Kavli News

11/12/2012

Winners of the 2012 AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Awards Announced

Stories about the microbial hitchhikers we all harbor, the largest dam-removal project in North America, and issues raised by the new era of personal genomics are among the winners of the 2012 AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Awards.

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11/09/2012

Kunio Inoue Wins Nishina Memorial Prize

The Nishina Memorial Foundation announced that Kunio Inoue, Principal Investigator of Kavli IPMU and Professor of Research Center for Neutrino Science, Tohoku University, is a recipient of the 2012 Nishina Memorial Prize.

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11/06/2012

A Burst of Activity in the Middle of the Milky Way

A team of scientists have detect the brightest flare ever observed from the black hole in the center of the Milky Way.

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11/02/2012

Ooguri Chosen for the Fellow of the American Mathematical Society

Hirosi Ooguri, the Fred Kavli Chair at Caltech and also a Principal Investigator of the Kavli IPMU is now a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society (AMS).

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11/01/2012

NASA'S Fermi Measures Cosmic 'Fog' Produced by Ancient Starlight

Astronomers using data from NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope have made the most accurate measurement of starlight in the universe and used it to establish the total amount of light from all of the stars that have ever shone, accomplishing a primary mission goal.

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