New studies show that first-born daughters really do have it the hardest — and that's great news for the rest of us.

Two years in, Congress has fully funded subsidies for chipmakers. The big boost in science, however, is way off target. While nearly $53 billion is going into reviving a homegrown semiconductor ...

In March, Nasa scientists told the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (LPSC) that a big fireball had exploded in Earth's atmosphere at the end of 2018. The space rock barrelled in without ...

Recent years have therefore seen a surge of 'big science', involving high-throughput analyses. Unbiased micro-array studies, for example, are often mere starting points for classical cell ...

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To honor the Institute’s pioneering past as we look ahead to its future, Big Picture Science presents a new monthly podcast ...

The Five Vs of Big Data Political Science Introduction to the Virtual Issue on Big Data in Political Science Political Analysis ...

Our work helps shape sound policies, inform public opinion, and advance the pursuit of science, engineering, and medicine. Throughout any given year, the National Academies convene hundreds of ...

The big data science movement is transforming the way companies and researchers operate across the world. Big data science techniques and tools allow us to manage and exploit the massive amounts of ...

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In this lecture from the University of Bristol's Big Ideas in Science series, Dr Nina Snaith asks why, and looks to mathematics for the answer. Setting maths students a series of problems, Dr Snaith ...

Twisters, from Universal Pictures, Warner Bros., and Amblin, is a current-day chapter of the 1996 blockbuster. The filmmakers were committed to inc ...