The fibre-optic cables that carry Internet traffic can also be used for a powerful form of the strange phenomenon known as quantum teleportation.
Nature From ACM News | October 25, 2018
A future 'quantum internet' could find use long before it reaches technological maturity, a team of physicists predicts.
Nature From ACM News | October 24, 2018
NASA's next Mars rover—the first to gather rock samples meant to come back to Earth—should dream big and visit as many places on the red planet as possible, scientists...Nature From ACM News | October 19, 2018
A European rocket is ready to launch the most ambitious mission ever taken towards Mercury, Earth's once-neglected sibling in the Solar System.
Nature From ACM News | October 16, 2018
Genetic sleuthing techniques that led to the arrest of a suspect in the infamous Golden State Killer case this year are set to become vastly more powerful, suggest...Nature From ACM News | October 12, 2018
A third rover has touched down on the surface of asteroid Ryugu, marking a hat-trick of successful landings for the Japanese Hayabusa2 space mission.
Nature From ACM News | October 3, 2018
Upload your latest holiday photos to Facebook, and there's a chance they'll end up stored in Prineville, Oregon, a small town where the firm has built three giant...Nature From ACM News | September 17, 2018
A machine-learning study that analysed hundreds of thousands of earthquakes beat the standard method at predicting the location of aftershocks.
Nature From ACM News | August 31, 2018
After inspecting asteroid Ryugu for two months, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has revealed the sites where the Hayabusa2 spacecraft will touchdown...Nature From ACM News | August 24, 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
A once-controversial approach to particle physics has entered the mainstream at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC).
Nature From ACM News | August 15, 2018
For the first time, scientists have wielded CRISPR to track a mammal's development from a single egg into an embryo with millions of cells.
Nature From ACM News | August 13, 2018
For millions of years, brewer's yeast and its close relatives have packed their DNA into 16 distinct chromosomes.
Nature From ACM News | August 3, 2018
In a basement storeroom at Stanford University in California, the guts of a dozen DNA sequencers lie exposed—hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of cameras and...Nature From ACM News | July 30, 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
In a paper Nature, Jiang et al.1 report the highest-magnification image ever obtained using a transmission electron microscope.
Nature From ACM News | July 20, 2018
Scientists have produced a 3D image of a fruit fly's brain that's so detailed, researchers can trace connections between neurons across the entire organ.
Nature From ACM News | July 19, 2018
Researchers have embraced CRISPR gene-editing as a method for altering genomes, but some are cautioning that unwanted DNA changes may slip by undetected.
Nature From ACM News | July 18, 2018
Scientists and politicians in South Africa are together celebrating the official opening of a gigantic telescope that is already transforming astronomy research...Nature From ACM News | July 16, 2018