Why don't antibiotic-making bacteria self-destruct?

Early in 2025, scientists discovered a promising new antibiotic in a soil sample from a lab technician's backyard. The ...
New Scientist

We're about to simulate a human brain on a supercomputer

The world’s most powerful supercomputers can now run simulations of billions of neurons, and researchers hope such models ...
Amazon S3 on MSN

Suppose we’re living in a computer simulation and reality is being controlled

What if your reality was nothing more than a complex computer simulation? And if you were just a program on someone else’s ...
IEEE

Quantum Computer Simulations at Warp Speed: Assessing the Impact of GPU Acceleration: A Case Study with IBM Qiskit Aer, Nvidia Thrust & cuQuantum

Abstract: Quantum computer simulators are crucial for the development of quantum computing. This work investigates GPU and multi-GPU systems' suitability and performance impact on a widely used ...
IEEE

Finite-Difference Time-Domain Simulation of Wave Propagation in Space-Time-Varying Media: Derivation of schemes, extended framework, and illustrative examples

Abstract: We present a comprehensive tutorial on the finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) modeling of space, time, and space-time-varying media, building upon our previous review by offering a ...

Asteroid impact simulation reveals the hidden strength of space rocks

Physicists at the University of Oxford have contributed to a new study which has found that iron-rich asteroids can tolerate ...