Soft robots developed by researchers at Carnegie Mellon University can transition from walking to swimming or crawling to rolling…
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Next month, the worldwide semiconductor industry will formally acknowledge what has become increasingly obvious to everyone involved: Moore's law, the principle...Nature From ACM News | February 11, 2016
Scientists in London have been granted permission to edit the genomes of human embryos for research, UK fertility regulators announced. The 1 February approval...Nature From ACM News | February 1, 2016
A reanalysis of markings on Babylonian tablets has revealed that astronomers working between the fourth and first centuries bc used geometry to calculate the motions...Nature From ACM News | January 29, 2016
A computer has beaten a human professional for the first time at Go—an ancient board game that has long been viewed as one of the greatest challenges for artificial...Nature From ACM News | January 28, 2016
Gene-editing technology should not be used to modify human embryos that are intended for use in establishing a pregnancy, an international summit declared in a...Nature From ACM News | December 4, 2015
The next generation of particle-collider experiments will feature some of the world's most advanced thinking machines, if links now being forged between particle...Nature From ACM News | December 1, 2015
By tweaking an enzyme that cuts DNA, synthetic biologists say that they can make genome editing even more specific—an essential improvement if the technique is...Nature From ACM News | December 1, 2015
The ethics of human-genome editing is in the spotlight again as a large international meeting on the topic is poised to kick off in Washington DC.Nature From ACM News | November 30, 2015
A leap second is gone in the blink of an eye. But a long-awaited decision on whether to ditch these occasional time insertions—which ensure that official time is...Nature From ACM News | November 23, 2015
Sketch the structure of an organic molecule on a napkin and it may not be apparent that there are millions of possible ways that it could assemble as a 3D crystal...Nature From ACM News | November 4, 2015
With Google Scholar, PubMed, and other free academic databases at their fingertips, scientists may feel they have plenty of resources to trawl through the ever-growing...Nature From ACM News | November 2, 2015
Vast regions of near-empty space in the Universe are growing and shrinking, much as bubbles merge and separate in soapsuds, astronomers have discovered.Nature From ACM News | October 19, 2015
Take a pinch of Mars, a sprinkle of Saturn's moon Iapetus and a dash of Neptune's moon Triton—and the recipe will yield something like Pluto.Nature From ACM News | October 15, 2015
Our brains are wired in such distinctive ways that an individual can be identified on the basis of brain-scan images alone, neuroscientists report.Nature From ACM News | October 13, 2015
As the costs of genetic sequencing fall, oncologists are starting to prescribe expensive new drugs that target the genetic profiles of their patients' tumours,...Nature From ACM News | September 24, 2015
In a basement room, deep in the bowels of a steel-clad building in Cambridge, a major insurgency is under way.Nature From ACM News | September 18, 2015