LCN research activities carry on during lockdown
The cogs of research are still spinning for LCN researchers despite the challenges they are facing due to COVID-19. With lab work on pause, researchers are busy writing grant proposals or papers, running simulations and analysing data from home offices, kitchen tables...
Computer labs redeployed towards global coronavirus research
King’s College London’s Faculty of Natural & Mathematical Science’s (NMS) Computing Support team is taking part in a global computational effort led by Folding@home to identify potential small drug molecules in the fight against the SARS-CoV-2...
The LCN and COVID-19
All three partner institutions in the LCN (King’s College London, Imperial and UCL) are currently working remotely in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Some of the LCN experimental facilities are open and operating at a limited capacity, and activities related...
Synthetic synapses get more like a real brain
The human brain easily outperforms today’s state-of-the-art supercomputers fed on just the calorie input of a modest diet, as opposed to the full-scale power station energy input that a supercomputer guzzles through. The difference stems from the multiple states the...