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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.

October 19, 2012

NRL Researchers Discover New Route to Spin-Polarized Contacts on Silicon

NRL scientists have demonstrated that graphene can serve as a low resistance spin-polarized tunnel barrier contact, which successfully enables spin injection/detection in silicon from a ferromagnetic metal. This discovery clears an important hurdle to the development of future semiconductor spintronic devices.

October 12, 2012

Naval Research Laboratory Dedicates Marine Meteorology Center

NRL senior officials were joined by The Honorable Sam Farr, U.S. Representative for California's 17th Congressional District, for the dedication and ribbon cutting ceremony of the Marine Meteorology DIvision's new 15,000-square-foot Marine Meteorology Center research facility on Friday, October 12.

October 1, 2012

Naval Research Laboratory voted a "Best Diversity Company 2012"

NRL has been named a "Best Diversity Company 2012" by Diversity/Careers Magazine.

September 24, 2012

Fueling the Fleet, Navy Looks to the Seas

Scientists at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory are developing a process to extract carbon dioxide and produce hydrogen gas from seawater, subsequently converting the gases into jet fuel by a gas-to-liquids process.

September 18, 2012

NRL Demonstrates High Durability of Nanotube Transistors to the Harsh Space Environment

Investigating the effects of prolonged exposure to radiation that exists in the charged particle belts that encircle Earth, NRL researchers demonstrate the ability of single walled carbon nanotube transistors to survive harsh radiation environments.

September 10, 2012

NRL Researchers Use Unmanned Aircraft to Probe Hurricane Outflow Jets

Observing hurricanes from a unique vantage point, the Global Hawk is an ideal platform to probe storms from the surface to the outflow layer providing an unprecedented opportunity to unravel some of the mysteries underlying hurricane intensity change.