The Monte Carlo simulation estimates the probability of different outcomes in a process that cannot easily be predicted because of the potential for random variables.

Climate changes in the tropical Pacific have temporarily put the brakes on rapid warming and ice melting in Greenland. Climate changes in the tropical Pacific have temporarily put the brakes on rapid ...

As planetary systems evolve, gravitational interactions between planets can fling some of them into eccentric elliptical orbits around the host star, or even out of the system altogether. Smaller ...

Artist's conception of early starbursting galaxies. UC Davis astronomers collaborated on new simulations showing how bright galaxies could emerge early in the universe. Stars and galaxies are shown in ...

Climate changes in the tropical Pacific have temporarily put the brakes on rapid warming and ice melting in Greenland. A puzzling, decade-long slowdown in summer warming across Greenland has been ...

Scientists at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego and the California Institute of Technology are one step closer to understanding an enigma in climate change science: why do climate ...

Stars that wander too close to supermassive black holes may be violently undone in a process called "spaghettification." New simulations provide the most detailed look ever at the gory interaction.