Kavli News

01/28/2010

Using Magnetic Toys, Researchers Tease Out Structures of Self-Assembled Moleculer Clusters

In the January 29th issue of Science, a team from Harvard led by Vinothan Manoharan and Michael Brenner, presents additional clues to how and why groups of atoms and molecules may favor less symmetrical and more complex, flexible geometric patterns.

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01/08/2010

New Film Chronicles Life of Eric Kandel

"In Search of Memory," a new documentary on the life of Nobel laureate Eric Kandel, MD -- Kavli Professor and director of the Kavli Institute for Brain Sciences at Columbia -- has been commercially released.

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01/07/2010

Fermi Telescope Closes in on Mystery of Cosmic Ray Acceleration

High-energy cosmic rays appear to be coming from supernova remnants, the dying remains of exploded stars, with data revealing the spatial distribution of this emission in one particular supernova remnant.

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12/23/2009

News Reports of Visit to Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics China at the Chinese Academy of Sciences (Untranslated)

News reports and web posts from China on a visit to KITPC by The Kavli Foundation's President, Robert W. Conn, and Vice-President of Science Programs, Miyoung Chun. (Untranslated)

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12/14/2009

Computer Models How Brain Cells Reach a Decision

Yale University researchers have devised a computer model to explain how the brain makes decisions based on statistical probabilities—as, for instance, when a doctor makes a diagnosis based on several conflicting test results

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12/11/2009

Magnetic Power Revealed in Gamma-Ray Burst Jet

A specialized camera on a telescope operated by U.K. astronomers from Liverpool has made the first measurement of magnetic fields in the afterglow of a gamma-ray burst (GRB).

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12/09/2009

America's Energy Future Project Issues New Report

Existing and planned technologies could lower projected U.S. energy use 17 percent to 20 percent by 2020.

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11/19/2009

On The Same Wavelength

Researchers at the Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience and Centre for the Biology of Memory at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) have discovered a mechanism that the brain uses to filter out distracting thoughts to focus on a single bit of information.

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11/18/2009

Royal Opening For Cosmology Research Building

The Chancellor of the University of Cambridge, HRH Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, opened the new building housing the Kavli Institute for Cosmology.

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11/18/2009

Ooguri Receives Nishina Memorial Prize

Hirosi Ooguri, Caltech's Fred Kavli Professor of Theoretical Physics, has been named the recipient of the 2009 Nishina Memorial Prize.

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