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• Puzzling Lake Asymmetry on Titan Explained

  
  International Space Fellowship — Authority: 597
  Researchers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) suggest that the eccentricity of Saturn’s orbit around the sun may be responsible for the unusually uneven distribution of lakes over the northern and southern polar regions of the planet’s largest moon, Titan. A paper describing the theory appears in ...
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• Newly Found Vertical Wind Turbines Arrangement Reduces Space Needs 100 Fold

  
  The Green Optimistic — Authority: 432
  CalTech scientists have discovered that arranging vertical axis wind turbines (VAWT) in a certain pattern will save the space by 100 times compared to classic arrangements, will output the same amount of energy and will be safer for migrating birds.
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• Caltech scientists explain puzzling lake asymmetry on Titan

  
  Science nature & education - science-nature.marc8.com — Authority: 156
  (California Institute of Technology) Researchers at Caltech suggest that the eccentricity of Saturns orbit around the sun may be responsible for the unusually uneven distribution of methane and ethane lakes over the northern and southern polar regions of the planets largest moon, Titan. On Earth, similar "astronomical ...
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• Teaching Innovation as a Martial Art

  
  Blogs — Authority: 162
  Someone recently asked me... is innovation really something you can teach? My answer... of course it is! I teach an innovation workshop for middle and executive level managers at Fortune 500 companies, and all you have to do is watch the faces of my students to know that innovation is absolutely teachable, and ...
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• Energy: Local Schools Will Be LADWPs Green Grid Guinea Pigs

  
  Curbed LA — Authority: 617
  The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power has won $60 million in stimulus money for their Smart Grid Program, which will help them know where and how energy is being used and anticipate demand and outages. USC and UCLA will act as testing grounds in the program, "replicating a full range of user infrastructure ...
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• So Much For Gardening: Bruce Carter Joins Vaccine Startup Immune Design To Raise Cash

  
  Xconomy — Authority: 701
  Biotech , people , startups Luke Timmerman wrote: One of Seattle’s leading life sciences entrepreneurs, Bruce Carter, is back in the saddle. Carter has agreed to take an active management role as executive chairman of Seattle-based Immune Design, a year after he announced he was retiring as CEO of ...
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• Academic Architecture: Frederick Fisher and Partners Annenberg Building at Caltech Opens

  
  Curbed LA — Authority: 617
  Click the image above to view the full photogallery. Hey, remember REXs crazy-ass design for Caltechs Walter and Leonore Annenberg Center for Information Science and Technology ? In July 2007 we heard it described as a wolf in sheeps clothing, in which the sheep was high quality office space and the wolf ...
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• FastSoft Raises $950K

  
  socalTECH.com - Southern California High Tech News — Authority: 513
  Pasadena-based FastSoft , a developer of Internet acceleration appliances based on research out of Caltech, has raised $950K in a debt funding, according to a regulatory filing by the firm. According to the filing, the round came from eight investors and has a target of $1.34M. No details on the funding have been ...
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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: 701
  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 ...
  2 weeks ago

• Weight Loss Surgery News – November 6, 2009

  
  Weight Loss Surgery Channel — Authority: 129
  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: 123
  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: 122
  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: 487
  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: 125
  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: 132
  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: 454
  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: 701
  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: 154
  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: 154
  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: 154
  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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