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Soon after the Libyan crisis broke, decision-makers and humanitarian workers faced a critical challenge: lack of information about events inside the country.

Fusion experiments, like this one National Ignition Facility at LLNL, previously required complex and expensive equipment. The software updates will allow for accurate computer simulations of these experiments.

This fall will see the adoption and increased widespread use of new technologies that will alter the way enterprise computing is accomplished. Some of these technologies come from the consumer technology side of the business, some are grown from labs, and some are the result of integrating existing technologies. Check out our top five picks for technologies that will change the game in enterprise computing.

Boeing today announced it has completed delivery of six F/A-18E/F Super Hornet aircrew and maintenance trainers to the Royal Australian Air Force at RAAF Base Amberley, Queensland.

Consumer Reports retested the Apple iPhone 4, this time with a “bumper” case on it, and found the bumper fixed the smartphone’s antenna issues. Still, the magazine said it was up to Apple, not consumers, to pay for such a fix.

Faint dust plumes bookend asteroid (596) Scheila, which is overexposed in this composite. Visible and ultraviolet images from Swift's UVOT (circled) are merged with a Digital Sky Survey image of the same region. The UVOT images were acquired on Dec. 15, 2010, when the asteroid was about 232 million miles from Earth.

Voyager: Humanity's Farthest Journey

Mission team members discuss the past and future of the Voyager
Interstellar Mission and the spacecrafts' path to the edge of the solar system.

Harvard Global Health Institute Director Sue Goldie, the Roger Irving Lee Professor of Public Health, said nutrition sits amid three major problems of global health. “For each of those categories, nutrition is squarely in the middle, and unfortunately … accounts for a big bulk of the burden.”

Two panel discussions, organized by the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, examined the “promise and perils” of creating digital repositories of genetic records. The second session, moderated by Jonathan Zittrain (far right, standing), examined the policy implications of an individual’s right to access, control, and interpret his or her own genetic data. Panelists included Michelle Caggana (from left), Dan Vorhaus, John Schumann, Gaia Bernstein, and Art Beaudet.

Electrical Circuit Between Saturn and Enceladus

NASA's Cassini spacecraft has spotted a glowing patch of ultraviolet light near Saturn's north pole that marks the presence of an electrical circuit that connects Saturn with its moon Enceladus.