Supernova revelations

October 31, 2013

Supernovae used to be simple. Just ask Stan Woosley. Almost 50 years ago, when the renowned astrophysicist began contemplating the… Read More

Blade thaw

October 17, 2013

At the GE Energy Learning Center in upstate New York, workers learn to fix and maintain wind turbines. Physicist Masako… Read More

Sifting genomes

September 4, 2013

Energy scientists hope new plant varieties will yield large amounts of biomaterial, which new types of microbes will quickly and… Read More

Working through error

July 24, 2013

Like professional athletes, supercomputers must play smarter just to stay in the game. Once athletes reach their personal limits for… Read More

Neutron stream

June 26, 2013

If you’ve ever watched video over a slow Internet connection, you have some idea of what scientists face when working… Read More

Hard target

June 5, 2013

Scientists have painted a bull’s-eye on a new target in the AIDS virus, a triumph not only for authors of… Read More

Data wave

May 1, 2013

Big data extends far beyond its literal interpretation. It’s more than large volumes of information. It’s also complexity, including new… Read More

Sweet science

April 16, 2013

Students who wheeled a 55-gallon drum filled with M&Ms into a Princeton physicist’s office a decade ago unwittingly helped launch… Read More

Watts and what ifs

March 26, 2013

When it comes to the power that keeps our lights on, our food cold and our computers and  TVs operating,… Read More

Updating apps

March 13, 2013

Ramanan Sankaran and his Oak Ridge National Laboratory colleagues have been setting up to run their combustion simulations on Titan,… Read More