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The federal government is now adding supercomputers to its tool set in the hunt for ways to stop COVID-19. According to an announcement by President Trump on Sunday, a newly established COVID-19 ...
A Seattle-area startup called Pattern Computer is developing a rapid COVID-19 test based on patterns in light from spit, one of several projects moving ahead from the 7-year-old company that ...
A supercomputer on loan from Hewlett Packard Enterprises will help Baudry search for potential coronavirus treatments in a fraction of the time. “Instead of doing the tests in the test tube ...
CORRECTION: The headline and the piece have been corrected to say the supercomputer’s work is a crucial step toward a treatment for coronavirus, not a vaccine.
Staying home isn’t the only way to help fight the coronavirus pandemic. The more volunteers who donate their unused computing power to the effort, the faster the virtual supercomputer can work ...
A consortium of U.S. government agencies and private industry is using the U.S. space agency NASA’s supercomputer to help fight the COVID-19 pandemic, examining everything from how the virus ...
Thanks to the calculations of a supercomputer in Tennessee, researchers may have a better understanding of why Covid-19 - caused by the coronavirus - takes such a severe toll on the human body.
Researchers at Texas Biomedical Research Institute and the University of Chicago have uncovered a mechanism that SARS-CoV-2, ...
A new simulation from the Fugaku supercomputer in Japan demonstrates how the seating arrangement can make a difference to how easily the coronavirus is transmitted to dining companions at the same ...
Still, a computer model is only as good as the data ... would already be in place if a new infectious disease threat like this coronavirus suddenly emerged.
The surface of the coronavirus could almost be viewed as ... exciting idea that anyone with a computer could find the first radio signal from an extra-terrestrial civilization,” he said.
CORRECTION: The headline and the piece have been corrected to say the supercomputer’s work is a crucial step toward a treatment for coronavirus, not a vaccine.