Scientists have engineered a strain of bacteria with a genetic code unlike anything found in nature, marking a groundbreaking advance in synthetic biology. The microbe, called Syn57, is a lab-made ...

Two wildfires burning in the western United States — including one that has become a "megafire" on the North Rim of the Grand Canyon — are so hot that they're spurring the formation of "fire clouds" ...

The Toronto Star reported earlier this week that the city’s branch of the Miami Ad School abruptly closed in March, leaving some students without refunds or diplomas. It wasn’t immediately clear what ...

This army is in formation. Thousands of fire ants have been spotted floating on floodwaters through the Texas city and forming rafts using their bodies with residents now reporting the gross behavior.

A view of the headquarters of Palantir, in Palo Alto, Calif., on Aug. 25, 2016. (Photo via Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images). Ten congressional Democrats are demanding answers from Palantir about ...

On May 30, 2025, The New York Times published an article titled "Trump Taps Palantir to Compile Data on Americans," detailing a supposed combined effort between the U.S. federal government and the ...

A Homeland Security spokesperson has denounced as "thugs" an "independent media group" which is creating a database of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents, and asking people to report ...

Composite data for country groups in the WEO are either sums or weighted averages of data for individual countries. Arithmetically weighted averages are used for all data for the emerging market and ...

The claims of the Trump administration partnering with Palantir to create a "database of Americans" first surfaced in a May 30 report from The New York Times. Palantir, a data analysis and tech firm ...

The Trump administration is collecting data on all Americans, and they are enlisting the data analysis company Palantir to do it. The New York Times reports that President Trump has enlisted the firm, ...

The National Institutes of Health will use information from federal health insurance programs Medicare and Medicaid to create a "real-world data platform" to determine the cause of autism, the agency ...

A database is an essential component of any modern application, providing a repository for storing and retrieving large amounts of information. Building a database can seem daunting, but it can be ...