While others predicted when oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill in the Gulf of Mexico might reach beaches, ocean modelers… Read More
National Center for Atmospheric Research oceanographer Synte Peacock studies “the distribution of various tracers – something that tags a water… Read More
Thousands of tiny systems called atomic nuclei – specific combinations of protons and neutrons – prove extremely difficult to study… Read More
Density functional theory (DFT) can be used to determine densities of protons and neutrons making up a nucleus. “If we… Read More
Sandia National Laboratories computer scientist Ronald Minnich calls the desktop-extension supercomputing project a large effort with a small team. “To… Read More
A small team led by Sandia National Laboratories is attempting to virtually put the world's most powerful supercomputers on a… Read More
The first large-scale simulation of blood flow in coronary arteries enlists a realistic description of the vessels’ geometries. Researchers reported… Read More
If FASTER can be considered a jet that speeds global climate modelers to analyze fast physics processes, its wings are… Read More
Armed with computing power from Oak Ridge National Laboratory, researchers are detailing the nature of dark matter surrounding a galaxy… Read More
Collisions in dark matter “clumps” should produce gamma rays, but a satellite looking for them has come up empty so… Read More