Why Is Ice Slippery? A New Approach to the Mystery
An international research team, led by the Complutense University of Madrid, has used computer simulations to study the movement of a solid sliding over ice…
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Revolutionary Technology Provides New Perspective on Cyclones
Cosmic rays used to track and visualize tropical cyclones open the eye of the storm. For the first time, high-energy muon particles generated in the…
Scientists Use Machine Learning To Peer Into the Future
Chaotic physical processes are now easier to predict thanks to a new algorithm. While the past may be a fixed and unchangeable point, machine learning…
Simulated Brain Performs Well at Simple Tasks
The Semantic Pointer Architecture Unified Network (Spaun) was created by theoretical neuroscientists to simulate complex behavior from fewer neurons. The scientists published their findings in…
Simulation Shows What Happens in the Last Stages of a Black Hole Merger
A recently published study uses computer simulations to show for the first time what happens in the magnetized gas (plasma) in the last stages of…
Mira Supercomputer Will Run Simulation of Our Universe
The advent of the Mira supercomputer, along with more powerful Sequoia and K supercomputers, marks the first time that computers have enough computational power to…
“Zoom-Ins” Track and Model Parcels of Gas as They Move Inward Towards the Torus
Scientists aren’t sure how quasars form, how they develop in time, or how (or what) physical processes generate their stupendous energies; but by using a…
Ancient Galactic Collision Created Stellar Swirls of NGC 5907
New astronomical simulations suggest that the enormous swirls of stars surrounding the NGC 5907 galaxy, located 50 million light-years away, in the constellation Draco, were…
The Bolshoi Simulation: Boxing the Universe
The Bolshoi simulation is the most accurate cosmological simulation of the evolution of the large-scale structure of the universe. Larger simulations, including the BigBolshoi and…
