A window into solar

September 13, 2017

Buildings consume an estimated 40 percent of energy used in the United States – a burden that also represents a… Read More

Digital autodidact

August 25, 2017

In an age when cars park themselves and computers talk at their human users, Mallikarjun (Arjun) Shankar of the Department… Read More

Matter in motion

August 9, 2017

From batteries to biology, how atoms move is critical for understanding how matter behaves. Unless temperature is lowered to absolute… Read More

Going meta

July 20, 2017

Metamaterials – substances engineered to have properties absent in nature – are made by assembling multiple parts made from metals… Read More

Brain-like computing

May 24, 2017

As Stephen Hawking once said, “the brain is essentially a computer.” No other thinking machine gets mentioned more as the… Read More

Calculating collapse

May 10, 2017

As boat propellers rotate underwater and fuel injectors pump fuel, tiny bubbles cluster around their moving parts. The bubble clouds… Read More

Data-driven drugs

April 12, 2017

This is the fourth and final installment in a series about the Department of Energy collaboration with the National Cancer… Read More

Coding a Starkiller

March 15, 2017

The spectacular Supernova 1987A, whose light reached Earth on Feb. 23 of the year it’s named for, captured the public’s… Read More

Cancer uncertainties

February 15, 2017

This article is part of a series on a DOE-NCI project to apply big data and supercomputing to cancer research.… Read More

Upscale computing

January 11, 2017

For high-performance computing (HPC) systems to reach exascale – a billion billion calculations per second – hardware and software must… Read More