Superconducting computing chips modelled after neurons can process information faster and more efficiently than the human brain.
Nature From ACM News | January 29, 2018
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
For someone who's not a Sherlock superfan, cognitive neuroscientist Janice Chen knows the BBC's hit detective drama better than most.
Nature From ACM News | January 12, 2018
From its perch aboard the International Space Station, a NASA experiment has shown how future missions might navigate their way through deep space.
Nature From ACM News | January 12, 2018
In the next few weeks, a research group at the Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands expects to receive an important package. Its contents promise to...Nature From ACM News | January 11, 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
The much-hyped technology behind Bitcoin, known as blockchain, has intoxicated investors around the world and is now making tentative inroads into science, spurred...Nature From ACM News | December 18, 2017
At the end of July, workers at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee began filling up a cavernous room with the makings of a computational behemoth: row...Nature From ACM News | December 1, 2017
Life has spent the past few billion years working with a narrow vocabulary. Now researchers have broken those rules, adding extra letters to biology's limited lexicon...Nature From ACM News | November 29, 2017
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
The toolbox for editing genes expanded this week, as two research groups announced techniques that enable researchers to make targeted alterations to DNA and RNA...Nature From ACM News | October 26, 2017
Superconductivity—a phenomenon in which electrons can travel through certain materials with zero resistance—has revolutionized parts of medicine, travel and science...Nature From ACM News | October 25, 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
Engineers have used a supercomputing technique that mimics natural selection to design the internal structure of an aircraft wing from scratch.
Nature From ACM News | October 5, 2017
Sebastian Neubert, a particle physicist at Heidelberg University in Germany, leads a group studying subatomic particles called pentaquarks. The six team members...Nature From ACM News | October 4, 2017