And researchers utilize GPUs to advance the frontiers of science with high performance computing.

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And researchers utilize GPUs to advance the frontiers of science with high-performance computing.

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In short, physicists will keep pushing the frontiers of science ahead, whether or not the U.S. is in the lead.

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Yes, we are bound to Israel because of the interests that we share -- in security for our communities, prosperity for our people, the new frontiers of science that can light the world.

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As one of the foremost science and research organizations in the world the Smithsonian is a champion of many critical ecological frontiers.

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The former host of the long-running PBS series "Scientific American Frontiers" is a founder and visiting professor of journalism at the Stony Brook University Center for Communicating Science, which has just been named in his honor.

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