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After the thaw

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

February, 2014

Rewinding the universe

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

December, 2013

Balancing act

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

October, 2013

Predicting solar assaults

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

September, 2013

Quantum gold

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

September, 2013

Star power

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

August, 2013

Deciphering the big thaw

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

July, 2013

Foiling airflow error

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

June, 2013

Cosmic questions

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

March, 2013

Sun on Earth

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

January, 2013