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Scientists tap the world's most powerful computers in the race to understand and stop the coronavirus

  • Written by Jeremy Smith, Governor's Chair, Biophysics, University of Tennessee
imageIt takes a tremendous amount of computing power to simulate all the components and behaviors of viruses and cells.Thomas Splettstoesser scistyle.com, CC BY-ND

In “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” by Douglas Adams, the haughty supercomputer Deep Thought is asked whether he can find the answer to the ultimate question...

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