In 2014, Mark Thompson, Jerry Fishenden, and I published Digitizing Government with an argument centred on what we called ...

Before smartphones and Instagram feeds, photographs were printed and stored in shoeboxes and albums. These tangible snapshots were the best way to revisit old memories: photos of great-grandparents, ...

Driving through the Dutch countryside near the town of Hilversum, I have an overwhelming feeling that the surrounding water will wash out the road, given that my car is almost level with it. So it’s ...

This article was written by Eric J. Topol, MD, a professor of genomics at the Scripps Research Institute. Topol's new book, The Creative Destruction of Medicine (Basic Books), was released February 1, ...

Although many system designers continue to use conventional analog sensors for ease of use, reliability, and long service ...

Approximately 145 million: That's the number of specimens—including plants, animals, minerals, and human artifacts—curators estimate are held in the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History.

In my Scientific American column this month I mused on the increasing urgency of our need, as a species, to rescue everything we’ve ever recorded on magnetic tape. All those billions of hours of VHS ...