Driving through the Dutch countryside near the town of Hilversum, I have an overwhelming feeling that the surrounding water will wash out the road, given that my car is almost level with it. So it’s ...

The biopharma industry spent $90 billion on R&D in 2016, a figure that represents about 20% of total sales. Despite this significant financial investment by the industry and splashy media headlines, ...

The vast majority (87%) of senior business leaders say digitization is a priority at their organization. However, within the environment, health and safety (EHS) industry, many professionals still ...

Even as a kid, I could see the visual difference between TV sitcoms - shot on videotape - and films. Video had a jarring sharpness that, paradoxically, made the picture less real. Films, with much ...

Putting the world's most advanced scholarly and scientific knowledge on the Internet has been a long-held ambition for Michael Keller, head librarian at Stanford University. Achieving this goal means ...

In my Scientific American column this month I mused on the increasing urgency of our need, as a species, to rescue everything we’ve ever recorded on magnetic tape. All those billions of hours of VHS ...

You might still have some old VHS tapes of home movies from the ’80s, but you probably don’t have a machine to play them on. And what about those old Super 8 reels gathering dust in the attic? While ...

The insurance industry has been playing catch-up in the areas of innovation and technology for some time now, but this has been especially true since the novel coronavirus pandemic began. Digital ...