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
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
When night arrives on Mars, plunging temperatures can lead to weather much worse than researchers previously thought was possible on the Red Planet.
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
Cosmologists have produced the biggest map yet of the Universe's structure and they find it less lumpy than previous surveys have suggested.
Nature From ACM News | August 4, 2017
In a high-ceilinged hangar at CERN, six rival experiments are racing to understand the nature of one of the Universe's most elusive materials.
Nature From ACM News | August 3, 2017
An international team of researchers has used CRISPR–Cas9 gene editing—a technique that allows scientists to make precise changes to genomes with relative ease—to...Nature From ACM News | August 2, 2017
Science is in the throes of a reproducibility crisis, and researchers, funders and publishers are increasingly worried that the scholarly literature is littered...Nature From ACM News | July 27, 2017
Charles Kane never thought he would be cavorting with topologists. "I don't think like a mathematician," admits Kane, a theoretical physicist who has tended to...Nature From ACM News | July 19, 2017
The numbers didn't add up. Even as Earth grew warmer and glaciers and ice sheets thawed, decades of satellite data seemed to show that the rate of sea-level rise...Nature From ACM News | July 18, 2017
Internet users have a variety of format options in which to store their movies, and biologists have now joined the party.
Nature From ACM News | July 12, 2017