Caltech in the News for the week of August 30, 2009
Caltech In the News is our weekly review of Caltech faculty, staff and students who have appeared in the news media this past week. This is but a sampling of our coverage. Please note that some links may expire after some time.
A Sept. 4 Technology Review story looked at the affect of water vapor on climate change and cited recent work by environmental scientist Tapio Schneider.
http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/arxiv/24079/
On Sept. 3, Time magazine ran a story on research by postdoc Dan Kennedy and neuroscientist Ralph Adolphs identifying the part of the brain that controls our sense of personal space. The research received significant news coverage including stories in the Los Angeles Times, Wall Street Journal, Science Now, WINS-AM radio New York, KNSD-TV Channel 7 San Diego, the Hong Kong Herald, Italy's La Stampa, Germany's Stern and Spain's El Pais, among others.
http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1919910,00.html
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/booster_shots/2009/08/personal-space.html
http://blogs.wsj.com/health/2009/09/02/brain-scans-for-close-talkers/
http://sciencenow.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/2009/831/3
http://story.hongkongherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/537330/cs/1/
A Sept. 1 New York Times story on nanotechnology included work by bioengineer Paul Rothemund.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/01/science/01trans.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=rothemund&st=cse
A Sept. 1 story on KTLA-TV Channel 5 included an interview with geologist Brian Wernicke on how the formation of the San Gabriel Mountains makes firefighting there so difficult.
http://www.ktla.com/videobeta/watch/?watch=1c00c787-5092-40cb-bb9e-1892d67ba067&src=fron
An Aug. 30 Los Angeles Times story focused on the reclassification of Pluto and how planetary astronomer Michael Brown came up with the names for several dwarf planets.
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-et-story30-2009aug30,0,119739.story
An Aug. 29 Los Angeles Times story covered solar research by applied physicist Harry Atwater.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-sci-solar29-2009aug29,0,4778538.story
