For more than a decade, neuroscientist Grégoire Courtine has been flying every few months from his lab at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne...Nature From ACM News | November 10, 2016
Photos of a huge circle of churned-up Martian soil leave few doubts: a European Space Agency (ESA) probe that was supposed to test landing technology on Mars crashed...Nature From ACM News | October 25, 2016
The race is on build a "universal" quantum computer. Such a device could be programmed to speedily solve problems that classical computers cannot crack, potentially...Nature From ACM Opinion | October 21, 2016
Almost three weeks after it crash-landed the Rosetta orbiter on a comet, the European Space Agency (ESA) is gearing up to land another spacecraft—this time on Mars...Nature From ACM News | October 18, 2016
The observable Universe contains about 2 trillion galaxies—more than ten times as many as previously estimated, according to the first significant revision of the...Nature From ACM News | October 17, 2016
Artificial-intelligence systems known as neural networks can recognize images, translate languages and even master the ancient game of Go. But their limited ability...Nature From ACM News | October 14, 2016
For the first time, a paralysed man has gained a limited sense of touch, thanks to an electric implant that stimulates his brain and allows him to feel pressure...Nature From ACM News | October 14, 2016
Three chemists who created tiny molecular machines have won the 2016 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their intricate designs.Nature From ACM News | October 6, 2016
Google's online translation service, Google Translate, will soon be using a new algorithm that is entirely based on deep learning, the company announced on 27 September...Nature From ACM News | September 30, 2016
In the fight to protect Earth from solar storms, the battle lines are drawn in space at a point 1.6 million kilometres away.Nature From ACM News | September 28, 2016
The Rosetta comet orbiter will meet a sticky end on 30 September, but not before a finale that should see it gather the most detailed images yet of 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko—or...Nature From ACM News | September 28, 2016
Set in a remote natural depression in the mountainous region of Guizhou, China, the world's largest single-dish telescope is on the brink of sparking a new era...Nature From ACM News | September 26, 2016