An interatomic potential is a set of mathematical rules that describes the complex dance of forces between atoms — how atomic ...

A computational mathematician finds a national lab ideal for a highly collaborative career. Stefan Wild came to Argonne National Laboratory in the summer of 2006 for what was to be a four-month summer ...

A UCSD fellow’s geodynamic model offers answers to stubborn questions about Venus’ surface. As a third-year Ph.D. student, Madeleine Kerr faced a critical decision. At the University of California San ...

Environmental scientist Marianne Cowherd grew up in Michigan and loved snow. “My favorite thing was having school cancelled and going sledding,” she says. “But I never thought of snow as a water ...

When Daniel Abdulah learned to write, his earliest scribbles included the names of planets, in order, alongside little drawings of each one. That early fascination with worlds beyond Earth never ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A Georgia Tech fellow models renewable energy and other problems with ever-changing unknowns. Real-world modeling problems are rife with uncertainty and complicated interactions. To maximize profits, ...

Three years ago, Carlyn Schmidgall joined a dozen other researchers aboard a ship off Nome, Alaska, to collect high-resolution data that could reveal small-scale processes with big implications for ...