Good conduct metal

October 23, 2014

As the U.S. power grid strains under growing demand from urban population centers, it’s become vital to efficiently transmit electricity… Read More

Pore samples

September 25, 2014

Using tailor-made software running on top-tier supercomputers, a Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory team is creating microscopic pore-scale simulations that complement… Read More

Cool to the core

September 10, 2014

There are many superlatives Sudip Dosanjh could use to talk about the National Energy Research Scientific Computing (NERSC) Center’s next-generation… Read More

Leaping to exascale

August 6, 2014

Big data, big analytic problems, and big computers and their components create gigantic tests for tomorrow’s computer science research. To… Read More

Mathematical match

June 18, 2014

Mathematicians Miranda Holmes-Cerfon and Antoine Cerfon first forged a bond as undergraduates studying abroad in Singapore. Their common love of… Read More

Dimensions on a diet

June 4, 2014

As a young musician, Paul Constantine enjoyed exploring variations on Caribbean drum rhythms and new arrangements of jazz chord progressions.… Read More

Supernova shocks

May 6, 2014

It had to be a programming bug, or so researchers thought in 2002, when their computational models found an instability… Read More

Fusion heats up

December 31, 2013

For more than half a century, scientists and engineers have pursued the promise of nuclear fusion power with a plan that… Read More

Primping polymers

November 20, 2013

Chemists have been looking at polymers and gels for decades to see how these large chains of molecules respond to… Read More

Watery wonder

November 13, 2013

Water molecules seem simple, containing three atoms – two hydrogens and one oxygen. But this basic structure gets complicated as these… Read More