ASCR Highlights

Finding the right dyes for a new type of solar cell can be challenging, but this study used supercomputers to speed up the process.

Scientists find the weak points to facilitate industrial applications of metallic glasses.

A new route to make metal beneath a layer of graphite opens potentially new applications in solar cells and quantum computing.

The Dark Energy Survey has delivered dark energy constraints combining information from four of its primary cosmological probes for the first time.

Ultrafast X-rays track how associated pairs of atoms find new locations when triggered by light.

Dark fiber lays groundwork for long-distance earthquake detection and groundwater mapping.

Models use a fraction of the computational cost of today’s best atom-based water models.

Supercomputer use offers insights into how to best describe the nature of our universe.

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.

A new catalyst design meets cost, activity, and durability goals by leveraging ultralow loadings of platinum with platinum-free supports.

The Fusion Recurrent Neural Network reliably forecasts disruptive and destructive events in tokamaks.

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.

With user facilities, researchers devise novel battery chemistries to help make fluoride batteries a reality.

Global data set shows monthly water use by irrigation, manufacturing, and other uses, helping researchers to analyze water use by region and season.

Predictions of the direct impacts of greenhouse gases must account for local temperature and humidity conditions.

Researchers find gusty winds increase surface evaporation that drives summer rainstorms in the Tropical West Pacific.

Surprisingly, a magnetic island does not necessarily perturb the plasma current in a dangerous way and destroy fusion performance.

Researchers modeled design concepts for innovative, opposed-piston engine on Titan supercomputer.