Supersized Science

Science

The Supersized Science podcast highlights research and discoveries nationwide enabled by advanced computing technology and expertise at the Texas Advanced Computing Center of the University of Texas at Austin. TACC science writer Jorge Salazar hosts Supersized Science. Supersized Science is part of the Texas Podcast Network, brought to you by The University of Texas at Austin. Podcasts are produced by faculty members and staffers at UT Austin who work with University Communications to craft content that adheres to journalistic best practices. The University of Texas at Austin offers these podcasts at no charge. Podcasts appearing on the network and this webpage represent the views of the hosts and not of The University of Texas at Austin.

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The Supersized Science podcast highlights research and discoveries nationwide enabled by advanced computing technology and expertise at the Texas Advanced Computing Center of the University of Texas at Austin. TACC science writer Jorge Salazar hosts Supersized Science. Supersized Science is part of the Texas Podcast Network, brought to you by The University of Texas at Austin. Podcasts are produced by faculty members and staffers at UT Austin who work with University Communications to craft content that adheres to journalistic best practices. The University of Texas at Austin offers these podcasts at no charge. Podcasts appearing on the network and this webpage represent the views of the hosts and not of The University of Texas at Austin.

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@TACC

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English

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https://www.tacc.utexas.edu/

Email:

jorge@tacc.utexas.edu

Episodes

Supercomputing the Secrets Inside Cattle Antibiotics

2/12/2024

Scientists have found the crystal structure and unlocked the mechanism of activity of a family of enzymes that produce monensin, widely used as a cattle antibiotic.

Duration:00:12:20

DNA Origami Folded Into Tiny Motor

1/19/2024

Scientists have created the world's first working nanoscale electomotor. The science team designed a turbine engineered from DNA that is powered by hydrodynamic flow inside a nanopore, a nanometer-sized hole in a membrane of solid-state silicon nitride.

Duration:00:16:13

Cosmic Lights in the Forest

12/20/2023

ACC's Frontera supercomputer helped astronomers develop PRIYA, the largest suite of hydrodynamic simulations yet made of large-scale structure in the universe.

Duration:00:11:09

Scientific Supercomputing and AI

11/13/2023

SC23 podcast with Dan Stanzione, Executive Director of TACC / Associate Vice President for Research, UT Austin.

Duration:00:12:27

New Twist on Optical Tweezers

10/31/2023

Optical tweezers use laser light to manipulate small particles. A new method has been advanced using Stampede2 supercomputer simulations that makes optical tweezers safer to use for potential biological applications, such as cancer therapy.

Duration:00:11:05

Hot Jupiter Blows Its Top

9/5/2023

The planet HAT-P-32b is losing so much of its atmospheric helium that the trailing gas tails are among the largest structures yet known any planet outside our solar system.

Duration:00:12:37

Community Resilience from Earthquakes and Tsunamis

6/20/2023

Seaside, Oregon is focus of study for community resilience from hazardous earthquakes and tsunamis. Environmental data that included buildings, ground movement, and demographics were collected in work recognized with a 2023 DesignSafe Dataset Award.

Duration:00:08:41

California Flooding from the Arkstorm

6/6/2023

The ARkStorm 2.0 simulations build upon a scenario developed in 2010 by the US Geological Survey, where large atmospheric rivers dump extreme quantities of rainfall over California and cause widespread flooding.

Duration:00:11:44

Brain Games Reveal Clues on How the Mind Works

4/27/2023

Deep learning models developed in task-DyVa framework to generate realistic cognitive response time data.

Duration:00:15:36

New Simulation Reveals Secrets of Exotic Form of Electrons Called Polarons

3/22/2023

Conditions mapped for the first time of polaron characteristics in 2D materials.

Duration:00:17:24

Rare Quasar Triplet Forms Most Massive Object in Universe

3/13/2023

Origin of ultra-massive black holes revealed through supercomputer simulations.

Duration:00:10:07

HETDEX Reveals Galaxy Gold Mine in First Large Survey

2/9/2023

The Hobby-Eberly Telescope Dark Energy Experiment (HETDEX) announced their first publicly released catalog of astronomical objects.

Duration:00:15:24

New Quasiparticle Discovered In Moiré Patterns

11/7/2022

New kind of exciton discovered with novel characteristics in moiré crystal superlattice.

Duration:00:17:10

Nuclear Crossing Guard

10/12/2022

New mechanism determined for passive transport of biomolecules through the nuclear pore complex of cells.

Duration:00:13:16

First Stars and Black Holes

8/11/2022

Cosmological hydrodynamic zoom-in simulations used to study gravity hydrodynamics, chemistry and cooling in structure formation and early star formation.

Duration:00:20:13

Deep Learning for New Alloys

6/20/2022

Supercomputer simulations are helping scientists discover new high-entropy alloys.

Duration:00:13:20

Supercomputer Helps Reveal Weaknesses in HIV-1 ‘Armor'

6/16/2022

First realistic simulations developed of HIV-1 capsid, which encloses its genetic material.

Duration:00:10:02

Cooperation Rewards Water Utilities

5/19/2022

Inter-utility water agreements can help mitigate their risks, in research that used supercomputer simulations of water supply in the North Carolina Research Triangle.

Duration:00:13:57

Devil in the Coronavirus Fusion Details

5/4/2022

Simulations suggest coronavirus fusion mechanism shows cooperative behavior of host cell receptor proteins that leads to infection. Coarse-grained models took cryo-electron tomography data and combined it with atomistic molecular dynamics simulations.

Duration:00:13:10

Pioneering Simulations Focus On HIV-1 Virus

4/5/2022

First-ever biologically authentic computer model completed of the HIV-1 virus liposome.

Duration:00:16:03