“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 ...

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 ...

Anda Trifan, a multilingual Romanian émigré, planned on an international business career and chose DePaul University for its strength in the subject. But “about a week before school started, I called ...

A Livermore team takes a stab, atom-by-atom, at an 80-year-old controversy over a metal-shaping property called crystal plasticity. A medieval blacksmith making a sword knew that pounding on iron ...

Argonne’s Joe Insley combines art and computer science to build intricate images and animations from supercomputer simulations. This video includes a collage of images and a supernova simulation ...

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 ...

The unusual architecture in Los Alamos National Laboratory's newest supercomputer is a step toward the exascale – systems around a hundred times more powerful than today's best machines. Trinity, Los ...

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 ...

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 ...