Kavli News

01/30/2012

UCSB's Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics Awarded $2.5 Million by the Simons Foundation to Support Visiting Scientists

The Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics (KITP) at UC Santa Barbara has been awarded $2.5 million by the Simons Foundation to support the work of leading scientists on extended visits at the world-renowned research center.

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01/10/2012

Hubble Pinpoints Farthest Protocluster of Galaxies Ever Seen

Using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have uncovered a cluster of galaxies in the initial stages of development. It is the most distant such grouping ever observed in the early universe.

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12/14/2011

New Findings about the ‘Supernova of a Generation'

An international team of scientists has discovered that the supernova that exploded in August –– dubbed the supernova of a generation –– was a "white dwarf."

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12/14/2011

Fermi Telescope Shows that Tycho's Star Shines in Gamma Rays

New data helps astronomers understand the origin of cosmic rays and subatomic particles.

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12/12/2011

Caltech/CEA-Leti Alliance Launches First Start-up

Analytical Pixels, is a new start-up company that emerged from a collaboration between Caltech’s Kavli Nanoscience Institute (KNI) and the Micro and Nanotechnologies Innovation Campus (Minatec).

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