by Ken Chiacchia | Sep 17, 2025 | Bridges-2, Science Highlights
Waste from nuclear reactors (whose cooling towers are shown above) actually contains some valuable elements. Among many other purification tasks, metal oxide frameworks show promise in extracting valuable xenon gas from nuclear waste. PHAST 2.0 Force Field, Developed...
by Ken Chiacchia | Sep 3, 2025 | Bridges-2, Science Highlights
Bridges-2 Image Processing Gives AIs a Leg Up on Better, Faster Help for People with Mental Disorders Psychiatric illnesses are defined by clusters of symptoms. But those symptoms overlap a lot between different disorders, posing problems both for diagnosis and proper...
by Ken Chiacchia | Aug 20, 2025 | Bridges-2, Science Highlights
Penn State Team Discovers Hidden Structures, Invisible in Traditional Seismic Scans, that Block Pumping of Oil A common problem with oil wells is that they can run dry even when sound-based measurements say there’s still oil there. A team from Penn State University...
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...
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...
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...
