A giant data store quietly being built in India could free vast swathes of science for computer analysis—but is it legal?
Nature From ACM Careers | July 17, 2019
The U.S. National Science Foundation's annual census has determined that male scientists who obtained doctorates in 2017 and have jobs in the wings expect to earn...Nature From ACM TechNews | January 25, 2019
The number of international students enrolling in U.S. graduate programs is falling, according to reports from the U.S. Council of Graduate Schools in Washington...Nature From ACM Careers | December 14, 2018
Some of Europe's top machine-learning researchers have founded an organization to strengthen capacity in artificial intelligence (AI) technology on the continent...Nature From ACM Careers | December 11, 2018
The portrayal of STEM jobs in U.S. film and television largely reinforces the narrative that scientists are white men, according to a study by the Geena Davis Institute...Nature From ACM Careers | November 26, 2018
Results from the United States' midterm elections are still pouring in, but a handful of candidates with backgrounds in science or technology have already nabbed...Nature From ACM Opinion | November 7, 2018
AI-based tools can offer a penetrating view of scientific literature, computationally taming the vast flood of scholarly papers published at a rate of 1 million...Nature From ACM Careers | September 12, 2018
Julia Stewart Lowndes studied metre-long Humboldt squid (Dosidicus gigas), tagging them to track their dives, as a graduate student at Stanford University in California...Nature From ACM News | August 23, 2018
The executive director of the European Union's ambitious—but contentious—Human Brain Project (HBP) has left his post after a disagreement with the institution that...Nature From ACM Careers | August 21, 2018
In the midst of growing public concern over artificial intelligence (AI), privacy and the use of data, Brent Hecht has a controversial proposal: the computer-science...Nature From ACM Opinion | July 27, 2018
One of the earliest attempts to estimate the number of genes in the human genome involved tipsy geneticists, a bar in Cold Spring Harbor, New York, and pure guesswork...Nature From ACM News | June 19, 2018
Samapriya Roy remembers when it would take him up to an hour to download a single 1-gigabyte image taken by the Landsat Earth-imaging satellites.
Nature From ACM Careers | June 13, 2018
Scientists pride themselves on being keen observers, but many seem to have trouble spotting the problems right under their noses.
Nature From ACM Careers | May 17, 2018
The most-cited journal articles on Wikipedia include papers on the names of lunar craters and the DNA sequences of human and mouse genes—and many of the most popular...Nature From ACM Careers | May 14, 2018
As investigations continue into the attempted assassination of a former Russian double agent and his daughter in Britain, findings released this week have renewed...Nature From ACM Careers | April 16, 2018