Kavli News

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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11/10/2009

Winners of the 2009 AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Awards Announced

A newspaper series on the impact of a devastating genetic disease on a family in rural Montana, and a group of gracefully written stories about genetics and evolution are among the winners of the 2009 AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Awards.

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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. A team of astrophysicists at UC Santa Barbara had predicted this kind of explosion in their theoretical work.

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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 the Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology.

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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., a manufacturer of high-speed imaging systems and image analysis software, to develop specialized instrumentation for the CNSI's core laboratory facilities.

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