At the dawn of the universe – just after the Big Bang – all matter was in the form of a hot-flowing soup called quark-gluon plasma, or QGP. Though a few ambitious, atom-smashing experiments have ...

About the Author Chris Palmer has written for more than two dozen publications, including Nature, The Scientist and Cancer Today and for the National Institutes of Health. He holds a doctorate in ...

This video includes a collage of images and a supernova simulation animation while Insley describes his approach to his art. A longer conversation about his work and thoughts on scientific ...

Visualization tools like this one, called Colormap-ND, ease data-analysis. Here, researchers have color coded the individual elements, cerium (Ce), gadolinium (Gd), cobalt (Co) and iron (Fe) in a ...

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 ...

High-performance computing (HPC) and concurrent software improvements are supercharging data-processing, just as giant experimental facilities such as CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) particle ...

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 ...

High-performance computing (HPC) is only as valuable as the science it produces. To that end, a National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) project at Lawrence Berkeley National ...

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 ...

Many new laboratory-crafted compounds trigger potentially beneficial effects on isolated cells but ultimately disappoint simply because not enough drug moves out of the blood stream and into the brain ...

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 ...

When a patient shows signs that a major blood vessel wall is weakening, a physician must weigh the risk of surgery against that of the vessel wall’s rupturing catastrophically. That clinical decision ...