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
When computer scientist Christian Berger's team sought to get its project about self-driving vehicle algorithms on the road, it faced a daunting obstacle.
Nature From ACM News | September 11, 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
After being kicked out of a hotel conference room where they had participated in a three-day open-science workshop and hackathon, a group of computer scientists...Nature From ACM News | August 16, 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
Brent Hecht, chair of ACM's Future of Computing Academy, proposes revising the peer review process to ensure scientists report negative societal consequences of...Nature From ACM TechNews | August 1, 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
After travelling for three-and-a-half years, the Japanese spacecraft Hayabusa-2 this week makes its final approach to the asteroid Ryugu.
Nature From ACM News | June 27, 2018