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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
The bedrock beneath our feet has a reputation as an inhospitable place. In contrast, soil is known to be teeming with life – from microbes…
One Friday evening in 1992, a meteorite ended a more than 150 million-mile (240 million-kilometer) journey by smashing into the trunk of a red Chevrolet…
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…
Texas Advanced Computing Center’s Stampede2 supercomputer simulates 3D structure of vortex breakdown with combustion. Lightning struck a bourbon warehouse, setting fire to a cache of…
Final Dance of Unequal Black Hole Partners Rochester Institute of Technology scientists perform first-ever simulation of large mass ratio black hole merger on Frontera. Solving…
A new type of soil created by engineers at The University of Texas at Austin can pull water from the air and distribute it to…
At the onset of the coronavirus pandemic, there were high hopes that hot summer temperatures could reduce its spread. Although summer didn’t bring widespread relief,…
A study involving more than 5,000 COVID-19 patients in Houston finds that the virus that causes the disease is accumulating genetic mutations, one of which…
No one has yet found the first stars. They’re hypothesized to have formed about 100 million years after the Big Bang out of universal darkness…
Manatees don’t live year-round in Texas, but these gentle, slow-moving sea cows are known to occasionally visit, swimming in for a “summer vacation” from Florida…