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How Dubuque Is Becoming The Smartest City In America
Sustainability

How Dubuque Is Becoming The Smartest City In America

By providing its citizens with a steady stream of personalized, real-time data, the ninth-largest city in Iowa is changing the world

Four Lessons About Data From Ireland’s Biggest Bookmaker
Technology

Four Lessons About Data From Ireland’s Biggest Bookmaker

Got money on the name of the next pope? We spoke with Paddy Power on how predictive data modeling helps set the odds on a huge range of 60,000+ bets per week

Secret Security Supercomputer Cielo, What Are You Working on Today?
Technology

Secret Security Supercomputer Cielo, What Are You Working on Today?

Maintaining America's nuclear deterrent is a 24x7 job, but Cielo isn't complaining.

Bringing Biodiversity Data Online, One Leaf At A Time
Science

Bringing Biodiversity Data Online, One Leaf At A Time

Converting millions of pressed plants into a vital digital archive

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