There’s a lot we don’t know about the atomic nucleus, even though it was discovered a century ago this year.
Leo WilliamsMay 20, 2011
Purdue researchers break petaflop barrier with study of electrons in computer chips A team led by Gerhard Klimeck of Purdue University has broken the petascale barrier while addressing a relatively old problem in the very young field of computer chip design. Using Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s Jaguar supercomputer, Klimeck and…
Leo WilliamsFebruary 1, 2011
When German physicist Max Planck created quantum theory in 1900, he was not trying to revolutionize the world. He was just trying to provide a theoretical foundation for the way a heated object radiates energy and, thereby, to improve the efficiency of light bulbs. Modern scientists, too, cannot know which…
Leo WilliamsMay 14, 2008
