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For decades, giant accelerators have used radio frequency (RF) waves to push elementary particles to near light speeds. The particles’… Read More
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Throughout the winter, flooding has punctuated California’s extreme and lengthy drought. Rains have slammed the Bay Area particularly hard. Greenhouse… Read More
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The demand for advanced scientific computing experts far outstrips the supply of well-trained computer scientists to fill those needs. To… Read More
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Building a computer that solves scientific problems a thousand times faster than the best ones available today is harder than… Read More
Flying over Greenland and looking down on land previously covered by the island’s massive ice sheet, Stephen Price got a… Read More
A typical global climate model does about a thousand trillion calculations to simulate a single year’s worth of interactions among… Read More