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Sneak kaboom

At Argonne, research teams turn to supercomputing to study a phenomenon that can trigger surprisingly powerful explosions. Read More

April, 2015

Slippery subject

University of Texas researchers are out to improve computational models of ice sheets by refining estimates of basal friction: how… Read More

February, 2015

A smashing success

The world's particle colliders unite to share and analyze massive volumes of data. Read More

December, 2014

Universe in a day

A team working on the Titan supercomputer simulates the biggest thing of all in a flash, then shares. Read More

November, 2014

Back to the hydrogen future

At Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Computational Science Graduate Fellowship alum Brandon Wood applies the world’s most sophisticated molecular dynamics codes… Read More

October, 2014

Joint venture

Sandia National Laboratories investigators turn to advanced modeling to test the reliability of the joints that hold nuclear missiles together. Read More

September, 2014

Life underground

A PNNL team builds models of deep-earth water flows that affect the tiny organisms that can make big contributions to… Read More

August, 2014

Supernova shocks

More than 10 years after simulations first suggested its presence, observations appear to confirm that a key instability drives the… Read More

May, 2014

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