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Researchers prepare to send fungi for a ride around the moon
Drs. Zachary Schultzhaus (left), Zheng Wang (center), and Jillian Romsdahl (right) from the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory's fungal biology research team observe a fungal agar plate in Washington, D.C., Nov. 13, 2019. The fungus Aspergillus niger, along with its three mutant strains, are slated to rotate the moon on NASA's Orion Space Capsule in 2021 so researchers can improve their understanding of the fungi's natural and adapted defenses against radiation.
Technology for OEM Design Engineers
New Navy 3D-printed antenna designs reduce cost, weight, size By Cassandra Eichner, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) experts are creating and testing 3D-printed antennas and arrays to advance radar technology and enable new applications for the U.S. Navy. The lightweight and rapid production of 3D-printed parts makes it an attractive alternative to traditional manufacturing that often requires expensive materials and specialized equipment.
NRL Researchers Catch Supermassive Black Holes Launching Newborn Radio Jets
The U.S. Naval Observatory (USNO) maintains a celestial reference frame used to provide a reference of the skies and space. That celestial reference frame appears in grid form and encompasses more than 4,000 known radio sources. New radio sources, like newborn jets, can add reference points to the grid. Living on the grid Reference points on the grids can change in appearance over time.
COAMPS-TC Recognized as Leading Tropical Cyclone Prediction Model
Weather events like hurricanes play a large role in Navy and Marine Corps operations around the world, and the Navy is a huge player in developing world-class weather prediction models. The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory’s Coupled Ocean/Atmosphere Mesoscale Prediction System for Tropical Cyclones (COAMPS-TC) model was named the world’s most accurate in predicting hurricane strengths during the 2019 Atlantic hurricane season by Jeff Masters, Ph.D.in Yale’s August 2020 Climate Connections.
CHIPS Articles: NRL telescope discovers 4,000th comet in joint mission
NRL telescope discovers 4,000th comet in joint mission By Cassandra Eichner, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory - June 26, 2020 WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory’s Large Angle Spectrometric Coronagraph (LASCO) instrument identified the 4,000th comet discovered by the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO), a joint mission between the European Space Agency and NASA on June 15.
Researchers Shed Light on Perplexing Bay of Bengal Monsoon Oscillations
Oceanographers and meteorologists with the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory concluded an ambitious field research program in collaboration with the U.S. Office of Naval Research aimed at understanding the role of the Indian Ocean on monsoon intra-seasonal oscillations (MISO), June 26, 2019. The project seeks to understand this major weather phenomenon that impacts more than one billion people living in the Indian subcontinent and the Bay of Bengal rim nations.
Navy gains a competitive edge with research into biological ocean swarms
A Wirewalker, driven by waves and currents, sits at the ocean's surface during a field campaign led by oceanographers from the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory. The Wirewalker was equipped with a variety of instruments to measure light, conductivity, temperature, depth, light and acoustic backscatter, and dissolved oxygen throughout the water column. The NRL study was focused on characterizing biological ocean swarms.
Researchers develop groundbreaking process to study barnacle glue, could save Navy millions
WASHINGTON Researchers at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory developed a new method for identifying the glue proteins that barnacles produce to adhere to ship hulls and other surfaces. The new method, featured on the cover of the May issue of Integrative Biology, is faster, safer, improves efficiency of samples and yields more effective results than traditional methods.
Insect Behavior, Miniature Blimps May Unlock the Key to Military Swarming Technology
Researchers at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory flew a fleet of 30 miniature autonomous blimps in unison to test the swarming behavior of autonomous systems. The blimps responded to each other while in flight and responded to changing conditions. Don Sofge, lead for the distributed autonomous systems group at NRL, and his team are working to further research for autonomous super swarms. Their goal is to fly more than 100 controlled miniature blimps this year.
Insect behavior, miniature blimps may unlock the key to military swarming technology
Credit: Naval Research Laboratory Researchers at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory flew a fleet of 30 miniature autonomous blimps in unison to test the swarming behavior of autonomous systems. The blimps responded to each other while in flight and responded to changing conditions. Don Sofge, lead for the distributed autonomous systems group at NRL, and his team are working to further research for autonomous super swarms. Their goal is to fly more than 100 controlled miniature blimps this year.
NRL researcher ventures to the Arctic in search of cosmic dust
Credit: Naval Research Laboratory After arriving at McMurdo Station on the unforgiving continent of Antarctica, it still took Dr. Rhonda Stroud two days of safety training and a four-hour flight before she was finally where she needed to be: the bottom of the world. For two years, Stroud, a physicist with the Naval Research Laboratory, had been working on an experiment to collect atmospheric dust, also known as cosmic dust, at the South Pole.
Blimp Swarm Research
by Cassandra Eichner 27 August 2019 Researchers at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory flew a fleet of 30 miniature autonomous blimps in unison to test the swarming behavior of autonomous systems. The blimps responded to each other while in flight and responded to changing conditions. Don Sofge, lead for the distributed autonomous systems group at NRL, and his team are working to further research for autonomous super swarms. Their goal is to fly more than 100 controlled miniature blimps this year.
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