Big explosions, big pictures

May, 2014

For discovering significant supernova phenomena and simulation flaws, several pairs of eyes beat pages of numbers, Anthony Mezzacappa says. Data… Read More

After the thaw

February, 2014

Simulations of melting permafrost promise changes in climate modeling. Read More

Rewinding the universe

December, 2013

Dark energy propels the universe to expand faster and faster. Researchers are using simulations to test different conceptions about how… Read More

Balancing act

October, 2013

A Pacific Northwest National Laboratory researcher is developing approaches to spread the work evenly over scads of processors in a… Read More

Sizing up the scales

September, 2013

Exploring the breaking and rejoining of magnetic-field lines requires simulations and computation. A simulation’s accuracy, however, depends on various issues… Read More

Predicting solar assaults

September, 2013

When Earth’s magnetosphere snaps and crackles, power and communications technologies can break badly. Three-dimensional simulations of magnetic reconnection aim to… Read More

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