Caltech in the News for the week of December 13, 2009

Popular Mechanics' list of "10 Tech Concepts You Need to Know for 2010" includes DNA origami work led by Paul Rothemund.

http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/industry/4339235.html?page=4

Discovery News included in their list of "Top 10 Space Stories of the Decade" planetary scientist Michael Brown's discovery of Eris.

http://news.discovery.com/space/top-10-space-stories-decade.html

The Voice of America's "Website of the Week" is physicist Ken Libbrecht's look at snowflakes. Science News and the London Daily Mail also covered his work.

http://www1.voanews.com/english/news/science-technology/Website-of-the-Week--SnowCrystalscom--79615277.html

http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/50770/title/FOR_KIDS_Scientists_explain_mystery_of_triangular_snowflakes_

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1236779/Snowflakes-coolest-shapes-planet-beautiful-close-up.html

A Dec. 18 U.S. News and World Report story on cell movement cited work by Caltech researchers and quoted chemist David Tirrell.

http://www.usnews.com/science/articles/2009/12/18/cells-move-in-mysterious-ways.html

A Dec. 17 Los Angeles Times story on earthquake sensor upgrades included research engineer Dave Johnson. 

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-quake17-2009dec17,0,1478452.story

A Dec. 17 Medical News Today story covered fruit fly protein research by biologist Angelike Stathopoulos and postdoctoral scholar Greg Reeves. Science Daily and Medilexicon.com also covered the work.

http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/174463.php

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/12/091217150840.htm

http://www.medilexicon.com/medicalnews.php?newsid=174463

A Dec. 17 R&D Magazine story looked at work led by Nobel laureate and chemist Ahmed Zewail showing how photons can image the movement of electrons. Physics Today and Science Centric also covered the work.

http://www.rdmag.com/News/2009/12/Materials-Caltech-scientists-film-photon-with-electrons/

http://blogs.physicstoday.org/update/

http://www.sciencecentric.com/news/article.php?q=09121738-caltech-scientists-film-photons-with-electrons

A Dec. 17 Baltimore Sun story reported on the finding of the smallest known object in the Kuiper Belt. The story quoted astrophysicist Hilke Schlichting and was also covered on Discovery.com and in the Jerusalem Post, among others.

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/bal-md.hubble17dec17,0,3557459.story

http://news.discovery.com/space/real-occult-science-hubble-spots-smallest-comet-vagabond.html

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1260930882835&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

A Dec. 16 Medical News Today story reported on the establishment of the Caltech-UCLA Center for Translational Medicine and quoted the center's director, David Baltimore. Stories also appeared on SoCalMinds.com and in Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News, among others.

http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/174328.php

http://www.socalminds.com/2009/12/medicine-center-links-pasadena-westwood.html

http://www.genengnews.com/news/bnitem.aspx?name=71222484&chid=4&taxid=39

http://www.news-medical.net/news/20091217/JCTM-established-to-advance-new-research-toward-clinical-applications.aspx