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Conducting research is hard; confirming the results is, too. And artificial intelligence isn’t yet ready to help, a major new study finds. By Carl Zimmer Carl Zimmer has reported on replication in ...

"If it ain't broke, don't fix it," goes the old adage, which Rice University professor James Chappell completely ignored in a recent Nature Communications publication. In the study, Chappell describes ...

The company plans to integrate GridGain’s in-memory computing tech to deliver sub-millisecond performance for operational, transactional, and AI applications. MariaDB, the company behind the ...

The world of science has been stuck in an existential crisis over whether we actually know the things we thought we knew. Re-running an old study today doesn't always yield the same result. Same with ...

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Scientific progress depends on results that can be repeated – yet across disciplines, too many experiments fail that test. From medicine to economics, the replication crisis reveals not just flawed ...

Dell Technology has updated its PowerStore unified file and block storage array with increased capacity; stronger digital resilience; and simpler file management. The company claims that through these ...

Azure HorizonDB introduces cloud-native PostgreSQL with disaggregated compute and storage for faster scaling and failover. HorizonDB’s Rust-based storage engine improves security, reliability, and ...

When cells proliferate, genomic DNA is precisely duplicated once per cell cycle. Abnormalities in this DNA replication process can cause alterations in genomic DNA, promoting cellular ageing, cancer, ...

Third time’s the charm? Microsoft hopes the scalability of Azure HorizonDB, will lure new customers where its two existing PostgreSQL databases did not. Microsoft is previewing a third ...

As global power grids transition from centralized fossil-based generation to decentralized, renewable sources, system stability has become a critical challenge. The phasing out of synchronous ...