Last month, Adina Howe took up a post at Iowa State University in Ames. Officially, she is an assistant professor of agricultural and biosystems engineering.Nature From ACM Careers | February 4, 2015
Scientists at the European Space Agency (ESA) are debating whether to change part of the Rosetta mission in what would probably be the last attempt to find lost...Nature From ACM News | January 26, 2015
On clear, moonless evenings, most of the biggest optical telescopes around the world begin the night's observations by firing a golden laser beam at the sky.Nature From ACM News | January 21, 2015
A paradise on Earth could soon become the first ecosystem in the world to be replicated in digital form in painstaking detail, from the genes of its plants and...Nature From ACM News | January 14, 2015
NASA's Kepler space telescope has hit a milestone: confirming the existence of 1,000 planets, including a fresh crop of alien worlds that are more Earth-like than...Nature From ACM News | January 8, 2015
Using thousands of exposures from the Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have created the sharpest and deepest image ever assembled of the Andromeda galaxy.Nature From ACM News | January 6, 2015
More than a month after the Philae spacecraft bounced to the surface of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, European Space Agency scientists still have not been able...Nature From ACM News | December 18, 2014
Long sand dunes that ripple across Saturn's moon Titan may have been there for thousands of years, results from NASA's Cassini spacecraft suggest.Nature From ACM News | December 9, 2014
When asked what he likes best about working for Google, physicist John Martinis does not mention the famous massage chairs in the hallways, or the free snacks available...Nature From ACM News | December 3, 2014
For the first time since accidents severed the neural connection between their brains and limbs, a small number of patients are reaching out and feeling the world...Nature From ACM News | November 26, 2014
Once locked in an arms race with each other for the fastest supercomputers, US national laboratories are now banding together to buy their next-generation machines...Nature From ACM News | November 14, 2014
Astronomers have spotted a faint cosmic glow, unseen until now, that may come from stars that float adrift between galaxies.Nature From ACM News | November 7, 2014
A 45,000-year-old leg bone from Siberia has yielded the oldest genome sequence for Homo sapiens on record—revealing a mysterious population that may once have spanned...Nature From ACM News | October 23, 2014
Structural biology, the mapping of complex biological molecules such as proteins, is in the grip of a revolution.Nature From ACM News | October 22, 2014
s though someone had pulled a plug in the oceans and drained them away, a sea-floor map has exposed thousands of never-before-seen underwater mountains and ridges...Nature From ACM News | October 14, 2014