The researchers used a computer simulation model to estimate how many lives the screening programme could save, using data on death rates and the numbers of people affected by cancer from between 1975 and 2004.

BBC: Hopes over DIY bowel cancer tests

Indeed, one principal purpose of the Bolshoi simulation is to compute and model the evolution of dark matter halos thereby rendering the invisible visible for astronomers to study, and to predict structures that astronomers could then seek to observe.

FORBES: Connect

The new computer simulation allows doctors and physicists to model the faulty heart beats (arrhythmias) that can cause cardiac arrest, and run episodes of arrhythmia time and again, looking for the best way of treating it.

BBC: Virtual heart

But in an agent-based model you simply run a computer simulation to see what emerges, free from any top-down assumptions.

ECONOMIST: Economics focus

The Forecast Model builds upon the output of the Stock Valuation Model and combines this data with econometric and simulation techniques to output target prices for one, three, and six-month and one, two, and three-year time horizons.

FORBES: It's Time To Sell Strength To Risky Levels

Considering that, a few years ago, it was rare to get the computer time needed to do even a single geoengineering simulation with a state-of-the-art climate model, this investment of time and effort marks a big step forward.

ECONOMIST: Geoengineering

They were able to model the motion of the wheel and ball and were able to confirm their predictions both in simulation and using an actual roulette wheel.

FORBES: Scientists Beat The House At Roulette With Chaos Theory