Robot Armada Might Scale New Worlds Oct 28, 2009
Wolfgang Fink, visiting associate in physics at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena says we are on the brink of a great paradigm shift in planetary exploration, and the next round of robotic explorers will be nothing like what we see today. "The way we explore tomorrow will be unlike any cup of tea we've ever tasted," said Fink, who was recently appointed as the Edward and Maria Keonjian Distinguished Professor in Microelectronics at the University of Arizona, Tucson. (Science Daily)
Light And Sound Vibrations Trapped Together In Nanocrystal For First Time Oct 27, 2009
26, 2009) Researchers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have created a nanoscale crystal device that, for the first time, allows scientists to confine both light and sound vibrations in the same tiny space. See also. (Science Daily)
Mystery Of Nanopillars Solved: Research Paves Way For New 3-D Lithography Method Oct 26, 2009
25, 2009) Scientists at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have uncovered the physical mechanism by which arrays of nanoscale (billionths-of-a-meter) pillars can be grown on polymer films with very high precision, in potentially limitless patterns. See also. (Science Daily)
High-Speed Test To Improve Pathogen Decontamination Developed Oct 24, 2009
Ponce co-authored a paper on the new technology, called Germinable Endospore Biodosimetry, along with Pun To Young, a post-doctoral student at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, in the journal Applied and Environmental Microbiology. The research was also highlighted in Microbe, a magazine of the American Society for Microbiology. (Science Daily)
Caltech scientists solve decade-long mystery of nanopillar formations Oct 23, 2009
Scientists at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have uncovered the physical mechanism by which arrays of nanoscale (billionths-of-a-meter) pillars can be grown on polymer films with very high precision, in potentially limitless patterns. This nanofluidic processdeveloped by Sandra Troian, professor of applied physics, aeronautics, and mechanical engineering at Caltech, and described in a recent article in the journal Physical Review Letterscould someday replace conventional... (EurekAlert!)
Volunteers wanted for simulated 520-day Mars mission... Oct 23, 2009
Volunteers wanted for simulated 520-day Mars mission. Volunteers wanted for simulated 520-day Mars mission. (The Drudge Report)
JPL Small Business Symposium and Awards Ceremony Oct 22, 2009
will host the Second Annual Small Business Symposium and Awards Ceremony on November 16 and 17, 2009 at the Marriott Bethesda North Hotel and in Bethesda, MD. JPL is managed for NASA by the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena. INTRO: The Symposium provides a forum for small business attendees to learn about NASA/JPL plans for future missions in Space and Earth Science, including associated programs, initiatives, and business and/or teaming opportunities. (NASA Watch)
Astronomers Find Organic Molecules Around Gas Planet Oct 22, 2009
JPL manages the Spitzer Space Telescope mission for NASA. Science operations are conducted at the Spitzer Science Center at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena. Caltech manages JPL for NASA.. (Science Daily)
How the weather shapes the human body clock Oct 21, 2009
The study was led by the University of Edinburgh, and involved researchers from the California Institute of Technology and the University of Warwick. Dr Carl Troein, of the University of Edinburgh's School of Biological Sciences, said: "By better understanding why biological clocks are so complex, we stand a better chance of controlling them. "Our study goes some way to explaining how and why these in-built rhythms have developed. (BBC News -- Health)
Norman Parsons Oct 20, 2009
His Thesis was entitled "Clouds Structure, Microphysics and Precipitation in tropical clouds inferred from satellite data" Terence will commence in October with a NASA Postdoc fellowship at The California Institute of Technology Jet Propulsion Laboratory campus in Pasadena. Age: 75. (Fresno Bee -- Opinion)
Caltech scientists create robot surrogate for blind persons in testing visual prostheses Oct 20, 2009
Scientists at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have created a remote-controlled robot that is able to simulate the "visual" experience of a blind person who has been implanted with a visual prosthesis, such as an artificial retina. An artificial retina consists of a silicon chip studded with a varying number of electrodes that directly stimulate retinal nerve cells. (EurekAlert!)
Cassini Helps Redraw Shape Of Solar System Oct 17, 2009
JPL, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, manages the Cassini-Huygens mission for NASA s Science Mission Directorate, Washington. The Cassini orbiter was designed, developed and assembled at JPL. The Magnetospheric Imaging Instrument was developed by APL.. (Science Daily)
Deep-sea Microbes: Nitrogen Mystery Solved? Oct 17, 2009
17, 2009) Researchers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have identified an unexpected metabolic ability within a symbiotic community of microorganisms that may help solve a lingering mystery about the world's nitrogen-cycling budget. See also. (Science Daily)
Research in a Vacuum: DARPA Tries to Tap Elusive Casimir Effect for Breakthrough Technology Oct 13, 2009
Jeremy Munday, California Institute of Technology. Named for a Dutch physicist, the governs interactions of matter with the energy that is present in a vacuum. (Scientific American)
Today in History - Oct. 12 Oct 12, 2009
Ahmed H. Zewail of the California Institute of Technology won the Nobel Prize for chemistry; Dutch scientists Gerardus 't Hooft and Martinus J.G. Veltman won the Nobel Prize for physics. NBA Hall-of-Famer Wilt Chamberlain died at his Los Angeles home at age 63. (Fresno Bee -- Nation)
The 'perfect' quake this way comes Oct 9, 2009
He studied under world-leading paleoseismologist Kerry Sieh at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), and conducted three years of post-doctoral field work in Sumatra from 2005 to 2007. To Briggs, the massive fault line that parallels the west coast of the island of Sumatra is the "Sunda megathrust". (Asia Times Online)
Asteroid Apophis' Path Toward Earth Refined Oct 8, 2009
JPL is a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena. Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y., operates the Arecibo Observatory under a cooperative agreement with the National Science Foundation in Arlington, Va. (Science Daily)
Europe strong in university table Oct 8, 2009
TOP 10 UNIVERSITIES 2009 Harvard University Cambridge University Yale University University College London Imperial College London* Oxford University* University of Chicago Princeton University Massachusetts Institute of Technology California Institute of Technology Columbia University * = joint place. The University of Tokyo, at 22nd, is the highest ranked Asian university and the University of Hong Kong moved up two places from 26th to 24th. (BBC News -- Europe)
Spitzer Finds Largest Ring Around Saturn Oct 7, 2009
Science operations are conducted at the Spitzer Science Center at the California Institute of Technology, also in Pasadena. Caltech manages JPL for NASA. The multiband imaging photometer for Spitzer was built by Ball Aerospace Corporation, Boulder, Colo. (Science Daily)
Cassini observes seasonal changes on Saturn's moon Oct 7, 2009
Cloud-piercing radar images of the haze-covered moon, presented Tuesday in a pair of studies by Alex Hayes of the California Institute of Technology and Jonathan Lunine of the University of Rome Tor Vergata, show methane lakes growing and shrinking in recent years in the moon's South Pole region, where temperatures range around -190 degrees Fahrenheit. "Evaporation is the most likely scenario for observed changes on Titans surface," says a statement from the American Astronomical Societys... (USA Today -- Tech)
Smart robots and their makers Oct 6, 2009
The staff of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a federally funded part of NASA that's managed by the California Institute of Technology, is helping bring us closer to finding the answer. Developed on a 177-acre campus in Pasadena, JPL robots have landed on the moon, discovered that Mars once had water (a must for any life form), and scooped up surface samples of the Red Planet. (CNN -- Money / Technology)
Designing drugs and their antidotes together improves patient care Oct 5, 2009
Other authors on the paper include Ruby T. S. Lam of the Duke Department of Biomedical Engineering, Kristin M. Bompiani and Charlene M. Blake of the Duke University Program in Genetics and Genomics and the Duke Department of Surgery, George Quick of the Duke Translational Research Institute, Jeremy Heidel and Joanna Yi-Ching Liu of Calando Pharmaceuticals, and Brendan C. Mack and Mark E. Davis of the Department of Chemical Engineering at the California Institute of Technology. This work was... (EurekAlert!)
Chemistry Of Titan's Hazy Atmosphere Unraveled Oct 5, 2009
To apply these findings to the real atmosphere of Titan, Danie Liang and Yuk Yung, planetary scientists at Taiwan's Academia Sinica and California Institute of Technology (Caltech), respectively, performed photochemical modeling studies of Titan's atmosphere. All data together suggest that triacetylene may serve as a building block to form more complex and longer polyynes and produce potential precursors for the aerosol-based layers of haze surrounding Titan. (Science Daily)
The day the ground jumped up and down Oct 3, 2009
Kerry Sieh, a Singapore-based professor of geology from the California Institute of Technology, says the coast off West Sumatra is in the middle of a 200-year ''mega-thrust'' to relieve built-up tensions in the tectonic plates. The earthquake yesterday occurred right on the edge of this big patch that we identified over the past few years as being about to fail,'' he told Bloomberg. (Sydney Morning Herald -- World)
'Anti-Atkins' Low Protein Diet Extends Lifespan In Flies Oct 3, 2009
Contributors to this work: Other researchers involved in the study include Aric Rogers, Subhash D. Katewa, Miguel A. Vargas and Marysia Kolipinski of the Buck Institute; Brian M. Zid and Tony Au Lu of the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, and Seymour Benzer, formerly of the California Institute of Technology, now deceased ... The microarray work was supported by the Millard and Muriel Jacobs Genetics and Genomics Laboratory at California Institute of Technology. (Science Daily)
Cells In Developing Tissue Consider Their History Of Signaling Exposure To Determine Location Oct 3, 2009
2, 2009) Researchers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have proposed a novel model that differs from a widely held hypothesis about the mechanisms by which developing animals pattern their tissues and structures. See also. (Science Daily)
'Robust Sequence' of Earthquakes Shake California Oct 3, 2009
"It's a very robust sequence," said California Institute of Technology seismologist Anthony Guarino. The 5. (Fox News)
2009 Nobel predictions go public Sep 26, 2009
For the Nobel Prize in chemistry, the company picked at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology for his invention of dye-sensitized solar cells, now known as Gratzel cells, at the Max Planck Institute for Coal Research in Germany for his development of organic asymmetric catalysis using enamines, and the research team at the California Institute of Technology, at the University of Basel in Switzerland, and at the Georgia Institute of Technology for their pioneering research in electron charge... (The Scientist)
Rating the College Rankings Sep 25, 2009
Kiplinger's Report: Best Value Private University: California Institute of Technology Best Value Private Liberal Arts College: Pomona College Best Value Public College: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill How it compiles rankings: The magazine generates three Best Values lists: one list of 120 public colleges, one of 50 private universities, and one of 50 private liberal arts colleges. It starts with 500 to 600 schools and narrows down candidates based on academic factors such as SAT/ACT... (CBS News)
Thomson Reuters Predicts Nobel Laureates Sep 24, 2009
-------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jacqueline K. Barton Arthur and Marian Hanisch Memorial, Professor of Chemistry and Chair of the Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, California Institute of Technology Pasadena, Calif. USA -and- Bernd Giese Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland -and- Gary B. Schuster Provost and Professor, School of Chemistry, Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta, Ga. (PR Newswire)
Robert Woodbury, 71; was chancellor of Maine university Sep 20, 2009
He began his career as a professor at the California Institute of Technology before his stint at UMass. He came to Maine in 1979 as president of the University of Southern Maine. (Boston Globe)
New Way Of Seeing Moon: Temperature Maps Sep 18, 2009
Diviner is operated by the California Institute of Technology Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), which designed and built the instrument. Diviner determines the temperature of the moon by measuring the intensity of infrared radiation emitted by the lunar surface. (Science Daily)
Saturn Lightning Storm Breaks Solar System Record Sep 16, 2009
"Saturn is just very vigorous when you get a storm," said Andrew Ingersoll, a planetary scientist at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena who was not involved in the new research. Storm Alley. (National Geographic)
Scientists Develop Novel Use Of Neurotechnology To Solve Classic Social Problem Sep 12, 2009
11, 2009) Economists and neuroscientists from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have shown that they can use information obtained through functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) measurements of whole-brain activity to create feasible, efficient, and fair solutions to one of the stickiest dilemmas in economics, the public goods free-rider problem long thought to be unsolvable. See also. (Science Daily)
6 Little Known Facts About the Eart... Sep 4, 2009
The lead investigators for NASA are the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the California Institute of Technology. Their earth science communication team compiles information of well known and little known facts about planet earth. (Suite101.com)
Caltech neuroscientists find brain region responsible for our sense of personal space Aug 31, 2009
In a finding that sheds new light on the neural mechanisms involved in social behavior, neuroscientists at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have pinpointed the brain structure responsible for our sense of personal space. The discovery, described in the August 30 issue of the journal Nature Neuroscience, could offer insight into autism and other disorders where social distance is an issue. (EurekAlert!)
Brain Region For Sense Of Personal Space Found Aug 31, 2009
31, 2009) In a finding that sheds new light on the neural mechanisms involved in social behavior, neuroscientists at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have pinpointed the brain structure responsible for our sense of personal space. See also. (Science Daily)
China, U.S. discuss co-op on world's largest telescope Aug 29, 2009
The Thirty-Meter-Telescope (TMT) was conceived and headed by University of California and California Institute of Technology (Caltech), and is expected to be completed in 2019. "It is a big undertaking and it will define the future of astronomy and astrophysics for about 60 or 70 years, so it will automatically involve a large international community," said Caltech president Jean-Lou Chameau in an interview with Xinhua on Friday. (Xinhuanet, China)
AGU journal highlights -- Aug. 27, 2009 Aug 28, 2009
Ralph E. Milliken: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, USA. ... Authors: Jean O. Dickey: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, USA. (EurekAlert!)
Listening for Gravity Waves, Silence Becomes Meaningful Aug 27, 2009
The challenge facing LIGO researchers is immense as California Institute of Technology physicist noted in a commentary accompanying the new paper, gravity wave detectors "require detection of minute changes a mere fraction of the size of an atomic nucleus in kilometer-scale separations between free-floating masses.". In order to rule out spurious signals, LIGO has a suite of passive and active noise suppressors to counteract vibrational effects from passing pedestrians or trucks. (Scientific American)
Almost Heaven: Landing the Thirty Meter Telescope Fortifies Mauna Kea's Position as Earth's Eye on the Sky Aug 22, 2009
Many of the world's principal observatories on the planet are situated atop Mauna Kea and above 40 percent of Earth's atmosphere including the W. M. Keck's twin 10-meter telescopes, operated by the California Institute of Technology and the University of California, and Japan's 8. 2-meter Subaru telescope. (Scientific American)
Genetically Engineered Bacteria Are Sweet Success Against Inflammatory Bowel Disease Aug 22, 2009
(June 2, 2008) A naturally occurring molecule made by symbiotic gut bacteria may offer a new type of treatment for inflammatory bowel disease, according to scientists at the California Institute of Technology. The. (Science Daily)
Seeing The Cosmos Through 'Warm' Infrared Eyes Aug 21, 2009
"With Spitzer's remaining shorter-wavelength bands, we can continue to see through the dust in galaxies and get a better look at the overall populations of stars," said Robert Hurt imaging specialist for Spitzer at NASA's Spitzer Science Center, California Institute of Technology. "All stars are equal in the infrared.". (Science Daily)
U.S. News likes CU, Mines Aug 20, 2009
Rounding out the top 10: Yale University, California Institute of Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Stanford University, University of Pennsylvania, Columbia University, University of Chicago and Duke University. On a separate list of liberal-arts colleges, in Colorado Springs ranks No. 24 in the nation. (Denver Business Journal, CO)
Echoes Of The Birth Of The Universe Aug 20, 2009
"With Advanced LIGO, a major upgrade to our instruments, we will be sensitive to sources of extragalactic gravitational waves in a volume of the universe 1,000 times larger than we can see at the present time. This will mean that our sensitivity to gravitational waves from the Big Bang will be improved by orders of magnitude," says Jay Marx of the California Institute of Technology, LIGO's executive director ... (Credit: LIGO, California Institute of Technology. (Science Daily)
DNA Scaffolding To Build Tiny Circuit Boards Aug 20, 2009
20, 2009) Scientists at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and IBM's Almaden Research Center have developed a new technique to orient and position self-assembled DNA shapes and patterns or "DNA origami" on surfaces that are compatible with today's semiconductor manufacturing equipment ... 21, 2006) In a new development in nanotechnology, a researcher at the California Institute of Technology has devised a way of weaving DNA strands into any desired two-dimensional shape or figure,... (Science Daily)
Hellish Cradles Of Suns And Solar Systems Aug 20, 2009
(July 16, 2005) An extrasolar planet under three suns has been discovered in the constellation Cygnus by a planetary scientist at the California Institute of Technology using the 10-meter Keck I telescope in Hawaii. (Mar. (Science Daily)
Princeton Ties Harvard, Reclaiming Top Spot in U.S. News College Rankings Aug 20, 2009
Four schools were tied for fourth: California Institute of Technology, in Pasadena; Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in Cambridge; Stanford University, near Palo Alto, California; and the University of Pennsylvania, in Philadelphia. Liberal Arts Schools. (Bloomberg -- US)
Caltech researchers pinpoint neurons that control obesity in fruit flies Aug 19, 2009
A team of scientists from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have pinpointed two groups of neurons in fruit fly brains that have the ability to sense and manipulate the fly's fat stores in much the same way as do neurons in the mammalian brain. The existence of this sort of control over fat deposition and metabolic rates makes the flies a potentially useful model for the study of human obesity, the researchers note. (EurekAlert!)
IBM harnesses DNA to pattern nanoscale circuits Aug 19, 2009
The new technique was invented by professor Paul "W. K." Rothemund, a senior research associate at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech, Pasedena). It was perfected by a team of 10 IBM scientists led by Greg Wallraff, an IBM research scientist based in San Jose, Calif. (EETimes)
Infotainment Aug 19, 2009
The US computer giant collaborated with California Institute of Technology researchers to develop a way to design microchips that mimic how chains of DNA molecules fold, allowing for processors far smaller. Nazis slogans banned in Germany may be legal if they are translated from German into English, one of the countrys highest courts has ruled. (Daily Times, Pakistan)
Head of the class Aug 18, 2009
But like his classmate, Murphy s primary focus is in the classroom, and will attend California Institute of Technology, where he will play basketball. And before they were admitted to these schools renowned for their academic programs, Grazulis and Murphy not only hit the 4. (Wasilla Frontiersman, AK)
IBM uses DNA to make microchips Aug 17, 2009
The research was a joint undertaking by scientists at IBM's Almaden Research Center and the California Institute of Technology. Right now, the tinier the chip, the more expensive the equipment. (India Times)
It's time to re-evaluate NASA missions Aug 17, 2009
Gerald Smith worked at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the California Institute of Technology from 1962 to 1997. He received the Distinguished Service Medal from NASA in 1996. (Herald Online, SC -- Opinion)
IBM Scientists Use DNA Scaffolding To Build Tiny Circuit Boards Aug 17, 2009
Aug. 17 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Today, scientists at IBM Research (NYSE: ) and the California Institute of Technology announced a scientific advancement that could be a major breakthrough in enabling the semiconductor industry to pack more power and speed into tiny computer chips, while making them more energy efficient and less expensive to manufacture ... IBM Researchers and collaborator Paul W.K. Rothemund, of the California Institute of Technology, have made an advancement in combining... (PR Newswire)
Mars Orbiter Shows Angled View Of Martian Crater Aug 16, 2009
JPL is a division of the California Institute of Technology, also in Pasadena. Lockheed Martin Space Systems, Denver, is the prime contractor for the project and built the spacecraft. (Science Daily)
NASA's mission about to change Aug 16, 2009
Gerald M. Smith worked at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the California Institute of Technology from 1962 to 1997. He received the Distinguished Service Medal from NASA in 1996. (Juneau Empire)
Stetson, ERAU listed among best colleges Aug 15, 2009
The top five: U.S. Military Academy at West Point, Princeton University, California Institute of Technology, Williams College and Harvard University. -- Kathy Kelly. (Daytona Beach News Journal)
Storms in the tropics of Titan Aug 15, 2009
"The first cloud was seen near the tropics and was caused by a still-mysterious process, but it behaved almost like an explosion in the atmosphere, setting off waves that traveled around the planet, triggering their own clouds," says Mike Brown of the California Institute of Technology. "Within days a huge cloud system had covered the south pole, and sporadic clouds were seen all the way up to the equator.". (Astronomy Now Online)
Scientists spot storm clouds on Saturn's moon Aug 14, 2009
"We saw a huge, intense outburst of activity in the cloud system," said astronomer Mike Brown of California Institute of Technology. "It was an explosion of energy, and it triggered more clouds forming above the equator, and still more over the moon's mid-latitudes and Titan's south pole.". (San Francisco Chronicle -- Science)
UH researcher helps track giant storm on Saturn's moon Aug 13, 2009
The other authors of the paper, "Storms in the tropics of Titan," are H.G. Roe of the Lowell Observatory, and T. Schneider and M.E. Brown of California Institute of Technology. lect> Add your comment (max {maxchars} characters) You must be logged in to leave a comment. (Honolulu Advertiser)
Storms In The Tropics Of Saturn's Moon Titan Aug 13, 2009
12, 2009) For all its similarities to Earth clouds that pour rain (albeit liquid methane not liquid water) onto the surface producing lakes and rivers, vast dune fields in desert-like regions, plus a smoggy orange atmosphere that looks like Los Angeles's during fire season Saturn's largest moon, Titan, is generally "a very bland place, weatherwise," says Mike Brown of the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). See also. (Science Daily)
Hurricanes more common in the Middle Ages Aug 13, 2009
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, manages the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington. Lockheed Martin Space Systems, Denver, is the prime contractor for the project and built the spacecraft. (USA Today -- Tech)
Dell's New Inspiron Mini Nickelodeon Edition Takes Personalization to New Heights With 'Slime' Motif and Unique Entertainment, Educational Content Aug 12, 2009
Numedeon was founded by Dr. James M. Bower, his students and collaborators at the California Institute of Technology interested in ways the Internet and simulation-based gaming could change education. WALMART. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
Chester F. Carlson, Inventor of the... Aug 12, 2009
He graduated from the California Institute of Technology with a degree in physics in 1928 as America was experiencing the Great Depression. Carlson applied for 82 jobs before he found one at Bell Laboratories in New York. (Suite101.com)
