In her doctoral research at Columbia University, Ganguly creates models of the neuronal connections in the fruit fly brain ...

At the dawn of the universe – just after the Big Bang – all matter was in the form of a hot-flowing soup called quark-gluon plasma, or QGP. Though a few ambitious, atom-smashing experiments have ...

About the Author Mike May has worked as a full-time freelancer since 1998, covering topics ranging from biotech and drug discovery to information technology and optics. Before that, he worked for ...

This video includes a collage of images and a supernova simulation animation while Insley describes his approach to his art. A longer conversation about his work and thoughts on scientific ...

Environmental scientist Marianne Cowherd grew up in Michigan and loved snow. “My favorite thing was having school cancelled and going sledding,” she says. “But I never thought of snow as a water ...

Visualization tools like this one, called Colormap-ND, ease data-analysis. Here, researchers have color coded the individual elements, cerium (Ce), gadolinium (Gd), cobalt (Co) and iron (Fe) in a ...

Anda Trifan, a multilingual Romanian émigré, planned on an international business career and chose DePaul University for its strength in the subject. But “about a week before school started, I called ...

The next supercomputer frontier presents a journey into the unknown unlike any other, Tzanio Kolev says. Exascale computers, the first of which are expected to begin operation in 2021, will perform a ...

High-performance computing (HPC) and concurrent software improvements are supercharging data-processing, just as giant experimental facilities such as CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) particle ...

Many new laboratory-crafted compounds trigger potentially beneficial effects on isolated cells but ultimately disappoint simply because not enough drug moves out of the blood stream and into the brain ...

When a patient shows signs that a major blood vessel wall is weakening, a physician must weigh the risk of surgery against that of the vessel wall’s rupturing catastrophically. That clinical decision ...

About the Author Chris Palmer has written for more than two dozen publications, including Nature, The Scientist and Cancer Today and for the National Institutes of Health. He holds a doctorate in ...