Kavli News

08/27/2010

Astro2010: Limitless Vistas on a Limited Budget

What can scientists hope to learn in the coming decade about the most basic questions about the cosmos and our place in it ?

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08/23/2010

One Gene Can Spur Huge Changes in the Human Brain

The surprising findings describe how a single gene can regulate the production of cortical neurons.

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08/19/2010

KNI Co-Director Michael Roukes Receives 2010 NIH Director's Pioneer Award

Michael Roukes, co-director of the Kavli Nanoscience Institute at the California Institute of Technology, is a recipient of a 2010 NIH Director's Pioneer Award.

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08/13/2010

Astronomy and Astrophysics Decadal Survey Released

The National Academy of Sciences' National Research Council today released New Worlds, New Horizons in Astronomy and Astrophysics, the result of a two-year process, involving hundreds of scientists, that ranks priorities in U.S. astronomy and astrophysics for the next decade.

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08/11/2010

Dark-Matter Search Plunges Physicists to New Depths

Physicist Juan Collar and team are deploying a 4-kilogram bubble chamber at SNOLab, Ontario, Canada to identify dark matter particles.

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08/09/2010

Grid Cells Are Found Outside the Brain's Medial Entorhinal Cortex

Grid cells, which help the brain map locations, have been found for the first time outside of the medial entorhinal cortex in the rat brain. The finding should help further our understanding of how the brain generates internal maps.

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07/28/2010

Electrical Activity in Developing Brain Influences Choice of Neurotransmitter and Animal Behavior

Biologists at the University of California, San Diego, have shown for the first time that electrical activity in developing neurons can alter their chemical fate, and change an animal's behavior, by tweaking the brain cell's genetic program.

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07/22/2010

Caltech-led Team Gets Up to $122 Million for Energy Innovation Hub

Caltech will partner with Lawrence Berkeley Nat. Lab. and other CA institutions to develop a method to produce fuels from sunlight

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07/20/2010

Dark Energy Measurement Sheds New Light on Universe's Expansion

Through observations of massive galaxy clusters, scientists have made the most precise measurements to date of the effects of dark energy and gravity on cosmological scales. This work is an important step toward understanding why the expansion of the universe is accelerating.

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07/20/2010

UCSB Researcher Co-Authors New Study of Magnon Hall Effect in Insulators

For the first time, physicists have shown that the Hall effect can be created in magnets without the benefit of a charge current.

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