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A research institute is an establishment endowed for doing research. Research institutes may specialize in basic research or may be oriented to applied research. Although the term often implies natural science research, there are also many research institutes in the social sciences as well, especially for sociological and historical research purposes.
In the early medieval period, several astronomical observatories were built in the Islamic world. The first of these was the 9th-century Baghdad observatory built during the time of the Abbasid caliph al-Ma'mun, though the most famous were the 13th-century Maragheh observatory, 15th-century Ulugh Beg Observatory.
The earliest research institute in Europe was Tycho Brahe's Uraniborg complex on the island of Hven, a 16th-century astronomical laboratory set up to make highly accurate measurements of the stars. In the United States there are numerous notable research institutes including Bell Labs, The Scripps Research Institute,Beckman Institute, and SRI International. Hughes Aircraft used a research institute structure for its organizational model.
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Naval Research Laboratory Converts Seawater to Fuel
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The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) is the corporate research laboratory for the U.S. 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. Ready to accept the challenge? Visit the NRL website to learn more about the benefits of a Federal career in science and technology: http://www.nrl.navy.mil. For more NRL videos, visit http://www.nrl.navy.mil/media/videos/.
Dr. Paul Jaffe, an electronics engineer at the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) may have found a way to power the earth by collecting energy from space. How does it work? Solar panels (via a solar satellite) in space absorb energy from the sun that then gets beamed directly to Earth -- pretty simple concept, much harder to execute -- but Dr. Jaffe is making it happen. This technology, if successfully implemented, could benefit our warfighters operating in remote regions around the world, where access to fuel is often limited, thus providing them with a constant supply of energy. Transcript: Dr. Paul Jaffe: We are actually making palpable changes in our world that are going to affect people for a long time. I am Paul Jaffe, I am an electronics engineer at the Naval Research Laboratory. I he...
Naval Research Laboratory Converts Seawater to Fuel
The Naval Research Laboratory's 5,000 square foot Materials Testing Facility (MTF) houses a "scaled-for-laboratory," 6-meter Electromagnetic Railgun. A railgun consists of a power supply that drives current through a pair of conductors or rails to accelerate a projectile to high velocity. MTF demonstrated, October 31, 2011, the one-thousandth successful firing of its Electromagnetic Railgun, reaching a materials testing milestone in the weapon's technological development and future implementation aboard U.S. Navy warships. Many of the 1000 shots have been designed to test different barrel designs and to quantify damage generated during high power launch. The innovations and understanding generated by NRL's science and technology program have been fed directly into the Office of Naval Resea...
Dr. Bruce Danly, superintendent, radar division at the Naval Research Laboratory, participates in a panel discussion reflecting on the present and future of the Tizard Mission technologies during the 75th-anniversary commemoration of the Tizard Mission held at the Canadian Embassy in Washington, D.C.
The Center for Biomolecular Science and Engineering at the US Naval Research Laboratory was established in the mid-1980’s to address problems relevant to the Navy by taking advantage of biology’s diverse set of applications to technology. Current research is focused on areas related to biomaterial and biosensor development for chemical and biological warfare defense, fundamental structural and functional applications, power and energy, and environmental quality. The center’s interdisciplinary focus gives the flexibility for biologists, chemists, and physicists to pursue any project that they have in mind. http://www.nrl.navy.mil/cbmse/
To help further improve future shipboard firefighting capability, scientists at the Naval Research Laboratory have formed an interdisciplinary team to develop a humanoid robot that could fight fires on the next generation of combatants. A humanoid-type robot was chosen because it was deemed best suited to operate within the confines of an environment that was designed for human mobility and offered opportunity for other potential war fighting applications within the Navy and Marine Corps. Read this story and more at www.ah.mil.
The Naval Research Laboratory Vehicle Research Section has successfully completed flight tests for the Autonomous Deployment Demonstration program. The final demonstration took place at the Yuma Proving Grounds, Yuma, Ariz., and consisted of a series of eight balloon-drops at altitudes of up to 57,000 ft, delivering sensor-emplacement Close-In Covert Autonomous Disposable Aircraft (CICADA) vehicles within 15 feet of their intended landing locations. The NRL developed CICADA Mark III UAV is a glider; it has no propulsion source onboard, therefore. It requires another airborne platform to get it to an altitude such that it can glide to its destination. Its lack of a motor and small size, make it nearly undetectable in flight. The CICADA Mark III is a unique vehicle. The airframe is simpl...
Dr. Lenny Tender, research chemist at the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL), has co-invented a microbial fuel cell that persistently generates electrical power in marine environments.The fuel cell draws electricity from the sea floor, creating an interface between the sediment on the bottom of a marine environment and the overlying water. The fuel cell is a maintenance free, non-depleting power supply suitable for a wide range of sensors presently powered by batteries. Interested in licensing this technology? Visit the NRL Technology Transfer Office to learn more: http://www.nrl.navy.mil/techtransfer/fs.php?fs_id=ENE04. For more NRL videos, visit http://www.nrl.navy.mil/media/videos/. Credit: NRL Technology Transfer Office and Technical Information Services
Members of the House Armed Service Committee held hearing Sept. 28, 2016, on the DOD’s laboratories. The Emerging Threats and Capabilities Subcommittee looked at “Innovation through Science and Engineering in Support of Military Operations” by hearing testimony from leaders of the Air Force Research Laboratory, Naval Research Laboratory, the Engineer Research and Development Center of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the Army Research Laboratory. View the hearing at https://armedservices.house.gov/subcommittees/emerging-threats-capabilities
Researchers at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory have revealed a new technology that reportedly converts seawater into fuel by recovering carbon dioxide and hydrogen from the salt water and turning it into a liquid hydrocarbon fuel through a novel gas-to-liquid process. The two step process begins with the extraction of carbon dioxide and hydrogen from seawater. Scientists let the liquid pass through a cell which is subjected to an electric current. The seawater is next acidified by exchanging hydrogen ions produced at the anode with sodium ions. Meanwhile, the water is reduced to hydrogen gas at the cathode, and sodium hydroxide is formed. The sodium hydroxide is then added to the leftover seawater to neutralize its acidity. In the second step, the hydrogen and carbon dioxide ...
MIAMI, Sept. 6 (UPI) -- Hurricane Newton made landfall early Tuesday in Mexico's southern Baja California, bringing with it the threat of flash floods and mudslides. The National Hurricane Center said Hurricane Newton has maximum sustained winds of 90 mph and is moving north-northwest at 17 mph. The Mexican government has issued a hurricane warning for the mainland in areas where the hurricane is headed. Hurricane-force winds will extend outward up to 40 miles from the center and tropical storm-force winds will extend outward up to 205 miles. Hurricane Newton is expected to generate up to 12 inches of rain in the Mexican state of Baja California Sur and up to 10 inches in the states of Sinaloa, Sonora, western Nayarit, and Jalisco through Wednesday. Up to 3 inches is expected to fall in...
The United States Naval Research Laboratory is the corporate research laboratory for the United States Navy and the United States Marine Corps and conducts a wide range of basic scientific research, applied research, technological development and prototyping.A few of the laboratory's current specialties include plasma physics, space physics, materials science, and tactical electronic warfare.NRL is one of the first US Government scientific R&D laboratories, having opened in 1923 at the instigation of Thomas Edison, and is currently under the Office of Naval Research.NRL's research expenditures are approximately $1.1 billion per year. ---Image-Copyright-and-Permission--- About the author(s): US Naval Research Lab License: Creative Commons Zero, Public Domain Dedication (CC0) Author(s):...
What do a laser, submarine detection, the atomic clock, and GPS have in common? The answer is: our guest today. Please meet Alan Berman as we learn about his truly interesting life. Episode #1027. Aired 8/12/16
Naval Research Laboratory Converts Seawater to Fuel
For seven decades, ONR through its commands, including ONR Global and the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, D.C., has been leading the discovery, development and delivery of technology innovations for the Navy and Marine Corps.
Dr. David Kidwell of the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington DC gives the keynote address at ICCF-18.
Subscribe For More - https://www.youtube.com/c/MilitaryTiger U.S. Navy's the Naval Sea Systems Command developed the Laser Weapon System, the LaWS. Research was held through Naval Sea Systems Command & Naval Research Laboratory. After finishing the development various U.S. Navy warships will be equipped with this LaWS. This Solid State Laser or SSL weapon was built from commercial fiber solid state laser. LaWS can be operated by using Mk-15 Phalanx Close-In Weapon system's radar or any other targeting source. It's quick, silent and nearly virtually invisible to the enemy. Primirily Navy ships will be equipped with this new technology LaWS to eliminate small boat targets and aerial threats. An exercise was conducted on USS Ponce to project a future force by a technical...
Presentation from the International Space Solar Power Symposium at the National Space Society International Space Development Conference (ISDC) in Huntsville, Alabama, May 2011. Space Solar Power: Naval Research Laboratory Sandwich Panel R&D; Status Update - Paul Jaffe (Naval Research Laboratory). For more videos from this symposium see the NSS Space Solar Power Library at www.nss.org/ssp
Circulation in the Gulf of Mexico
Circulation in the Gulf of Mexico
Circulation in the Gulf of Mexico
Host: Leo Laporte Guest: Paul Syverson Paul Syverson: Inventor of Onion Routing, original designer of Tor along with Roger Dingledine and Nick Mathewson, and project leader for original design, development, and deployment of Tor. Currently helps out with research and design. Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/triangulation.
"Armed with Science" is a Pentagon Channel TV show exploring cutting-edge scientific research and technology development at the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) and the Army Research Laboratory (ARL). The show highlights the importance of science and technology to national defense and the innovative work being done in Defense laboratories to help address the complex challenges facing the military In the pilot episode, viewers get an inside look at NRL space robotics research and ARL work in novel weapons design and infrared imaging. To learn more about the Army Research Laboratory, visit http://www.arl.army.mil. To learn more about the Naval Research Laboratory, visit http://nrl.navy.mil. Video credit: Pentagon Channel