The core challenge of first-party data collection is the "value exchange." Consumers are increasingly protective of their personal information and will only ...

Decades of advances in satellite observation made it seem as though Arctic snow cover was growing, when in reality satellites ...

Researchers have detected a snow cover decrease of 193,000 square miles every decade.

Detailed environmental data allows coastal change to be identified early, when response options are broader and more ...

In June 2010, the direct marketing division of Equifax was acquired by Alliance Data Systems for $117 million. The deal ...

Is the scientific method really the best approach to learning about the world? A new paper in Collective Intelligence applies the scientific method to itself, finding that some common strategies that ...

Outside of tightly controlled environments, most robotic systems still struggle with reliability, generalization and cost. The gap between what we can demonstrate and what we can operate at scale ...

The accelerating impacts of climate change threaten the progress of sustainable development by exacerbating environmental ...

New analysis by Francesca Capel and Nadine Bourriche narrows possible sources of the Amaterasu cosmic ray, suggesting nearby galaxies like M82 rather than the Local Void.

A watched pot never boils and love happens when you least expect it -- turns out, the same logic applies to capturing a star ...

As a career counterintelligence officer for the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and Defense Intelligence Agency, I worked inside a fully integrated intelligence system. Signals intelligence ...

Scientists and philosophers studying the mind have discovered how little we know about our inner experiences ...