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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.

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12/09/2009
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
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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 KISN 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
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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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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11/10/2009
Winners of the 2009 AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Awards Announced

Among those honored are science communicators reporting for NOVA, the New York Times; WNYC's Radiolab, Great Falls Tribune (MT), and Wired.

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11/05/2009
New Type of Supernova Explosion Reported; Predicted by Theoretical Physicists at UCSB

A new class of supernova was discovered by scientists at Berkeley and may be the first example of a new type of exploding star. 

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11/02/2009
High-Precision Measurements Confirm Cosmologists’ Standard View of Universe

A detailed picture of the seeds of structures in the universe has been unveiled by an international team co-led by Sarah Church of KIPAC.

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10/19/2009
Nanosystems Institute at UCLA, Photron to Collaborate on Specialized Instrumentation

The California NanoSystems Institute at UCLA has announced a collaboration with Photron USA Inc. to develop specialized instrumentation for the CNSI's core laboratory facilities.

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