MIT researchers developed a computational technique for designing buildings, bridges, and other structures that can easily be built on time and budget while also using less material.

By leveraging a classical mathematical function, researchers at the Simons Foundation’s Flatiron Institute developed a new method that enables molecular dynamics simulations to run 2.5 to seven times as fast — all without sacrificing accuracy. For the most popular software package for molecular dynamics simulations, GROMACS, the researchers achieved a fivefold speed increase in simulations run at high accuracy.

A research paper by scientists from Tsinghua University presented a novel text sequence stimulation paradigm that combines periodic visual stimulation with orthographic information and elicits distinct occipital and occipitotemporal scalp response patterns relative to conventional brightness flicker.

The new research paper, published on Jun. 15 in the journal Cyborg and Bionic Systems, developed a novel text sequence stimulation paradigm that dramatically improves user comfort without sacrificing performance.

Thomas Pock, head of the Institute of Visual Computing at Graz University of Technology (TU Graz), has been awarded an Advanced Grant from the European Research Council (ERC) for his project EAGLE – Efficient Algorithms for Generative Learning. In his research, the computer scientist aims to develop novel generative learning methods and algorithms. He will receive funding of 2.5 million euros for this, with the project running for five years.