Caltech in the News for the week of February 14, 2010

A Feb. 26 Pasadena Star-News story highlighted work led by neurobiologist Ralph Adolphs and postdoc Jan Glascher mapping the brain regions that influence intelligence. BusinessWeek, Ivanhoe News, and HealthScout also covered the work.

http://www.pasadenastarnews.com/rds_search/ci_14472973

http://www.businessweek.com/lifestyle/content/healthday/636333.html

http://www.ivanhoe.com/channels/p_channelstory.cfm?storyid=23683

http://www.healthscout.com/news/1/636333/main.html

A Feb. 25 USA Today story featured work led by psychologist John O'Doherty and behavioral economist Colin Camerer on the brain's reaction to inequality. Stories also ran in Yahoo News, Agence France-Presse, and the Times of India, among others.

http://content.usatoday.com/communities/sciencefair/post/2010/02/our-brains-dont-like-inequality-even-when-its-in-our-favor/1

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100224/sc_afp/sciencebrainbehaviourequality_20100224193839

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/life/spirituality/self-help/Humans-like-sharing-wealth-subconsciously/articleshow/5614960.cms

A Feb. 22 New Scientist story on comet research quoted IPAC research scientist William Reach.

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20527483.800-suns-warmth-blows-comets-icy-heart-apart.html

A Feb. 19 CBS News.com story covered work by bioengineer Michael Dickinson offering a look into the brain of a fly in flight. Also covering the work was Discover magazine, Medgadget, and UPI news, among others.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/02/19/opinion/main6223845.shtml

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2010/02/18/scientists-peer-into-the-brain-of-a-fruit-fly-in-mid-flight/

http://www.medgadget.com/archives/2010/02/scientists_directly_record_neural_activity_in_flying_drosophila.html

http://www.upi.com/Science_News/2010/02/15/Scientists-record-fruit-fly-brain-waves/UPI-27071266246276/

A Feb. 16 Scientific American story looked at new solar-cell research led by applied physicist Harry Atwater and graduate student Michael Kelzenberg. The work was extensively covered, including by Technology Review, Voice of America, EE Times, The Engineer, Cnet News, New Scientist, MSNBC, and many other news outlets.

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=photovoltaic-breakthroughs-brighten-outlook-for-cheap-solar-power

http://www.technologyreview.com/energy/24665/?a=f

http://www1.voanews.com/english/news/science-technology/New-Way-of-Making-Solar-Cells-Promises-Cheaper-Power--84775367.html

http://www.theengineer.co.uk/news/high-efficiency-solar-cells/1001090.article

http://www.eetimes.com/news/latest/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=223000119

http://news.cnet.com/8301-11128_3-10453303-54.html

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20527485.200-silicon-wire-forest-makes-wearable-solar-cells.html

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35430634/ns/technology_and_science-innovation/

Various news media, including LAist.com, FirstScience, Pasadena Now, and Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology News, mentioned that Caltech was receiving funding from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA).

http://laist.com/2010/02/24/caltech_scores_33_million_in_stimul.php

http://www.firstscience.com/home/news/atmospheric-science/caltech-receives-more-than-33-million-from-american-recovery-and-reinvestment-act_79662.html

http://pasadenanow.com/main/caltech-receives-more-than-33-million-from-arra

http://www.genengnews.com/news/bnitem.aspx?name=76249188

Several Caltech faculty presented at this year's American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) meeting. Wired magazine and CNN.com ran stories about cosmologist Sean Carroll; Variety and the Hollywood Reporter covered a panel discussion with physicist Kip Thorne; and biologist David Anderson's presentation on model organisms was covered by Sweden's Nyfiken Vital, Science Daily, and the HHMI news page.

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/02/what-is-time/

http://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/02/22/movie.tv.science/

http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118015535.html?categoryid=1009&cs=1

http://www.hhmi.org/news/andersonaaas20100220.html

http://www.nyfikenvital.org/?q=node/2771

A Feb. 19 Scientific American story on the Kepler spacecraft quoted postdoc Eran Ofek.

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=kepler-oort-cloud

A Feb. 18 La Canada Valley Sun story mentioned physicist Jeff Kimble's appointment as a Department of Defense National Security Science and Engineering Faculty Fellow.

http://www.lacanadaonline.com/articles/2010/02/18/news/lnws-people218.txt

A Feb. 14 Pasadena Star-News story looked at the proposed curriculum reform at Caltech. The Chronicle of Higher Education also covered the proposal. http://www.pasadenastarnews.com/ci_14401945

http://chronicle.com/blogPost/Caltech-Faculty-Considers/21303/

A Feb. 14 Chicago Tribune article about the word "unobtainium" quoted planetary scientist David Stevenson.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/movies/ct-talk-avatar-unobtainium-0215-20100213,0,337859.story