April 2009
Keeping on course
The next big physics facility will collide bunches of electrons and oppositely charged positrons. Computation is helping to skirt design pitfalls.
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January 2009
Divide and conquer
Better nanoscale materials for devices like solar cells may depend on bigger, more detailed computational models.
November 2007
Power play
A Japanese supercomputer’s record-setting performance set off a drive to keep American science competitive.
July 2007
Supercomputer saga
The 1973 oil embargo changed how Americans think about energy and altered science’s path. Alvin Trivelpiece had a lot to do with that change.
June 2007
From deep freeze to furnace
What happens when hydrogen pellets frozen to near absolute zero are shot into a plasma more than six times hotter than the sun?
April 2007
Burning questions
Powerful computers are simulating how turbulence enhances – or retards – combustion in clean, efficient engines.