标签: covid-19

NASA超级计算机助力COVID-19研究

美国国家航空航天局(NASA)正在发挥其超级计算能力的能力,以帮助解决关于COVID-19的一些最紧迫的问题,包括关于病毒如何与人体细胞相互作用的基础科学、遗传风险因素和潜在治疗药物的筛选。 NASA位于加利福尼亚州硅谷的艾姆斯研究中心(Ames Research Center)的超级计算机除了支持地球、行星、航空航天、太阳物理学和天体物理学项目外,也为国家优先事项预留了时间。 NASA已加入了一个机构联盟,该联盟正致力于将超级计算机资源与利用高端计算进行COVID-19研究的提议相结合。这项工作由白宫科学技术政策办公室(White House Office of Science and Technology Policy)组织,参与的业界合作伙伴包括IBM、惠普企业、亚马逊、微软等。除此之外,能源部国家实验室...

新冠病毒袭击人类

2020 June 2 Novel Coronavirus Attacks Humanity Image Credit & License: NIAID Explanation: Humanity is under attack. The attack is not from large tentacle-flailing aliens, but from invaders so small they can barely be seen, and so strange they are not even clearly alive. All over planet Earth, the human home world, DNA-based humans are being invaded by t...

NASA加入抗击COVID-19

On April 25, NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine provided President Donald Trump with an update at the White House on NASA’s response to COVID-19. Bridenstine discussed how the agency’s innovative workforce has mobilized some of its greatest minds to apply NASA research and ingenuity to fighting COVID-19. “The questions is what do you do with rocket sci...

本周NASA速递(20200329)

冠状病毒给NASA任务带来的影响;前往空间站的下一批宇航员进行了发射前训练;猎户座的发射准备工作……最近新闻速递,尽在「本周NASA」! 为应对冠状病毒大流行,针对非必要坐班办公的员工,NASA仍执行了强制性远程办公政策,目的是保护NASA员工的健康和安全。在线上的“局长提问”环节中,NASA局长吉姆•布里登斯坦和其他高级主管解答了员工对冠状病毒情况的疑问和忧虑。布里登斯坦表示:“你们的工作机构,也就是NASA,正在为美国提供新冠疫情的应对方案,在未来,我们将逐步提高疫情防控工作的参与度,毕竟我们的员工队伍才华横溢、机智过人,能够提供非常多的帮助。”

拉古萨上空的星轨

2020 March 28 Stars Trail over Ragusa Image Credit & Copyright: Gianni Tumino Explanation: In trying times, stars still trail in the night. Taken on March 14, this night skyscape was made by combining 230 exposures each 15 seconds long to follow the stars’ circular paths. The camera was fixed to a tripod on an isolated terrace near the center of R...