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From ACM NewsDavid Geer Commissioned by CACM Staff| June 23, 2022
An edited collection of advanced computing news from Communications of the ACM, ACM TechNews, other ACM resources, and news sites around the Web.
On 30 April, after more than four years in orbit around Mercury, NASA's MESSENGER probe will plunge to its doom.Nature From ACM Opinion | April 28, 2015
In the wake of the first ever report that scientists have edited the genomes of human embryos, experts cannot agree on whether the work was ethical. They also disagree...Nature From ACM News | April 27, 2015
The finding seemed counterintuitive: warming in North America was driving plant species to lower elevations—not towards higher, cooler climes, as ecologists had...Nature From ACM News | April 16, 2015
The advent of three-dimensional (3D) printing has generated a swell of interest in artificial organs meant to replace, or even enhance, human machinery.Nature From ACM News | April 16, 2015
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has kicked off its second run, as protons circulated in the machine after a two-year break.Nature From ACM News | April 6, 2015
A tweak to a technique that edits DNA with pinpoint precision has boosted its ability to correct defective genes in people.Nature From ACM News | April 3, 2015
The dream for tomorrow's medicine is to understand the links between DNA and disease—and to tailor therapies accordingly.Nature From ACM News | March 25, 2015
Researchers have found genetic signatures among Britons that betray their historical roots in particular locales of the United Kingdom, leading to the finest-scale...Nature From ACM News | March 24, 2015
Mathematicians keep refining π even though they know it to more than 12 trillion digits; physicists beat themselves up because they cannot pin down the gravitational...Nature From ACM News | March 11, 2015
Mediators appointed to analyse the rifts within Europe’s ambitious €1-billion (US$1.1 billion) Human Brain Project (HBP) have called for far-reaching changes both...Nature From ACM News | March 9, 2015
When the humanoid robot SAFFiR gets a shove, it reflexively moves to maintain its balance. SAFFiR can also walk over uneven terrain, turn its head to scan its surroundings...Nature From ACM News | March 5, 2015
DeepMind, the Google-owned artificial-intelligence company, has revealed how it created a single computer algorithm that can learn how to play 49 different arcade...Nature From ACM News | February 25, 2015
A recently discovered stellar neighbour of the Sun penetrated the extreme fringes of the Solar System—the closest encounter ever documented—at around the time that...Nature From ACM News | February 18, 2015
A mysterious group of humans from the east stormed western Europe 4,500 years ago—bringing with them technologies such as the wheel, as well as a language that...Nature From ACM News | February 13, 2015
This summer, people will cruise through the streets of Greenwich, U.K., in electric shuttles with no one's hands on the steering wheel—or any steering wheel at...Nature From ACM News | February 9, 2015