Topic: U.S. Naval Research Laboratory
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Energy Voices Energy alchemy: Navy turns sea water into jet fuel
The Naval Research Laboratory has designed a system which harvests carbon dioxide and hydrogen, the raw ingredients of jet fuel, from seawater, according to OilPrice.com.
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Comet Lovejoy's death-defying plunge into the sun [Video]
Comet Lovejoy hurtled through the sun's corona Thursday, and astounded skywatchers by coming out the other side. Here's how Comet Lovejoy survived.
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Comet's death-plunge into sun will be well documented
The ill-fated comet Lovejoy is on course to plow through the sun's blisteringly hot outer atmosphere - called the corona - making its closest approach to our star at around 7 p.m. EST Thursday.
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Huge space explosion catches everyone by surprise
A nova – a massive nuclear explosion thrown from a white dwarf star – usually doesn't emit gamma-rays, the most energetic known form of light. But this one did.
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Earth's upper atmosphere collapses. Nobody knows why.
The thermosphere recently collapsed in an unexpectedly large contraction, the sheer size of which has scientists scratching their heads.
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Did sun eruption spawn zombie satellite?
A coronal mass ejection – a massive bubble of magnetically charge gas cast out from the sun – may have been responsible for disabling the Intelsat communications satellite Galaxy 15 in April.
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Hurricane season and Gulf oil pipelines. Trouble ahead?
Hurricane season is upon us and that could mean trouble for the 31,000 miles of Gulf oil pipelines that snake across the floor of the Gulf.
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Active hurricane season ahead: too soon to tell oil spill's impact
The National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) released its hurricane season forecast Thursday, acknowledging that oil released by the BP Gulf oil spill could come into play if not cleaned up.
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Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology: It takes a corporation to raise a great school
Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology tops US News public high schools list with a little corporate help.
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Four ways to help pilots avoid turbulence
The emergency landing of Continental Flight 128 in Miami Monday adds urgency to ongoing efforts to better predict turbulence.
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