Newly Discovered Climate-Friendly Microbes Chomp Dead Plants Without Releasing Heat-Trapping Methane
The tree of life just got a little bigger: A team of scientists from the U.S. and China has identified an entirely new group of…
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The Arecibo Radio Telescope Collapsed Last December, but Its Legacy of Discovery and Innovation Continues
The Arecibo Observatory, UCF, TACC, the University of Puerto Rico, EPOC, Globus, CICoE Pilot partner to move telescope data to Ranch system. Millions of people…
Searching for New Physics in the Subatomic World
Particle physicists use lattice quantum chromodynamics and supercomputers to search for physics beyond the Standard Model. Peer deeper into the heart of the atom…
How to Train a Robot (Using Artificial Intelligence and Supercomputers)
UT Arlington computer scientists use TACC systems to generate synthetic objects for robot training. Before he joined the University of Texas at Arlington as an…
Highly Contagious Coronavirus Variant Spread Across the Globe – Undetected for Months – Before Its Discovery
A highly contagious SARS-CoV-2 variant was unknowingly spreading for months in the United States by October 2020, according to a new study from researchers with…
Meandering Rivers Naturally Create “Counter-Point Bars” No Matter Underlying Geology
It’s not uncommon for crescent-shaped swaths of sand to dot the shorelines of meandering rivers. These swaths usually appear along the inner side of a…
Supercomputer Analysis Reveals Why UK, South Africa Coronavirus Variants Are More Contagious, Deadly
TACC’s Frontera supercomputer aids in building infection models of COVID-19 variants. All viruses mutate as they make copies of themselves to spread and thrive. SARS-CoV-2,…
Disappearing Forests and Wetlands in Belize Unmasked by NASA Satellite
Using NASA satellite images and machine learning, researchers with The University of Texas at Austin have mapped changes in the landscape of northwestern Belize over…
First Complete COVID-19 Coronavirus Model Shows Cooperation – “They Work Together”
Frontera, Anton 2 supercomputers simulate holistic model of SARS-CoV-2 virion. The COVID-19 virus holds some mysteries. Scientists remain in the dark on aspects of how…
Asteroid Dust Found in Crater Closes Case on What Killed the Dinosaurs
Researchers believe they have closed the case of what killed the dinosaurs, definitively linking their extinction with an asteroid that slammed into Earth 66 million…
New Supercomputer View of Seismic Hazards: Simulating 800,000 Years of California Earthquake History to Pinpoint Risks
Supercomputer-powered framework developed by SCEC provides new view of seismic hazard. Massive earthquakes are, fortunately, rare events. But that scarcity of information blinds us in…
Supercomputer Simulations Target the Deadly Coils of Ebola
Stampede2, Bridges simulations show weak spots in virus nucleocapsid. In the midst of a global pandemic with COVID-19, it’s hard to appreciate how lucky those…
Nanoscale Control of Desalination Membranes Could Lead to Cheaper Water Filtration
Producing clean water at a lower cost could be on the horizon after researchers from The University of Texas at Austin and Penn State solved…
Protein Storytelling to Address the COVID-19 Pandemic
New computational tools developed at Stony Brook University help characterize protein structures and identify new treatments for COVID-19. In the last five decades, we’ve learned…
Scientists Find “Knickpoints” in Greenland That Can Stop Spread of Glacial Thinning
The jagged terrain of Greenland’s mountains is protecting some of the island’s outlet glaciers from warm coastal waters, according to a team of researchers that…
“Paradigm Shifting” – Researchers Discover a Substantial Overlooked Source of Natural CO2
The bedrock beneath our feet has a reputation as an inhospitable place. In contrast, soil is known to be teeming with life – from microbes…
Meteorites Reveal Chaotic Early Solar System Collisions Resembled “Asteroids” Arcade Game
One Friday evening in 1992, a meteorite ended a more than 150 million-mile journey by smashing into the trunk of a red Chevrolet Malibu in…
Faster, Smaller, Smarter and More Energy-Efficient Chips: World’s Smallest Atom-Memory Unit Created
Faster, smaller, smarter and more energy-efficient chips for everything from consumer electronics to big data to brain-inspired computing could soon be on the way after…
