In sticking with the ideals of Open Source and sharing of knowledge and innovation, Twitter today has open sourced its forked MySQL database implementation...
Author: Lelia Lamoreaux
Unknown hackers early last week claimed to have compromised and stolen data from a range of government agencies and private organizations by alleging to...
The late 60′s were the dawn of the space age – the first satellite went into orbit a decade earlier, and by the end...
The study of how our universe began is inherently problematic. Unfortunately, we are as unable to peer directly into the past as we are...
Anatomically modern humans have been around for hundreds of thousands of years. Yet we did not begin intensive agriculture or city building until between...
Classical physics, while mathematically complex, is based on simple, common-sense principles that everyone is familiar with. On the other hand, quantum physics, the set...
One of the simplest concepts to grasp in classical physics is the idea of causality. Our world-view is defined by cause-and-effect relationships from the...
Nearly 16 years ago, the world marveled at the birth of the first cloned mammal: Dolly the sheep. While experiments with cloning technologies had been...
If you’ve been paying attention to the news recently, chances are you’ve heard the term “Higgs Boson.” Chances are, unless you are a nuclear...
Technological advances within the last century have been astounding. We’ve moved from horse-drawn wagons to self-driving cars in the blink of an eye; geologically...