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...
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...
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...
by Ken Chiacchia | Apr 17, 2025 | Bridges-2, Science Highlights
Credit: Illustration: NASA, ESA, and JPL-Caltech; Science: NASA, ESA, and D. Apai and E. Buenzli (University of Arizona) Study of Substellar Objects Using Bridges-2 Sheds Light on Globular Cluster Age and Early Development of Universe Collections of stars called...
by Ken Chiacchia | Apr 7, 2025 | Anton, Anton 2, Science Highlights
Adobe Stock 508244320 “Tucking In” of Viral Capsid Protein Allows Passage of Giant Structure through Nuclear Pore, Allowing Virus to Take Over The hepatitis B virus causes about 800,000 deaths per year, on par with HIV and the malaria parasite. However, as it spreads,...
by Ken Chiacchia | Mar 19, 2025 | Bridges-2, Science Highlights
Adobe Stock 270629805 Number and Type of Mutations Relate to Risk of Death at Earlier Age, Suggesting Focus for Future Detection and Prevention Sudden death in children is rare but devastating. A team led from Northwestern University used PSC’s flagship Bridges-2...
