Kavli News

11/30/2012

Novel Studies of Gene Regulation in Brain Development May Mean New Treatment of Mental Disorders

A team of researchers at the University of California, San Diego and the Institut Pasteur, Paris has come up with a novel way to describe a time-dependent brain development based on coherent–gene-groups (CGGs) and transcription-factors (TFs) hierarchy.

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11/21/2012

Video on Transparent Solar Cells Semi-Finalist in Competition

Video highlights initiative at the California NanoSystems Institute that can unobtrusively turn home and building windows into energy producers.

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11/20/2012

New Centre for Neural Computation Announced by NTNU

Headed by Kavli Institute co-director May-Britt Moser, the new Centre for Neural Computation at NTNU aims to crack the “Enigma” of the brain – its neural codes.

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11/19/2012

Magnetism Combines with Gravity to Shape Black Hole's Environment

In state-of-the-art simulations that follow both the rules of general relativity and the laws of magnetism, they demonstrate that gravity isn’t the sole arbiter of a spinning black hole’s behavior.

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11/15/2012

Investment of 51 Million Euro for Nanoscience in TU Delft and Leiden University

With an amount of 51 million euros -- one of the largest ever Dutch investments in fundamental science -- scientists of TU Delft and Leiden University will be embarking on the research programme "NanoFront" to explore the frontiers of nanoscience in the coming ten years.

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