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

Protein shakeup

December 1, 2021

In the old days of cell biology, scientists knew the atomic structures of few membrane proteins. Now, amid the so-called… Read More

Virtual wind farms

October 6, 2021

A transformative gale is blowing through the U.S. power industry. The Energy Information Administration puts wind power’s share of America’s… Read More

Tracking the big melt

September 22, 2021

Earth’s rapidly changing Arctic coastal regions have an outsized climatic effect that echoes around the globe. Tracking processes behind this… Read More

Motion detectors

August 26, 2021

This research team wants to make literal earthshaking discoveries every day. “Earthquakes are a tremendous societal problem,” says David McCallen,… Read More

DNA repair 2.0

August 4, 2021

The DNA in every human cell gets damaged tens of thousands of times every day. A nucleotide – one of… Read More

Crafting community

July 21, 2021

Since the Department of Energy’s Office for Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR) and Office of Science launched the Computational Science… Read More

Data alchemy

July 14, 2021

Checking our email, video-meeting on Zoom, using digital wallets to buy groceries, and analyzing vast amounts of scientific data all… Read More

Countering COVID

May 19, 2021

As the COVID-19 pandemic began taking hold in early 2020, Jeremy Smith of Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) and the… Read More