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From ACM NewsSamuel Greengard| December 7, 2023
An edited collection of advanced computing news from Communications of the ACM, ACM TechNews, other ACM resources, and news sites around the Web.
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
Just months into its mission, the world's first quantum-communications satellite has achieved one of its most ambitious goals.
Nature From ACM News | June 15, 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
The Hubble Space Telescope has spotted light bending because of the gravity of a nearby white dwarf star—the first time astronomers have seen this type of distortion...Nature From ACM News | June 7, 2017
People can pick a familiar face out of a crowd without thinking too much about it. But how the brain actually does this has eluded researchers for years.
Nature From ACM News | June 5, 2017
The tombs of ancient Egypt have yielded golden collars and ivory bracelets, but another treasure—human DNA—has proved elusive.
Nature From ACM News | June 2, 2017
In 2015, geneticist Guy Reeves was trying to configure a free software system called Galaxy to get his bioinformatics projects off the ground.
Nature From ACM News | May 31, 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
Most researchers think of planetariums, if they think of them at all, as a place to take schoolchildren for whizzy trips through the stars, with nothing to offer...Nature From ACM News | May 5, 2017
Six times a day, Katrin pauses whatever she's doing, removes a small magnet from her pocket and touches it to a raised patch of skin just below her collar bone....Nature From ACM News | May 5, 2017
Meteorologists have long struggled to forecast storms and flooding at the level of streets and neighborhoods, but they may soon make headway thanks to the spread...Nature From ACM News | April 12, 2017
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the first at-home genetic test that can help to determine a person's risk of developing certain diseases....Nature From ACM News | April 7, 2017
A research subject watches a brush slowly stroking a rubber hand on a table in front of her, while her own hand—hidden from view—experiences the same stimulation...Nature From ACM Careers | April 5, 2017
Here's how to catch a black hole. First, spend many years enlisting eight of the top radio observatories across four continents to join forces for an unprecedented...Nature From ACM News | March 23, 2017
"It feels like the entire universe is within a sphere that is maybe within a couple metres' radius," says topologist Henry Segerman at Oklahoma State University...Nature From ACM News | March 22, 2017