One of the simplest, most over-studied organisms in the world is the C. elegans nematode. For 13 years, a project called OpenWorm has tried—and utterly failed—to simulate it.

The NNSA has unveiled El Capitan, the world's most powerful supercomputer, at the SC Conference. Housed at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, El Capitan can perform over 2700 quadrillion operations per second. It will be used to model nuclear weapon performance, aging effects, and safety, as well as inertial confinement fusion and AI training.