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03/24/2010
Cornell’s Institute Directors on KIC’s New “High-Risk, High-Payoff” Mission
Directors of the Kavli Institute at Cornell for Nanoscale Science, Paul McEuen and David A. Muller, discuss the Institute's mission to push the technology of observation, measurement and control to ever-smaller dimensions.
[Read More]03/03/2010
Astronomically Large Lenses Measure the Age and Size of the Universe
Using entire galaxies as lenses to look at other galaxies, researchers have a newly precise way to measure the size and age of the universe and how rapidly it is expanding, on a par with other techniques.
[Read More]03/02/2010
Fermi Telescope Probes "Dragons" of the Gamma-ray Sky
A new study of the ever-present fog of gamma rays from sources outside our galaxy shows that less than a third of the emission arises from what astronomers once considered the most likely suspects, black-hole-powered jets from active galaxies.
[Read More]02/25/2010
Massive Planet is Being Torn Apart, Providing Opportunity to Watch a Planetary “Death March”
A massive planet outside our Solar System is being distorted and destroyed by its host star, a finding that helps explain the unexpectedly large size of the planet, WASP-12b.
[Read More]02/24/2010
UCSB Scientists Discover How the Brain Encodes Memories at a Cellular Level
Scientists at UC Santa Barbara have made a major discovery in how the brain encodes memories. The finding, published in the December 24 issue of the journal Neuron, could eventually lead to the development of new drugs to aid memory.
[Read More]02/22/2010
Kavli Prize Science Forum Announced; Inaugural Forum on International Cooperation in Science
US President Science Advisor John P. Holdren and Ernst-Ludwig Winnacker, the first Secretary General of the European Research Council, will join leaders of international science societies and academies to discuss international cooperation in science.
[Read More]02/22/2010
Study Suggests Simple Mathematical Rules May Be Responsible for Complicated Biological Adaptations
From how massive humpbacks glide through the sea with ease to the efficient way fungal spores fly,
applied mathematicians have excavated the equations behind a variety of complex phenomena.
02/17/2010
Extreme Jets Take New Shape
Jets of particles streaming from black holes in far-away galaxies operate differently than previously thought, according to a study published today in Nature.
[Read More]02/16/2010
Caltech Researchers Create Highly Absorbing, Flexible Solar Cells using Silicon Wire Arrays
Scientists from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) created a new type of flexible solar cell, enhancing the absorption of sunlight and efficiently converting photons into electrons, using only a fraction of the expensive semiconductor materials found in conventional solar cells.
[Read More]02/16/2010
NASA's Fermi Closes on Source of Cosmic Rays
New images from NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope show where supernova remnants emit radiation a billion times more energetic than visible light. The images bring astronomers a step closer to understanding the source of some of the universe's most energetic particles -- cosmic rays.
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