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31 August 2011

Modeling the economy in a changing climate

As society adjusts to the knowledge that our climate is changing, policy makers are faced with a difficult question: how can they use policy to help prevent and cope with climate change, while minimizing the damage to economic health? Two years ago, grid computing luminary Ian Foster and other computer scientists joined forces with economists, climate scientists, and geophysicists to create a computer modeling framework that could help decision makers answer these questions.

Miriam Boon
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Nowhere to run

An international seismic and radionucleotide monitoring system keeps close watch on a real time flow of data to sound the alert on nuclear tests anywhere in the world.

Adrian Giordani
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Simulating the DNA transcription dance

Researchers study the structure of a protein linked to cancer, autoimmune disease, and a host of other illnesses, by using grid and high-performance computing.

Miriam Boon
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How spiral galaxies form: a realistic simulation

Astrophysicists have made the first realistic simulation of the formation of spiral galaxies, such our home galaxy the Milky Way. They've named the model Eris, after the Greek goddess of strife and discord, because of the decades of debate in the field about the formation of spiral galaxies - some of which they have resolved.

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