News tagged with simulation data


Orbiting Carbon Observatory Set for Feb. 24 Launch

NASA Releases Orbiting Carbon Observatory Accident Summary

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jul 17, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A NASA panel that investigated the unsuccessful Feb. 24 launch of the Orbiting Carbon Observatory, or OCO, has completed its report.


Assembling the virtual human

Medicine & Health / Other

created Jun 29, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

It could mean the end of animal testing and eventually even clinical patient drug trials. The Virtual Physiological Human is a 21st century pan-European project that's gaining momentum and takes a major step forward this ...





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Researchers Plan to Simulate Movements of 300 Million Americans

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Dec 09, 2008 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (26) | comments 8

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers from Virginia Tech are developing a computer simulation that matches the movements of all 300 million people in towns across the US. The team hopes that the model will help them ...


H1N1 simulation modeling shows rapid vaccine rollout effective in reducing infection rates

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Oct 13, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Early action, especially rapid rollout of vaccines, is extremely effective in reducing the attack rate of the H1N1 influenza virus, according to a simulation model of a pandemic outbreak reported in a new study in CMAJ (Canad ...


A Cosmic Rosetta Stone

Dust and gas in the early universe

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Jul 31, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (13) | comments 1

Researchers believe that our universe began with the Big Bang about 13 billion years ago, and that soon after that event, matter began to form as small dust grains and gases. How the first stars formed from ...


Immigration makes Spanish pensions system more sustainable

Immigration makes Spanish pensions system more sustainable

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Jun 26, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers from the University of Valladolid have constructed a demographic and economic simulation model called 'Carrión', which projects the costs of pensions, Social Security contributions and GDP ...


Cyberinfrastructure-enabled Virtual Environment

Virtual world is sign of future for scientists, engineers

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Jul 16, 2008 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (7) | comments 0

Purdue University is operating a virtual environment that enables scientists and engineers to interpret raw data collected with powerful instruments called dynamic atomic force microscopes.


Uncovering the real dirt on granular flow

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Dec 03, 2008 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (5) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A handful of sand contains countless grains, which interact with each other via friction and impact forces as they slip through your fingers. When a handful becomes a load in an excavator bucket, those interactions ...


Space science simulation at UNH now better, faster, cheaper

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jun 18, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Cashing in on the underlying technology that seamlessly renders graphics for state-of-the-art video games, space scientists at the University of New Hampshire have bundled together 40 PlayStation3 consoles to affordably simulate ...


National Science and Technology Council releases strategy for digital scientific data

National Science and Technology Council releases strategy for digital scientific data

Technology / Other

created Mar 23, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

The National Science and Technology Council (NSTC) released a report describing a strategy to promote preservation and access to digital scientific data. The report, Harnessing the Power of Digital Data for ...


Simulations means 'smarter traffic decisions'

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Jun 10, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (6) | comments 0

Kyoto University and IBM's Tokyo Research Laboratory have developed a system that can simulate urban transport situations encompassing millions of individual vehicles in complex traffic interactions. A simulation can predict, ...


Virtually engineering power plants

Virtually engineering power plants

Technology / Engineering

created Jul 13, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Photovoltaic and wind energy plants, hydroelectric power stations and biogas plants supply energy without polluting the environment. However, they are complex to design and maintain. Virtual reality makes ...



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