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Kyla de Villa, a Ph.D. student in the Earth and Planetary Science Department at UC Berkeley, received the John C. Jamieson Student Paper Award in the 2024 Mineral and Rock Physics section.

Sara Seager, from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, won the 2024 Kavli Prize in Astrophysics, "for their ground-breaking work on the discovery and characterization of extra-solar planets and their atmospheres.”

Under extreme pressures, matter defies the rules of physics as we know it.

Adam Frank writes in Big Think, "Scientists are studying ultra-high-pressure regimes in the Universe, not through traditional means like physical compression, but by using lasers. The Laboratory for Laser Energetics at the University of Rochester uses a powerful 60-beam Omega laser system to deliver concentrated energy to targets, mimicking the conditions of exoplanet interiors and star centers."

Racioppi, S., Storm, C. V., McMahon, M. I., & Zurek, E. (2023). On the Electride Nature of Na‐hP4. In Angewandte Chemie International Edition. Wiley. https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.202310802

González-Cataldo, F., & Militzer, B. (2023). Ab initio determination of iron melting at terapascal pressures and Super-Earths core crystallization. In Physical Review Research (Vol. 5, Issue 3). American Physical Society…

Yin, H., Shang, J. K., Blackman, E. G., Collins, G. W., & Aluie, H. (2023). Energy transfer and scale dynamics in 2D and 3D laser-driven jets. In Physics of Plasmas…

Allibert, L., Landeau, M., Röhlen, R., Maller, A., Nakajima, M., & Wünnemann, K. (2023). Planetary Impacts: Scaling of Crater Depth From Subsonic to Supersonic Conditions. In Journal of Geophysical Research:…