Lights, CAMERA, insights

April 28, 2021

The Department of Energy (DOE) X-ray light source complex is a physical-science tool belt that stretches from Long Island to… Read More

On cancer’s trail

April 13, 2021

A Duke University team is learning to track roving killers: tumor cells that separate and circulate through the body before… Read More

Dishing up the early universe

April 1, 2021

When it comes to observing exploding stars, evolving galaxies and other celestial mysteries, combining the planet’s largest radio telescope with… Read More

Quantum trap

March 17, 2021

When Sandia National Laboratories’ Susan Clark was at Stanford University earning applied physics graduate degrees, she switched fields to pursue… Read More

Warp drive

March 3, 2021

When we think of the particle accelerators that elucidate the building blocks of nature, we think of spectacular and massive… Read More

Climate on a new scale

November 18, 2020

Note: Sandia National Laboratories' Mark Taylor is co-author of a paper, “A Performance-Portable Nonhydrostatic Atmospheric Dycore for the Energy Exascale… Read More

Banishing blackouts

October 14, 2020

The most extensive blackout in North American history occurred on Aug. 14, 2003, affecting an estimated 55 million people in… Read More

AI gets real

September 23, 2020

When IBM's Deep Blue famously won its tournament rematch with world chess champion Garry Kasparov in 1997, the public's imagination… Read More

Quantum quandary

August 12, 2020

Electrons – small, charged and abundant – complicate materials science simulations. Because their effects often are tiny and the cost… Read More

Supernova plunge

July 14, 2020

Behemoth exploding stars we know as supernovae are among the wildest cosmic events astronomers witness from Earth. They are powerful… Read More