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- 1How Los Alamos first ran nuclear Monte Carlo on ENIAC●Los Alamos bets on ENIAC: Nuclear Monte Carlo simulations, 1947–1948 (2014) [pdf]
A 2014 paper recounts how Los Alamos scientists turned to the ENIAC in 1947 and 1948 to run early Monte Carlo simulations of nuclear processes, helping establish a computational method now central to physics and engineering. The paper is drawing fresh attention among readers interested in the origins of scientific computing.
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Anthropic has published a new research essay titled "Claude-Shaped Science", examining how AI systems like Claude may shape the way scientific research is done. The piece is drawing attention among technologists and researchers, who are debating what it means for AI models to influence scientific questions, methods, and outputs.
- 3Scientists Push Superconductors Beyond Their Usual Current Limit●Scientists just pushed superconductors beyond their usual current limit
Researchers report that they have pushed superconductors past their usual current limit, a benchmark that has long constrained practical applications of the technology. The advance could matter for fields that rely on carrying large currents without resistance, such as magnets, power transmission and quantum devices. Details of the method and how broadly it can be applied remain to be seen as the work circulates among science readers.