Developments affecting the information management landscape—some recent and some taking place over many years—are spurring convergences of several different, but interrelated spaces. Such developments..

Made popular by startups that wanted to reduce their upfront infrastructure costs, the public cloud offered an easy opex method to get development efforts off the ground. Public cloud providers now al..

In nature, there are producers and consumers. (There are also decomposers, but that’s food-chain for thought, which we’ll leave for another day.) Producers make their own food, using energy from the s..

Over the past two decades, we’ve seen a broad shift away from traditional waterfall development methodologies in favor of more agile and iterative approaches to developing and using software. Everywhe..

Damon Herriman has been signed on to play Charles Manson in Quentin Tarantino's Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.

Imagine throwing your empty plastic water bottle into a household composting bin that breaks down the plastic and produces biogas to help power your home. Now, researchers have taken an early step toward this futuristic scenario by showing that certain blends of bioplastics can decompose under diverse conditions.

Biologists have documented that coastal wetlands in the southeastern United States are responding positively to rising temperatures both in their growth and in their ability to build soil to keep pace with sea level rise.

This study reveals how some tumors fuel their own growth and how stopping this vicious cycle could lead to new treatments.

The Carina Nebula, one of the largest and brightest nebulae in the night sky, has been beautifully imaged by ESO's VISTA telescope at the Paranal Observatory in Chile. By observing in infrared light, VISTA has peered through the hot gas and dark dust enshrouding the nebula to show us myriad stars, both newborn and in their death throes.

A new study finds that ketamine's acute antidepressant effect requires opioid system activation, the first time that a receptor site has been shown in humans to be necessary for any antidepressant's mechanism of action. While opioids have been used historically to treat depression, they are known to carry a high risk of dependence.