Science Spotlights

One Promising Puzzle Piece for Confirming Dark Matter Now Seems Unlikely Fit, Researchers Find

Nov 23, 2011

New research adds doubt that a prominent European astrophysics experiment may have found evidence of dark matter. In an interview, Stanford's Stefan Funk and Justin Vandenbroucke talk about their findings, as well as how they tricked a telescope into searching for particles it wasn't designed to detect.

Disturbing the Nanosphere

Oct 17, 2011

Cornell University researchers, including KIC’s J.C. Séamus Davis and post-doctoral fellow Mohammad Hamidian, deliberately create atomic-level disorder in order to probe the workings of heavy fermion compounds. In an interview, Hamidian discusses how this work, and a new tool created at Cornell, may be a significant step toward revolutionizing 21st century technology.

Diseases In A Dish: Modeling Mental Disorders

Oct 10, 2011

Using skin cells from patients with mental disorders, scientists are creating brain cells that are now providing extraordinary insights into afflictions like schizophrenia and Parkinson’s disease.

Exoplanets: How the Milky Way is Surprising Scientists

Sep 13, 2011

Three prominent researchers discuss how recent findings from the Kepler mission are deepening our understanding of planets beyond our solar system, and expanding our view of where life may exist in the Milky Way Galaxy.