The evolution of total genome size has remained an enigma in genetics for more than half a century. Recent insights from large-scale genome-sequencing projects are shedding new light on the nature, ...

Bacteria-scale robots that can run for months without human control are no longer a lab fantasy. Researchers have now built ...

A scale model is a representation or copy of an object that is larger or smaller than the actual size of the object being represented. Very often the scale model is smaller than the original and used ...

Like full-size rigs, radio-controlled (RC) cars and trucks come in a varying array of shapes and sizes. Inside the rock crawling subset alone, the range extends from massive 1/6 and tiny micro ...

The phrase "economies of scale" refers to the benefits experienced by many large firms because of their size. The unit costs incurred by the firms tends to fall as they expand. In some cases, they can ...

Scale is one of those words that means something different to just about everyone. But to measure it, to figure out concretely whether an intervention has scaled, you have to decide what you mean. So ...

Miniatures are full of bite-sized portions of our world and lives. By transcending spatial norms, models envision and measure real-world size and performance. They help to understand the cultural and ...

The first step to sizing or scaling Kafka for optimal cost and performance is understanding how the data streaming platform uses resources. Here’s a primer. Teams implementing Apache Kafka, or ...