The toolbox for editing genes expanded this week, as two research groups announced techniques that enable researchers to make targeted alterations to DNA and RNA...Nature From ACM News | October 26, 2017
Superconductivity—a phenomenon in which electrons can travel through certain materials with zero resistance—has revolutionized parts of medicine, travel and science...Nature From ACM News | October 25, 2017
Hany Farid, a computer scientist at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, specialises in detecting manipulated images and videos. Farid, who provides his...Nature From ACM Opinion | October 11, 2017
Engineers have used a supercomputing technique that mimics natural selection to design the internal structure of an aircraft wing from scratch.
Nature From ACM News | October 5, 2017
Sebastian Neubert, a particle physicist at Heidelberg University in Germany, leads a group studying subatomic particles called pentaquarks. The six team members...Nature From ACM News | October 4, 2017
From mining projects to oil and gas operations, human activity has set off earthquakes around the world and in many geological settings.
Nature From ACM News | October 3, 2017
Leading neuroscientists are joining forces to study the brain—in much the same way that physicists team up in mega-projects to hunt for new particles.
Nature From ACM News | September 19, 2017
At 4:55 a.m. California time on 15 September, hundreds of scientists watched their life's work go up in flames.
Nature From ACM News | September 15, 2017
As an ice sheet melts, it leaves a unique signature behind. Complex geological processes distribute the meltwater in a distinct pattern, or 'fingerprint', thatthese...Nature From ACM News | September 14, 2017
A storm of criticism has rained down on a paper by genome-sequencing pioneer Craig Venter that claims to predict people's physical traits from their DNA.
Nature From ACM News | September 11, 2017
A huge genetic study that sought to pinpoint how the human genome is evolving suggests that natural selection is getting rid of harmful genetic mutations that shorten...Nature From ACM News | September 7, 2017
Japanese researchers report promising results from an experimental therapy for Parkinson's disease that involves implanting neurons made from 'reprogrammed' stem...Nature From ACM News | August 31, 2017
Twenty years ago, in the wee hours of a muggy Florida morning, the Cassini spacecraft lit up the skies as it blasted off from Cape Canaveral.
Nature From ACM News | August 30, 2017
Scientists who make movies of molecules in motion have a new high-speed camera to shoot with. The €1.2-billion (US$1.4-billion) European X-ray Free Electron Laser...Nature From ACM News | August 29, 2017
As Earth-observing satellites become more plentiful and climate models more powerful, researchers who study global warming are facing a deluge of data.
Nature From ACM News | August 25, 2017