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• Who Will Create the Future of San Diego Biotech? Xconomy Event Will Gather Star Innovators From Inside and Outside the Region

  
  Xconomy — Authority: 714
  Biotech , people , startups Luke Timmerman wrote: Who are the innovators who will help keep the San Diego region’s life sciences sector vibrant in the years to come? Which of the emerging ideas here will help transform the way we treat and prevent disease around the world? And how is the San Diego ...
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• Weight Loss Surgery News – November 6, 2009

  
  Weight Loss Surgery Channel — Authority: 469
  View this week’s WLS News to learn how pistachios may curb hunger; see how a high-fat diet among pregnant women can be bad for a baby’s liver; and discover how researchers are tackling diabetes and obesity by studying a hunger hormone. Also, learn the latest about a recent survey showing that some obese children ...
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• The Two Lives of Qian Xuesen

  
  Letter from China — Authority: 119
  Qian Xuesen was twenty-four years old in 1935, a fresh graduate of Shanghai Jiaotong University, when he used a scholarship to get to M.I.T. A year later, he moved to Caltech to earn his doctorate, and Theodore von Karman, a legendary Caltech professor, pronounced Qian an “undisputed genius.” When the U.S. went ...
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• 50 Years Later, Still Plenty of Room at the Bottom

  
  QUEST Community Science Blog - KQED — Authority: 124
  Lawrence Berkeley Labs TEAM 0.5 is capable of resolving individual carbon atoms in the honeycomb crystal structure of graphene. See QUESTs video The Worlds Most Powerful Microscope for more information. Image source: Nano Letters The twentieth century’s most important physicist after Albert Einstein is almost ...
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• Qian Xuesan, father of Chinese missile program and of JPL, dies at 98

  
  Information Processing — Authority: 490
  Caption: Left to right: Ludwig Prandtl (German scientist), Qian Xuesen, Theodore von Kármán. Prandtl served for Germany during the World War II; von Kármán and Qian served [for the] US Army; after 1956, Qian served for China. Notice that at that time Qian had US Army rank. Interestingly, Prandtl was doctoral ...
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• Qian Xuesen, Rocket Scientist, Dies

  
  China Bystander — Authority: 123
  But for a twist of history, Qian Xuesen, whose death at age 98 was announced Saturday, might be being remembered as another immigrant rocket scientist who had made a significant contribution to America’s space technology rather than as the father of China’s space program.After graduating form Jiao Tong University ...
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• Robot Armies Will Likely “Explore Alien Worlds”

  
  Baxter King's Creepy — Authority: 129
  Sure, Robots will be doing extremely dangerous and important work in the future but, they’ll also be used by street toughs to pluck out the eyes of rival gang members. I suppose as long as they don’t pluck out my eyes, I’d be ok with this future. “Robotic airships and satellites will fly above the surface of ...
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• For a Good Time in Pasadena: Newton and the Counterfeiter Edition…

  
  The Inverse Square Blog — Authority: 493
  Thanks to physics blogging major domo Sean Carroll , I’ll be chatting tomorrow at Caltech in a presentation prompted by my recent book (I’ve mentioned it once or twice), Newton and the Counterfeiter .  ( Amazon , Powells , Barnes and Noble , Indiebound and  across the pond at  Amazon.co.uk , Waterstones , ...
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• Helixis, Caltech Spinoff With Desktop Genetic Analysis Tool, Nabs $7.3M Venture Financing

  
  Xconomy — Authority: 714
  Biotech , VC , deals Luke Timmerman wrote: Carlsbad, CA-based Helixis, the startup maker of genetic analysis tools founded from the Caltech lab of Nobel Laureate David Baltimore, has raised $7.3 million out of a venture capital round potentially worth $10 million, according to a regulatory filing ...
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• Scientists Trap Light And Sound Vibrations Together In One Nanocrystal (PhotonicsOnline)

  
  NanoTechBIZZ.com — Authority: 152
  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. (read on…) Related items Scientists first to trap light and sound vibrations together in ...
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• Scientists Solve Decade-Long Mystery Of Nanopillar Formations (PhotonicsOnline)

  
  NanoTechBIZZ.com — Authority: 152
  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. (read on…) Related items Scientists solve decade-long ...
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• Caltech Scientists First to Trap Light and Sound Vibrations Together in Nanocrystal (Caltech Today)

  
  NanoTechBIZZ.com — Authority: 152
  Researchers at 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. “This is a whole new concept,” notes Oskar Painter, associate professor of applied physics and the principal investigator on the paper ...
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• CO2 At Highest Level in 15 Million Years - Update

  
  Little Green Footballs — Authority: 610
  Science Daily has more details on the alarming Caltech study we noted earlier this week , led by Aradhna Tripati: Last Time Carbon Dioxide Levels Were This High: 15 Million Years Ago, Scientists Report . “The last time carbon dioxide levels were apparently as high as they are today — and were sustained at ...
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• CalTech Gets ZipCar Branch

  
  CarBuyersNoteBook — Authority: 491
  Okay, this might just be one of the smartest all time ideas  in the history of EVER.  I would’ve given my eyeteeth for something like this back when I was in college.For those of you still in college, especially those of you living on campus, you know first hand how tough it can be.  Basically, [...]
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• Robot Surrogate Tests Artificial Retina Vision for the Blind

  
  Saving Gas — Authority: 161
  The CYCLOPS mobile robotic platform is designed to be used as a surrogate for blind persons in the testing of visual prostheses. (Caltech/Wolfgang Fink, Mark Tarbell)Scientists at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have created a remote-controlled robot that is able to simulate the “visual” ...
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• Caltech Study: CO2 At Highest Level in 15 Million Years

  
  Little Green Footballs — Authority: 610
  A new study by Caltech scientists led by geochemist Aradhna Tripati shows that there hasn’t been this much carbon dioxide in the Earth’s atmosphere for at least 15 Million Years . “The last time carbon dioxide levels were apparently as high as they are today and were sustained at those levels, global ...
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• Robot surrogate. “… few people worldwide have been implanted with retinal prostheses, and there is only so much testing they can be asked to endure.”

  
  LASIK Eye Surgery — Authority: 132
  Researchers from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have presented “… 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 ...
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• Is There A Goood Novel Which Describes Undergraduate College Life In The Us?

  
  Prepare For College — Authority: 154
  Is there a goood novel which describes undergraduate college life in the US? Any sort of novel – preferably based in colleges like MIT,Princeton,Caltech,Harvard, Cornell, Stanford .
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• LHC - Working From the Future to Thwart the Present

  
  Newsvine - JCAtom's Column - Articles and Seeds — Authority: 128
  ...the troubled collider is being sabotaged by its own future.
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• Lee Hood’s New Company Snags $30M to Spot Cancer and Alzheimer’s in Early Days

  
  Xconomy — Authority: 714
  Biotech , VC , cancer Luke Timmerman wrote: Lee Hood, the legendary researcher and entrepreneur who invented machines that made the Human Genome Project possible, has secured $30 million in venture capital for a startup that aims to detect cancer and neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer’s in ...
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