth

The Ten Most Amazing Databases in the World
Technology

The Ten Most Amazing Databases in the World

A database isn't a vault--it's a garden

The Glory of Big Data
Technology

The Glory of Big Data

Suddenly, we can know the world completely. Next, we reprogram it

This Week in the Future, October 24-28, 2011
Science

This Week in the Future, October 24-28, 2011

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FYI: Why Do We Get Goosebumps and Chills When We’re Scared?