Using data pulled from online genealogy sites, a renowned 'genome hacker' has constructed what is likely the biggest family trees ever assembled.Nature From ACM News | November 1, 2013
Jack Gallant perches on the edge of a swivel chair in his lab at the University of California, Berkeley, fixated on the screen of a computer that is trying to decode...Nature From ACM News | October 23, 2013
It could be time to bid the Big Bang bye-bye. Cosmologists have speculated that the Universe formed from the debris ejected when a four-dimensional star collapsed...Nature From ACM News | October 2, 2013
Sixty-five-year-old Ann Linsey was starting to worry about how easily she got distracted from whatever she was doing.Nature From ACM News | September 4, 2013
A quantum effect named after an ancient Greek puzzle has been observed in diamond, paving the way for the use of diamond crystals in quantum computer chips.Nature From ACM News | August 22, 2013
The false mouse memories made the ethicists uneasy. By stimulating certain neurons in the hippocampus, Susumu Tonegawa and his colleagues caused mice to recall...Nature From ACM Careers | August 15, 2013
Modern computer-memory technologies come with a trade-off. There is speedy but short-term storage for on-the-fly processing—random-access memory, or RAM—and slow...Nature From ACM News | June 17, 2013
Sitting motionless in her wheelchair, paralysed from the neck down by a stroke, Cathy Hutchinson seems to take no notice of the cable rising from the top of her...Nature From ACM News | May 13, 2013
It's hard to stand out from the crowd—particularly if you are a single photon in a sea of millions in an optical fibre.Nature From ACM News | November 27, 2012
Two people who are unable to move their limbs have been able to guide a robot arm to reach and grasp objects using only their brain activity, a paper in Nature ...Nature From ACM News | May 17, 2012
You could have foreseen the Arab Spring if only you'd been paying enough attention to the news. That's the claim of a new study that shows how data mining of...Nature From ACM News | September 21, 2011
Quantum key distribution allows two remote parties to grow a shared secret key. Its security is founded on the principles of quantum mechanics, but in reality...Nature From ACM News | June 20, 2011