AI Simulates Billions of Atoms — A New Era in Green Materials Begins
Researchers at USC have developed Allegro-FM, a groundbreaking AI model capable of simulating the behavior of over 4 billion atoms simultaneously — 1,000× more than previous methods, and with 97.5% accuracy.
Why does it matter? The goal is nothing short of revolutionary: to create carbon-neutral concrete.
Professor Nakano explains:
“Just place CO₂ into the concrete, and it becomes carbon neutral.”
This means we could trap greenhouse gases inside building materials — turning one of the world’s most polluting industries into a climate solution. (Cement production currently accounts for 8% of global emissions.)
Bonus: this concrete could last centuries, not decades. Inspired by ancient Roman materials that have survived 2,000 years, researchers aim to far exceed today’s standard concrete lifespan of just 100 years.
The future of construction may be built not just by hands — but by atomically-precise AI.
#AI #MaterialsScience #ClimateTech #Simulation #GreenBuilding
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Researchers at USC have developed Allegro-FM, a groundbreaking AI model capable of simulating the behavior of over 4 billion atoms simultaneously — 1,000× more than previous methods, and with 97.5% accuracy.
Why does it matter? The goal is nothing short of revolutionary: to create carbon-neutral concrete.
Professor Nakano explains:
“Just place CO₂ into the concrete, and it becomes carbon neutral.”
This means we could trap greenhouse gases inside building materials — turning one of the world’s most polluting industries into a climate solution. (Cement production currently accounts for 8% of global emissions.)
Bonus: this concrete could last centuries, not decades. Inspired by ancient Roman materials that have survived 2,000 years, researchers aim to far exceed today’s standard concrete lifespan of just 100 years.
The future of construction may be built not just by hands — but by atomically-precise AI.
#AI #MaterialsScience #ClimateTech #Simulation #GreenBuilding
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USC Viterbi | School of Engineering
Discovering New Materials: AI Can Simulate Billions of Atoms Simultaneously
Allegro-FM achieves breakthrough scalability for materials research, enabling simulations 1,000 times larger than previous models.
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🧠 Scientists Ran a Real Fly Brain Inside a Virtual Body
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📝 A team of researchers has recreated the entire brain of a fruit fly neuron-by-neuron and launched it inside a simulated body.
This isn’t a neural network trained to imitate a fly.
It’s something far stranger: a structural copy of the real biological brain.
The system includes roughly:
▪️ ~125,000 neurons
▪️ ~50 million synapses
▪️ The original wiring diagram reconstructed from connectomics data
Virtual sensory signals enter the model, neural activity propagates through the network exactly as it would in the real insect, and the simulated body moves in response.
In other words: the fly’s brain is effectively running inside a digital organism.
🔬 Researchers built the system using detailed neural mapping and simulation tools developed in the emerging field of whole-brain emulation.
The long-term goal is even more ambitious:
👉 the same approach could eventually be applied to mouse brains, which are several orders of magnitude more complex.
If that succeeds, it would represent a major step toward true digital organisms — simulated bodies driven by real biological neural architectures.
🤖 Anime fans of Pantheon may feel a sense of déjà vu.
🔗 More details: https://eon.systems
💬 Discussion:
If a brain’s wiring and signals can be perfectly reproduced in software, where exactly does the organism “exist”?
#neuroscience #connectomics #simulation #digitalbiology #AI #science
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📝 A team of researchers has recreated the entire brain of a fruit fly neuron-by-neuron and launched it inside a simulated body.
This isn’t a neural network trained to imitate a fly.
It’s something far stranger: a structural copy of the real biological brain.
The system includes roughly:
▪️ ~125,000 neurons
▪️ ~50 million synapses
▪️ The original wiring diagram reconstructed from connectomics data
Virtual sensory signals enter the model, neural activity propagates through the network exactly as it would in the real insect, and the simulated body moves in response.
In other words: the fly’s brain is effectively running inside a digital organism.
🔬 Researchers built the system using detailed neural mapping and simulation tools developed in the emerging field of whole-brain emulation.
The long-term goal is even more ambitious:
👉 the same approach could eventually be applied to mouse brains, which are several orders of magnitude more complex.
If that succeeds, it would represent a major step toward true digital organisms — simulated bodies driven by real biological neural architectures.
🤖 Anime fans of Pantheon may feel a sense of déjà vu.
🔗 More details: https://eon.systems
💬 Discussion:
If a brain’s wiring and signals can be perfectly reproduced in software, where exactly does the organism “exist”?
#neuroscience #connectomics #simulation #digitalbiology #AI #science
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