A man missing his lower leg has gained precise control over a prosthetic limb, just by thinking about moving it—all because his unused nerves were preserved during...New Scientist From ACM News | September 26, 2013
Giving fully conscious but paralysed people hard sums to do might seem like adding insult to injury. But because such brain teasers make the pupils of the eyes...New Scientist From ACM News | August 7, 2013
It's a golden age for spying. The subsea fibre-optic cables that carry telephone and Internet traffic are a technological marvel—and a gift to intelligence agencies...New Scientist From ACM News | June 26, 2013
Bats, dolphins, and even some blind people use echoes to create a mental 3D map of their environment and where they are in it. A smartphone's chirp could soon let...New Scientist From ACM News | June 18, 2013
"Kepler was my North, my South, my East and West, my working week, no weekend rest, my noon, my midnight, my talks, my song; I thought Kepler would last forever...New Scientist From ACM News | May 16, 2013
NASA's Curiosity rover has found what it was looking for in its very first taste of Martian rock—much to everyone's surprise.New Scientist From ACM News | March 20, 2013
Albert Perry carried a secret in his DNA: a Y chromosome so distinctive that it reveals new information about the origin of our species.New Scientist From ACM News | March 7, 2013
When Microsoft's Kinect gaming sensor first exploded onto the gaming scene in 2010, it wasn't long before people started getting excited about what it might make...New Scientist From ACM News | January 22, 2013
Soon we'll be able to engineer living things with mechanical precision, says Tom Knight, father of synthetic biology.New Scientist From ACM Opinion | December 11, 2012
U.S. Central Intelligence Agency director David Petraeus was brought down by metadata, which is not covered by the Stored Communications Act. New Scientist From ACM TechNews | November 20, 2012
When it comes to the human brain, many scientists believe that we are incapable of understanding how it works because we lack the tools and intelligence to measure...New Scientist From ACM News | November 16, 2012
One of the greatest benefits of 3D printing technology—the ability to make replacements or parts for household objects like toys, utensils and gadgets—may be denied...New Scientist From ACM Opinion | October 16, 2012
Alert to a sudden threat, you race down a virtual corridor of servers, hot on the tail of malicious software.New Scientist From ACM News | October 4, 2012
It is more than a year since Watson, IBM's famous supercomputer, opened a new frontier for artificial intelligence by beating human champions of the quiz show Jeopardy...New Scientist From ACM News | August 23, 2012
Hungarian Academy of Sciences researchers have developed a data-mining tool that automatically helps predict emerging technologies.New Scientist From ACM TechNews | July 6, 2012
Many computer science researchers are trying to create an AI system that offers video game players a more tailored experience. New Scientist From ACM TechNews | June 11, 2012
Friending someone on Facebook makes an association public, but many relationships are never professed online.New Scientist From ACM News | May 24, 2012