14-05-08 Move over, Matrix -- astronomers have done you one better. They have created the first realistic virtual universe using a computer simulation called Illustris. Illustris can recreate 13 billion years of cosmic evolution in a cube 350 million light-y...

13-09-04 Researchers from the universities in Mainz, Frankfurt, Hamburg and Ulm have proposed a new platform for quantum simulation. In a theoretical paper recently published in Physical Review Letters, they show that a combined system of ultracold trapped i...

12-09-04 Pooling data from thousands of tests of the antiviral activity of more than 20 commonly used anti-HIV drugs, AIDS experts at Johns Hopkins and Harvard universities have developed what they say is the first accurate computer simulation to explain dru...

11-10-03 The Bolshoi supercomputer simulation, the most accurate and detailed large cosmological（宇宙论的） simulation run to date, gives physicists and astronomers a powerful new tool for understanding such cosmic mysteries as galaxy formation, dark matter...