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Volunteer computing goes mobile to help fight HIV/AIDS 21 Aug 2013 | 04:05 pm
HIV/AIDS affects more than 34 million people worldwide. A staggering 7,000 people – nearly 300 an hour – contract HIV each day.Now you can volunteer to help end one of the greatest humanitarian challe...
Open and shut: a breakthrough discovery on the slow inactivating K+ channel gate 21 Aug 2013 | 04:04 pm
Ion channels regulate electrical currents, many of which are primary to the body’s biological processes. Like tiny faucets, these channels open and close in response to signals, but the ways in which ...
Get ready for LHC collisions on your mobile phone 21 Aug 2013 | 04:04 pm
Mary Wheeler receives the John von Neumann Medal 21 Aug 2013 | 04:04 pm
Mary Wheeler is the first woman to receive the IEEE John von Neumann Medal, the highest award bestowed by the Unites States Association for Computational Mechanics. Wheeler is the director of the Ins...
BigBrain: The most detailed, 3D anatomical map of the human brain 14 Aug 2013 | 02:35 pm
Could social networks enable stealthy bacterial communication? 14 Aug 2013 | 02:35 pm
Myxococcus xanthus(M. xanthus), a single-cell soil bacterium, is often studied by students because it forms interesting patterns and structures through cooperative behavior. Only recently did insights...
XSEDE: The place to go for sustainable digital research services 14 Aug 2013 | 02:35 pm
Striving to become the go-to place for digital research services, XSEDE held its second annual conference in July in San Diego, CA, US. From elementary students to seasoned scientists, XSEDE13 offered...
High-throughput computing and the shape of DNA to come 14 Aug 2013 | 02:35 pm
In the relatively new field of epigenetics, technological advances have enabled researchers to ask ever more detailed questions about the behavior of genes. The complexities of the systems under study...
World’s first quantum computer indeed 24 Jul 2013 | 04:24 pm
Scientists have finally verified that the D-Wave 128 qubit processor performs optimization calculations in which quantum mechanics plays a functional role. This rules out previous ideas that the proce...
