Measurement has driven research groups to home in on the most popular datasets, but that may change as metrics shift to real-world…
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For doctors trying to treat people who have symptoms that have no clear cause, gene-sequencing technologies might help in pointing them to a diagnosis. But the...Nature From ACM News | March 1, 2017
The US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has upheld a series of patents granted for the CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing technology to the Broad Institute of MIT and...Nature From ACM News | February 16, 2017
Scientists should be permitted to modify human embryos destined for implantation in the womb to eliminate devastating genetic diseases such as sickle-cell anaemia...Nature From ACM News | February 14, 2017
A version of an iconic experiment to confirm quantum theory has for the first time used the light of distant stars to bolster the case for a phenomenon that Albert...Nature From ACM News | February 3, 2017
A mystery player causing a stir in the world of the complex strategy game Go has been revealed as an updated version of AlphaGo, the artificial-intelligence program...Nature From ACM News | January 4, 2017
One of science's most contentious metrics has a flashy new rival. On 8 December, publishing giant Elsevier launched the CiteScore index to assess the quality of...Nature From ACM Careers | December 12, 2016
A free AI-based scholarly search engine that aims to outdo Google Scholar is expanding its corpus of papers to cover some 10 million research articles in computer...Nature From ACM News | November 11, 2016
Artificial-intelligence systems known as neural networks can recognize images, translate languages and even master the ancient game of Go. But their limited ability...Nature From ACM News | October 14, 2016
Three chemists who created tiny molecular machines have won the 2016 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their intricate designs.Nature From ACM News | October 6, 2016
Google's online translation service, Google Translate, will soon be using a new algorithm that is entirely based on deep learning, the company announced on 27 September...Nature From ACM News | September 30, 2016
In the fight to protect Earth from solar storms, the battle lines are drawn in space at a point 1.6 million kilometres away.Nature From ACM News | September 28, 2016