Overcoming resistance

October, 2012

To find a path around antibiotic resistance, a team working with the Intrepid supercomputer at Argonne National Laboratory is simulating… Read More

A timely death

October, 2012

Speed kills, as the slogan says, and in computers what it kills could be disease. Argonne National Laboratory researcher Andrew… Read More

A spontaneous collaboration

September, 2012

In 2007, when Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) researchers calculated that adding boron would bend carbon nanotubes, they did little… Read More

Kinky nanotubes

September, 2012

With the help of Oak Ridge computations, scientists are probing the properties of macroscale sponges made of nanoscale carbon-boron tubes.… Read More

A passion for pressure

August, 2012

Plasmas are the purview of Livermore scientist and Computational Science Graduate Fellowship alumnus Jeffrey Hittinger. He works both sides of… Read More

Twice-stuffed permafrost

July, 2012

A Pacific Northwest National Laboratory computation suggests that the water-gas compounds found in ocean permafrost can provide energy and store… Read More

Enlightening predictions

June, 2012

Computer simulations of hurricane lightning could be the key to predicting and avoiding the storms' real-world punch. Read More

Prime-time punch

March, 2012

The mantis shrimp packs one of the strongest punches on Earth. Computational Science Graduate Fellow Michael Rosario is investigating the… Read More

Inside the skull

February, 2012

Modeling the elements of blood flow in the brain could help neurosurgeons to predict when and where an aneurysm might… Read More

Power boost

January, 2012

Berkeley scientists have combined computational modeling and advanced materials synthesis to devise a low-cost anode that bolsters the feasibility of… Read More