“I love Venus,” she says. “It’s Earth’s evil twin.” The two planets are about the same size, but the differences are stark.

Madeleine Kerr was a double major in physics and theater at Harvey Mudd College and studied acting at a London conservatory ...

The next supercomputer frontier presents a journey into the unknown unlike any other, Tzanio Kolev says. Exascale computers, the first of which are expected to begin operation in 2021, will perform a ...

Los Alamos’ extensive study of HPC platforms finds silent data corruption in scientific computing – but not much. “Silent data corruption,” or SDC, sounds like a menacing malady. SDC, Los Alamos ...

The AnalyzeThis system deals with the rush of huge data-analysis orders typical in scientific computing. High-performance computing (HPC) systems are like a burgeoning restaurant that can’t widen its ...

Pairing large-scale experiments with high-performance computing can reduce data processing time from several hours to minutes. High-performance computing (HPC) and concurrent software improvements are ...

A Brookhaven National Laboratory computer scientist is building software to help researchers interact with their data in new ways. Scientific imaging data sets are ballooning in size and complexity.

Because most cancers are difficult to treat, scientists have long sought the disease’s Achilles’ heel. In some cases, identifying an errant protein or the biological pathway it uses to damage cells ...

Argonne’s Advanced Photon Source upgrades to large-sample 3-D imaging beyond the depth of field – with assistance from high-performance computing. The Advanced Photon Source (APS) at the Department of ...

ORNL’s Titan supercomputer is helping Brookhaven physicists understand the matter that formed microseconds after the Big Bang. At the dawn of the universe – just after the Big Bang – all matter was in ...

A Colorado State fellow employs machine learning for climate modeling, putting provenance behind predictions. Weather so fascinated Jamin Rader in his high school years that he would compile forecasts ...

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory models the blood-brain barrier to find ways for drugs to reach their target. Stroke, Alzheimer’s disease and many other medical conditions that attack the brain ...