Science news articles about 'geophysical laboratory'

  • Superconductors get a boost from pressure

    ... 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 planes, the electron ...
  • Researchers explain odd oxygen bonding under pressure

    ... oxygen phase. Researchers from the Carnegie Institution's Geophysical Laboratory (GL), with colleagues* found that under pressure ... , the lab's synchrotron facility at Argonne National Laboratory, the researchers found that the interaction of these half-filled orbitals ...
  • Putting the squeeze on nitrogen for high energy materials

    ... Review Letters, researchers from the Carnegie Institution's Geophysical Laboratory report changes in the melting temperature ... , with Jonathan Crowhurst from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, compressed liquid nitrogen in a device known ...
  • 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 ...
  • The first new mineral with post-spinel structure is approved by CNMNC of IMA

    ... Institute of Geochemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Geophysical Laboratory, Carnegie Institution of Washington, which has recently been approved by the Commission on New Minerals, Nomenclature and Classification ...
  • Classic experiments give new insight on life's origin

    ... ," 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 analyzed samples left ...
  • New process promises bigger, better diamond crystals

    ... Mao, and Russell Hemley of the Carnegie Institution's Geophysical Laboratory used a method called chemical vapor ... properties in the ultraviolet to infrared range." concludes laboratory director Russell Hemley. "It has the advantage of being applicable ...
  • Electronic heat trap grips deep Earth

    ... ) below the surface. Researchers at the Carnegie Institution's Geophysical Laboratory simulated conditions at these depths and recently discovered that the concentration of highly oxidized (ferric) iron ...
  • Mineral kingdom has co-evolved with life

    ... Hazen and Dominic Papineau of the Carnegie Institution's Geophysical Laboratory, with six colleagues, reviewed the physical, chemical, and biological processes that gradually transformed about a dozen ...
  • Half-baked asteroids have Earth-like crust

    ... 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 including parent ...
  • High pressure yields novel single-element 'compound'

    ... of boron in 2001 by researchers at the Carnegie Institution's Geophysical Laboratory. That study revealed superconductivity with a relatively ... ," says Russell Hemley, director of the Carnegie Institution's Geophysical Laboratory. "The behavior of what should be simple ...
  • Exploring planets in distant space and deep interiors

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

    ... -aluminum alloy produced at the Carnegie Institution's Geophysical Laboratory breaks new ground in the development of alloys. "The boundary has been pushed before— but not to this extreme," says Carnegie ...
  • Early agriculture left traces in animal bones

    ... and a post-doctoral associate at the Carnegie Institution's Geophysical Laboratory, where the chemical analysis was performed ... forms (isotopes) which are chemically similar, but can be distinguished in the laboratory by minute differences in their mass. Certain kinds ...
  • Asteroid impact helps trace meteorite origins

    ... the atmosphere," says Douglas Rumble of the Carnegie Institution's Geophysical Laboratory, a co-author of the paper. "It's been happening ... , including the Carnegie Institution's Geophysical Laboratory. "This asteroid was made of a particularly fragile material that caused ...

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