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October 24, 2021

Astrophysicists Reveal Largest-Ever Suite of Universe Simulations By Thomas Sumner

A snapshot of the distribution of dark matter throughout the universe in an AbacusSummit simulation.

October 15, 2021

Astrophysicist Blakesley Burkhart Receives American Physical Society’s Maria Goeppert Mayer Award By Thomas Sumner

Portrait photo of Blakesley Burkhart

October 05, 2021

NetQuilt: A Powerful Computational Approach for Predicting Protein Function By Susan Reslewic Keatley, Ph.D.

A digital illustration of a patchwork quilt with silhouettes of two distinct animals within them. For example, one square has a silhouette of a butterfly and a frog, while another has those of a rabbit and a chicken, another with silhouettes of a butterfly and a chicken, and so on.

September 21, 2021

Computational Chemist Erik Thiede Named a Finalist for Blavatnik Regional Award for Young Scientists By Thomas Sumner

Portrait photo of Erik Thiede.

August 30, 2021

Building Computer Models That See Everything By Marcus Banks

Portrait photo of Kathryn Bonnen

August 17, 2021

Cracking a Mystery of Massive Black Holes and Quasars with Supercomputer Simulations

A digital photo of a misty, quasar-like formation in what appears to be outer space. A plus-shaped crosshairs is at the center of the formation and surrounded by a dotted circle. White text above this circle reads,

August 16, 2021

Nearby Star-Forming Region Yields Clues to the Formation of Our Solar System

A photograph of the Ophiuchus star-forming complex, an area in outer space with multiple stars of varying sizes and colors.

August 12, 2021

Black Holes Flicker When They Eat, Revealing Their Size

A screenshot of an animation that shows an artist’s impression of an accretion disk rotating around a central unseen supermassive black hole (SMBH). The overall image looks like a gigantic circle in space with concentric