For the first time, scientists at Lawrence Livermore Laboratories and Lawrence Berkeley have meticulously reviewed this material and created three-dimensional images for resistance and new potential applications.

Aerogel is a form of nanofoam, a material designed to have a high rate of resistance to the weight. Nanofoam such structures are also present in scientific fields such as geology, bone structure, polymers and structural materials, wherever they are needed the low weight and resistance. (more…)

A team of researchers led by University of Bristol, and working with colleagues at Daresbury Laboratory under the STFC, has obtained important information about how the Earth recycles itself in the tectonic cycle, at a depth much greater than that achievable by scientists by drilling.

The Earth’s oceanic crust is constantly renewed in a cycle that has been going on for thousands of millions of years. This bark is renewed continuously through the Earth’s mantle magma rising in the mid-ocean ridges. The crustal material ends up being returned to the mantle, sinking in subduction zones that extend beneath the continents. (more…)

Firing the high-energy Omega laser on pre-stressed samples of planetary fluids, and doing some calculations, scientists are achieving a better understanding of evolution and internal structure of Jupiter and other giant planets of the solar system or beyond.

Helium is an important component of the gas giant planets like Jupiter. The characteristics of this element in thermodynamic conditions between those of condensed matter and the high-temperature plasmas, challenging the theoretical knowledge and have not previously been explored in experiments. (more…)