Olympicene: Doodle to Stunning image of smallest possible 5 rings

Scientists have created and imaged the smallest possible five-ringed structure – about 100,000 times thinner than a human hair – and you'll probably recognise its shape.









A collaboration between the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC), the University of Warwick and IBM Research – Zurich has allowed the scientists to bring a single molecule to life in a picture, using a combination of

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Treating disease with real-world evidence

Data from patients' drug reactions help researchers advance personalized healthcare.

Diseases are treated based on the knowledge of statistics from large populations. For example, hospitals treat patients in different wards or buildings based on their disease. Although patients are treated as a group, they respond – or don't respond – as individuals. In fact, many patients go through

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White House highlights Materials Genome Initiative

Editor's note: this article is by David Turek, IBM's vice president of High Performance Computing Scalable Systems.

Today, I am participating in a White House event highlighting the first results and next steps of the Materials Genome Initiative (MGI), which President Obama announced almost one year ago.

The name of this initiative is a riff on the Human Genome Project
because it intends to

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Simpler tools for more complex systems

Editors note: This blog entry is authored by Gabi Zodik, Department Group Manager of Software and Services at IBM Research – Haifa.



Systems such as planes, cars, or air traffic control are becoming more and more complex. Although they now provide us with functionality, efficiency, and productivity never before imagined, they are also introducing new engineering challenges. This is

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Fifteen years after Deep Blue's chess victory

On May 11, 1997, IBM supercomputer Deep Blue made "man versus machine" history by winning a six-game chess match against a grand master with two wins, one loss and three draws. The technology went beyond playing chess, and 
was applied to financial modeling, molecular dynamics, and to develop new drugs.

Want to know more about the game, and the technology inside Deep Blue? One of its

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IBM's pioneering text mining research effort honored in Japan

In 1997, a team of researchers
at IBM Research - Tokyo
invented TAKMI, a technology that can read and uncover trends from the avalanche of information in natural
language format. The Ministry of
Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan recently honored the research team for its contribution in pioneering text mining technology with the 2012
Commendation for Science and

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Diagnosing psychosis with word analysis

Editor’s note: This article is by Dr. Guillermo
Cecchi of IBM Research’s Computational Biology Group. 



Analyzing the spoken words of people with mental
health disorders could significantly improve the accuracy of diagnosing mania
and schizophrenia. In a PLoS ONE paper, my Computational
Biology team collaborating with researchers and clinicians in Brazil showed
that quantifying and graphing

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