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16 May 2012

The search for 'new physics' - a view from the frontline

A PhD student based at the National Institute for Subatomic Physics (NIKHEF), in the Netherlands, wrote an opinion feature of her experience in using the grid to help search for new physics in LHCb detector data and to answer why there is more matter than antimatter in the universe today.

Serena Oggero
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Floating Robots Track Water Flow, Stream Data via Smartphones

By analyzing data from a hundred free-floating robotic sensors in real-time, researchers hope to learn more about how river deltas function.

Jon Bashor
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Biologically inspired energy

Inspired by plants, scientists have used computer simulations to create a light-harvesting material that can turn sunlight into chemical energy.

Aaron Dubrow
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Is holographic communication a reality?
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Spotlight
Computers help reveal asteroid impacts on Earth

Researchers use high performance computing to show that the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs was simply the last in a long series of gigantic asteroids that struck the earth.

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