Science journalist Anne Saker describes the Chandrasekhar Limit as a range of possibility where if a planet has enough stability in its magnetic force and its gravitational force, it can sustain life.

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From driving water wheels to turning turbines, waterhas been used as the prime mover of machinery and the powerhouse of industry for many centuries. In ancient times,the forces of flowing water were ...

Dorsal views of streamlines from the CFD simulation of pulmonary airflow in monitor lizards run on the Blue Waters supercomputer. Red streamlines indicate flow towards the front of the lung, and blue ...

BQP, a startup and developer of quantum-based engineering simulations, has been able to simulate Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD), using a hybrid quantum-classical solver which is part of BQP’s next ...

For centuries, mathematicians have sought to understand and model the motion of fluids. The equations that describe how ripples crease the surface of a pond have also helped researchers to predict the ...

Analysis of the latest trends in cloud and datacentre technology. Datacentre monitoring uses data from sensors to visualise what is happening in the datacentre in real-time and is of paramount ...