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"Crap!" That was the first word out of Kevin Esvelt’s mouth as he scanned a paper1 published inScience last March.Nature From ACM News | August 4, 2015
Some 2,000 climate scientists are flocking to Paris this week to chew over their research ahead of December's crucial round of negotiations in the French capital...Nature From ACM Careers | July 8, 2015
In his 1942 short story 'Runaround', science-fiction writer Isaac Asimov introduced the Three Laws of Robotics—engineering safeguards and built-in ethical principles...Nature From ACM News | July 2, 2015
The U.S. government is considering policy changes that could dramatically affect how researchers handle equipment and information that have national-security implications...Nature From ACM Careers | June 17, 2015
In an unusual twist on biometrics research, US computer scientists have joined with law-enforcement officials to find new ways to automatically detect tattoos on...Nature From ACM News | June 9, 2015
The U.S. National Academy of Sciences (NAS) and the National Academy of Medicine (NAM) will launch a major initiative to develop guidelines for editing human genomes...Nature From ACM News | May 20, 2015
The US National Institutes of Health (NIH) has reaffirmed its ban on research that involves gene editing of human embryos. In a statement released on 29 April,...Nature From ACM Careers | April 30, 2015
In the wake of the first ever report that scientists have edited the genomes of human embryos, experts cannot agree on whether the work was ethical. They also disagree...Nature From ACM News | April 27, 2015
Mediators appointed to analyse the rifts within Europe’s ambitious €1-billion (US$1.1 billion) Human Brain Project (HBP) have called for far-reaching changes both...Nature From ACM News | March 9, 2015
Genetic testing has entered a new realm, with the ability to read a person's genetic code and predict how it will affect his or her health.Nature From ACM Careers | February 23, 2015
This summer, people will cruise through the streets of Greenwich, U.K., in electric shuttles with no one's hands on the steering wheel—or any steering wheel at...Nature From ACM News | February 9, 2015
For the first time since accidents severed the neural connection between their brains and limbs, a small number of patients are reaching out and feeling the world...Nature From ACM News | November 26, 2014
China is on track to overtake the United States in research and development (R&D) spending by the end of the decade, according to a report on the global state of...Nature From ACM Careers | November 12, 2014
Delays and funding problems are threatening to push back the planned launch of ExoMars, a European and Russian rover designed to search for life on the red planet...Nature From ACM Careers | August 5, 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