The largest biodiversity time-series database on the planet—created by the University of St Andrews—has had a major new release. The BioTIME database offers unprecedented insight into how biodiversity ...

Researchers traced long, bright radio pulses, combined with X-rays, to an intriguing cosmic object 15,000 light-years from ...

An international team of astronomers has discovered 25 new quasars by analyzing multiwavelength data from various surveys.

A new telescope project called the Next-Generation Very Large Array will revolutionize radio astronomy if it gets the funding ...

The plains house the aptly named Very Large Array (VLA)—a radio telescope made of 27 different antennas, each of which looks ...

The United States Mint (Mint) will begin shipping the American Women Quarters (AWQ) Program coin honoring Dr. Vera Rubin on ...

This data can be displayed in a frequency chart. Image caption, The colours of cars go in the left-hand column. The tally will go in the middle column, and the frequency can be added in once all ...

In this work, we investigate an alternate approach that uses Apache Spark-a modern platform for data intensive computing-to parallelize many-task applications. We implement Kira, a flexible and ...

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Astronomers watched as a galaxy with the forgettable name SDSS1335+0728 suddenly sprang to life when its massive black hole ...

Thousands of years ago, Chinese astronomers used an ancient record of constellations and their coordinates to study the sky.

A new preprint suggests that an ancient Chinese star catalog dates to 355 B.C.E. But other researchers aren't convinced, ...