At 3 a.m. on a crisp May night in Chile, all seemed well with the world’s largest digital camera. Until it didn’t. Inside the newly built Vera C. Rubin Observatory, site project scientist Sandrine ...

The Trump administration restored a public database that showed how funding is apportioned to federal agencies following a recent order by a federal appeals court. Public access to the data was ...

Daniel P. Johnson, a geographer at Indiana University at Indianapolis, works with a team of researchers who spend a lot of time catching blowflies, dissecting their iridescent blue-green abdomens, and ...

(via Sabine Hossenfelder) According to a growing body of data, dark energy is not constant. Instead, physicists claim, it’s slowly getting weaker. This has understandably shaken our understanding of ...

National Public Data was the target of a massive hack in early 2024, which led to billions of records being leaked. The site has since returned under new ownership. The site now allows you to search ...

Abstract: We present a room-temperature, heterodyne terahertz detection system, specifically developed for ground-based astronomy applications. This system employs an optical local oscillator and a ...

Download PDF More Formats on IMF eLibrary Order a Print Copy Create Citation This paper examines the role of cost accounting in public financial management, focusing on budget credibility, performance ...

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine are private, nonprofit institutions that provide expert advice on some of the most pressing challenges facing the nation and world. Our ...

Download PDF More Formats on IMF eLibrary Order a Print Copy Create Citation In May 2025, an assessment was undertaken of the data quality of the public sector debt statistics (PSDS) of Botswana ...

Every time someone snaps a wildlife photo with iNaturalist, they might be fueling breakthrough science. From rediscovering lost species to helping conservation agencies track biodiversity and invasive ...

ABSTRACT: This paper provides concrete evidence that the expanding and accelerating Universe mathematically expressed by dark energy is a purely mathematical abstraction. The energy loss of photons ...