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Officials from the American space agency announce that experts at the California Institute of Technology, in Pasadena, will soon assume control of the Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX) satellite. The university will be in charge of spacecraft operations and data management.
These two objectives will be pursued using... |
17 May 2012
03:21 GMT |
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Researchers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), in Pasadena, announce the creation of a computer model covering a fault line segment that is still geologically active, and producing earthquakes. This is the first time such a complex model is created.
The dataset represents a single physical framewo... |
11 May 2012
05:50 GMT |
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Studying stalagmites – cave deposits that grow from the floor, and can sometimes reach the ceiling – can reveal more data about what our planet's climate looked like in the distant past. Experts are now using data contained within these structures to study instances of past climate change.
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4 May 2012
08:38 GMT |
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A new study reveals some of the most important missing details about how the Ordovician–Silurian extinction event (known simply as the Ordovician extinction) occurred, about 450 million years ago.
One of the most interesting aspects of this event was that it occurred in two stages. This is partially why it was... |
10 April 2012
04:32 GMT |
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Observations of 10 dwarf galaxies orbiting the Milky Way, conducted using the NASA Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, recently placed heavy limitations on the nature and energy range of theoretical particles thought to make up dark matter.
The stuff is believed to account for about 80 percent of the mass in the Unive... |
3 April 2012
05:00 GMT |
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According to officials at NASA, the science team operating the agency's Spitzer Space Telescope will be releasing more than 200 images of various galaxies throughout the year, all of them showing the structures in the infrared portion of the electromagnetic spectrum.
The telescope is managed by the Spitzer Sci... |
27 March 2012
11:00 GMT |
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A duo of California Institute of Technology (Caltech) biologists say that they've managed to figure out how the human brain processes various types of sound signals, including speech and the information speech contains within.
One of the things that have always puzzled investigators about speech is that the vib... |
8 March 2012
05:06 GMT |
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Producing a whole subclass of organic compounds called nitrogen-containing heterocycles should now be a lot easier for scientists, thanks to a team of experts based at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), in Pasadena. Experts here developed a new method for creating complex molecules.
The main applicati... |
17 January 2012
16:01 GMT |
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Investigators are slowly beginning to reshape their views of how stellar formation occurs, in light of new discoveries being made in nearby galaxies. Recent surveys show that new, blue stars can appear even in so-called galactic “death zones,” where such processes were once thought impossible.
The new d... |
16 January 2012
03:41 GMT |
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Among astronomers, Saturn's largest moon Titan is primarily known for being the only object in the solar system other than Earth to have liquid chemicals on its surface. A group of investigators in the United States finally provides an explanation of where these chemicals originate. Both of Titan's poles ... |
5 January 2012
03:40 GMT |
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Iron is the most important element in our planet's core, that much is known. What is still a mystery is how it behaves under the extreme pressure and temperature levels inside Earth. Thanks to a new series of experiments, scientists now have a much deeper understanding of what is happening down there.
One of t... |
20 December 2011
05:35 GMT |
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During the SuperComputing 2011 (SC11) conference, which was held in Seattle, Washington this mid-November, experts were able to use a wide-area network circuit to transfer data from one location to another at a combined rate of 186 gigabits per second (Gbps).
The international team that developed the new capability ... |
13 December 2011
08:59 GMT |
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Schizophrenia and autism spectrum disorders (ASD), among other mental disorders, may be partially caused by insufficient concentrations of a protein called densin-180 in the brain. The new results were derived from studies carried out on lab mice. While most mental diseases humans can develop are unique to our spec... |
23 November 2011
06:22 GMT |
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A group of experts at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) announces the development of the lightest solid material ever developed. An entire brick made out of the material weighs nearly nothing, the team says.
The work was conducted under the supervision of assistant professor of materials science and ... |
18 November 2011
08:11 GMT |
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A team of engineers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) announces that it finally manged to crack the mystery of one of the most curious materials in the world. Scandium trifluoride (ScF3) is part of a class of materials that contracts when heated.
Generally, basic physics teaches us that materials ... |
7 November 2011
06:08 GMT |
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The California Institute of Technology (Caltech) announces that it has joined the Billion Dollar Green Challenge, which is a national endeavor that seeks to promote the development and implementation of energy-efficiency upgrades on campuses throughout the United States. Thus far, the collaborative effort has drawn 3... |
17 October 2011
03:47 GMT |
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Experts at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) say that they were recently able to determine some of the most important characteristics of the inabilities autistic people experience in social interactions. Determining why this happens and how has thus far eluded scientists.
While the fact that social... |
11 October 2011
04:31 GMT |
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In a new groundbreaking investigation, an international team of scientists was able to use special laser light to cool down a mechanical object to its lowest possible energy state. This is the first time such a feat is achieved using lasers.
Experts from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), in Pasade... |
6 October 2011
05:04 GMT |
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California Institute of Technology (Caltech) scientists are a quirky bunch, as demonstrated by a recent workshop they held, assessing the challenges associated with capturing a near-Earth asteroid from its peaceful orbit, and dragging it closer to our planet.
The goal of doing this – other than to prove tha... |
5 October 2011
09:53 GMT |
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The standard Petri dish has been in use among scientists since the late 19th century, helping them monitor how bacteria grow, and also if people are infected with a certain pathogen or not. Now, a team of scientists in the United States create an advanced version of the tool, and named it ePetri.
The group, based... |
4 October 2011
14:01 GMT |
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A group of US researchers was recently able to discover a new type of response to human faces that forms in the human brain when individuals see other people's face. This response was not analyzed before, and researchers say that these results may lead to a better understanding of the brain.
Analyzing the way... |
30 September 2011
09:14 GMT |
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Human brains are made up of billions of neurons interconnected by trillions of synapses. All those links are controlled by a massively-complex, enzyme-regulated chemical system that currently is only known in part. A new study saw a team of experts develop a way to study these interactions.
Synapses are not only ... |
15 September 2011
10:06 GMT |
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Cell division, the process through which a cell produces an exact copy of itself, can still baffle experts decades after the first studies began. In a recent investigation, a team of scientists discovered that one of the characteristic steps of mitosis is significantly different in some cells than in others. Californ... |
9 September 2011
16:01 GMT |
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A collaboration of researchers from the California Institute of Technology and the University of California in Los Angeles discovered in a new study that a very specific region of the brain dictates how humans will react at the sight of an animal, be it a pet or otherwise.
In most people, the sight of a furry ani... |
9 September 2011
08:02 GMT |
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The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) has just received a new executive director, say experts from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), in Pasadena, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), in Cambridge. The two organizations are jointly managing the installation, whi... |
24 August 2011
05:26 GMT |
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When the dwarf planet 2007 OR10 was discovered four years ago, experts nicknamed it Snow White due to the fact that it has an icy surface. Now, investigators in the United States determined that the small trans-Neptunian object is also covered in a very thin film of methane.Astronomers based at the California Institu... |
23 August 2011
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A team of geologists and seismologists studying the April 4, 2010, El Mayor-Cucapah earthquake in Baja California, Mexico, discovered that the fault lines the event ruffled up were more crumpled underground than they were on the surface. A tremor usually causes the opposite effect. When an earthquake occurs, fault l... |
12 August 2011
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Experts managing the NASA Spitzer Space Telescope are now analyzing the possibility of switching the large observatory to a redundant set of gyroscopes. The team says that the unit currently in use is beginning to show small signs of degradation.They are quick to point out that these irregularities to do not yet affe... |
10 August 2011
04:55 GMT |
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A group of scientists from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) announces the development of the first synthetic neural network made out of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA). The accomplishment brings the goal of creating true artificial intelligence one step closer to reality. Many experts have tried doing so ... |
21 July 2011
04:44 GMT |
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After studies first discovered the existence of potent antibodies in the bodies of some people infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), experts are now gearing up to begin an effort of turning these molecules into a potent vaccine. Like all other viruses, HIV infects the body, and triggers a response fro... |
18 July 2011
08:28 GMT |
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Viruses are known to be the most widespread invaders on the planet. Some of them are specialized in attacking animals, including humans, and others mostly attack plants. But a new study looks at the more common, yet less-understood instances when viruses infect bacteria.An entire class of viral agents, called bacteri... |
1 July 2011
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In a study supported by the US National Science Foundation (NSF), researchers managed to obtain the first measurements indicating the temperatures of dinosaurs' bodies. These data can help us determine whether the creatures were quick and agile on their feet, or rather slow and lumbering.The new investigation wa... |
24 June 2011
06:02 GMT |
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Though numerous studies have been conducted on animal embryos over the years, experts have failed to grasp the full complexity of the mechanisms at work in creating a new individual of a certain species. A new study brings that a little bit closer to reality. The work was focused on embryos, the undeveloped stage tha... |
3 June 2011
08:07 GMT |
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SFC Energy, Inc., the US affiliate of SFC Energy AG, has just been awarded a non-exclusive license to develop a new type of technology, which was put together by experts at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) and the University of Southern California in Los Angeles (USC).
The new technology is called Direct M... |
28 May 2011
02:38 GMT |
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Over the past 4 and a half billion years, the Moon has suffered tremendous damage from space impactors and internal processes, acting like a true shield for Earth in the process. The scars it carries to prove this now also provide insight into some of the processes that shape its surface.
These are the same proce... |
14 May 2011
05:04 GMT |
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There are many types of gamblers out there, and each of them makes its decisions based on certain patterns. In a new study, experts analyzed their brains, and were able to find the regions that are involved in underlying all the different types of decision-making behaviors. This work is very important for understandi... |
5 May 2011
05:26 GMT |
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A study of a very distant quasar has finally enabled astronomers to peer back into what experts refer to as the “Dark Ages” of the Universe, a time shortly after the Big Bang when light was scarce. The fact that light was not being produced in large amounts means that there are no residual radiation for o... |
29 April 2011
05:46 GMT |
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In a life briefing held on Thursday, April 28, officials at the American space agency said that the two Voyager space probes NASA launched more than three decades ago are now nearly at the edge of the solar system. The instruments are still operational, even after all this time. These two spacecraft are the farthest ... |
29 April 2011
03:16 GMT |
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While conducting statistical studies of temperatures at different locations around the world, experts discovered some time ago that certain regions are colder than their counterparts at the same latitude. A group of experts now believes it may have discovered the reason why. Throughout the northeastern coast of the U... |
31 March 2011
10:45 GMT |
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In a groundbreaking study that may finally unlock the computers of the future, investigators in the United States were able to determine that strands of DNA can be used as molecular wires.
The strands themselves should be about 34 nanometers (nm) long, the team says. As a molecular wire, the material could be use... |
31 January 2011
02:13 GMT |
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One of the main areas of research in science has lately been the development of smaller and smaller robots, of the type that were proposed in science-fiction books decades ago. A Caltech graduate student announces that the first steps have been made towards completing a molecule-sized robot. Micro-droids have capture... |
29 December 2010
06:16 GMT |
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A team of physicists in the United States managed recently to show that it is possible to apply quantum entanglement to four spatially distinct atomic memories, that store a single quantum state.The researchers also showed that a quantum interface existed between the atomic memories and four beams of light. In other ... |
18 November 2010
03:13 GMT |
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According to investigators at Caltech and JPL, it would appear that existing air-quality model are distorting the reality as far as atmospheric ozone concentrations go. The team explains that the existing simulations may in fact be downplaying the significance that these chemicals are having in the atmosphere, and ad... |
29 October 2010
01:36 GMT |
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Physicists at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have recently demonstrated that, by stretching metamaterials, they can dynamically change the wavelength of infrared light the structure naturally responds to.Metamaterials are constructs put together by humans, a variety of materials that is able to infl... |
8 October 2010
09:44 GMT |
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A team of experts from California announces that it manage to improve silicon-based thermoelectric materials to such an extent, that they are now able to harvest waste heat energy.The accomplishment is tremendously important, researchers say, given that it could lead to the creation of devices that can convert heat f... |
4 October 2010
03:27 GMT |
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In a finding that could lead to the development of highly-efficient thermoelectric devices, researchers in the United States managed to produce a new type of nanomesh material.The new meshes are made out of silicon, which is one of the most abundant chemicals on our planet, and they could make existing thermoelectric... |
24 September 2010
02:24 GMT |
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A team of investigators from the United States have recently uncovered evidence that would seem to indicate the existence of universal magnetic field in the early Universe, that fill the void between galaxies. The experts say that these fields have been left behind since the time of the Big Bang. They add that the fo... |
22 September 2010
09:56 GMT |
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Scientists at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) announce that they were just awarded $10 million in grant money, for the launch of a terrestrial hazard center.The main goal of the new facility will be to research and develop innovative new ways of reducing the risk and consequences associate with a wid... |
16 September 2010
04:58 GMT |
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A team of investigators recently conducted a series of investigations into the reason why we choose the objects we do in any given situation. One of the main conclusions the group arrived at was that we tend to make choices – such as for instance which object or product to pick up off a buffet table – bas... |
16 September 2010
04:22 GMT |
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In our computerized era you would think that e-commerce is killing the traditional commerce and online shopping will be the only way for people to buy, but Caltech researchers say otherwise.They measured how much the way that something was presented influenced the consumer to pay for it, and they started by presentin... |
9 September 2010
10:44 GMT |
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