Inside the Vislab
The university’s Longhorn Network visits the Texas Advanced Computing Center‘s Visualization Laboratory at The University of Texas at Austin. In the Vislab, simulations are displayed on Stallion, the...
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The memory function
Alison Preston, assistant professor in the Department of Psychology and Section of Neurobiology at The University of Texas at Austin, explores how the brain supports memory and how memory influences...
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A tree of life grows in Texas
Scientists continue to refine, and sometimes radically alter, our understanding of the “Tree of Life” — the ways in which species are related to one another. They’re using the computing power of the...
View ArticleIntroducing cloaking
Invisibility cloaking no longer seems to be relegated to the realm of science fiction. It’s happening right now in a basement laboratory at The University of Texas at Austin. There are several...
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Pandemic Preparedness
The Texas Pandemic Flu Forecasting tool predicts hospitalizations regionally and state-wide based on various indicators including ILI surveillance data, Google flu trends, absolute humidity and school...
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Molecular Matchmaking for Drug Discovery
Still from a video clip produced by the Computational Visualization Center at The University of Texas at Austin showing biomolecular machines manufacturing proteins. For millennia, people have...
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How-To Video Shares Heart Disease Research
Two-thirds of all heart attacks are caused by something known as vulnerable plaques, which are fatty lipid pool deposits in the inner layer of the arterial wall. But standard medical imaging tests such...
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ICES Celebrates 10 Years, Honors O’Donnells
ICES researchers have simulated the behavior of the HIV RT protein to help design therapeutic drugs. Protein motions are displayed as multiple light blue ribbons. The green and dark blue spheres...
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Texas Unleashes Stampede for Science
Texas Advanced Computing Center’s latest supercomputer powers transformative discoveries across science and engineering You hear it before you see it — a roar like a factory in full production. But...
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Weekly Readings: Quantifying Self
Early this Tuesday morning, and every Tuesday morning through November 2013, neuroscientist Russell Poldrack will wake up, take off his headband-like sleep monitor and tell it to wirelessly send data...
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