These Supercomputer Simulations Will Put Your Lava Lamp to Shame

Inside the world's most powerful computers, simulated reality allows scientists to go to impossible places: through the blood-brain barrier, beneath a shaking earthquake fault, and straight into the heart of a supernova.

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