Scaled-up nuclei

October 25, 2011

Part of the Science at the Exascale series. The periodic table of the elements hanging in most chemistry classrooms has… Read More

Power to go

October 13, 2011

Step on a Tesla Roadster’s accelerator, and “your head snaps back,” says Winfried Wilcke, electric-car enthusiast, pilot and Nanoscale Science… Read More

To know the flow

September 29, 2011

But today’s gains have not come without problems. Jet engines rely on large amounts of fossil fuels, creating greenhouse gases… Read More

Power supply

September 14, 2011

Part of the Science at the Exascale series. After decades of neglect, the nuclear energy industry is playing catch-up. The… Read More

Extreme teamwork

August 23, 2011

Part of the Science at the Exascale series. Researchers building and programming potent computers of the future face many of… Read More

Adding exascale to energy

August 11, 2011

Part of the Science at the Exascale series. Energy science is a broad field that encompasses a diverse group of… Read More

The cloud versus E. coli

July 5, 2011

When biologists needed to quickly analyze strains suspected in the E. coli outbreak still reverberating through Europe, the Department of Energy’s… Read More

Visualization visionary

June 28, 2011

A picture may be worth a thousand words, but when a star explodes, a flame burns or cells divide uncontrollably… Read More

Passing it on

June 14, 2011

Computing’s rapid evolution demands equally fast changes in software. Users want programs that run on any machine, from a laptop… Read More

Sun-power seed

May 26, 2011

Part of the Science at the Exascale series. If clean, abundant energy from nuclear fusion – the process that generates the… Read More