Feature Articles

Wildfires have shaped the environment for millennia, but they are increasing in frequency, range and intensity in response to a hotter climate. The phenomenon is being incorporated into high-resolution simulations of the Earth’s climate by scientists at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, with a mission to better understand and predict environmental change.

Time is precious to everyone. Digital twin under development at Argonne will allow scientists to conduct virtual experiments that will later maximize use of time in real experiments at large user facilities.

Roughly 30,000 data centers dot the landscape in the United States and Europe. These computer facilities serve functions as varied as modeling and simulation, cloud-based applications, artificial intelligence and weather forecasting.

Chemist Grant Johnson offers tips for mentoring a successful internship and creating opportunities for undergraduate students to publish research.

Through an intelligent combination of geotagged social media, global location and natural language data, ORNL’s Junchuan Fan and Gautam Thakur developed MapSpace, a publicly available, scalable land-use modeling framework. By providing data characteristics broader and deeper than satellite imagery alone, MapSpace can generate population analytics invaluable for urban planning and disaster response. The researchers’ findings were published in the International Journal of Digital Earth.

PNNL scientists design a highly sensitive neutrino detector for the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment.

Research into a new, unique technology to fabricate composite metal parts for a wide range of applications operating in extreme environments across the aviation, space and energy industries is showing promise for additive manufacturing.