We are all immersed in an incomprehensible abundance of available information, and we can only read or watch or consume some meaningless fraction of it. What we see, and what we don’t see, is heavily ...

Traditional study of animal behavior is a slow, and imprecise process, with human observers spending months, or even years, watching and classifying different actions. A team from Columbia University ...

Detecting transient light curves (e.g., transiting planets) requires high-precision data, and thus it is important to effectively filter systematic trends affecting ground-based wide-field surveys. We ...

Twitter—the version of it that I see in my media-heavy timeline, anyway—is in a tizzy over the future of Twitter. The site’s most ardent users fear that it’s on the verge of abandoning its most ...

In February, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission announced a government probe into Facebook and Google. Among the issues to be investigated? A potential “consumer protection concern” ...