Software called TLDR (too long, didn't read) automatically produces one-sentence abstracts of research papers.
Nature From ACM TechNews | November 30, 2020
Missing documentation and obsolete environments force participants in the Ten Years Reproducibility Challenge to get creative.
Nature From ACM News | August 26, 2020
The U.S. National Science Foundation has taken action in 16-to-20 individual cases, most involving "very well-known academics," in which foreign ties were not properly...Nature From ACM News | July 10, 2020
Scientists worldwide are scrambling to track and counter the spread of misinformation and conspiracy theories about the coronavirus pandemic.
Nature From ACM TechNews | June 8, 2020
The U.S. National Science Foundation estimated China's research and development funding is rapidly catching up to that of the U.S.
Nature From ACM TechNews | January 23, 2020
U.S. President Donald Trump nominated computer scientist and Arizona State University vice president Sethuraman Panchanathan to be director of the U.S. National...Nature From ACM TechNews | December 20, 2019
The open-source Julia language combines the speed of "compiled" languages such as Fortran and C with the interactivity and syntax of "scripting" languages such...Nature From ACM TechNews | August 6, 2019
A new artificial intelligence program beat elite professional poker players at six-player no-limit Texas hold'em poker.
Nature From ACM TechNews | July 12, 2019
Art historians are starting to utilize machine learning to provide empirical support for theories previously limited to the subjective eye of the beholders.
Nature From ACM TechNews | June 14, 2019
A spacecraft that was supposed to solve the mystery of methane on Mars has instead compounded scientists' confusion.
Nature From ACM News | April 11, 2019
Astronomers have finally glimpsed the blackness of a black hole. By stringing together a global network of radio telescopes, they have for the first time produced...Nature From ACM News | April 10, 2019
For the past year, space probe Hayabusa2 has pelted asteroid Ryugu with bouncing probes, shot a bullet at it, and taken a bite of it—all for science.
Nature From ACM News | April 8, 2019
Yoshua Bengio is one of three computer scientists who last week shared the US$1-million A. M. Turing award—one of the field's top prizes.
Nature From ACM Opinion | April 4, 2019
Researchers worldwide are racing to get ahead of a bug in the US Global Positioning System (GPS) that could cause data loggers, including thousands of scientific...Nature From ACM News | April 3, 2019
The hunt is on for materials that have exotic properties, to enhance quantum computers, touch screens and electronic displays, and to double the efficiency of solar...Nature From ACM Opinion | March 1, 2019