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New Heat-Conducting Behaviors Appear in “Twisted Bilayers”

New Heat-Conducting Behaviors Appear in “Twisted Bilayers”

by Ken Chiacchia | Jul 24, 2025 | Bridges-2, Science Highlights

Twisted 2D material bilayers, consisting of two atom-thick layers on top of each other, can form alignment patterns that convey different electrical and heat conducting properties. Report in Science Today: Mis-Aligned, Atom-Thin Sheets Predicted by Bridges-2 and Seen...
New NSF Funding Expands Support for NAIRR Projects

New NSF Funding Expands Support for NAIRR Projects

by Emily Voelker | Jul 9, 2025 | Bridges-2, NAIRR, Resources, Resources for Educators, User News

On June 10, 2025, NSF awarded PSC supplemental funding to accelerate the progress of research projects awarded allocations on Bridges-2 by the NAIRR Pilot program. This supplement kicks off an innovative program of enhanced support. Each of the 30 NAIRR Pilot projects...
Teaming AI with Human Experts Improves Bridge Inspection Accuracy

Teaming AI with Human Experts Improves Bridge Inspection Accuracy

by Ken Chiacchia | Jun 26, 2025 | Bridges-2, Science Highlights

CMU Group Uses Bridges-2 to Create Video Game for AI to Learn From, Teach Human Engineers The nation’s bridges are literally crumbling. Authorities don’t have enough trained engineers or money to inspect bridges properly. And inspection itself is as much art as...
High School Students Study Nanotechnology, AI Heart Disease Detection Using Bridges-2

High School Students Study Nanotechnology, AI Heart Disease Detection Using Bridges-2

by Ken Chiacchia | May 28, 2025 | Bridges-2, Science Highlights

One of the projects undertaken by high school students with Bridges-2 is simulating how pulses of infrared or visible light can turn the protein kinesin into a tiny molecular motor for nanotechnology machines. Adobe Stock 230402435 Unique Program at North Carolina...
Corrected Numbers Allow Accurate Simulation of Oxygen Kicking Carbon Monoxide out of Hemoglobin

Corrected Numbers Allow Accurate Simulation of Oxygen Kicking Carbon Monoxide out of Hemoglobin

by Ken Chiacchia | May 14, 2025 | Bridges-2, Science Highlights

A Syracuse University team used Bridges-2 to correct earlier, mistaken simulations of the hemoglobin protein (lower left) and its oxygen-carrying heme group (center) and determine how carbon monoxide (blue and red spheres, top center) competes with oxygen (purple and...
North American Bird Populations Declining Even in Prime Habitat

North American Bird Populations Declining Even in Prime Habitat

by Ken Chiacchia | May 1, 2025 | Bridges-2, News, Press release

Eastern Meadowlark by Chris S. Wood; Cornell Lab _ Macaulay Library Cornell Study Used PSC’s Bridges-2 to Analyze Data Including Observations from Birdwatcher Volunteers A groundbreaking study published today in Science reveals that North American bird populations are...
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