The sun wanders the Milky Way alone; our star orbits the galaxy’s distant center without any stellar siblings. But it wasn’t always this way. The solar system was very likely born in a tremendous gas ...

For astronomers studying dark matter, the Bullet Cluster is one of the greatest laboratories in the universe. It was discovered almost by accident, a blip of x-rays in the sky that was detected by ...

Fast Start Failover (FSFO) is a critical feature of Oracle Data Guard, which is a disaster recovery solution for Oracle databases. It enables quick failover to a standby database in the event of a ...

Using the TUBITAK National Observatory and ESA's Gaia satellite, astronomers from the Istanbul University in Turkey and elsewhere have conducted comprehensive observations of two open clusters, namely ...

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Nathan Eddy works as an independent filmmaker and journalist based in Berlin, specializing in architecture, business technology and healthcare IT. He is a graduate of Northwestern University’s Medill ...

A few years ago, as a demonstration of the power of a relatively simple technology, software giant Oracle built a cluster of 1,050 Raspberry Pi 3iPB+ computers. Now Oracle’s big cluster, the largest ...

SIX YEARS ago the British Army’s 3rd Division, the country’s flagship fighting force, visited North Carolina for an exercise. It won battles thanks to strikes deep behind enemy lines. But those ...