Scientists have found the crystal structure and unlocked the mechanism of activity of a family of enzymes that produce monensin, widely used as a cattle antibiotic.

DNA Origami Folded Into Tiny Motor

Jan 19th, 2024 16m 13s

Scientists have created the world's first working nanoscale electomotor. The science team designed a turbine engineered from DNA that is powered by hydrodynamic flow inside a nanopore, a nanometer-sized hole in a membrane of solid-state silico

Cosmic Lights in the Forest

Dec 20th, 2023 11m 9s

ACC's Frontera supercomputer helped astronomers develop PRIYA, the largest suite of hydrodynamic simulations yet made of large-scale structure in the universe.

Scientific Supercomputing and AI

Nov 13th, 2023 12m 27s

SC23 podcast with Dan Stanzione, Executive Director of TACC / Associate Vice President for Research, UT Austin.

New Twist on Optical Tweezers

Oct 31st, 2023 11m 5s

Optical tweezers use laser light to manipulate small particles. A new method has been advanced using Stampede2 supercomputer simulations that makes optical tweezers safer to use for potential biological applications, such as cancer therapy.

Hot Jupiter Blows Its Top

Sep 5th, 2023 12m 37s

The planet HAT-P-32b is losing so much of its atmospheric helium that the trailing gas tails are among the largest structures yet known any planet outside our solar system.

Deep Learning for New Protein Design

Aug 3rd, 2023 20m 44s

Deep learning methods augment existing energy-based physical models in ‘do novo' or from-scratch computational protein design, resulting in a 10-fold increase in success rates verified in the lab for binding a designed protein with its target p

Community Resilience from Earthquakes and Tsunamis

Jun 20th, 2023 8m 41s

Seaside, Oregon is focus of study for community resilience from hazardous earthquakes and tsunamis. Environmental data that included buildings, ground movement, and demographics were collected in work recognized with a 2023 DesignSafe Dataset A

California Flooding from the Arkstorm

Jun 6th, 2023 11m 44s

The ARkStorm 2.0 simulations build upon a scenario developed in 2010 by the US Geological Survey, where large atmospheric rivers dump extreme quantities of rainfall over California and cause widespread flooding.

Brain Games Reveal Clues on How the Mind Works

Apr 27th, 2023 15m 36s

Deep learning models developed in task-DyVa framework to generate realistic cognitive response time data.

New Simulation Reveals Secrets of Exotic Form of Electrons Called Polarons

Mar 22nd, 2023 17m 24s

Conditions mapped for the first time of polaron characteristics in 2D materials.

Rare Quasar Triplet Forms Most Massive Object in Universe

Mar 13th, 2023 10m 7s

Origin of ultra-massive black holes revealed through supercomputer simulations.

HETDEX Reveals Galaxy Gold Mine in First Large Survey

Feb 9th, 2023 15m 24s

The Hobby-Eberly Telescope Dark Energy Experiment (HETDEX) announced their first publicly released catalog of astronomical objects.

New Quasiparticle Discovered In Moiré Patterns

Nov 7th, 2022 17m 10s

New kind of exciton discovered with novel characteristics in moiré crystal superlattice.

Nuclear Crossing Guard

Oct 12th, 2022 13m 16s

New mechanism determined for passive transport of biomolecules through the nuclear pore complex of cells.

First Stars and Black Holes

Aug 11th, 2022 20m 13s

Cosmological hydrodynamic zoom-in simulations used to study gravity hydrodynamics, chemistry and cooling in structure formation and early star formation.

Deep Learning for New Alloys

Jun 20th, 2022 13m 20s

Supercomputer simulations are helping scientists discover new high-entropy alloys.

Supercomputer Helps Reveal Weaknesses in HIV-1 ‘Armor'

Jun 16th, 2022 10m 2s

First realistic simulations developed of HIV-1 capsid, which encloses its genetic material.

Cooperation Rewards Water Utilities

May 19th, 2022 13m 57s

Inter-utility water agreements can help mitigate their risks, in research that used supercomputer simulations of water supply in the North Carolina Research Triangle.

Devil in the Coronavirus Fusion Details

May 4th, 2022 13m 10s

Simulations suggest coronavirus fusion mechanism shows cooperative behavior of host cell receptor proteins that leads to infection. Coarse-grained models took cryo-electron tomography data and combined it with atomistic molecular dynamics simul

Pioneering Simulations Focus On HIV-1 Virus

Apr 5th, 2022 16m 12s

First-ever biologically authentic computer model completed of the HIV-1 virus liposome.

Cell's Energy Secrets Revealed With Supercomputers

Apr 5th, 2022 17m 19s

Supercomputer simulations have revealed for the first time how the cell's mitochondrial voltage-dependent anion channel (VDAC) binds to the enzyme hexokinase-II (HKII).

Into the Vortex

Apr 1st, 2022 21m 12s

Vortex dynamics simulations reveal reconnection, an important property linked with creation of turbulence cascade, fluid mixing, and aerodynamic noise generation.

Hawaiian Emperor Undersea Mystery Revealed With Supercomputers

Mar 31st, 2022 16m 5s

Kinematic plate reconstructions and high-res global dynamic models developed to quantify the amount of Pacific Plate motion change associated with the Hawaiian– Emperor Bend XSEDE allocations on TACC Stampede2; NSF-funded Frontera supported st