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Canonical's Open Documentation Academy aims to help newcomers participate in the open source community, offering mentorship and…
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In a basement storeroom at Stanford University in California, the guts of a dozen DNA sequencers lie exposed—hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of cameras and...Nature From ACM News | July 30, 2018
In the midst of growing public concern over artificial intelligence (AI), privacy and the use of data, Brent Hecht has a controversial proposal: the computer-science...Nature From ACM Opinion | July 27, 2018
Machine-learning software trained on masses of chemical-safety data is so good at predicting some kinds of toxicity that it now rivals—and sometimes outperforms—expensive...Nature From ACM News | July 12, 2018
One of the earliest attempts to estimate the number of genes in the human genome involved tipsy geneticists, a bar in Cold Spring Harbor, New York, and pure guesswork...Nature From ACM News | June 19, 2018
Samapriya Roy remembers when it would take him up to an hour to download a single 1-gigabyte image taken by the Landsat Earth-imaging satellites.
Nature From ACM Careers | June 13, 2018
From time to time over the past few years, I've politely refused requests to referee an article on the grounds that it lacks enough information for me to check...Nature From ACM Opinion | May 25, 2018
Scientists pride themselves on being keen observers, but many seem to have trouble spotting the problems right under their noses.
Nature From ACM Careers | May 17, 2018
The most-cited journal articles on Wikipedia include papers on the names of lunar craters and the DNA sequences of human and mouse genes—and many of the most popular...Nature From ACM Careers | May 14, 2018
As investigations continue into the attempted assassination of a former Russian double agent and his daughter in Britain, findings released this week have renewed...Nature From ACM Careers | April 16, 2018
In 1959, the mathematician and satirist Tom Lehrer—who turns 90 this month—performed what he characteristically called a "completely pointless" scientific song...Nature From ACM Careers | April 9, 2018
All hell broke loose in physics some 90 years ago. Quantum theory emerged—partly in heated clashes between Albert Einstein and Niels Bohr.
Nature From ACM Opinion | April 4, 2018
Thirty kilometres north of Stonehenge, through the rolling countryside of southwest England, stands a less-famous window into Neolithic Britain.
Nature From ACM Careers | March 28, 2018
When immuno-oncologist Martijn Bijker decided to move from academia to industry, he asked a friend to review his CV. His friend—who had worked in the pharmaceutical...Nature From ACM Careers | March 26, 2018
Computer code written by scientists forms the basis of an increasing number of studies across many fields—and an increasing number of papers that report the results...Nature From ACM Opinion | March 12, 2018
Replication is essential for building confidence in research studies, yet it is still the exception rather than the rule.
Nature From ACM Opinion | February 21, 2018