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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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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
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
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 sounds like a science administrator’s dream—or a scientist's worst nightmare: a formula that predicts how often research papers will be cited.Nature From ACM News | October 4, 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
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
The academic world is in upheaval over MOOCs: massive open online courses that make university lectures available to tens of thousands of students at a time.Nature From ACM Careers | July 24, 2013