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Scale model of Hamburg, Germany, being used for a large wind tunnel experiment.

The 20 feet by 15 feet, 1.5-foot thick single piece of granite is within +/- 0.0018 inches flat across its surface. Quarried from the Raymond Granite Quarry, Clovis, Calif., the 450 cubic-foot, 37.5 ton GOT slab is thought to be the largest, single slab, precision granite table in the world.

Dr. Rhonda Stroud, head of the nanoscale materials section at the NRL briefs Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, Dr. John P. Holdren, and Chief of Naval Research, Rear Adm. Matthew Klunder, during a tour of NRL.

NRL's Electromagnetic Railgun completes its one-thousandth successful firing.

A 50-foot radio telescope dish atop NRL's main administration building is the unofficial symbol of the Laboratory.

Naval Research Laboratory OpensLaboratory for Autonomous Systems Research (Photo: Jamie Hartman, Naval Research Laboratory)

NRL's CT-Analyst Operational Demo Delivered to Hamburg Germany Fire Brigade (Photo: University of Hamburg)

NRL Brings the Inertia of Space to Robotics Research (Photo: Naval Research Laboratory)

White House S&T Advisor the Honorable Dr. John Holdren Tours Naval Research Laboratory (Photo: John Williams, Office of Naval Research)

Navy's Electromagnetic Railgun Reaches Testing Milestone (Photo: Naval Research Laboratory)

Learn about the Naval Research Laboratory's world-class science and technology. (Photo: Naval Research Laboratory)

About NRL

NRL is the corporate research laboratory for the Navy and Marine Corps and conducts a broad program of scientific research, technology and advanced development. NRL has served the Navy and the nation for over 85 years and continues to meet the complex technological challenges of today's world.

February 8, 2013

Violent Nabro Eruption Shown to Pierce Stratosphere

Thermal infrared imagery captured by NASA hours after the eruption provides overwhelming satellite evidence that the Nabro eruption caused a sizable and direct volcanic impact on the stratosphere.

February 4, 2013

NRL's Dr. George Carruthers Honored with
National Medal of Technology and Innovation

NRL scientist Dr. George Carruthers has received the 2012 National Medal of Technology and Innovation. This is the nation's highest honor for technology achievement, and it is bestowed by the president of the United States upon America's leading innovators.

February 1, 2013

NASA's SDO Provides First Sightings of How a CME Forms

NRL scientists see a flux rope on the sun for the very first time.

January 14, 2013

NRL Designs Multi-Junction Solar Cell to Break Efficiency Barrier

Research at the Electronics Technology and Science Division has produced a novel, realistically achievable, lattice-matched, multi-junction solar cell design with the potential to break the 50 percent power conversion efficiency barrier.

January 10, 2013

NRL's SECCHI Captures Super-Elastic Collision of
Coronal Mass Ejections

Scientists at NRL and the University of Science and Technology in Hefei, China, captured the super-elastic collision of two coronal mass ejections in the heliosphere. They recorded the surprising event using the Sun-Earth Connection Coronal and Heliospheric Investigation (SECCHI) suite onboard NASA's twin Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory (STEREO).

December 31, 2012

Naval Research Laboratory's Top Stories of 2012

NRL published more than 100 news stories in 2012, covering scientific and technical achievements in solar power, ocean optics, space, robotics, and more.