The Cray X1E at Oak Ridge National Lab's supercomputer facility is the 175th most powerful computer in the world and the No. 1 vector supercomputer on Earth.

OAK RIDGE, Tenn.--If you want to see someone's face light up, try talking to ...

VICE, from Dynamic Animations System, gives Army recruits a way to learn how to handle themselves in combat situations before they venture onto physical training grounds. Those who have gone through the VICE training seem to do better than those who haven't in head-to-head situations.

Darryl Cannon of Killboy.com takes thousands of pictures daily of drivers and motorcyclists on U.S. Route 129 on the Tennessee/North Carolina border. The road is popular, especially with motorcyclists, and Cannon and others in his company make full-time livings selling the images they take. At least three ...

The six Blue Angels F-18s fly together in perfect formation during a practice performance at their home base in Pensacola, Fla.

PENSACOLA, Fla.--If you've ever watched a Blue Angels show, you may not have known that when the F-18 pilots are screaming ...

This newly constructed levee protects an affluent neighborhood of New Orleans from Lake Pontchartrain, which is just across the street. The levee is made out of a thick clay and will be seeded with grass in order to help prevent erosion of the wall by water that might overtop the ...

Despite media reports that New Orleans is recovering nicely from Hurricane Katrina, there are still parts of town--like the poverty-stricken Lower Ninth Ward--where recovery is far from the reality. Instead, condemned houses like this one, or entirely overgrown lots, are the norm.

NEW ORLEANS--Don'...

Road Trip 2008 reached exactly 3,000 miles outside the boyhood home of music legend Hank Williams, Sr., in Georgiana, Ala.

GEORGIANA, Ala.--After hitting both 1,000 miles and 2,000 miles on the dot at nondescript spots on Interstate highways, I finally ...

The Crossroads, where legendary bluesman Robert Johnson is said to have sold his soul to the devil in return for his musical talent, is at the intersection of US-61 and US-49 in Clarksdale, Miss.

CLARKSDALE, Miss.--When in Rome, as they say.

As part ...

For my video shooting needs on Road Trip 2008, I used Qik's software on a Nokia N95 phone and a Flip Video Mino.

CLARKSDALE, Miss.--As I've worked my way through the South on Road Trip 2008 throughout June, I've been ...

This is the flight control room used for the Gemini 3 and Gemini 4 missions, as well as for most of the manned Apollo missions, including the first to the moon, Apollo 11, and Apollo 13. It is now a Historical Landmark.

HOUSTON--"Houston, ...