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CBS NewsMars Cave Opening Found by 7th GradersCBS News(NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU) (CBS) For a class of California 7th graders, their summer vacations might pale in comparison to the class trip they recently took ...and more »
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What BP Could Learn From NASAHuffington Post (blog)Caltech operates JPL for NASA under contract. The views expressed in this post are entirely those of the author, and do not necessarily reflect the views of ...
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Caltech geographer and specialist on Africa, Edwin S. Munger, dies at 88Pasadena Star-NewsEdwin S. Munger, professor of geography, emeritus, at Caltech, former president of the Pasadena Playhouse and a founder of Caltech's Friends of Beckman ...and more »
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Our Amazing PlanetEven a Newborn Canyon is Big in TexasU.S. News & World Report... in other terrains, including streamlined features like ones that appear in images taken by Mars-orbiting probes, says Caltech geologist Michael P. Lamb. ...Canyon carved within a week to help understand ancient megafloods on Earth, MarsSifyCanyon formation: Recent gusher suggests that canyons can form very quicklyChristian Science MonitorFlood creates a US canyon in three daysUPI.comArs Technica -Scientific American -PlanetSave.com (blog)all 40 news articles »
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Contour Energy Expands In UKsocalTech.comAzusa-based Contour Energy Systems, the Caltech spinout working on Flourine-based battery systems, said today that it has opened up a new limited subsidiary ...Contour Energy Systems Establishes Limited Subsidiary in United KingdomBusiness Wire (press release)all 13 news articles »
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Cantronic Enters Residential and Commercial Building Security Markets With ...MarketWatch (press release)... exclusive license from the California Institute of Technology ("Caltech") to produce and sell infrared detectors and sensors based on Caltech's Quantum ...and more »
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Caltech Elects Two Innovators to Board of TrusteesMedia Newswire (press release)The Board of Trustees is the governing body of Caltech. Board members are elected to five-year terms and may serve consecutive terms. ...
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BlockshopperCaltech scientist sells 4BD in Temple CityBlockshopperHe is also the task lead at US Planck Data Center, also at Caltech. He earned his BA in Physics from Cornell University in 1985 and his Ph.D. in Astronomy ...
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Los Angeles TimesTRW co-founder Simon Ramo: The epitome of a 'Renaissance man'Los Angeles TimesHe had received his doctorate from Caltech in 1936. A Salt Lake City native whose family traces its history to Jewish "conversos," who converted to ...and more »
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CNN InternationalCalTech earthquake sends tremors around CaliforniaallvoicesIt is being reported by CalTech that the earthquake was an aftershock of the one that occurred on Easter Sunday and many people are questioning that fact ...Earthquake Shakes Southern CaliforniaDana Point TimesLatest Updates and Images Of Southern California EarthquakeVedicSutra eNews (blog)Swarm of quakes rattles regionLos Angeles TimesDel Mar Times -SDNN -abc7.comall 1,251 news articles »
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James Randi lecture excerpt from a 2 hour lecture at Caltech in 1992. James Randi explains why you can not prove a negative. The burden of proof is on the person presenting the claim. He then goes into an example of how you can't prove that Reindeer can fly.
James Randi lecture excerpt from a 2 hour lecture at Caltech in 1992. Randi talks about an experience he had which was very similar to many of the Out of Body Experiences that people claim to be supernational/paranormal.
James Randi lecture excerpt from a 2 hour lecture at Caltech in 1992.
Excerpt from a 2 hour lecture that James Randi did a Caltech in 1992. Description: James Randi talks about what the word Magician really means. Or is it better to use the term Conjurer?
Rehearsals and excerpts from the performance of the chamber music work "Dream Of An Astronaut" for basson, clarinet and flute. Caltech, 11/5/2009 www.leonardodilorenzo.com
Caltech President David Baltimore presents the 2006 Sigma Xi Award to graduating senior Patrick Hummel at Caltech Commencement.
Daily Mail'Like plugging into a vast electronic brain': Unique search engine ...Daily Mail, UKEducated at Eton, he published an article on particle physics aged just 16, and went on to Oxford university, receiving a doctorate on particle physics from Caltech aged 20. In 1987, he founded Wolfram Research to develop his computer algebra system ...Review: Flaws in Web's much-touted wolframalpha Auburn Citizenall 170 news articles
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University of ManchesterJodrell Bank stars in Euro space missionUniversity of Manchester, UK... role in the design, development and calibration of the Focal Plane Unit, in particular the cold optics, in collaboration with the Institut d'Astrophysique Spatiale in France, Maynooth University in Ireland and JPL/Caltech in the United States. ...
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NASASoft Ground Puts Spirit in Danger Despite Gain in Daily EnergyNASA, DCImage credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech PASADENA, Calif. -- The five wheels that still rotate on NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit have been slipping severely in soft soil during recent attempts to drive, sinking the wheels about halfway into the ground. ...
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PhysOrg.comJellyfish: Far from Passive Drifters-in-the-CurrentsPhysOrg.com, VACredit: John Dabiri, Caltech (PhysOrg.com) -- If you were to snorkel just before dawn at the popular tropical Pacific destination Jellyfish Lake, you'd have lots of company: millions of golden jellyfish, known to scientists as Mastigias papua, ...
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Science a GogoEntanglement of single photon detected across four locationsScience a GogoExplaining their work in Science, H. Jeff Kimble, professor of physics at Caltech, and his colleagues show that quantum uncertainty relations can be used to identify entangled states of light that are only available in the realm of quantum mechanics. ...
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...has announced it will begin decommissioning the Caltech Submillimeter Observatory (CSO) in Hawaii starting in 2016. Caltech says the 23-year-old telescope is being replaced by the next generation of radio telescope, the Cornell Caltech Atacama Telescope (CCAT),...
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New York TimesA Mind-Meld Q&A With Leonard NimoyNew York Times, United StatesI was invited to go to CalTech and was introduced to a number of very brilliant young people who were working on interesting projects. They walked me through, and they would we're doing this and we're doing that, and we're trying to figure out why this ...
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AllGovUnder Secretary of Energy for Science: Who is Steven Koonin?AllGov, CAThe choice of Steven E. Koonin, a longtime physics professor at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and, since 2004, senior scientist for British Petroleum, to lead the Office of Science in the Department of Energy is viewed by those in ...
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MedIndiaTempted by the Brain's 'Devil'? Call to the Your Self-Control ...MedIndia, IndiaScientists from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have uncovered differences in the brains of people who are able to exercise self-control versus those who find it almost impossible. The key in the research is, while everyone uses the ...
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San Diego Union TribuneWise beyond her yearsSan Diego Union Tribune, CAShe got a taste of university life last year, during a summer program at CalTech that she said she loved. “The students got to stay up late – doing homework,” Luengo said. As for that driver's license, Marta says: “I really do not need it. ...
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TheAlternativePress.comTwenty-two MHS Juniors Receive Prestigious 2009 College Book AwardsTheAlternativePress.com, New JerseyThe Caltech Signature Book Award, given to Benjamin Lieber, acknowledges students who have demonstrated the following characteristics essential to progress in science and technology: innovative and creative thinking or problem solving; the motivation ...
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SPIE NewsroomSingle photon nonlinear optics on photonic crystal chipsSPIE Newsroom, WAAndrei Faraon received his undergraduate degree in physics from Caltech and is currently a graduate student in applied physics, working with Jelena Vučković. Ilya Fushman received his MS in electrical engineering and PhD in applied physics from ...
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Ars TechnicaWatching the brain pick junk food over healthy foodArs Technica, MAUsing functional magnetic resonance imaging, researchers from CalTech have identified the structures in the brain that play a key role in desire and self-control during decision making. By Matt Ford | Last updated May 1, 2009 2:33 PM CT 3-D projection ...Brain Activity Linked with Junk Food Cravings: Study CRIENGLISH.comall 18 news articles
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PhysOrg.comWhy Are Galaxies So Smooth?PhysOrg.com, VAImage credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech (PhysOrg.com) -- Using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, an international team of astronomers has discovered streams of young stars flowing from their natal cocoons in distant galaxies. These distant rivers of stars provide ...Chandra Resolves A Galactic Mystery Space DailySouth African-led Astronomy Team Finds Space 'Missing Link' DigitalJournal.comall 5 news articles
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Chemical & Engineering NewsAcademy Elects New MembersChemical & Engineering NewsNEW MEMBERS Lorena S. Beese, Duke University Medical Center; Dennis Dougherty, Caltech; Jay C. Dunlap, Dartmouth Medical School; Juli Feigon, UCLA; Douglas Hanahan, UC San Francisco; Ralph R. Isberg, Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Tufts University ...
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Telegraph.co.uk'Angel' and 'devil' parts of the brain battle for supremacyTelegraph.co.uk, United KingdomDr Antonio Rangel, from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), whose research appears in the journal Science, said: "A very basic question in economics, psychology, and even religion, is why some people can exercise self-control but others ...
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VarietyCaltech proves hospitable to filmingVariety, CABut Caltech's most prominent use as an onscreen venue began four years ago, when it became a central location for the CBS series "Numbers" — even though the Pasadena campus was not the first choice. "Numbers" was originally to be set in Boston, ...'Numbers' defies naysayers Varietyall 3 news articles
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...instead, switching Charlie's school to Caltech was a "no-brainer," says "Numbers" exec producer and co-creator Nick Falacci. "Caltech is well-known as one of the country's preeminent math and science colleges, has a stunningly beautiful campus and is close...
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CBC.caCan't curb your enthusiasm for food? Blame the brainCBC.ca, CanadaNext time you give in to that craving for a chocolate bar as your energy levels take a mid-afternoon dip, you could be justified in saying that your brain made you do it. A new study published in the May 1 issue of the journal Science concluded there ...Researchers pinpoint the mechanisms of self-control in the brain PhysOrg.comall 18 news articles
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Pasadena WeeklyPolitics are a jokePasadena Weekly, CAFriday and Saturday night and Sunday afternoon you can do just that with the help of a group that makes a living skewering Washington's high and mighty — the musical comedy ensemble Capitol Steps, appearing at Caltech's Beckman Auditorium. ...
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UTSA TodayCalTech expert to discuss consciousness May 5UTSA Today, TXAfter four years at MIT, Koch joined Caltech in 1986, where he is the Lois and Victor Troendle Professor of Cognitive and Behavioral Biology and professor of computation and neural systems. He lives in Pasadena, and loves to run and to climb. ...
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Daily PilotHigh achievers honoredDaily Pilot, CA... into a lighthearted affair, cheering for students who will attend their own alma maters — UCLA and USC — and sharing anecdotes about the seniors, who also will be going to schools like Harvard, Cornell, MIT, Caltech, Princeton and UC Berkeley. ...
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Los Angeles TimesAngling for a piece of LA's future clean-tech centerLos Angeles Times, CAAmong the projects planned: development of aerospace technology with Caltech and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory that would help the DWP better measure snowpack in the Eastern Sierra and dust in the Owens Valley.
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CNET NewsGoogle CEO, Microsoft exec on Obama tech boardCNET News, CAAhmed Zewail is Professor of Chemistry and Physics at Caltech and Director of the Physical Biology Center. Dr. Zewail was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1999 for his pioneering work that allowed observation of exceedingly rapid molecular ...
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Nature.com (subscription)Spirit's spirits rejuvenatedNature.com (subscription), UKIs news of continued health less immediately interesting to the press? Does a rover have to die to get headlines these days? (Physics Today, MSNBC, Universe Today) Image the 'Von Braun' mound, taken by Spirit on April 8 2009. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech.
http://blogs.nature.com/news/thegreatbeyond/2009/04/spirits_spirits_rejuvenated.html
Pittsburgh Post Gazette'Big Bang Theory' has evolved into critical and audience smashPittsburgh Post Gazette, PASheldon and roommate Leonard (Johnny Galecki), Caltech post-docs studying particle physics, both have stereotypically geeky interests (video games and science fiction), but Leonard is more adjusted. Sheldon, however, lives in his own world, ...
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ScienceDudePerilous fault might be causing quake swarm near OCScienceDude, CABut there's evidence that the shaking is associated with the dangerous Whittier fault, which produced 5.9 and 5.3 quakes over a 3 day period in 1987, says Caltech. The new Chino Hills swarm perked up on Thursday with quick, back-to-back quakes ...
http://sciencedude.freedomblogging.com/2009/04/25/perilous-fault-might-be-causing-quake-swarm-near-oc/26151/
The California Institute of Technology talks about their experiences with UC4 Software (formerly AppWorx Corporation).
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