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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
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
Thanks to theoretical physicist Kip Thorne, real science is embedded in Christopher Nolan's film Interstellar, in which explorers seek a new home for humankind.Nature From ACM Opinion | November 10, 2014
Change is coming to the institute that has been at the heart of China's scientific development since the communist state began.Nature From ACM Careers | September 23, 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 US science agencies firm up plans for a national ten-year neuroscience initiative, California is launching an ambitious project of its own.Nature From ACM Careers | June 24, 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
When physicist Leonard Susskind gives talks these days, he often wears a black T-shirt proclaiming "I ♥ Complexity".Nature From ACM News | June 5, 2014
NASA's Curiosity rover is in the prime of its life, exploring the rocks, soil and air of Mars. But the agency is already planning its successor—and this time, the...Nature From ACM News | May 14, 2014
Microsoft makes Windows, Word, and the Xbox. But it also employs scientists who make sensors to stick on the hides of elephants and rhinoceroses.Nature From ACM News | May 2, 2014
The DNA sequences of Neanderthals and other extinct human relatives have exposed lost migrations, sexual escapades and even new species.Nature From ACM News | April 22, 2014
Sequencing a person's entire genome can reveal potentially life-saving information about the presence of mutations associated with diseases.Nature From ACM Careers | March 13, 2014
Three years ago, researchers at the secretive Google X lab in Mountain View, California, extracted some 10 million still images from YouTube videos and fed them...Nature From ACM News | March 11, 2014
The publishers Springer and IEEE are removing more than 120 papers from their subscription services after a French researcher discovered that the works were computer...Nature From ACM News | February 27, 2014
Planetary geologist Ellen Stofan joined NASA in August as the agency's chief scientist, an overarching role in which she advises on the science of all NASA programmes...Nature From ACM Opinion | December 13, 2013