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Next Step in Simulating the Universe

Dec. 1, 2020 — Researchers have developed a way to accurately represent the behavior of elementary particles called neutrinos in computer simulations of the Universe. The simulation results reveal the effects of ...

Biophysics: Geometry Supersedes Simulations

Nov. 20, 2020 — Physicists have introduced a new method that allows biological pattern-forming systems to be systematically characterized with the aid of mathematical analysis. The trick lies in the use of geometry ...

Three Reasons Why COVID-19 Can Cause Silent Hypoxia

Nov. 19, 2020 — To crack the mystery of what causes silent hypoxia, a condition when oxygen levels in the body are abnormally low, biomedical engineers used computer modeling to test out three different scenarios ...

Virtual Reality Forests Could Help Understanding of Climate Change

Nov. 11, 2020 — The effects of climate change are sometimes difficult to grasp, but now a virtual reality forest, created by geographers, can let people walk through a simulated forest of today and see what various ...

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New Machine Learning Tool Tracks Urban Traffic Congestion

Dec. 2, 2020 — Using public data from the entire 1,500-square-mile Los Angeles metropolitan area, researchers reduced the time needed to create a traffic congestion model by an order of magnitude, from hours to ...

Shrinking Massive Neural Networks Used to Model Language

Dec. 1, 2020 — Deep learning neural networks can be massive, demanding major computing power. In a test of the 'lottery ticket hypothesis,' researchers have found leaner, more efficient subnetworks hidden within ...

Optimizing Complex Modeling Processes Through Machine Learning Technologies

Nov. 23, 2020 — Engineering a spaceship is as difficult as it sounds. Modeling plays a large role in the time and effort it takes to create spaceships and other complex engineering systems. It requires extensive ...

Machine Learning Innovation to Develop Chemical Library

Nov. 18, 2020 — Innovators are using machine learning models to create new options for drug discovery pipelines. Innovators have introduced chemical reactivity flowcharts to help chemists interpret reaction outcomes ...

Black Hole or No Black Hole: On the Outcome of Neutron Star Collisions

Nov. 10, 2020 — A new study investigates black-hole formation in neutron star mergers. Computer simulations show that the properties of dense nuclear matter play a crucial role, which directly links the ...

New Black Hole Merger Simulations Could Help Power Next-Gen Gravitational Wave Detectors

Nov. 9, 2020 — Scientists have developed new simulations of black holes with widely varying masses merging that could help power the next generation of ...

Final Dance of Unequal Black Hole Partners

Nov. 6, 2020 — Researchers used the Frontera supercomputer to model for the first time a black hole merger of two black holes with very different sizes (128:1). The research required seven months of constant ...

Nervous Systems of Insects Inspire Efficient Future AI Systems

Nov. 5, 2020 — Study explores functions of fruit fly's nervous system in food seeking / results valuable for the development and control of artificial ...

Machine Learning Helps Hunt for COVID-19 Therapies

Oct. 28, 2020 — Scientists have deployed a machine learning model to help drug developers on their most promising leads for attacking one of the SARS-CoV-2 virus' most compelling ...

For the First Time: Realistic Simulation of Plasma Edge Instabilities in Tokamaks

Oct. 22, 2020 — Among the loads to which the plasma vessel in a fusion device may be exposed, so-called edge localized modes are particularly undesirable. By ...