iSGTW RSS Feed http://www.isgtw.org/ Wed, 16 May 2012 04:49:04 -0500 Wed, 16 May 2012 09:18:38 -0500 The search for 'new physics' - a view from the frontline http://www.isgtw.org/feature/search-new-physics-view-frontline <p> 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.</p> 17780 Wed, 16 May 2012 04:49:04 GMT iSGTW RSS Feed Floating Robots Track Water Flow, Stream Data via Smartphones http://www.isgtw.org/feature/floating-robots-track-water-flow-stream-data-smartphones <p> By analyzing data from a hundred free-floating robotic sensors in real-time, researchers hope to learn more about how river deltas function.</p> 17820 Wed, 16 May 2012 04:49:03 GMT iSGTW RSS Feed Biologically inspired energy http://www.isgtw.org/feature/biologically-inspired-energy <p> Inspired by plants, scientists have used computer simulations to create a light-harvesting material that can turn sunlight into chemical energy.</p> 17821 Wed, 16 May 2012 04:49:03 GMT iSGTW RSS Feed Computers help reveal asteroid impacts on Earth http://www.isgtw.org/spotlight/computers-help-reveal-asteroid-impacts-earth <p> 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.</p> 17822 Wed, 16 May 2012 04:49:02 GMT iSGTW RSS Feed Is holographic communication a reality? http://www.isgtw.org/visualization/holographic-communication-reality <p></p> 17795 Wed, 16 May 2012 04:49:04 GMT iSGTW RSS Feed