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Tiny Ion Is Crucial for HIV Replication: Supercomputer Simulation Explains How Viruses Form Capsids
A study by chemists at the University of Chicago has uncovered a new key step in the process that HIV uses to replicate itself. The post Tiny Ion Is Crucial for HIV Replication: Supercomputer Simulation Explains How Viruses Form Capsids appeared first on HPCwire.
Soft robotic wearable restores arm function for people with ALS
A team of researchers from the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) and Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) has developed a soft robotic wearable capable of significantly assisting upper arm and shoulder movement in people with...
ABB uses robots to automate COVID antibody testing
ABB Robotics and the University of Texas Medical Branch’s (UTMB) Life Sciences and Healthcare Lab have developed an automated neutralizing antibody testing system. The robotic system can determine an individual’s immunity to various strains of COVID, and perform other...
Deep Learning for Quantum Sensing: AI Assists Quantum Metrology for Greater Efficiency with Model-free Learning Algorithm
Quantum sensing represents one of the most promising applications of quantum technologies, with the aim of using quantum resources to improve measurement sensitivity. In particular, sensing of optical phases is one of the most investigated problems, considered key to...
Microscopy Images Could Lead to New Ways to Control Excitons for Quantum Computing
Excitons are drawing attention as possible quantum bits (qubits) in tomorrow’s quantum computers and are central to optoelectronics and energy-harvesting processes. However, these charge-neutral quasiparticles, which exist in semiconductors and other materials, are...
Supercomputing’s Critical Role in the Fusion Ignition Breakthrough
On December 5th, the research team at the National Ignition Facility (NIF) at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) achieved a historic win in energy science: for the first time ever, more energy was produced by an artificial fusion reaction than was consumed...
Researchers Discover New Method to Characterize Large Quantum Computers
Quantum devices are becoming ever more complex and powerful. Researchers at the University of Innsbruck, in collaboration with the Johannes Kepler University Linz and the University of Technology Sydney, are now presenting a method to characterize even large quantum...
Hot Salt, Clean Energy: How AI Can Enhance Advanced Nuclear Reactors
Scientists are searching for new materials to advance the next generation of nuclear power plants. In a recent study, researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory showed how artificial intelligence could help pinpoint the right...
MIT researchers create implantable robotic ventilator
Researchers at MIT have designed a soft, robotic implantable ventilator that can augment the diaphragm’s natural contractions. The post MIT researchers create implantable robotic ventilator appeared first on The Robot Report.
Scientists at Carnegie Mellon Train AI to Predict the Mass of a Galaxy
Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) used resources, including Bridges-2, supplied by the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (PSC) and allocated through ACCESS to train artificial intelligence to predict the mass of the Coma Cluster of galaxies. By feeding...
Researchers Use Quantum Mechanics to See Objects Without Looking at Them
Humans see the world around them because light is being absorbed by specialized cells in the retina. But can vision happen without any absorption at all – without even a single particle of light? Surprisingly, the answer is yes. The post Researchers Use Quantum...
New Type of Entanglement Lets Scientists ‘See’ Inside Nuclei
Nuclear physicists have found a new way to use the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC)—a particle collider at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory—to see the shape and details inside atomic nuclei. The method relies on particles of...