Climate

With extreme weather becoming more commonplace, what used to to be the province of the scientific community is increasingly moving mainstream, as public and private sectors search for better insights and techniques to mitigate risk, limit disruptions and adapt.

Off Florida's Gulf Coast, scientists are diving into a sea of data. They're tracing tiny Atlantic bluefin tuna larvae, and their parents, to better protect and monitor the environmentally delicate and highly migratory fish.

It could have been a scene from a Tom Clancy novel. Take representatives of 192 countries, mix strong feelings with serious economics and differing agendas, and it could have spelled disaster. It didn't.

Science needs data - and today's technologies are giving researchers more data than ever before. But making sense of all that data requires computing power on an extreme scale.