New Center for Frontiers in High Energy Density Science
U. California has funded a new center in high energy density science. This center is a collaboration between 5 UC campuses, LLNL and LANL. One of the themes of our center is material properties under [...]
Graduate program application deadline is December 15
Please contact Sarah if you are interested in our graduate program in planetary sciences. Our application deadline have moved to December 15.
Tidal Evolution of the Moon: Earth started tilted over
Our new model for the tidal evolution of the moon was published online today in Nature: Tidal Evolution of the Moon from a high-obliquity, high-angular-momentum Earth. The tidal evolution is a big piece of the [...]
The 2-stage gas gun is here!
We are installing the new 2-stage light gas gun. This instrument lets us reach pressures found in the Earth's core. It was built by Physics Applications Inc.
K isotopes differ for Earth and Moon
Kun Wang and Stein Jacobsen's new paper "Potassium isotopic evidence for a high-energy giant impact origin of the Moon", published online in Nature, supports the idea that the Moon condensed from a highly vaporized Earth [...]
We’re in the new lab!
Our lab has moved from Harvard to UC Davis!