ASCR Highlights

Supercomputer validates mathematical approach for describing geological features.

Engineers can model heat distribution in reactor designs with fewer or no approximations.

Researchers use advanced nuclear models to explain 50-year mystery surrounding the process stars use to transform elements.

Scientists use supercomputers to determine how reliably a popular Earth system model represents precipitation regionally and globally.

A first-of-its-kind computer simulation reveals self-healing cement for geothermal and oil and gas wells performs better than originally thought.

Particles act in a way that justifies extrapolating simulation results to astrophysical scales.

Low-momentum (wimpy) quarks and gluons contribute to proton spin, offering insights into protons’ behavior in all visible matter.

Titan supercomputer tells origin story of nanoparticle size distributions with large-scale simulations.

Nuclear fusion power delivered by magnetic confinement tokamak reactors carries the promise of sustainable and clean energy for the future.

Since the 1980s, scientists have known that quark and antiquark spins within a proton account for, at best, a quarter of the overall proton spin.

Researchers discovered a new liquid electrolyte named BTFE. The electrolyte could replace the molten salt currently used in fluoride-based

Information on human water use is often available only on large space and time scales. To better inform Earth system models and global hydrologic

While atmospheric methane concentrations plateaued between 1995 and 2006, they have since increased and are expected to impact the surface energy

Earth system models struggle to represent some aspects of tropical circulations, leading to offsets from observations in tropical rainfall. In

Magnetic islands can grow and thereby degrade and potentially disrupt the plasma confinement and damage the doughnut-shaped tokamak facilities that

For over a decade, California-based small business Pinnacle Engines has developed opposed-piston engines for a range of small, single-cylinder

Two most abundant elements in the universe, hydrogen & helium, were previously thought to be impossible to measure by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy

More than 2 billion years ago, tiny organisms on Earth started photosynthesizing. Nearly all life on Earth now depends on photosynthesis but it

The rapid change now underway on Thwaites Glacier, located in the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, raises concern that a threshold for unstoppable

In catalytic reactions, an electric field affects chemical bonds and, therefore, reaction mechanisms, rates, and selectivity. Electric fields,

Understanding the detailed nature of complex interfaces has become a quest of profound significance, as it underlies urgently needed advances in

Moulins are holes that funnel water on the surface of a glacier or ice sheet to its base. There, the water acts like a lubricant and may cause the

Scientists from the University of Washington, Stanford University, and the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) created a computational

MENNDL, an artificial intelligence system, automatically designed an optimal deep learning network to extract structural information from raw

The dramatic Arctic sea-ice loss observed over the satellite era has intensified debate into whether these high-latitude changes are affecting