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• Fruit flies can smell anger

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 740
  Washington, Dec 29 (ANI): Is it possible to smell anger? Well, a new study conducted over fruit flies says yes.Researchers from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) showed that a whiff of a rage-inducing pheromone can turn otherwise peaceful fruit flies into aggressors.“Not only did we identify the ...
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• In space, no on can hear... a foghorn?

  
  No Fear of the Future — Authority: 417
  Resisting the temptation to make some convoluted allusion to Ray Bradburys famous short story, I share with you good readers this particularly interesting bit of planetary science. Its accepted fact at this point that Saturns moon, Titan, has abundant liquid on its surface in the form of methane or ethane seas or ...
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• Feynman’s Lost Lecture: The Motion of Planets Around the Sun …

  
  Review This Crazy World — Authority: 162
  Restoration of the lecture notes and conversion into book form was undertaken by … Feynman had given the lecture on the motion of bodies at Caltech on March 13, … Read more: Feynman’s Lost Lecture: The Motion of Planets Around the Sun …
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• Caltech Physicists Propose Quantum Entanglement For Motion Of Microscopic Objects (redOrbit)

  
  NanoTechBIZZ.com — Authority: 151
  Researchers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have proposed a new paradigm that should allow scientists to observe quantum behavior in small mechanical systems.Their ideas, described in the latest online issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, offer a new means of addressing one ...
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• Linus Pauling?Scientist for the Ages

  
  Wish Everyone Good Health. — Authority: 165
  Linus Pauling?Scientist for the Ages You can?t copyright a title so I stole the title for this article. This winter I have avoided colds and sore throats and such by taking a bunch of vitamin ?C.? I learned this from Dr. Linus Pauling.Now that we are in the second paragraph, I can give you the [...]
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• Fog Discovered on Titan by Caltech Scientists

  
  International Space Fellowship — Authority: 590
  Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, looks to be the only place in the solar system—aside from our home planet, Earth—with copious quantities of liquid (largely, liquid methane and ethane) sitting on its surface. According to planetary astronomer Mike Brown of the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), Earth and ...
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• Regulus Adds IP from Baltimore Lab

  
  Xconomy — Authority: 660
  Biotech , MicroRNA , deals Luke Timmerman wrote: Regulus Therapeutics, the Carlsbad, CA-based developer of microRNA therapies, said today it has obtained an exclusive license from the lab of David Baltimore at Caltech to make drugs that affect a pair of microRNAs thought to be related to inflammation. ...
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• { Cathleen + Victor | Pasadena Wedding Photography }

  
  Los Angeles Wedding Photographer | Orange County Wedding Photographer — Authority: 112
  It is 7 am, bright and early in Cathleen’s bridal suite. Victor, accompanied by his groomsmen, arrives at her door, eager to see his bride. But he is met with a barricade of bridesmaids, armed with a list of demands should Victor want to make his way to Cathleen. And so ensues a series of cruel and unusual tasks, ...
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• Snowflakes!

  
  Science Cheerleader — Authority: 129
  Ah, the physics of snowflakes, explained so simply by Kenneth Libbrecht at CalTech who created SnowCrystals.com where you can find answers to everything you’ve ever wanted to know about snowflakes. See stunning photos, learn how to make snowflake fossils, and make your own ice spikes . Endless resources on ...
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• Nobel Laureate from Caltech, RNAi Leader To Headline Xconomy San Diego Event on Monday

  
  Xconomy — Authority: 660
  Biotech , RNAi , startups Luke Timmerman wrote: Which San Diego biotech companies have the potential to rewrite the history of medicine? Who are the brightest young scientific entrepreneurs at San Diego’s research centers? What does this place have going for it that other biotech hubs around the world ...
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• Aggression-Promoting Pheromone In Flies Discovered By Caltech Scientists

  
  emedist.com — Authority: 161
  Have you ever found yourself struggling to get your order taken at a crowded bar or lunch counter, only to walk away in disgust as more aggressive customers elbow their [...]
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• Aggression-promoting pheromone in flies discovered

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 740
  London, December 7 (ANI): Scientists have discovered an aggression-promoting pheromone, specific chemicals used by a particular species to communicate and to control their behavior, in flies.The study, published in Nature, also identified the neurons in the fly’s antenna that detect this pheromone and relay the ...
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• Puzzling Lake Asymmetry on Titan Explained

  
  International Space Fellowship — Authority: 590
  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: 133
  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: 154
  (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: 161
  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: 627
  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: 660
  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: 627
  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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