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NASA Approves X-ray Space Mission
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Sep 07, 2009 |
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NASA recently confirmed that the Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, or NuSTAR, mission will launch in August 2011.
Caltech Electronic Nose Innovation
Oct 22, 2007 |
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Research Scientists at Caltech Developing Electronic Nose. The Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Division at Caltech are combining efforts with NASA and other engineers at Caltech to test ranges of applications.
Researchers shed light on how proteins find their shapes
Feb 23, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and the University of California at San Diego (UCSD) have brought together UCSD theoretical modeling and Caltech experimental ...
Researchers Test Steep-Terrain Rover
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Feb 05, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Engineers from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and students at the California Institute of Technology have designed and tested a versatile, low-mass robot that can rappel off cliffs, travel ...
Caltech researchers awarded $10M for molecular programming project
Aug 18, 2008 |
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The National Science Foundation's Expeditions in Computing program has awarded $10 million to the Molecular Programming Project, a collaborative effort by researchers at the California Institute of Technology and the University ...
Researchers Unlock the Secrets of Gene Regulatory Networks
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Feb 04, 2009 |
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A quartet of studies by researchers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) highlight a special feature on gene regulatory networks recently published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (P ...
Researchers help unlock the secrets of gene regulatory networks
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Feb 03, 2009 |
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A quartet of studies by researchers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) highlight a special feature on gene regulatory networks recently published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) ...
Technology to Treat Blindness Earns Award
Jul 23, 2009 |
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Research performed at Caltech as part of a collaborative U.S. Department of Energy-funded artificial-retina project designed to restore sight to the blind has received one of R&D Magazine's 2009 R&D 100 Awards. ...
Physicists detect entanglement of one photon shared among four locations
May 08, 2009 |
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Scientists at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have developed an efficient method to detect entanglement shared among multiple parts of an optical system. They show how entanglement, in the form of beams of ...
Listening for the cosmic symphony: New SU supercomputer will help scientists listen for black holes
Feb 08, 2008 |
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Scientists hope that a new supercomputer being built by Syracuse University's Department of Physics may help them identify the sound of a celestial black hole. The supercomputer, dubbed SUGAR (SU Gravitational and Relativity ...
Researchers revise long-held theory of fruit-fly development
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For decades, science texts have told a simple and straightforward story about a particular protein—a transcription factor—that helps the embryo of the fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster, pattern tissues in a m ...
Potential for large earthquake off coast of Sumatra remains large
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Dec 03, 2008 |
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The subduction zone that brought us the 2004 Sumatra-Andaman earthquake and tsunami is ripe for yet another large event, despite a sequence of quakes that occurred in the Mentawai Islands area in 2007, according to a group ...
Scientists create DNA tubes with programmable sizes for nanoscale manufacturing
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Aug 29, 2008 |
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Scientists at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have developed a simple process for mass producing molecular tubes of identical--and precisely programmable--circumferences. The technological feat may allow ...
Caltech economist makes a game of economic theory
Feb 16, 2009 |
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How game theory and insights from cognitive psychology can shed light on the economic choices people and corporations make will be the focus of a topical lecture presented by California Institute of Technology (Caltech) behavioral ...
New method to detect quantum mechanical effects in ordinary objects
Jun 22, 2009 |
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At the quantum level, the atoms that make up matter and the photons that make up light behave in a number of seemingly bizarre ways. Particles can exist in "superposition," in more than one state at the same ...
