Driving AI

July 12, 2022

For humans, the everyday act of starting a car or truck, pulling it into traffic and turning it right or… Read More

Landing patterns

June 14, 2022

NASA aims to land humans on Mars by 2040, overcoming enormous engineering obstacles – in particular, designing a vehicle that… Read More

Bargain proteins

May 17, 2022

Devising a drug to treat a disease isn’t easy. It means screening hundreds of thousands of compounds, testing a small… Read More

Taking charge

May 3, 2022

Perfection is a problem when it comes to how computers model materials for energy applications. Although a typical model assumes… Read More

Exascale rocks

April 12, 2022

In the late 2000s, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory scientists Carl Steefel and David Trebotich had a computational dream. They wanted… Read More

Pi in the sky

March 14, 2022

In 2000, IEEE’s Computing in Science & Engineering journal published a list of the 20th century's top 10 algorithms. No.… Read More

Memory boost

February 23, 2022

For as long as researchers have applied artificial intelligence techniques, they’ve had an insatiable demand to manage and store big… Read More

Sustainable cities

January 26, 2022

Five years ago, Joshua New of Oak Ridge National Laboratory had an idea for an ambitious project: an energy model… Read More

Shrinking big physics

December 29, 2021

In kilometer-sized particle accelerators, electric fields hurtle small bits of matter at nearly light speed. Those fast, powerful particle beams… Read More

ExaStar power

December 15, 2021

A computational model of an exploding star – a supernova – is the “quintessential multi-physics simulation,” says a team designing codes… Read More