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Canonical's Open Documentation Academy aims to help newcomers participate in the open source community, offering mentorship and…
BNN| February 28, 2024
The first direct detection of gravitational waves has opened a new window in physics and astronomy—rewarding a cohort of young researchers who gambled on finding...Nature From ACM Careers | February 16, 2016
A versatile technique for editing genomes has been called the biggest biotechnology advancesince the polymerase chain reaction (PCR), and the US Patent and Trademark...Nature From ACM News | January 13, 2016
The next generation of particle-collider experiments will feature some of the world's most advanced thinking machines, if links now being forged between particle...Nature From ACM News | December 1, 2015
Europe's troubled Human Brain Project (HBP) has secured guarantees of European Commission financing until at least 2019—but some scientists are still not sure that...Nature From ACM Careers | November 4, 2015
In 2012, Emily Leproust was trying to raise money to start Twist Bioscience, a company that aimed to synthesize DNA more quickly and more cheaply than existing...Nature From ACM Careers | November 4, 2015
As the costs of genetic sequencing fall, oncologists are starting to prescribe expensive new drugs that target the genetic profiles of their patients' tumours,...Nature From ACM News | September 24, 2015
The US military has long taken the role of traffic cop in space: monitoring satellites, tracking debris and, in recent years, warning satellite operators and foreign...Nature From ACM Careers | September 24, 2015
From astronomy to genomics, scientists are increasingly storing and studying their data sets on shared remote ‘cloud’ computing servers, accessed through the Internet...Nature From ACM Careers | July 13, 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
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 advent of three-dimensional (3D) printing has generated a swell of interest in artificial organs meant to replace, or even enhance, human machinery.Nature From ACM News | April 16, 2015