In vol. 374, issue 6571 of Science, Katrin Amunts and Thomas Lippert explain how advances in neuroscience demand high-performance computing technology and will ultimately need exascale computing power.

For around 20 years, there has been a discrepancy between the theoretical predictions and experimental measurements of the muon magnetic field, indicating a possible error in our current physical understanding. A new calculation method with unprecedented precision has now taken the theoretical prediction closer to the previous experimental value.

A research team comprising Jena University Hospital, Schmalkalden University of Applied Sciences, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf (HHU), and Forschungszentrum Jülich were able to decode the switching process of a membrane receptor that occurs in olfactory neurons.