Big data refers to the “generation of enormous amounts of data due to new technologies for measurement, collection and storage”1 that are being accumulated in such vast quantities that they are impossible to assess using conventional analysis techniques.

I am a scientist. Until recently the only job I had ever done had consisted of discovering how the world around me works using the scientific method, and/or teaching about this discovery process

Faced with population growth, environmental change, and increasing concerns over food security and sustainability—the interest in Controlled Environment Agriculture (CEA) is on an upward trend.

Increasing affordability of IoT and GPS technologies is driving the growth of the market.

A rotating black hole is such an extreme force of nature that it drags surrounding time and space around with it. So it is only natural to ask whether black holes could be used as some sort of energy source. In 1969, mathematical physicist Roger Penrose proposed a method to do just this, now known as the “Penrose Process”.

Maize, or corn, is cultivated globally, as food, feedstock, and a biofuel source, and is one of the most widely produced crops alongside wheat and rice