Science Highlights
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Virus views enhanced using nation's largest Condor flock
A team lead by a Purdue University researcher has achieved images of a virus in detail two times greater than had previously been achieved. Wen Jiang, an assistant professor of biological sciences, led a team that used the emerging technique of singl...
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Proposed new city of Istanbul premiers in animated video
Istanbul is at such high risk for a devastating earthquake that engineers at Purdue University and the Republic of Turkey have come up with a bold new proposal: build a second city. A second satellite city would provide immediate refuge to inhabitant...
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Research forecasts increased chances for stormy weather
Researchers who study severe weather and climate change joined forces to study the effects of global warming on the number of severe storms in the future and discovered a dramatic increase in potential storm conditions for some parts of the United St...
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Scientists Create their own Web 2.0 network with nanoHUB
Teenagers may not have heard about it, but there's a Web 2.0 site that's a hit with scientists and engineers. nanoHUB.org, a so-called science gateway for nano-science and nanotechnology housed at Purdue University, is taking the tools of Web 2.0 and...
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'Push-Button' Climate Modeling Now Available
A tool used by scientists to create climate models is about to become easier to use and available to a much wider audience. A new Web-enhanced version of the most commonly used climate modeling system will allow many more scientists -- and even curio...
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'Not so fast, supercomputers,' say software programmers
The fastest of the fastest computers - supercomputers used at national research centers, research universities and major corporations - will soon gain even more performance by taking advantage of multicore computing. Despite the promise of almost uni...
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Sun Computers Run Most Comprehensive Climate Model To Date
The most comprehensive climate model to date of the continental United States predicts more extreme temperatures throughout the country and more extreme precipitation along the Gulf Coast, in the Pacific Northwest and east of the Mississippi. Changes...
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Remnants of Hurricane Dennis at 11:02am, July 12, 2005 This data, showing the remnants of Hurricane Dennis, was received at the Purdue receiving station from the GOES (Geostationary Observational Environmental Satellite) at 11:02, Indiana time, on th...
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Simulation Shows 9/11 Plane Crash with Scientific Detail
Engineers, computer scientists and graphics technology experts at Purdue University have created the first publicly available simulation that uses scientific principles to study in detail what theoretically happened when the Boeing 757 crashed into t...
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Homeland security skills honed through "Measured Response" simulation
Representatives of federal, state, and local governmental agencies gathered at Purdue Tuesday and Wednesday, July 8 and 9, to use an interactive computer simulation, Measured Response, to test the effectiveness of varying responses to a national emer...