Since the beginning of this century, the most rapidly advancing field in the life sciences, and perhaps in human inquiry of any sort, has been genomics.The Atlantic From ACM Opinion | February 7, 2014
In defending the NSA's telephony metadata collection efforts, government officials have repeatedly resorted to one seemingly significant detail: This is just metadata—numbers...The Atlantic From ACM Opinion | December 26, 2013
Say you're at a gas station. Say you're buying some supplies—bottled water, coffee, maybe some M&Ms—before you head back to your car.The Atlantic From ACM News | November 4, 2013
In 2012, the photograph of Barack and Michelle Obama embracing after his re-election was "liked" over 4 million times.The Atlantic From ACM News | September 25, 2013
Seems like everything gets hacked these days. Baby monitors. White House employees' personal email. Toilets.The Atlantic From ACM News | August 19, 2013
In the early 1970s, the U.S. government learned that an undersea cable ran parallel to the Kuril Islands off the eastern coast of Russia, providing a vital communications...The Atlantic From ACM News | July 18, 2013
It is the rare entrepreneur who hits it truly big twice. Those who do—such as Ev Williams, Ted Turner, and Elon Musk—tend to stay within the original industry that...The Atlantic From ACM Opinion | June 21, 2013
Our stuff often says a lot about us, whether we own a hybrid car or a station wagon, a MacBook Pro or an ancient desktop.The Atlantic From ACM News | June 20, 2013
For all the talk of artificial intelligence and all the games of SimCity that have been played, no one in the world can actually simulate living things. Biology...The Atlantic From ACM News | May 22, 2013
As investigators try to figure out what happened during the bombings at the Boston Marathon, they'll turn to video taken at the scene of the explosions.The Atlantic From ACM News | April 17, 2013
Cosmology is the most ambitious of sciences. Its goal, plainly stated, is to describe the origin, evolution, and structure of the entire universe, a universe that...The Atlantic From ACM Opinion | September 25, 2012
Google Earth: source of information, source of wonder, source of art. In 2010, Paul Bourke, a research associate professor at the University of Western Australia...The Atlantic From ACM News | September 11, 2012
For a center of cutting-edge scientific research, Caltech's Jet Propulsion Lab seems to be a pretty wacky place. Luke Johnson, a graphic designer at the lab, set...The Atlantic From ACM Opinion | September 4, 2012
Computer scientist Larry Smarr envisions the development of "a distributed planetary computer of enormous power," one that comprises 1 billion processors and that...The Atlantic From ACM TechNews | July 11, 2012