Tristan Maxson had an intriguing question: Could a high-performance machine learning model trained only on the physics of liquid water also accurately simulate water’s ice and gas phases? The authors ...

When Harvard University Ph.D. candidate Rahul Sahay was in high school, he watched a documentary on quantum mechanics and became fascinated by the bizarre universe it suggested. He took a lot of math ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

When COVID-19 loomed as a public health threat in early 2020, Danilo Pérez-Rivera was a neurobiology research technician at the University of Puerto Rico Medical School and applying to graduate school ...

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 ...