CAMBRIDGE, Mass.–Astronomers led by an MIT professor have revised the scale used to assess the threat of asteroids and comets colliding with Earth to better communicate those risks with the public.

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Using a football field, a drone, some peas, a few pepper flakes, grapes, and some people playing soccer, Mark Rober cleverly built what is probably the easiest to understand scale model of our solar ...

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The truth is, not every startup needs to scale immediately, and in many cases, doing so too soon can be counterproductive. In ...

Tim Bock, Dell public alliance manager at Virtustream, has said government agencies should understand scale and know the differences between a government-purchased and a cloud-native application ...

Lack of oil aboard Venezuela tanker seized by US raises eyebrows Pilot who safely landed Alaska Airlines jet after door ...

Recently, many vendors have championed hyperconverged architectures by arguing that Web-scale titans, like Google and Facebook, take similar approaches. This is incorrect. There may be commonalities ...

“Microsoft, FireEye, and the U.S. Treasury department have been hacked in the SolarWinds attacks.” This statement is true but doesn’t tell the whole story accurately. It’s true because by most ...