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
One of the worst epidemics in human history, a sixteenth-century pestilence that devastated Mexico's native population, may have been caused by a deadly form of...Nature From ACM News | February 27, 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
Researchers at IBM have created an elusive molecule by knocking around atoms using a needle-like microscope tip.
Nature From ACM News | February 13, 2017
Mathematicians say that they have solved a major, decades-old problem in geometry: how to reconstruct the inner structure of a mystery object 'X' from knowing only...Nature From ACM News | February 10, 2017
Any insect unlucky enough to land on the mouth-like leaves of an Australian pitcher plant will meet a grisly end.
Nature From ACM News | February 7, 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
Volcanoes, monasteries, birds, thistles: the varied images in Jeff Clune's research paper could be his holiday snaps.
Nature From ACM News | February 1, 2017
The company that makes the world's only commercially available quantum computers has released its biggest machine yet—and researchers are paying close attention...Nature From ACM News | January 25, 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
When geneticist Daniel MacArthur checks into his lab, the first thing he does is fire up Slack, a workplace messaging app.
Nature From ACM News | December 29, 2016
In a technical tour-de-force, physicists have made the first measurements of how antimatter atoms absorb light.
Nature From ACM News | December 19, 2016
The Minecraft video game was familiar to José Hernández-Orallo long before he started using it for his own research.
Nature From ACM News | December 15, 2016
A dash of graphene can transform the stretchy goo known as Silly Putty into a pressure sensor able to monitor a human pulse or even track the dainty steps of a...Nature From ACM News | December 9, 2016