In 1816, a teenager began to compose what many view as the first true work of science fiction—and unleashed one of the most subversive attacks on modern science...Nature From ACM Opinion | July 28, 2016
John Holdren is no stranger to the spotlight. Over his long career in science, Holdren—a physicist by training—has worked on controversial issues such as climate...Nature From ACM Opinion | July 7, 2016
Neil Johnson, a physicist at the University of Miami in Florida, studies patterns that emerge in complex systems.Nature From ACM Opinion | June 17, 2016
In 1984, I was part of a team that was developing a receiver for a satellite-navigation system. After weeks of debugging, the blur of random digits settled on a...Nature From ACM Opinion | March 31, 2016
Napoleon had it and so did Charles Darwin. Tennis champion Roger Federer has it in spades. The dictionary defines intuition as knowledge obtained without conscious...Nature From ACM Opinion | January 28, 2016
A Swiss company is set to become the first firm to capture carbon dioxide from the air and sell it on a commercial scale, a stepping stone to larger facilities...Nature From ACM Opinion | December 22, 2015
The ease of use, accuracy and efficiency of the genome-editing tool CRISPR/Cas9 has led to its broad adoption in research, as well as to preliminary applications...Nature From ACM Opinion | November 13, 2015
If you are wondering whether exposure to some chemical could increase your chances of getting colon cancer, you could easily find supportive evidence from animal...Nature From ACM Opinion | November 6, 2015
By and large, we watch movies to be entertained, not to be provoked into deep thought. Occasionally, a film does both.Nature From ACM Opinion | June 1, 2015
With the first papers appearing in the literature that describe CRISPR-Cas9 engineering of human reproductive cells, are we at a new Asilomar moment?Nature From ACM Opinion | May 18, 2015
On 30 April, after more than four years in orbit around Mercury, NASA's MESSENGER probe will plunge to its doom.Nature From ACM Opinion | April 28, 2015
It is thought that studies involving the use of genome-editing tools to modify the DNA of human embryos will be published shortly.Nature From ACM Opinion | March 13, 2015
Countless owners of smartphones and wearable devices are already using their devices to track their sleep, exercise, blood pressure and other measures of health...Nature From ACM Opinion | March 10, 2015