Columnist Charles Day examines the case of economist Dmitry Dey, who watched a documentary about pyramids, mummies, and tombs and used satellite imagery via Google Earth to uncover long-forgotten pyramids in the empty steppe around Kostanay.

The authors consider the obstacles and discuss the importance of integrating the latest techniques of computational science and engineering into digital manufacturing.

To gain performance, developers often build scientific applications in procedural languages, such as C or Fortran, which unfortunately reduces flexibility. To address this imbalance, the authors present CompuCell3D, a multitiered, flexible, and scalable problem-solving environment for morphogenesis simulations that's written in C++ using object-oriented design patterns.