Uncategorized

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

Seeking new angles

Dragos Velicanu likes to look at just about everything from a fresh perspective. “Outside work, I like to travel, go… 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

Putting Big Squeeze Fusion to the Test

A new Sandia National Laboratories-based approach to fusion that’s shown promise in computational simulations has passed its first bricks-and-mortar experimental… Read More

January, 2013

Filling in the blanks

To prevent important information from being missed, a Berkeley Lab team is improving how supercomputers divvy up the ponderous tasks… Read More

November, 2012

Going deep

The discovery of that our universe is expanding at an accelerating rate garnered a 2011 Nobel Prize for Saul Perlmutter… Read More

November, 2012

Overcoming resistance

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

October, 2012

A timely death

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

October, 2012

A spontaneous collaboration

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

September, 2012