Science news articles about 'geophysical laboratory'

  • Superconductors get a boost from pressure

    ... ,” explained co-author of the study, Viktor Struzhkin at the Carnegie Institution’s Geophysical Laboratory. “When the material goes into the superconducting state, changes occur in the copper-oxide ...
  • Researchers explain odd oxygen bonding under pressure

    ... (O2)4 in the dense solid, red oxygen phase. Researchers from the Carnegie Institution's Geophysical Laboratory (GL), with colleagues* found that under pressure the molecules interact through their ...
  • Putting the squeeze on nitrogen for high energy materials

    ... the current online edition of Physical Review Letters, researchers from the Carnegie Institution's Geophysical Laboratory report changes in the melting temperature of solid nitrogen at pressures up ...
  • Putting The Squeeze On Nitrogen For High Energy Materials

    Researchers from the Carnegie Institution's Geophysical Laboratory report changes in the melting temperature of solid nitrogen at pressures up to 120 gigapascals and temperatures reaching 2,500° ...
  • The first new mineral with post-spinel structure is approved by CNMNC of IMA

    ... -American team from the Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Geophysical Laboratory, Carnegie Institution of Washington, which has recently been approved by the ...
  • Classic experiments give new insight on life's origin

    ... that simulated a hydrogen-rich atmosphere," says H. James Cleaves, of the Carnegie Institution's Geophysical Laboratory, one of the paper's co-authors and Miller's last graduate student. "And when we ...
  • New process promises bigger, better diamond crystals

    ... , Haiyun Shu, Thomas Yu, Qi Liang, Ho-kwang Mao, and Russell Hemley of the Carnegie Institution's Geophysical Laboratory used a method called chemical vapor deposition (CVD) to ...
  • Electronic heat trap grips deep Earth

    ... (660 to 2,900 kilometers) below the surface. Researchers at the Carnegie Institution's Geophysical Laboratory simulated conditions at these depths and recently discovered that the concentration of ...
  • Mineral kingdom has co-evolved with life

    ... for life on other planets. Robert Hazen and Dominic Papineau of the Carnegie Institution's Geophysical Laboratory, with six colleagues, reviewed the physical, chemical, and biological processes that ...
  • Half-baked asteroids have Earth-like crust

    ... not an asteroid. But analysis of the meteorites' oxygen isotopes at the Carnegie Institution's Geophysical Laboratory by Douglas Rumble ruled out that possibility. "A number of solar system objects ...
  • High pressure yields novel single-element 'compound'

    ... of superconductivity of boron in 2001 by researchers at the Carnegie Institution's Geophysical Laboratory. That study revealed superconductivity with a relatively high transition temperature for an ...
  • Exploring planets in distant space and deep interiors

    ... , will put his ideas to the test. Russell Hemley, director of Carnegie's Geophysical Laboratory, studies the fundamental physics and chemistry of materials under extreme conditions. Understanding how ...
  • Under pressure, atoms make unlikely alloys

    ... rules, creating new materials. But the cerium-aluminum alloy produced at the Carnegie Institution's Geophysical Laboratory breaks new ground in the development of alloys. "The boundary has been ...
  • Early agriculture left traces in animal bones

    ... Newsome, a coauthor on the study and a post-doctoral associate at the Carnegie Institution's Geophysical Laboratory, where the chemical analysis was performed. The bones come from a Neolithic site ...
  • Asteroid impact helps trace meteorite origins

    ... trails as they come through the atmosphere," says Douglas Rumble of the Carnegie Institution's Geophysical Laboratory, a co-author of the paper. "It's been happening for years. But to actually see ...

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