'Transforming the Sciences'

Apr 28, 2011

A new multimedia presentation at the California Academy of Sciences' Morrison Planetarium illustrates how supercomputer technology is becoming an important scientific tool, says The New York Times' John Markoff. It's helping scientists make sense of the mounds of digital data they have to work with.

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