Kavli News

07/21/2009

Caltech Physicists Create First Nanoscale Mass Spectrometer

Using devices millionths of a meter in size, physicists at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have developed a technique to determine the mass of a single molecule, in real time.

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07/19/2009

UCSB Director of Institute for Energy Efficiency Awarded Kavli Professorship

John E. Bowers, a pioneering professor of electrical and computer engineering at UC Santa Barbara and director of the campus's Institute for Energy Efficiency, is the first scholar appointed to the Fred Kavli Chair in Nanotechnology.

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07/16/2009

The Men with a Formula for Giving to Science

The Financial Times discusses philanthropic support for basic scientific research with Fred Kavli and Mike Lazaridis, who both addressed a special plenary session at the World Conference of Science Journalists in London.

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07/09/2009

Simulations Illuminate Universe's First Twin Stars

The earliest stars in the universe formed not only as individuals, but sometimes also as twins, a finding determined through robust simulations of the early universe, which are providing astrophysicists their most detailed understanding to date of the formation of the first stars.

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06/17/2009

Planet Found in Tilted Orbit Around Distant Star

An international team of researchers has found a planet around another star whose orbit is steeply tilted from the plane of the star's equator, a finding that contradicts some theories about how solar systems form.

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