by Ken Chiacchia | Jun 21, 2023 | Bridges-2, Science Highlights
The dishes of the HERA radio telescope collect radio wave signals from the “21-centimeter line,” when hydrogen atoms in the early Universe absorbed energy from the first stars. PSC Supercomputer Helps Set Upper Limit to “Brightness Temperature” of Hydrogen Signal,...
by Ken Chiacchia | May 10, 2023 | AI, Science Highlights
Predictions made by the BirdFlow AI on how the American woodcock migrates in North America between eBird “snapshots.” From Fuentes, M., Van Doren, B. M., Fink, D., & Sheldon, D. (2023). BirdFlow: Learning seasonal bird movements from eBird data. Methods in Ecology...
by Ken Chiacchia | Apr 26, 2023 | Bridges-2, Science Highlights
Proof-of-concept work suggests applications in industrial processes, environmental monitoring, and medicine Polymer brushes are forests of molecular-sized chains extending from a surface. If they can be made to behave properly in the real world, they could form the...
by Ken Chiacchia | Mar 29, 2023 | Science Highlights
Adobe Stock #527516305. Scientists leverage past MARC program to maintain competitive bioinformatics program at minority-serving institution Lucina pectinata is a clam that lives in mud flats among levels of hydrogen sulfide high enough to harm most animals....
by Ken Chiacchia | Feb 20, 2023 | Press release
James Barr von Oehsen James Barr von Oehsen has been selected as the director of the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (PSC), a joint research center of Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh. Von Oehsen is a leader in the fields of...