by Ken Chiacchia | Sep 17, 2026 | Bridges-2, Science Highlights
Amyloid plaques forming between neurons. Beta-amyloid protein disrupting nerve cells’ function in a brain with Alzheimer’s disease. Bridges-2 Simulations Point to Process of Fibril Formation, Offering Clues to Combatting ALS, Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s Fibril forming...
by Ken Chiacchia | Aug 13, 2026 | Bridges-2, Data Handling and Analytics, Science Highlights
Robotics Institute Team Uses Bridges-2 to Plan Warehouse Layouts, Robotic Coordination When programming warehouse robots you need to have them coordinate so they don’t get in each other’s way. Fortunately, in a warehouse you can change the environment — the layout of...
by Ken Chiacchia | Jul 15, 2026 | Bridges-2, Science Highlights
Record-setting Thermal Conductivity Improves on Metals’ Electron-Based Conductivity, Helping Smaller Devices Dump Heat Smaller, faster devices are having more and more trouble dumping the heat they generate. Copper has long been the “gold standard” for conducting heat...
by Ken Chiacchia | Jun 10, 2026 | Bridges-2, Science Highlights
Moiré superlattices make use of the phenomenon the moiré pattern, in which the wave interference of two similar patterns create new, often mesmerizing and undulating patterns. Wigner Crystals’ Behavior Charted and Compared with Theory, Providing New Tool for Studying...
by Ken Chiacchia | May 11, 2026 | Bridges-2, Keystone AI, NAIRR, Neocortex, News, Press release
Bridges-2 PSC received two supplemental funding grants from the National Science Foundation (NSF) extending the operation of its flagship Bridges-2 supercomputer for a total additional two years. These awards are funding the national-capacity computing resource to...
by Ken Chiacchia | May 7, 2026 | Bridges-2, Science Highlights
World2Rules Uses Robotics Institute’s Amelia-42 Dataset to Learn Rules for Identifying Collision Risks that Humans Can Understand In managing airport traffic, small errors can cause catastrophe. Today at a NASA symposium in Los Angeles, a group from the CMU Robotics...
