by Ken Chiacchia | Sep 28, 2018 | Science Highlights
Bridges Simulations plus Lab Work on Frog Neuromuscular Junction Sheds Light on Human Diseases When a nerve cell passes a message to its neighbors, it must do so via chemicals sent across the synapse—a small space between the cells. Early researchers studied a synapse...
by Ken Chiacchia | Sep 28, 2018 | Science Highlights
Identification of Cosmic-Ray Source by IceCube Neutrino Observatory Depended on Global Collaboration, PSC’s Bridges Four billion years ago—before the first life had developed on Earth—a massive black hole shot a proton out at nearly the speed of light. A result of...
by Ken Chiacchia | Sep 27, 2018 | Science Highlights
“Sticky and Loose Ends” Shed Light on Heart Health Anton 2 Shows how APOA1 Protein Ends Link to Hold Together “the Good Cholesterol” Until recently, scientists couldn’t agree how the protein APOA1 holds together the “good cholesterol” that protects us from heart...
by Ken Chiacchia | Apr 17, 2018 | Science Highlights
CMU Group Describes “Superhuman” Poker AI in Science In a paper published online in December 2017 by the journal Science, Tuomas Sandholm of the CMU School of Computer Science and Noam Brown, a PhD student working with him, detailed how their artificial intelligence...
by Ken Chiacchia | Apr 17, 2018 | Science Highlights
Bridges Helps Quantum Chemists Understand Break-up of Atmospheric Chemicals The U.S. Air Force would like to detect remotely when bad guys have fired a rocket. They’d also like, in an emergency, to seed the atmosphere to damp down communication disruptions from solar...
by Ken Chiacchia | Apr 17, 2018 | Science Highlights
Simulations Show how HIV Drug Traps Virus in an Inactive State Though AIDS survival is up and new cases are down, the HIV virus is still a major cause of sickness and death. Juan Perilla of the University of Delaware and his colleagues used the Anton 2 system at the...
