Given the myriad uses we put lithium-ion batteries to — from the smartphones in our pockets to the new Boeing 787 Dreamliner passenger aircraft — how...
For about two decades voluntary pollution abatement programs have shifted in and out of popularity with national — popular in the George W. Bush admin...
Consider two vital processes that go on in your car engine. One is turbulence, a kind of chaotic, random flow involving fuel and air. The other is com...
Quark-gluon plasma, formed at temperatures 100,000 times hotter than the center of the sun, is something you won’t find cooking in any kitchen on Eart...
Purdue faculty members and ITaP’s Envision Center for Data Perceptualization have developed a Web-enabled, 3-D virtual environment that recreates the...
Agricultural economics Professor Michael Delgado uses computationally demanding statistical models to study questions like the effectiveness of volunt...
In January 2011, the National Science Foundation began requiring all grant proposals to include two-page plans that describe what data will be generat...
International treaties that ban detonating nuclear weapons for testing are generally viewed as a good thing, but it certainly creates challenges for p...
Emergency managers would do well to consider staggering evacuations in a disaster like a hurricane, perhaps advising people living nearest the storm s...
To the computer savvy, "interface" might bring to mind the way a computer operating system like Windows presents the world inside the machin...
"Contagion" is just a thriller of a movie but its premise - a deadly disease spread around the world by airline passengers - is no fiction,...
Like that little old ant with the rubber tree plant in the song, silicon wires just four atoms wide and an atom tall may be small, but they can carry...
Our Solar System formed about 4.5 billion years ago so it is a little late to watch Earth, Mars and their fellow planets coalescing out of the cloud o...
When entomology Professor Jeffrey Holland’s class wanted to find out how changing the size and increasing the isolation of a landscape affects its abi...
When a physician is treating a patient in an intensive care unit, nurses are more than partners. They’re also human safety checklists. Are the right m...
ITaP data visualization specialists are helping provide some illuminating 3-D animations of environmental fluid mechanics processes affecting the Grea...
Moffett, ITaP’s SiCortex supercomputer, was the center of attention recently for students in the annual Iowa High Performance Computing (IHPC) Summer...
Let a bunch of fluorine atoms get together in the molecules of a chemical compound and they’re like a heavy metal band at a chamber music festival. Th...
A study looking at global warming in terms of heat stress on humans, which also has application to other mammals, like pets and livestock, says half t...
The origin, as well as the unique composition, of Madagascar's land animals has puzzled naturalists for more than two centuries. Now, data from a Pur...