“How to find a planet you can’t see”
November 13, 2023
Under extreme pressures, matter defies the rules of physics as we know it.
“This giant laser can simulate a planet’s core”
August 26, 2022
How do you study the innards of alien worlds? You just need the world’s largest laser. Produced with Vox Media and science reporter Adam Cole, this piece examines how CMAP researchers design laser experiments at the Laboratory for Laser Energetics and National Ignition Facility to recreate the interiors of planets and stars and create revolutionary states of matter.
“How to find a planet you can’t see”
January 27, 2022
Tiny wobbles and faint twinkles that have led astronomers to nearly 5,000 new worlds.
“What we found when we went looking for another Earth”
January 24, 2022
In the last few years, scientists have discovered thousands of exoplanets – and a lot of them are surprisingly weird.
“Overview of the Center for Matter at Atomic Pressures”
March 8, 2021
CMAP focuses on understanding the physics and astrophysical implications of matter under pressures so high that the structure of individual atoms is disrupted.