Proliferating military artificial intelligence will leave the world less safe—so we must focus on ethics and global cooperation, argues Denise Garcia, vice-chair...Nature From ACM Opinion | May 12, 2021
To help humanity solve fundamental problems of cooperation, scientists need to reconceive artificial intelligence as deeply social.
Nature From ACM Opinion | May 6, 2021
Nature talks to Peter Shor 25 years after he showed how to make quantum computations feasible — and how they could endanger our data.
Nature From ACM Opinion | November 2, 2020
Results from the United States' midterm elections are still pouring in, but a handful of candidates with backgrounds in science or technology have already nabbed...Nature From ACM Opinion | November 7, 2018
Late in 2016, then-US President Barack Obama mused in an interview with The New Yorker magazine that he had probably been elected because his campaign had begun...Nature From ACM Opinion | October 11, 2018
Alan Turing's crucial unscrambling of German messages in the Second World War was a tour de force of codebreaking.
Nature From ACM Opinion | September 4, 2018
When Google Translate converts news articles written in Spanish into English, phrases referring to women often become "he said" or "he wrote."
Nature From ACM Opinion | July 23, 2018
A pre-eminent twentieth-century physicist and a Nobel laureate: Richard Feynman was certainly those. He was also much more.
Nature From ACM Opinion | May 10, 2018
According to theoretical physicist Carlo Rovelli, time is an illusion: our naive perception of its flow doesn't correspond to physical reality.
Nature From ACM Opinion | April 24, 2018
Cyberattacks are becoming more frequent, sophisticated and destructive. Each day in 2017, the United States suffered, on average, more than 4,000 ransomware attacks...Nature From ACM Opinion | April 17, 2018
In 1968, film-maker Stanley Kubrick and his screenwriting colleague, science-fiction author Arthur C. Clarke, presented 2001: A Space Odyssey. Half a century later...Nature From ACM Opinion | April 3, 2018
Revelations keep emerging in the Cambridge Analytica personal-data scandal, which has captured global public attention for more than a week. But when the dust settles...Nature From ACM Opinion | March 27, 2018
Replication is essential for building confidence in research studies, yet it is still the exception rather than the rule.
Nature From ACM Opinion | February 21, 2018
For all the excitement surrounding the gene-editing tool CRISPR, it is not that efficient or precise. It's hard to make many changes at once.
Nature From ACM Opinion | January 30, 2018
Meteorology is entering a new era. Demand is growing worldwide for forecasts of storms, floods and droughts.
Nature From ACM Opinion | December 18, 2017
As debate rumbles on about how and how much poor statistics is to blame for poor reproducibility, Nature asked influential statisticians to recommend one change...Nature From ACM Opinion | November 28, 2017
Forty years ago, two papers1, 2 described the first tractable methods for determining the order of the chemical bases in stretches of DNA. Before these 1977 publications...Nature From ACM Opinion | October 13, 2017
Max Tegmark is a renowned physicist. He is also the irrepressibly optimistic co-founder of the Future of Life Institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts (motto: "Technology...Nature From ACM Opinion | September 1, 2017