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
The mantra "publish or perish" is drilled into every early-career scientist—and for good reason, a computer model suggests.Nature From ACM Careers | June 4, 2014
The instructions encoded into DNA are thought to follow a universal set of rules across all domains of life. But researchers report today in Science1 that organisms...Nature From ACM News | May 23, 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
For billions of years, the history of life has been written with just four letters—A, T, C and G, the labels given to the DNA subunits contained in all organisms...Nature From ACM News | May 7, 2014
A vast project to map neural connections in the mouse retina may have answered the long-standing question of how the eyes detect motion.Nature From ACM News | May 5, 2014
Microsoft makes Windows, Word, and the Xbox. But it also employs scientists who make sensors to stick on the hides of elephants and rhinoceroses.Nature From ACM News | May 2, 2014
The DNA sequences of Neanderthals and other extinct human relatives have exposed lost migrations, sexual escapades and even new species.Nature From ACM News | April 22, 2014
Mars' atmosphere was probably never thick enough to keep temperatures on the planet's surface above freezing for the long term, suggests research published today...Nature From ACM News | April 14, 2014
A belowground experiment at the South Pole has now discovered three of the highest-energy neutrinos ever found, particles that may be created in the most violent...Nature From ACM News | April 11, 2014
Researchers have created a wearable device that is as thin as a temporary tattoo and can store and transmit data about a person's movements, receive diagnostic...Nature From ACM News | April 3, 2014
Before ancient DNA exposed the sexual proclivities of Neanderthals or the ancestry of the first Americans, there was the quagga.Nature From ACM News | March 31, 2014