Mars simulators set for ‘return to Earth’ after 8 months in isolation

Six crew members who spent eight months in isolation on a remote Hawaiian volcano – one of the world’s largest active volcanoes – will emerge from their Mars-esque habitat and return to Earth on Sunday. The experiment was specially designed to replicate conditions on Mars, and to test the social and psychological effects a real […]

ICYMI: Tornado simulators and cranial cracking robo-surgeons

Today on In Case You Missed It: Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison are leveraging 20,000-core supercomputers to model the inner workings of supercells in hopes of finding out why some storms unleash tornadoes while others do not. In all, the simulation relied on nearly two billion individual data points. We also take a look […]