Tom O'Donnell

The author is a former Krell Institute science writer.

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Scientists sometimes rebuff James Ahrens when he offers to help them analyze results from their high-performance computing (HPC) simulations of… Read More

August 4, 2015

Good conduct metal

As the U.S. power grid strains under growing demand from urban population centers, it’s become vital to efficiently transmit electricity… Read More

October 23, 2014

Watery wonder

Water molecules seem simple, containing three atoms – two hydrogens and one oxygen. But this basic structure gets complicated as these… Read More

November 13, 2013

Blade thaw

At the GE Energy Learning Center in upstate New York, workers learn to fix and maintain wind turbines. Physicist Masako… Read More

October 17, 2013

Updating apps

Ramanan Sankaran and his Oak Ridge National Laboratory colleagues have been setting up to run their combustion simulations on Titan,… Read More

March 13, 2013