Researchers at CERN have begun public testing of a new version of the popular volunteer computing project LHC@home. This version allows volunteers to participate for the first time in simulating ...

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Three new Web-based reference products covering science topics are now available with optional interactive 3D models. Gale, which typically markets materials for academic and public libraries, has ...

Edward O'Brien, assistant professor of chemistry, Penn State and an associate with the University's Institute for CyberScience (ICS), has received a grant for $1.9 million over 5 years from the ...

Technology is flooding the world with data on a scale we’ve never seen before. At CERN’s Large Hadron Collider, in Switzerland, for example, new data are generated at a rate of one gigabyte per second ...

Citizen cyberscience is a growing trend where ordinary people use their computers and the world wide web to contribute in meaningful ways to an increasingly wide range of scientific challenges.

Penn State's Institute for CyberScience will target large-scale modeling, simulation and data analysis with a terascale advanced computing system, funded by the National Science Foundation's Major ...

The family of ‘@home’ volunteer computing projects is growing ever more diverse. Spare time on a personal computer can now be donated to anything from finding alien life to crunching climate models or ...

Penn State’s Zita Oravecz, an assistant professor in the Department of Human Development and Family Studies and a co-hire of the Institute for CyberScience, and her colleagues are developing an app ...

Interstellar won an Oscar for best visual effects. The company Double Negative took home the Oscar but much of the software whose expertise they relied on was provided by the FX specialists The ...