For the first time, China has overtaken the United States in terms of the total number of science publications, according to statistics compiled by the US National...Nature From ACM Careers | January 19, 2018
Eyes are said to be the window to the soul—but researchers at Google see them as indicators of a person's health.
Nature From ACM News | January 3, 2018
On 15 November, Argentina's Navy lost contact with the ARA San Juan, a small diesel-powered submarine that had been involved in exercises off the east coast of...Nature From ACM Opinion | November 28, 2017
Brain implants that deliver electrical pulses tuned to a person's feelings and behaviour are being tested in people for the first time. Two teams funded by the...Nature From ACM News | November 27, 2017
Hany Farid, a computer scientist at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, specialises in detecting manipulated images and videos. Farid, who provides his...Nature From ACM Opinion | October 11, 2017
From mining projects to oil and gas operations, human activity has set off earthquakes around the world and in many geological settings.
Nature From ACM News | October 3, 2017
Leading neuroscientists are joining forces to study the brain—in much the same way that physicists team up in mega-projects to hunt for new particles.
Nature From ACM News | September 19, 2017
A storm of criticism has rained down on a paper by genome-sequencing pioneer Craig Venter that claims to predict people's physical traits from their DNA.
Nature From ACM News | September 11, 2017
Researchers are combining artificial intelligence and climate science to create deep-learning analyses of weather patterns.
Nature From ACM TechNews | August 28, 2017
As Earth-observing satellites become more plentiful and climate models more powerful, researchers who study global warming are facing a deluge of data.
Nature From ACM News | August 25, 2017
Computer algorithms trained on the images of thousands of preserved plants have learned to automatically identify species that have been pressed, dried and mounted...Nature From ACM News | August 11, 2017
The numbers didn't add up. Even as Earth grew warmer and glaciers and ice sheets thawed, decades of satellite data seemed to show that the rate of sea-level rise...Nature From ACM News | July 18, 2017
Jerry Paros is worried about the geological time bomb ticking away just off the coast near his home in Washington state.
Nature From ACM News | June 21, 2017
Only metres away from the tourist throngs that bustle through Venice's crowded piazzas, the silence inside Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari is so profound it hurts...Nature From ACM News | June 14, 2017
Leaning back in his chair, Jonathan Mattingly swings his legs up onto his desk, presses a key on his laptop and changes the results of the 2012 elections in North...Nature From ACM News | June 9, 2017
Nigerian health officials won't have to rely on flawed, decade-old census data when they plan deliveries of the measles vaccine next year.
Nature From ACM News | May 9, 2017
As spring turns to summer along the east coast of the United States, thoughts turn to holidays, beaches, picnics—and mosquitoes.
Nature From ACM News | May 8, 2017