Kavli News

08/07/2008

MIT reports finer lines for microchips

Lithographic technology, used in the manufacture of computer chips and other electronic devices, to make finer patterns of lines over larger areas than have been possible with other methods.

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08/03/2008

Measuring a Pulsar's Smoothness

In one of the first significant scientific findings from a huge collaborative effort to detect gravitational waves, the team operating the Laser Interferometer Gravity-wave Observatory (LIGO) reported that the pulsar at the center of the Crab Nebula must have an extremely smooth surface.

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06/27/2008

GLAST - Watcher of the Skies: Observations by KIPAC DIrector Roger Blandford

After its launch into orbit, KIPAC Director Roger Blandford discusses the importance and expectations of the Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope.

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06/17/2008

Looking for New Light: How Researchers at KIPAC are Trying to Shed Light on Asteroids

Researchers now report that they can use this gamma ray radiation to infer the number of small asteroids in different groups of small solar system bodies.

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05/14/2008

Team of Scientists Goes Deep, Armed with World's Best Detectors of Dark Matter

A half-mile down in an old iron ore mine in Minnesota, incredibly sensitive detectors have been waiting for a particle of dark matter, an invisible substance that may form the skeleton of galaxies, to make itself known.

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05/07/2008

Kavli Grant Establishes Endowment to Support KIPAC

Fred Kavli and The Kavli Foundation have made a pledge of $7.5 million to KIPAC the for an endowment that will support the institute's s research programs, including fellowships for graduate students and young

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04/22/2008

First Kavli Awards to Open World Science Festival

The naming of the first Kavli honorees will begin the World Science Summit, a single-day,  invitation-only event at Columbia University designed to lead off the World Science Festival.

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04/17/2008

Fred Kavli Professor Michael Prather to Head New UC Irvine Environment Institute

UC Irvine Kavli Professor Michael Prather will head a new research institute dedicated to the study of how the environment and society interact.

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04/10/2008

Finding Art From Science, Nano Photographs Join Exhibit at Museum of Modern Art

The Museum of Modern Art is featuring a nanoscale picture by Michael Rouke, professor at the Kavli Nanoscience Institute at the California Institute of Technology, and his research team.

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04/02/2008

Catching Planets in the Making

Astronomers, including MIT's Joshua Winn, reporte the first observations of a plant in the middle stages of formation. What they observe is a disk of mid-sized material around a star--a swarm of stuff that has already progressed from dust grains up to particles the size of a grain of sand.

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