Peter Bierhorst’s machine is no pinnacle of design. Nestled in the Rocky Mountains inside a facility for the National Institute of Standards and Technology, the photon-generating behemoth spans an ...
On June 4th and 5th, Google, Microsoft, Yahoo!, NASA, HP and the World Bank, through their initiative Random Hacks of Kindness (RHoK), will bring together thousands of people in over 18 locations ...
Mathematicians from the California Institute of Technology have solved an old problem related to a mathematical process called a random walk. The team, which also worked with a colleague from Israel’s ...
Homicides aren’t easy to deal with. But in a year with 40 of them — just shy of the record 48 in 2011 — Edmonton Police Service Staff Sgt. Bill Clark says the toughest ones are those that make the ...
Traditionally, public transportation has been about using large amounts of infrustructure to move large amounts of people in large vehicles on rigid routes. The obvious problems are: * large ...
Seattle voters are staring down the barrel of a big shake-up on the City Council. But does anyone believe that a new group of inevitably self-promoting individuals, each scheming against the others to ...