Guiding light

April 18, 2018

If the movie The Graduate were remade in 2018, the famous one-liner “plastics” might be replaced with two words: metal… Read More

Protein shape-sifting

March 28, 2018

For years, computational biologists have sought ways to model how proteins change shape in real time. In the past decade,… Read More

Reducing uncertainty

February 14, 2018

In scientific simulations, one sure thing is uncertainty. But a researcher at the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Sandia National Laboratories… Read More

The Big One, in 3-D

January 17, 2018

Early on a Sunday in June 1992, a magnitude 7.3 earthquake near the San Andreas fault shook Southern California. It… Read More

Thinking networks

December 20, 2017

Like other complex systems, computer networks can break down and suffer bottlenecks. Keeping such systems running requires algorithms that can… Read More

Language barrier

November 29, 2017

A Purdue University assistant professor of computer science leads a group effort to find new and better ways to generate… Read More

Rules of attraction

November 8, 2017

The atoms inside materials are not always perfectly ordered, as usually depicted in models. In magnetic, ferroelectric (or showing electric… Read More

A Spark in the dark

October 25, 2017

Most of the universe is dark, with dark matter and dark energy comprising more than 95 percent of its mass-energy.… Read More

Quantum wave

October 11, 2017

The Department of Energy’s Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) is taking an early plunge into a kind of computer so… Read More

Dramatic flares

September 27, 2017

In July 2012, a powerful solar storm almost struck Earth. Scientists estimate that had the storm, called a coronal mass… Read More