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Creating Buildings Out Of Data
Technology An architecture firm is mining troves of info to build better Some might worry that society is oversaturated in data, but architect June Grant is spinning straw into gold by using public...
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Genetic Data Will Take Up More Space Than YouTube In 10 Years
Technology A classic big data problem Your little genes are about to take up a lot more space. In the next 10 years, genomic data could generate anywhere between 2 and 40 exabytes per year—at a...
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How Artificial Intelligence Can Make Drugs Better and Faster
Technology Existing genetic analyses just aren’t powerful enough When researchers used to try to diagnose and treat diseases, they would often search for one mutation on a single gene that was causing...
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Digital Map Of Seafloor Could Help Scientists Predict Climate Change Impacts
Science The secrets are in the sediment As more data is beamed back from the New Horizons Pluto flyby we are constantly learning more about the surface of a dwarf planet billions of miles away, while...
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Podcast: What Will Basketball Look Like in the Future?
Technology More sensors, more data, and more ways to watch Basketball season is now in full swing. But here at Popular Science, we’re ahead of the game. We’re looking beyond 2015 to see what sports...
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Can The NSA's Machines Recognize A Terrorist?
Military The big problem with little data Machine learning algorithms used by the U.S. National Security Agency to identify potential terrorists in Pakistan might be ineffective. Machine learning...
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Companies Are Using Big Data To Track Employee Health And Pregnancies
Health With the help of outside firms Companies can hire outside firms to track their workers' health and give them data on the workforce, including information about how many people are pregnant....
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Why Does Pseudoscience Win At The Olympics?
Health Michael Phelps' "cupping" is just the latest quackery to hit the Games Any sufficiently technical and jargony science is often indistinguishable from magic--or for the Olympics, pseudoscience.
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2,300 years after mathematicians first noticed prime numbers, they're still...
Science Making us scratch our heads for millennia. To study primes, mathematicians strain whole numbers through one virtual mesh after another until only primes remain. This sieving process produced...
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Facebook will soon tell you more info about how it’s targeting you with ads
Technology How did it know that you wanted that robotic cat food dish? Facebook will tell you who uploaded your personal information that got you a targeted ad.
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