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Researchers prepare to send fungi for a ride around the moon
May 28, 2021 — The fungus Aspergillus niger, along with its three mutant strains, are slated to rotate the moon on NASA’s Orion Space Capsule in 2021 so researchers can improve their understanding of the fungi’s natural and adapted defenses against radiation... MORE

Navy Forecasting Provides 45-day Advanced Environmental Predictions
May 11, 2021 — Navy ESPC V1 provides the Navy with the first ever high-resolution ensemble capability for the ocean and sea ice that delivers both ensemble mean forecasts as well as a measure of uncertainty up to 45 days out... MORE

Navy Earth System Prediction Capability (ESPC)

NRL Designs Faster, More Energy Efficient Unpiloted Underwater Vehicles
May 6, 2021 — NRL Postdoctoral Research Associate from the Laboratories for Computational Physics & Fluid Dynamics designs faster and more energy efficient underwater vehicles using bioinspired shark skin-like surfaces... MORE

NRL Postdoc designs faster and more energy efficient UUV using bioinspired shark skin-like surfaces

Peering through the clouds of Earth’s ‘Evil Twin’ surprises NRL sky watchers
April 15, 2021 — Venus images are nothing new, but a solar probe surprised the researchers by seeing through the planet’s clouds. NRL’s Wide-field Imager for Parker Solar Probe (WISPR) took a stunning image of Earth’s celestial neighbor Venus last year that left researchers searching for answers... MORE

NRL’s Hybrid Tiger UAV Soars at Demonstration
April 14, 2021 — U.S. Naval Research Laboratory engineers recently demonstrated Hybrid Tiger, an electric unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) with multi-day endurance flight capability, at Aberdeen Proving Grounds, Maryland... MORE

IPOWER: Improving your energy-informed decisions when it matters most
March 23, 2021 — U.S. Naval Research Laboratory researchers have developed IPOWER, a software application that simulates energy use, storage, harvesting, and sharing in deployed Army and Marine Corps units to improve energy-informed decision-making... MORE

IPOWER gives users a flexible tool for simulating a wide variety of missions.

NRL Researchers Search for Critical Ocean Sciences Data with Lidar
March 19, 2021 — Quantifying the oceanic whitecaps and subsurface bubbles is important to the Navy’s oceanographic models to characterize the long-term evolution of the ocean environment... MORE

NRL VXS-1 Search for Critical Ocean Sciences Data With Lidar

From Sea to Shining Sea: Combating the Pandemic One Mile at a Time
March 16, 2021 — When COVID-19 began to spread more than a year ago, few people could have imagined the drastic, far-reaching changes in our lives... MORE

Sea to Shining Sea: Monterey Bay, California

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