Bill Cannon

High-nanotech

Intel released a novel transistor last year, the Tri-Gate, which replaced a two-dimensional flat planar gate with a 3-D silicon… Read More

January 31, 2012

Corralling carbon dioxide

Producing electricity to power our homes and businesses while also reducing carbon dioxide emissions remains difficult. Fossil fuels provide most… Read More

January 25, 2012

Game on

Next year, the Jaguar supercomputer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) will get a new name: Titan. The move is… Read More

December 28, 2011

Age of uncertainty

Each element of any computer model comes with uncertainty – imprecision springing from indefinite data, poorly understood physical properties and inexactness… Read More

December 12, 2011

Network superstar at 25

Here is ESnet’s idea of a 25th birthday bash: testing the ultimate high-speed network, a 100-gigabits-per-second (Gbps) prototype intended to… Read More

November 8, 2011

Scaled-up nuclei

Part of the Science at the Exascale series. The periodic table of the elements hanging in most chemistry classrooms has… Read More

October 25, 2011

Power to go

Step on a Tesla Roadster’s accelerator, and “your head snaps back,” says Winfried Wilcke, electric-car enthusiast, pilot and Nanoscale Science… Read More

October 13, 2011

To know the flow

But today’s gains have not come without problems. Jet engines rely on large amounts of fossil fuels, creating greenhouse gases… Read More

September 29, 2011

Power supply

Part of the Science at the Exascale series. After decades of neglect, the nuclear energy industry is playing catch-up. The… Read More

September 14, 2011

Extreme teamwork

Part of the Science at the Exascale series. Researchers building and programming potent computers of the future face many of… Read More

August 23, 2011