Past blasts

September 29, 2009

As the Great Long Island Hurricane of 1938 ripped apart houses and turned towns into islands, meteorologists recorded crucial data… Read More

Future flames

September 15, 2009

Gasifying coal to produce hydrogen and other synthetic fuels is an ambitious project in its own right. But DOE’s Office… Read More

Cleaning up coal

September 11, 2009

There’s no way around it: For now, we can’t live without coal. Today it provides more than 40 percent of… Read More

Edgy energy

September 11, 2009

For almost 30 years, scientists have been unsure how the tail wags the dog in fusion energy reactors. That is,… Read More

One-sided story

August 27, 2009

As high-performance computers bring more power to programmers, communication often limits an operation’s overall speed. Even a seemingly simple computing… Read More

Conquering unfriendly skies

August 20, 2009

Cecilia Aragon is giving wing to a new way of doing science. It’s not simply an improved tool or technique.… Read More

Causing a stir

August 17, 2009

Turbulence has confounded physicists for ages. Richard Feynman called turbulence “the most important unsolved problem in classical Newtonian physics.” Werner… Read More

Unfolding protein

August 7, 2009

The latter half of the 20th century brought an avalanche of discoveries about the basic building blocks of life. Scientists… Read More

An explosive past

August 4, 2009

Global climate concerns, energy demand and air pollution worldwide are at all-time highs and have driven an unprecedented push toward… Read More

Annotated and automated

June 30, 2009

University of Illinois computer scientist William Gropp is an expert at making code run fast. When it comes to tools… Read More