Mike Lamont grabs the last croissant from a table and eats it as he walks through the control centre at CERN, the European laboratory for particle physics just...Nature From ACM News | October 8, 2014
Without algorithms that compress data to encode information into fewer bits, hard drives would clog up and Internet traffic would slow to a snail's pace.Nature From ACM News | October 2, 2014
Physicists have devised a way to take pictures using light that has not interacted with the object being photographed.Nature From ACM News | August 28, 2014
Neanderthals and humans lived together in Europe for thousands of years, concludes a timeline based on radiocarbon dates from 40 key sites across Europe.Nature From ACM News | August 21, 2014
Is a solution to one of the most important, beautiful and potentially lucrative problems in mathematics right around the corner?Nature From ACM News | August 5, 2014
A draft genome sequence of wheat promises to speed efforts to breed new types of one of the world's most important crops — and to reveal the tangled genomic history...Nature From ACM News | July 18, 2014
The European Union's high-profile, €1-billion Human Brain Project, launched last October, has come under fire from neuroscientists, who claim that poor management...Nature From ACM News | July 9, 2014
As it plunges into another two-week long 'lunar night', Jade Rabbit, China's Moon rover, is living on borrowed time.Nature From ACM News | June 20, 2014
By exploiting the tricks of quantum physics, researchers say they could build a worldwide network of atomic clocks that are much more accurate than any single clock...Nature From ACM News | June 16, 2014
A working group of the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) presented a ten-year plan for the agency's portion of a major neuroscience initiative announced last...Nature From ACM News | June 11, 2014
The instructions encoded into DNA are thought to follow a universal set of rules across all domains of life. But researchers report today in Science1 that organisms...Nature From ACM News | May 23, 2014
For billions of years, the history of life has been written with just four letters—A, T, C and G, the labels given to the DNA subunits contained in all organisms...Nature From ACM News | May 7, 2014
Before ancient DNA exposed the sexual proclivities of Neanderthals or the ancestry of the first Americans, there was the quagga.Nature From ACM News | March 31, 2014
A team of physicists has provided some of the clearest evidence yet that our Universe could be just one big projection.Nature From ACM News | December 10, 2013