Quantum gold

September, 2013

Driven by what’s missing in experiments, Brookhaven's Yan Li applies quantum mechanics to compute the physical properties of materials. Read More

Star power

August, 2013

A Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory researcher simulates the physics that fuel the sun, with an eye toward creating a controllable… Read More

Deciphering the big thaw

July, 2013

Scientists thought they had figured out what ended the last ice age – except for one nagging problem. Researchers using… Read More

Foiling airflow error

June, 2013

Portraying airflow over wings and other fluid movement is tricky. A Department of Energy award for early-career researchers is helping… Read More

Cosmic questions

March, 2013

MIT's Dragos Velicanu is helping sort through data from the Large Hadron Collider for clues to the mysteries surrounding the… Read More

Seeking new angles

March, 2013

Dragos Velicanu likes to look at just about everything from a fresh perspective. “Outside work, I like to travel, go… Read More

Sun on Earth

January, 2013

Simulations at Sandia National Laboratories reveal that using magnetism to heat and insulate fusion fuel could recreate solar conditions in… Read More

Putting Big Squeeze Fusion to the Test

January, 2013

A new Sandia National Laboratories-based approach to fusion that’s shown promise in computational simulations has passed its first bricks-and-mortar experimental… Read More

Filling in the blanks

November, 2012

To prevent important information from being missed, a Berkeley Lab team is improving how supercomputers divvy up the ponderous tasks… Read More

Going deep

November, 2012

The discovery of that our universe is expanding at an accelerating rate garnered a 2011 Nobel Prize for Saul Perlmutter… Read More