Electric propulsion is being increasingly used on space missions and could ultimately replace thrusters using chemical ...

When scientists push the limits of the world’s most powerful supercomputers, they often find those limits are just the beginning of what’s possible. In early November, the Department of Energy ...

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In June 2011, Japan’s K computer became the world’s fastest supercomputer, achieving a speed of over 8 petaflops — or 8 quadrillion (8 million billion) operations a second. In November the ...

Jelm Mountain, a share of the 8.5 m Apache Point observatory, the 0.6 m Red Buttes Observatory, several experimental condensed matter physics laboratories, and the new National Center for Atmospheric ...

This National Astronomy Week, we celebrate all their fascinating work in space research. Our Centre for Extragalactic Astronomy (CEA) is a hub for researchers looking into the formation and evolution ...

"Astronomy is a very interesting area ... All of that is a uni-directional dataflow which travels back to supercomputer centres. Then it's about how it's distributed to a global network which ...

Simply sign up to the Artificial intelligence myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. UK government officials have discussed funding a supercomputer at the University of Edinburgh, just ...