Posts Tagged ‘California Institute of Technology’
‘Slope winds’ could have built Mars mound
PRINCETON / CALTECH (US) — New analysis suggests that a roughly 3.5-mile-high mound on Mars came from the planet’s dusty atmosphere, not a massive lake, report researchers. Continue…
Tuesday, May 7, 2013 12:00 - 0 Comments
Top Stories - May 6, 2013 10:01 - 0 Comments
Scientists wait to see black hole’s birth
CALTECH (US) — A new kind of cosmic flash may reveal the birth of a black hole for the first time. (more…)
Science & Technology - Apr 18, 2013 6:47 - 0 Comments
Massive star factory in early universe
CALTECH (US) — Astronomers have found a star-generating galaxy that existed billions of years earlier than expected possible, churning out 2,000 times more stars than the Milky Way. (more…)
Top Stories - Apr 16, 2013 11:59 - 3 Comments
Sensor for asteroid camera passes critical test
U. ROCHESTER (US) — Scientists are testing a new sensor designed to be the eyes of a future asteroid-tracking mission. (more…)
Science & Technology - Apr 4, 2013 10:14 - 4 Comments
Did phosphorous from space spark life on Earth?
U. LEEDS (UK) — Experiments suggest that unusual phosphorus chemicals from meteorites could have given power to Earth’s “primordial soup.” (more…)
Health & Medicine - Mar 26, 2013 15:19 - 1 Comment
White blood cell test fits in a suitcase
CALTECH (US) — A new portable device to count white blood cells needs less than a pinprick’s worth of blood and takes just minutes to run. (more…)
Health & Medicine - Mar 26, 2013 8:13 - 1 Comment
Team sniffs out origin of smell neurons
CALTECH (US) — Sensory neurons in the nose are the only ones in the body that regenerate throughout adult life—and scientists have now figured out where they originate. (more…)
Health & Medicine - Mar 20, 2013 11:40 - 0 Comments
Infants’ slow gaze may signal autism later
UNC-CHAPEL HILL (US) — Babies who later develop autism are slower to reorient their gaze and attention from one object to another, as compared to seven-month-olds who won’t have the disorder. (more…)
Top Stories - Mar 12, 2013 8:32 - 1 Comment
Electronic chips self-heal after laser blast
CALTECH (US) — Imagine if the chips in your phone or computer could fix themselves almost instantly from problems such as battery power loss and transistor failure. (more…)
Health & Medicine - Feb 27, 2013 13:09 - 1 Comment
Portable device detects HIV with push of a button
CALTECH (US) — A device that is small enough to stow in a backpack and as simple to operate as a DVD player may speed the diagnosis of HIV, AIDS, and other diseases in remote parts of the world. (more…)
Earth & Environment - Feb 7, 2013 12:18 - 3 Comments
Did key volcanoes cause climate flip-flops?
RICE (US) — Volcanoes at key locations where enormous amounts of carbon dioxide are poised for release may have driven Earth’s back and forth between greenhouse and icehouse states over the past 500 million years. (more…)
Top Stories - Feb 1, 2013 8:23 - 4 Comments
Massage sets off skin’s feel-good neurons
CALTECH (US) — Biologists have identified skin sensory neurons in mice that react to a gentle touch—a finding that may help explain why we love a massage. (more…)
Science & Technology - Jan 14, 2013 17:50 - 0 Comments
Why ‘weird’ cloud doesn’t crank out stars
CALTECH (US) — A puzzling cloud of gas near the galaxy’s center may hold clues to how stars are born. (more…)
Science & Technology - Dec 21, 2012 15:11 - 0 Comments
Protein engineers unlock catalyst’s options
CALTECH / UNC-CHAPEL HILL (US) — New biocatalysts can be used to make natural products—such as hormones, pheromones, and insecticides—as well as pharmaceutical drugs, like antibiotics, in a “greener” way. (more…)
Top Stories - Dec 13, 2012 11:46 - 0 Comments
Bonding can make us move in unison
CALTECH (US) — Ever noticed how friends end up walking in synch or how an audience will eventually clap together? Scientists have measured this mysterious “brain-brain synchrony.” (more…)
Science & Technology - Dec 12, 2012 17:59 - 0 Comments
Chip could turn smartphones into bomb sensors
CALTECH (US) — Engineers have built tiny terahertz chips that could one day be incorporated into handheld devices that scan for explosives. (more…)
Top Stories - Dec 10, 2012 11:48 - 0 Comments
‘Waveguide’ emits tiny point of light
CALTECH (US) — A new device can focus light into a point just a few nanometers across and may lead to next-generation applications in computing and imaging. (more…)
Science & Technology - Dec 4, 2012 15:56 - 6 Comments
Voyager 1 cruises ‘highway’ at solar system’s edge
JOHNS HOPKINS / CALTECH (US) — NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft, soon to become the first human-built object in interstellar space, is now cruising along an unexpected “magnetic highway” on the outside edge of our solar system. (more…)
Science & Technology - Dec 3, 2012 12:20 - 0 Comments
Team to launch balloon into polar vortex
WASHINGTON U.-ST. LOUIS / CALTECH (US) — Scientists are poised to send a two-ton balloon-borne cosmic-ray experiment called Super-TIGER into the high-altitude polar vortex over Antarctica. (more…)
