A long view of Gulf oil spill

April, 2011

While others predicted when oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill in the Gulf of Mexico might reach beaches, ocean modelers… Read More

Tracing CFCs and greenhouse gases

April, 2011

National Center for Atmospheric Research oceanographer Synte Peacock studies “the distribution of various tracers – something that tags a water… Read More

Pounding out atomic nuclei

March, 2011

Thousands of tiny systems called atomic nuclei – specific combinations of protons and neutrons – prove extremely difficult to study… Read More

Cranking up the speed of DFT

March, 2011

Density functional theory (DFT) can be used to determine densities of protons and neutrons making up a nucleus. “If we… Read More

Small team carries large load

January, 2011

Sandia National Laboratories computer scientist Ronald Minnich calls the desktop-extension supercomputing project a large effort with a small team. “To… Read More

Laptop supercomputing

January, 2011

A small team led by Sandia National Laboratories is attempting to virtually put the world's most powerful supercomputers on a… Read More

Pressure and flow

November, 2010

The first large-scale simulation of blood flow in coronary arteries enlists a realistic description of the vessels’ geometries. Researchers reported… Read More

The wings that fly FASTER

November, 2010

If FASTER can be considered a jet that speeds global climate modelers to analyze fast physics processes, its wings are… Read More

Seeing the invisible

October, 2010

Armed with computing power from Oak Ridge National Laboratory, researchers are detailing the nature of dark matter surrounding a galaxy… Read More

Dark matter predictions put to test

October, 2010

Collisions in dark matter “clumps” should produce gamma rays, but a satellite looking for them has come up empty so… Read More