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Science Spotlights

Mar 15, 2010

In a special essay, KIPAC Director Roger Blandford discusses how wonder and curiosity has inspired his own life, and serves as a creative force to both science and the humanities.

 
Feb 20, 2010

Whether engaged in a chess game or something less obvious, the brain is constantly thinking. Daniel Wolpert, a professor of engineering at the University of Cambridge and a leading researcher on human motor control, admits that a game of chess is an excellent demonstration of the brain at work; however, if you focus  more on our ability to move the pieces, you’ll see something else extraordinary.

 
Feb 20, 2010

Recently, neuroscientist and KIBM Co-Director Nicholas Spitzer led a conversation with two nanoscience pioneers – Stanford University's Kwabena Boahen and Harvard University's Hongkun Parkthree renowned researchers on how their once diverging disciplines are merged.

 
Feb 20, 2010

In southeastern Colorado, a land better known for crops and livestock may soon host the world's largest astrophysical detector. If an international consortium of scientists gets a green light from funding agencies, it will build an array for detecting cosmic rays.