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 ...

In 2014, Mark Thompson, Jerry Fishenden, and I published Digitizing Government with an argument centred on what we called ...

Before smartphones and Instagram feeds, photographs were printed and stored in shoeboxes and albums. These tangible snapshots were the best way to revisit old memories: photos of great-grandparents, ...

This article was written by Eric J. Topol, MD, a professor of genomics at the Scripps Research Institute. Topol's new book, The Creative Destruction of Medicine (Basic Books), was released February 1, ...

This article was originally featured on Popular Photography. The PhotoScan app from Google is one of the quickest and easiest ways we’ve found to create high-quality digital versions of physical ...

It’s all there on vinyl, tape, film, and paper–your memories, your creations, your collections–all your media memorabilia. But in analog form, the content is difficult and time-consuming to organize ...

Approximately 145 million: That's the number of specimens—including plants, animals, minerals, and human artifacts—curators estimate are held in the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History.

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 ...

Harvard University has launched a project to digitize almost half a million items from its 17th and 18th century archives – the largest digitizing effort the university has ever undertaken. The ...