Two threads each increment a shared counter 1,000 times. You expect 2,000. You run it — and get 1,847.
Cycling's world governing body the UCI proposes the introduction of GPS trackers at major races to pinpoint riders' locations at all times.
Symbiotic ammonia-oxidizing archaea in marine sponges are not strict specialists but true "flexitarians. " A team led by microbiologists Bettina Glasl and Katharina Kitzinger from the University of Vienna, in collaboration with partners from Australia, has shown that, unlike their free-living rel...
Venus is sinking into the sunset as it catches up with Earth — and a small telescope now reveals something the naked eye never can: another planet going through phases.
Wildfires in the Mediterranean region are becoming drastically more intense. The recent major fires in France, Spain and Greece show that firefighting efforts are reaching their limits.
Star formation in galaxies is closely linked to molecular gas. In the distant past, when galaxy interactions were more common, these encounters compressed molecular gas, causing dense clouds to collapse under their own gravity and form new stars.