The U.S. government is considering policy changes that could dramatically affect how researchers handle equipment and information that have national-security implications...Nature From ACM Careers | June 17, 2015
In an unusual twist on biometrics research, US computer scientists have joined with law-enforcement officials to find new ways to automatically detect tattoos on...Nature From ACM News | June 9, 2015
Gigantic jets of gas that leap out of galaxies at nearly the speed of light occur only after two galaxies merge, a survey of the distant Universe shows.Nature From ACM News | June 1, 2015
Silently, the drone aircraft glides above the arid terrain of New Mexico—until it suddenly pivots out of control and plummets to the ground.Nature From ACM News | May 29, 2015
Computer scientists have endowed a six-legged robot with the ability to rapidly modify its motion to cope with damage, such as the loss of a foot.Nature From ACM News | May 28, 2015
The U.S. National Academy of Sciences (NAS) and the National Academy of Medicine (NAM) will launch a major initiative to develop guidelines for editing human genomes...Nature From ACM News | May 20, 2015
Ever since the European Space Agency's Philae lander ran out of batteries on 15 November, just three days after it bounced on to comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko...Nature From ACM News | May 11, 2015
On 11 May, a telescope aboard a NASA craft will turn and stare at Pluto—like a space-robot equivalent of a sailor watching for shoals that could take out his vessel...Nature From ACM News | May 8, 2015
On a U.S. military base outside Gainesville, Florida, atmospheric scientists make lightning by shooting rockets into thunderstorms.Nature From ACM News | May 7, 2015
The US National Institutes of Health (NIH) has reaffirmed its ban on research that involves gene editing of human embryos. In a statement released on 29 April,...Nature From ACM Careers | April 30, 2015
On 30 April, after more than four years in orbit around Mercury, NASA's MESSENGER probe will plunge to its doom.Nature From ACM Opinion | April 28, 2015
In the wake of the first ever report that scientists have edited the genomes of human embryos, experts cannot agree on whether the work was ethical. They also disagree...Nature From ACM News | April 27, 2015
When astronomers try to simulate colliding giant black holes, they usually rely on simplified approximations to model the swirling disks of matter that surround...Nature From ACM News | April 21, 2015
The finding seemed counterintuitive: warming in North America was driving plant species to lower elevations—not towards higher, cooler climes, as ecologists had...Nature From ACM News | April 16, 2015
The advent of three-dimensional (3D) printing has generated a swell of interest in artificial organs meant to replace, or even enhance, human machinery.Nature From ACM News | April 16, 2015