Science Spotlights

Nomads of the Galaxy

May 16, 2012

Planets simply adrift in space may not only be common in the cosmos; in the Milky Way Galaxy alone, their number may be in the quadrillions. Three experts discussed what this might mean, whether a nomad planet could drift close to our solar system, and how it is possible for a nomad planet to sustain life.

At the Centre of It All

May 4, 2012

Kavli Institute directors Edvard and May-Britt Moser have just established the Norwegian Brain Centre at Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim. WIth its opening, the Centre becomes one of the largest of its kind worldwide.

Edvard and May-Britt Moser: A Ten-Year Chronology of Research

May 1, 2012

There has been a fruitful relationship between the resources the Mosers have received over the past decade and the pioneering research findings they have made in the area of spatial navigation and memory, as this abbreviated timetable reveals.

Now, Brought to the Big Screen by Astrophysicists at KIPAC: the Universe

Apr 20, 2012

Dramatic 3-D videos, created from actual data, bring to life the origins of the universe... And are now playing on screens at KIPAC, as well as museums in San Francisco and New York.