Clearing up clouds

June 12, 2009

Despite decades of analyzing satellite and simulation data, scientists have barely begun to predict clouds. behavior or to understand their… Read More

Science in motion

June 3, 2009

Science and engineering, long reliant on abstract symbols, graphs and models to represent the real world, can now also step… Read More

Concrete calculations

June 1, 2009

Concrete is a $100 billion business in the United States. The material is used for all manner of structures, from… Read More

Keeping the beat

May 7, 2009

The rhythm of a human heart, beating along at 70 or so contractions a minute, arises from precisely timed electrical… Read More

Keeping on course

April 14, 2009

When you’re building a $6.75 billion, 31-kilometer device to crash subatomic particles, you want to be sure it works the… Read More

Lightweight heavyweight

March 20, 2009

As an avid hockey player for most of his life, Arthur Bernard “Barney” Maccabe recognizes the vital role of speed… Read More

Power from plants

February 26, 2009

Jeremy Smith and his fellow researchers have new fuel for understanding the barriers that keep biomass from becoming an economical… Read More

Moving mounds of data

February 12, 2009

If bytes were pennies and you stacked them, they would go from Jupiter to the sun and back, by the… Read More

Going underground

February 9, 2009

No one can be quite sure what goes on underground, and that’s largely why brothers Daniel and Alexandre Tartakovsky find… Read More

Divide and conquer

January 9, 2009

Imagine that the only way to appreciate the beauty of a Ming vase was to shatter it into a thousand… Read More