With the worlds first exascale supercomputer now fully open for scientific business, researchers can thank the early users who helped get the machine up to speed.
The summertime temperatures in the North Slope and Seward Peninsula of Alaska rarely reach higher than 50 degrees F and the perpetually dark winters fall below minus 20 F.
The summertime temperatures in the North Slope and Seward Peninsula of Alaska rarely reach higher than 50 degrees F and the perpetually dark winters fall below minus 20 F.
When physicists Georg Bednorz and K. Alex Muller discovered the first high-temperature superconductors in 1986, it didnt take much imagination to envision the potential technological benefits of harnessing such materials.
Radioactive materials have long been a part of American historyfrom the Manhattan Project to the development of nuclear power.
Ask a biofuel researcher to name the single greatest technical barrier to cost-effective ethanol, and youre likely to receive a one-word response: lignin.
Cellulosic ethanolfuel derived from woody plants and waste biomasshas the potential to become an
When the Ford Motor Companys first automobile, the Model T, debuted in 1908, it ran on a corn-derived biofuel called ethanol, a substance Henry Ford dubbed the fuel of the future.
Since lasers were first produced in the early 1960s, researchers have worked to apply laser technology from welding metal to surgeries, with laser technology advancing quickly through the last 50 years.