In Cloud Computing, Open Source Becomes Big Business

OpenStack, co-created by NASA, gained a huge user base and gave rise to other open source…

Sumatran tiger killed in suspected poisoning

A Sumatran tiger has been found dead in a suspected poisoning, an Indonesian official said Tuesday,…

ATLAS experiment finds evidence of spectacular four-top quark production

The ATLAS Collaboration at CERN has announced strong evidence of the production of four top quarks.…

Gear treated with 'forever chemicals' poses risk to firefighters

Firefighters face occupational hazards on a daily basis. Now, new research shows they face additional risk…

A dead elephant was a feast for the entire neighborhood

Former archaeology student Ivo Verheijen made a unique discovery in Schöningen in Germany: the almost complete…

Polyimide membranes for the purification of natural gas

Natural gas that contains larger amounts of hydrogen sulfide (H2S) and carbon dioxide (CO2) is termed…

Long-tailed tits avoid incest by recognising the calls of relatives

Long-tailed tits actively avoid harmful inbreeding by discriminating between the calls of close family members and…

Triggering bacteria in the service of medicine

Bacteria, as it turns out, are a lot like us. They get complacent in relaxed, non-threatening…

Will we see a cashless society emerge from the pandemic?

When the World Health Organization earlier this year recommended that people move to cashless transactions to…

Mathematicians behind JPEG files honored by Spanish award

An international team of mathematicians whose theories have improved the compression of large digital files of…