Believe it or not, I do have friends who would describe themselves as not liking math, and every so often one of them will share this meme on Facebook: And then...Scientific American From ACM Opinion | September 29, 2014
One of the largest treasure troves of astronomical data comes from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), an ongoing scan of the firmament that began 15 years ago...Scientific American From ACM Opinion | September 19, 2014
NASA has long wanted to send a mission to Mars to grab some of its surface and sling it back to Earth.Scientific American From ACM News | September 11, 2014
On June 28, 2009, the world-famous physicist Stephen Hawking threw a party at the University of Cambridge, complete with balloons, hors d'oeuvres and iced champagne...Scientific American From ACM News | September 3, 2014
A replacement for the ordinary transistor may make it to market by the end of this decade, an event that will herald a radical redesign of traditional computer...Scientific American From ACM News | July 23, 2014
To protect your financial and personal data, most mobiles come with PIN-based security, biometrics or number grids that require you to retrace a particular pattern...Scientific American From ACM News | June 17, 2014
A few months ago I went to Cambridge, Mass. to check in with the Event Horizon Telescope crew and found Shep Doeleman, the project leader, fresh off the completion...Scientific American From ACM Opinion | June 11, 2014
A single Hubble Space Telescope image can capture scores of distant galaxies, but the one galaxy we'll never see from the outside is our own.Scientific American From ACM News | June 3, 2014
At a bitcoin conference in Miami this January, Jeffrey Tucker, a laissez-faire economist and libertarian icon, made an unexpected observation.Scientific American From ACM News | April 29, 2014
When your home computer is hacked, the things at risk are your identity, finances and other digital assets.Scientific American From ACM News | April 2, 2014
The Hubble Space Telescope has glimpsed farther into the universe than any observatory before, producing the first of six new "deep field" images that show objects...Scientific American From ACM News | January 9, 2014
When Microsoft launched its research labs in 1991, the personal computer was just beginning to blossom into a worldwide phenomenon, thanks in no small part to Windows...Scientific American From ACM Opinion | December 27, 2013
Scientists have been trying to develop room-temperature superconductors—materials that conduct electrons with zero resistance, and do so without cumbersome, energy...Scientific American From ACM News | December 9, 2013
Computers as we know them have are close to reaching an inflection point—the next generation is in sight but not quite within our grasp.Scientific American From ACM Opinion | November 14, 2013
The biggest breakthroughs in how we make things lie not in the technology to manipulate materials but in the materials themselves.Scientific American From ACM Opinion | November 5, 2013
Rugged individualists aside, many people find themselves increasingly connected not just to one another but also to the devices that make those connections possible...Scientific American From ACM Opinion | October 15, 2013