Brain implants that deliver electrical pulses tuned to a person's feelings and behaviour are being tested in people for the first time. Two teams funded by the...Nature From ACM News | November 27, 2017
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
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
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
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
Researchers are combining artificial intelligence and climate science to create deep-learning analyses of weather patterns.
Nature From ACM TechNews | August 28, 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
Metal antennas that send and receive TV signals and radio waves could soon be replaced by tiny films up to one hundred times smaller, scientists say.
Nature From ACM News | August 24, 2017
"When I meet God, I'm going to ask him two questions: why relativity? And why turbulence? I really believe he'll have an answer for the first."
Nature From ACM News | August 22, 2017
Neuroscientists who painstakingly map the twists and turns of neural circuitry through the brain are about to see their field expand to an industrial scale.
Nature From ACM News | August 17, 2017
Computer algorithms trained on the images of thousands of preserved plants have learned to automatically identify species that have been pressed, dried and mounted...Nature From ACM News | August 11, 2017