Massive stars are inherently violent creatures—they churn, they turn, all the while creating and held hostage by constantly changing magnetic fields of almost unfathomable strength.
Budhendra Bhaduri of Oak Ridge National Laboratory has been named a recipient of a 2010 Homeland Security Award presented by the Christopher Columbus Fellowship Foundation and AgustaWestland North America.
Relief agencies working to assist victims of Sunday's tsunamis in the Indian Ocean are using a demographic database developed at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory.