December 2010
Super shakeup
The Southern California Earthquake Center uses the nation’s largest supercomputers to predict damage when the Big One hits.
November 2010
Honoring a climate model pioneer
Warren Washington has wedded computers and climate science for more than 50 years, culminating in the National Medal of Science.
November 2010
Getting a reaction
A collaboration is powering a nuclear energy modeling resurgence.
October 2010
Virtual ice-breaker
Fractures fuel the breakup of ice sheets and herald the effects of global waming, but climate models find it tough to track the cracks.
September 2010
Inside materials’ DNA
MIT’s Materials Genome Project enlists databases and density functional theory to discover safe, clean materials for a new energy era.
July 2010
Watching the detectors
Mathematicians are on the trail of illicit radioactive materials.
April 2010
Strength in numbers
Without applied mathematicians, skills for translating the world into numbers, scientific computing and simulation would be stuck in the past.
March 2010
Early risers
January 2010
Like clockwork
Using genetic engineering and computer modeling, researchers have built a genetic clock, in which bacteria use chemical signals to generate synchronized waves of activity.
December 2009
Girding the grid
Computational tools help to improve the interconnected grids that power homes and businesses and to avoid major failures like the 2003 Northeast blackout.