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A history of information crime, from the secret Chinese recipe for tea production to massive data breaches at Google and Sony

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

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

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

Converting millions of pressed plants into a vital digital archive

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

Understanding complex systems

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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