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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.

March 20, 2013

NRL Nike Laser Focuses on Nuclear Fusion

Researchers at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory successfully demonstrate a single-step focal zooming process to maximize the efficiency of the world's largest operating krypton fluoride gas laser.

February 25, 2013

NRL Scientists Produce Densest Artificial Ionospheric Plasma Clouds Using HAARP

Glow discharges in the upper atmosphere were generated to explore ionospheric phenomena and its impact on communications and space weather.

February 19, 2013

Radio Telescope, GPS Use Ionosphere to Detect Nuclear Tests

Analyzing radio telescope interferometry and GPS data recorded of the ionosphere, scientists are able to detect acoustic-gravity waves from surface and underground nuclear explosions.

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.