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From ACM NewsSamuel Greengard| December 7, 2023
An edited collection of advanced computing news from Communications of the ACM, ACM TechNews, other ACM resources, and news sites around the Web.
Cosmologists think that in its first moments, the Universe ballooned from a subatomic size to bigger than a grapefruit. But testing theories about this period is...Nature From ACM News | April 26, 2018
The genome of the flu virus has been fully sequenced in its native RNA form for the first time. Previously, all influenza genomes—as well as those of other viruses...Nature From ACM News | April 23, 2018
After spending three months trying to blow up a star, Hans-Thomas Janka and his team finally saw what they had been waiting for.
Nature From ACM News | April 19, 2018
Every day, the human hippocampus, a brain region involved in learning and memory, creates hundreds of new nerve cells—or so scientists thought.
Nature From ACM News | March 8, 2018
The United States filled a crucial gap in its weather-forecasting arsenal when it launched its latest geostationary satellite on 1 March. The craft will enable...Nature From ACM News | March 6, 2018
Astronomers have for the first time spotted long-sought signals of light from the earliest stars ever to form in the Universe—around 180 million years after the...Nature From ACM News | March 2, 2018
In March 2015, Li-Huei Tsai set up a tiny disco for some of the mice in her laboratory. For an hour each day, she placed them in a box lit only by a flickering...Nature From ACM News | March 1, 2018
Computer software can now quickly detect duplicate images across large swathes of the research literature, three scientists say.
Nature From ACM News | February 23, 2018
The North Atlantic Ocean is a major driver of the global currents that regulate Earth's climate, mix the oceans and sequester carbon from the atmosphere—but researchers...Nature From ACM News | February 16, 2018
Data scientists in South Africa are readying themselves for a flood of information that is due to crash over them when the country's biggest radio telescope doubles...Nature From ACM News | February 12, 2018
Researchers have exploited the twisty nature of topological physics to produce a high-quality beam of laser light—a step that could lead to the first practical...Nature From ACM News | February 2, 2018
As Benjamin Delory started his paper documenting a new way to quantify plant morphology, he realized that one of the figures could pose a problem.
Nature From ACM News | January 31, 2018
For the first time, China has overtaken the United States in terms of the total number of science publications, according to statistics compiled by the US National...Nature From ACM Careers | January 19, 2018
For someone who's not a Sherlock superfan, cognitive neuroscientist Janice Chen knows the BBC's hit detective drama better than most.
Nature From ACM News | January 12, 2018
From its perch aboard the International Space Station, a NASA experiment has shown how future missions might navigate their way through deep space.
Nature From ACM News | January 12, 2018
In the next few weeks, a research group at the Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands expects to receive an important package. Its contents promise to...Nature From ACM News | January 11, 2018
Eyes are said to be the window to the soul—but researchers at Google see them as indicators of a person's health.
Nature From ACM News | January 3, 2018