Right now, at Paris’s Palais de Tokyo, Italian artist Sven Sachsalber is painstakingly sifting through a bale of hay. He is going in search of a needle hidden there by the museum’s director. That’s ...

Discovering a new species is always exciting, but so is finding one alive that everyone assumed had been lost to the passage of time. A small clam, previously known only from fossils, has recently ...

In the autumn-foliaged town of Tyngsboro, Mass., the U.S. space program last week got a handsome present. It is the world’s most sensitive radio antenna, a 120-ft. aluminum dish named Haystack for the ...

"Section 215 helps us find a needle in the haystack," Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said last month, referring to the PATRIOT Act provision that the National Security Agency (NSA) says allows ...

If you're familiar with the "Shell Game," the classic game that sees an object being placed under a cup or shell, which challenges you to remember which shell the object is under, you'll instantly ...

A lot of the buzz around big data, analytics and insights has been focused on finding the proverbial needle in the haystack. You figure out what you want to know, and you analyze the data available to ...