Quantum predictions

October 17, 2018

Solving a complex problem quickly requires careful tradeoffs – and simulating the behavior of materials is no exception. To get… Read More

Overcoming resistance

September 5, 2018

Antibiotic resistance is a growing medical crisis, as disease-causing bacteria have developed properties that evade or overcome the toxic effects… Read More

Fine-tuning physics

August 22, 2018

Advancing science at the smallest scales calls for vast data from the world’s most powerful particle accelerator, leavened with the… Read More

Current developments

August 8, 2018

Imagine a world in which lasers can draw entire circuit boards, where ceramic bowls normally used as pottery can produce… Read More

Galactic-wind whisperers

July 25, 2018

Winds made of gas particles swirl around galaxies at hundreds of kilometers per second. Astronomers suspect the gusts are stirred… Read More

Structural analysis

July 9, 2018

Lin Lin’s University of California, Berkeley, website bio describes his research interest as “novel, efficient and reliable numerical algorithms and… Read More

Cellular energy crisis

June 14, 2018

An energy crisis can trigger years of fuel shortages and high gas prices. Energy shortages in biological cells are even… Read More

Steady as she flows

June 5, 2018

Aviation’s frontier is supersonic. The military is seeking ever-faster aircraft, planes that can fly five times the speed of sound.… Read More

The incredible shrinking data

May 16, 2018

Tom Peterka submitted his Early Career Research Program proposal to the Department of Energy (DOE) last year with a sensible… Read More

Balancing the load

May 1, 2018

Simulating complex systems on supercomputers requires that scientists get hundreds of thousands, even millions of processor cores working together in… Read More