Bill Cannon

Quantum trap

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

March 17, 2021

Warp drive

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

March 3, 2021

Climate on a new scale

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

November 18, 2020

Banishing blackouts

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

October 14, 2020

AI gets real

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

September 23, 2020

Quantum quandary

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

August 12, 2020

Supernova plunge

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

July 14, 2020

Quantum backbone

For the past decade, Joseph Lukens has pushed the boundaries of manipulating light in photonic communications. While a Ph.D. student… Read More

June 17, 2020

Sizing up the beast

The Southern California Earthquake Center (SCEC) headquarters where Christine Goulet works sits atop the belly of the beast. Its University… Read More

April 22, 2020

Soil sifters

Microbes are mighty. Diverse communities of these single-celled organisms can have far-reaching effects in larger systems including soil, the human… Read More

April 1, 2020