Sketch the structure of an organic molecule on a napkin and it may not be apparent that there are millions of possible ways that it could assemble as a 3D crystal...Nature From ACM News | November 4, 2015
With Google Scholar, PubMed, and other free academic databases at their fingertips, scientists may feel they have plenty of resources to trawl through the ever-growing...Nature From ACM News | November 2, 2015
Scientists have detected molecules of oxygen in the hazy halo of comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko—an unexpected discovery that may challenge theories about the formation...Nature From ACM News | October 29, 2015
Vast regions of near-empty space in the Universe are growing and shrinking, much as bubbles merge and separate in soapsuds, astronomers have discovered.Nature From ACM News | October 19, 2015
Take a pinch of Mars, a sprinkle of Saturn's moon Iapetus and a dash of Neptune's moon Triton—and the recipe will yield something like Pluto.Nature From ACM News | October 15, 2015
Our brains are wired in such distinctive ways that an individual can be identified on the basis of brain-scan images alone, neuroscientists report.Nature From ACM News | October 13, 2015
A controversial European neuroscience project that aims to simulate the human brain in a supercomputer has published its first major result: a digital imitation...Nature From ACM News | October 13, 2015
When the digital currency Bitcoin came to life in January 2009, it was noticed by almost no one apart from the handful of programmers who followed cryptography...Nature From ACM News | October 5, 2015
The brain's wiring patterns can shed light on a person’s positive and negative traits, researchers report in Nature Neuroscience.Nature From ACM News | September 28, 2015
As the costs of genetic sequencing fall, oncologists are starting to prescribe expensive new drugs that target the genetic profiles of their patients' tumours,...Nature From ACM News | September 24, 2015
In a basement room, deep in the bowels of a steel-clad building in Cambridge, a major insurgency is under way.Nature From ACM News | September 18, 2015
The robot moves slowly along its track, pausing regularly to reach out an arm that carefully scoops up a component.Nature From ACM News | September 11, 2015
After dozens of unsuccessful treatments, Eric Dishman started to suspect that his illness was due to something other than the rare kidney cancer he was diagnosed...Nature From ACM News | September 2, 2015
NASA's New Horizons spacecraft solved many mysteries about Pluto when it flew past the dwarf planet in July. But as mission controllers prepare to steer the probe...Nature From ACM News | September 1, 2015
A complete lack of formal scientific training has not kept Johan Sosa from dabbling with one of the most powerful molecular-biology tools to come along in decades...Nature From ACM News | August 26, 2015
Hydrogen sulfide—the compound responsible for the smell of rotten eggs—conducts electricity with zero resistance at a record high temperature of 203 kelvin (–70...Nature From ACM News | August 19, 2015
With its eight prehensile arms lined with suckers, camera-like eyes, elaborate repertoire of camouflage tricks and spooky intelligence, the octopus is like no other...Nature From ACM News | August 13, 2015
Artificial-intelligence researchers have long struggled to make computers perform a task that is simple for humans: picking out one person’s speech when multiple...Nature From ACM News | August 12, 2015
A year after the Rosetta space mission went into orbit around a comet shaped like a rubber duck, scientists say that they have worked out how the dusty iceball...Nature From ACM News | August 10, 2015