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
The robot moves slowly along its track, pausing regularly to reach out an arm that carefully scoops up a component.Nature From ACM News | September 11, 2015
The toughest test of quantum theory ever conducted has verified "spooky action at a distance" is inherent to the quantum domain. Nature From ACM TechNews | September 2, 2015
NASA's New Horizons spacecraft solved many mysteries about Pluto when it flew past the dwarf planet in July. But as mission controllers prepare to steer the probe...Nature From ACM News | September 1, 2015
A complete lack of formal scientific training has not kept Johan Sosa from dabbling with one of the most powerful molecular-biology tools to come along in decades...Nature From ACM News | August 26, 2015
Hydrogen sulfide—the compound responsible for the smell of rotten eggs—conducts electricity with zero resistance at a record high temperature of 203 kelvin (–70...Nature From ACM News | August 19, 2015
Artificial-intelligence researchers have long struggled to make computers perform a task that is simple for humans: picking out one person’s speech when multiple...Nature From ACM News | August 12, 2015
"Crap!" That was the first word out of Kevin Esvelt’s mouth as he scanned a paper1 published inScience last March.Nature From ACM News | August 4, 2015