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Folding@home is a distributed computing project for disease research that simulates protein folding, computational drug design, and other types of molecular dynamics. The project is powered by the idle processing resources of thousands of personal computers owned by volunteers who have installed the software on their systems. Its primary purpose is to determine the mechanisms of protein folding, which is the process by which proteins reach their final three-dimensional structure, and to examine the causes of protein misfolding. This is of significant academic interest with major implications for medical research into Alzheimer's disease, Huntington's disease, and many forms of cancer, among other diseases. Folding@home is developed and operated by the Pande laboratory at Stanford University, under the direction of Vijay Pande, and is shared by various scientific institutions and research laboratories across the world. The project has pioneered the use of GPUs, PlayStation 3s, and Message Passing Interface for distributed computing and scientific research. Folding@home is one of the world's fastest computing systems. Since its launch in 2000, it has assisted over 100 scientific research papers. (Read the full article) Recently featured: Bride of Frankenstein – Charles Villiers Stanford – "Give Peace a Chance" Archive – By email – More featured articles...
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The Walt Disney Company announces an agreement to purchase Lucasfilm for US$4.05 billion and produce additional Star Wars films. After striking the Caribbean, Hurricane Sandy (satellite image pictured) causes widespread damage on the East Coast of the United States, including flooding in parts of New York City. In baseball, the San Francisco Giants defeat the Detroit Tigers to win the World Series. At least 80 people are killed in fighting between Buddhists and Muslims in Rakhine State, Burma. Recent deaths: Jacques Barzun Syrian civil war – Wikinews – More current events...
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November 1: All Saints' Day in Western Christianity; Rajyotsava (Formation Day) in Karnataka, India (1956) 1800 – John Adams became the first U.S. President to take residence in the Executive Mansion, later renamed the White House. 1876 – The Colony of New Zealand dissolved its nine provinces and replaced them with 63 counties. 1941 – American photographer Ansel Adams shot Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico, one of his most famous photographs. 1959 – After being struck in the face with a hockey puck, Jacques Plante played the rest of the game wearing a face mask (pictured), now everyday equipment for goaltenders in ice hockey. 1998 – The European Court of Human Rights was instituted as a permanent court with full-time judges to monitor compliance by the signatory parties of the European Convention on Human Rights. More anniversaries: October 31 – November 1 – November 2 Archive – By email – List of historical anniversaries It is now November 1, 2012 (UTC) – Refresh this page

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The mushroom cloud from the Ivy Mike nuclear test, one of two tests conducted as part of Operation Ivy at the Pacific Proving Grounds on Elugelab in the Marshall Islands. Mike was the first successful full-scale test of a multi-megaton thermonuclear weapon, and it left an underwater crater 6,240 ft (1,900 m) wide and 164 ft (50 m) deep where the island had been.

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