Although clutter can be a nuisance, it does not typically pose a health threat—unless you're an aging neuron.Scientific American From ACM News | July 29, 2016
Emerging technologies that draw from biomedical technology, nanotechnology, information technology and other fields are developing at a rapid pace and may lead...Scientific American From ACM Opinion | July 26, 2016
When ground controllers begin powering up the Juno spacecraft's science instruments on July 6, one of their most important goals will be to get the microwave radiometer...Scientific American From ACM News | July 7, 2016
Researchers have decoded the genomes of mammoths and a 700,000-year-old horse using DNA fragments extracted from fossils in the past few years. DNA clearly persists...Scientific American From ACM News | May 31, 2016
A new method for visualizing the mechanisms and hidden layers of neural networks could provide insights into deep learning. Scientific American From ACM TechNews | May 23, 2016
Say what you will about cybercriminals, says Angela Sasse, "their victims rave about the customer service".Scientific American From ACM News | May 13, 2016
If you, me and every person and thing in the cosmos were actually characters in some giant computer game, we would not necessarily know it.Scientific American From ACM News | April 12, 2016
The hunt is on to find "Planet Nine"—a large undiscovered world, perhaps 10 times as massive as Earth and four times its size—that scientists think could be lurking...Scientific American From ACM News | April 7, 2016
Driverless cars should have a fairly easy time getting the green light to operate on U.S. roadways, as long as they look and act like the vehicles people have been...Scientific American From ACM News | March 18, 2016
Three decades ago, the U.S. government launched the Human Genome Project, a 13-year endeavor to sequence and map all the genes of the human species.Scientific American From ACM News | March 10, 2016
More than 400 years ago Renaissance scientist Nicolaus Copernicus reduced us to near nothingness by showing that our planet is not the center of the solar system...Scientific American From ACM News | February 29, 2016
Twenty-five years ago U.S.-led Coalition forces launched the world’s first "space war" when they drove Iraqi troops out of Kuwait.Scientific American From ACM News | February 8, 2016
On a dark stretch of the chilly Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko the lander Philae has begun a lonely and silent vigil.Scientific American From ACM News | February 2, 2016
Understanding how brains work is one of the greatest scientific challenges of our times, but despite the impression sometimes given in the popular press, researchers...Scientific American From ACM News | February 2, 2016
It must be difficult for the roughly half a billion people who visit Wikipedia every month to remember a world without the free online encyclopedia.Scientific American From ACM Opinion | January 15, 2016