The 2012 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded jointly to Serge Haroche and David J. Wineland for experimental methods that enable measuring and manipulation of individual...Scientific American From ACM News | October 9, 2012
Despite advances in weather prediction technology, meteorologists must still qualify any hurricane forecasts with a "cone of uncertainty," which depicts just how...Scientific American From ACM News | July 19, 2012
Some people try to make the most of their spare time by exercising, volunteering, or simply recharging their batteries. Others like to use that time to build robots...Scientific American From ACM News | May 31, 2012
Much of Intel's success as a microprocessor manufacturer over the past four decades has come from the company's ability to understand and anticipate the future...Scientific American From ACM Opinion | May 15, 2012
Earlier this year Iran's defense minister put the world on notice: His nation had developed the ability to "easily" watch spacewalking astronauts from the ground...Scientific American From ACM News | May 1, 2012
Modern science relies upon researchers sharing their work so that their peers can check and verify success or failure.Scientific American From ACM News | April 17, 2012
A heartbreaking, out-of-the-gate failure of Russia's sample return mission early this year created a wide circle of disappointment.Scientific American From ACM News | March 26, 2012
The quantum world and the everyday world of human experience are supposed to be two different realms. Quantum effects, as demonstrated in the lab, are usually confined...Scientific American From ACM News | March 13, 2012
What Einstein's E=mc2 is to relativity theory, Heisenberg's uncertainty principle is to quantum mechanics—not just a profound insight, but also an iconic formula...Scientific American From ACM News | March 9, 2012
When large airliners approach an airport for a landing, a combination of radio signals and high-intensity lighting shows the pilot exactly where the runway is,...Scientific American From ACM News | February 16, 2012
If there is one general rule about the limitations of the human mind, it is that we are terrible at multitasking.Scientific American From ACM News | January 19, 2012
The race to the $1,000 genome heated up today as Life Technologies, based in Carlsbad, Calif., announced it will debut a new sequencing machine this year that...Scientific American From ACM News | January 11, 2012
Soon after the ill-fated Phobos-Grunt spacecraft stalled in Earth orbit, a former Russian official implicated "powerful American radars" in Alaska. Is there a...Scientific American From ACM News | December 15, 2011
Two groups of physicists have managed to shift the quantum entanglement between two photons onto an entangled state between one photon and a quantum memor.Scientific American From ACM News | January 14, 2011
Supercomputers have long been an indispensable, albeit expensive, tool for researchers who need to make sense of vast amounts of data. One way that researchers...Scientific American From ACM News | October 19, 2009
Researchers are relying on graphics processing units to help build a highly complex computer simulation depicting how chromatophore proteins create photosynthesis...Scientific American From ACM News | October 1, 2009