What's the best cabin layout for aircraft evacuation?

The key is to evenly distribute elderly passengers, who move more slowly, among the aircraft cabins.

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Your next gaming dice could be shaped like a dragon or armadillo

Statistically, “the real behavior of a rolling object is largely a function of its geometry.”…

New computer simulations help scientists advance energy-efficient microelectronics

Thanks to advances in microchips, today's smartphones are so powerful they would have been considered supercomputers in the early 1990s. But the rising ubiquity of artificial intelligence and the Internet of Things—the vast network of connected devices that have enabled everything from smart grids to smart homes—will require a new generation of microchips that not only outpace previous records of miniaturization and performance but are also more energy efficient than current technologies.

New computer simulations follow the formation of galaxies and cosmic large-scale structure with precision

York University and an international team of astrophysicists have made an ambitious attempt to simulate the formation of galaxies and cosmic large-scale structure throughout staggeringly large swaths of space.

Computer simulations visualize how an essential stem cell protein opens wrapped DNA

A key protein for converting adult stem cells into cells that resemble embryonic stem cells has been visualized in unprecedented detail by an international team of researchers around Hans Schöler and Vlad Cojocaru of the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Biomedicine in Münster. By combining experiments and computer simulations, the team visualized how the Oct4 protein binds and opens short pieces of DNA while wrapped around nuclear storage proteins (histones), just like in our genome. The results were published in the journal Nucleic Acids Research on September 22.