Design, Science and Technology

A team of scientists at the Freie Universität in Berlin has developed an artificial intelligence (AI) method for calculating the ground state of the Schrödinger equation. The goal was to predict chemical and physical properties of molecules based solely on the arrangement of their atoms in space, avoiding the need for resource-intensive and time-consuming laboratory experiments. In principle, this can be achieved by solving the Schrödinger equation, but in practice this is extremely difficult.

 

Up until now, it has been impossible to find an exact solution for arbitrary molecules that can be efficiently computed. But the team at the Freie Universität Berlin has developed an AI deep learning method that can achieve an unprecedented combination of accuracy and computational efficiency.

 

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Via Dr. Stefan Gruenwald

Via Dr. Stefan Gruenwald

The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT), a network of eight radio observatories spanning the globe, has set its sights on a pair of behemoths: Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the Milky Way’s center, and an even more massive black hole 53.5 million light-years away in galaxy M87. In April 2017, the observatories teamed up to observe the black holes’ event horizons, the boundary beyond which gravity is so extreme that even light can’t escape. After almost two years of rendering the data, scientists are gearing up to release the first images in April, 2019. 

 

Via Dr. Stefan Gruenwald

 

Magnetic reconnection is one of the prime drivers of space radiation and a key factor in the quest to learn more about our space environment and protect our spacecraft and astronauts. The effects of this sudden release of particles and energy - such as giant eruptions on the sun or radiation storms in near-Earth space - have been observed throughout the solar system and beyond.

 

Via Dr. Stefan Gruenwald