s though someone had pulled a plug in the oceans and drained them away, a sea-floor map has exposed thousands of never-before-seen underwater mountains and ridges...Nature From ACM News | October 14, 2014
Mike Lamont grabs the last croissant from a table and eats it as he walks through the control centre at CERN, the European laboratory for particle physics just...Nature From ACM News | October 8, 2014
The supercluster of galaxies that includes the Milky Way is 100 times bigger in volume and mass than previously thought, a team of astronomers says.Nature From ACM News | September 5, 2014
Neanderthals and humans lived together in Europe for thousands of years, concludes a timeline based on radiocarbon dates from 40 key sites across Europe.Nature From ACM News | August 21, 2014
A draft genome sequence of wheat promises to speed efforts to breed new types of one of the world's most important crops — and to reveal the tangled genomic history...Nature From ACM News | July 18, 2014
The European Union's high-profile, €1-billion Human Brain Project, launched last October, has come under fire from neuroscientists, who claim that poor management...Nature From ACM News | July 9, 2014
It took hundreds of thousands of workers decades to create China's terracotta army, but digital avatars made in minutes could solve the lingering mystery of one...Nature From ACM News | June 20, 2014
As it plunges into another two-week long 'lunar night', Jade Rabbit, China's Moon rover, is living on borrowed time.Nature From ACM News | June 20, 2014
By exploiting the tricks of quantum physics, researchers say they could build a worldwide network of atomic clocks that are much more accurate than any single clock...Nature From ACM News | June 16, 2014
Researchers are exploring what may be the first promising lead in months in the search for the wreckage of Malaysian Airlines flight MH370.Nature From ACM News | June 12, 2014
A working group of the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) presented a ten-year plan for the agency's portion of a major neuroscience initiative announced last...Nature From ACM News | June 11, 2014
When physicist Leonard Susskind gives talks these days, he often wears a black T-shirt proclaiming "I ♥ Complexity".Nature From ACM News | June 5, 2014
Nearly 4.3 billion kilometres from Earth, and most of the way to Pluto, NASA's New Horizons spacecraft is in danger of missing out on half of its mission.Nature From ACM News | May 21, 2014
NASA's Curiosity rover is in the prime of its life, exploring the rocks, soil and air of Mars. But the agency is already planning its successor—and this time, the...Nature From ACM News | May 14, 2014