Kavli News

12/10/2008

Dimmest Star-Like Objects Discovered

The two faintest star-like objects ever found, a pair of twin "brown dwarfs" each just a millionth as bright as the sun, have been spotted by a team led by MIT physicist Adam Burgasser.

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12/09/2008

Lights, Camera, Render: Visualizing the Universe

Within a red plume of hydrogen gas a brilliant white spot forms. The spot expands and quickly explodes into an orange and red cloud. Soon this cloud dissipates and a new bright dot grows elsewhere on the screen. In less than a minute, the movie has told the story of a young galaxy forming.

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11/12/2008

President Bush Honors U.S. Recipients of the 2008 Kavli Prize

President George W. Bush and his Science Advisor, Dr. John Marburger honored the first U.S. recipients of the Kavli Prize in an Oval Office reception at the White House this afternoon.

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11/11/2008

Light Triggers a New Code for Brain Cells

Brain cells can adopt a new chemical code in response to cues from the outside world, scientists working with tadpoles at the University of California, San Diego report in the journal Nature this week.

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10/22/2008

Fernström Prize to Norwegian Research Couple

Animals can find their way back to good feeding places and we humans do not get lost on our way to and from the store because the brain is capable of storing information about spatial location. But where does this occur, and how do these internal maps work?

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