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18 hrs ago | Science, Industry and Business

Wind Farm Design Borrows Strategy from Schooling Fish

Last year, the United States overtook Germany to become the largest producer of wind energy in the world.

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Related Topix: Alternative Energy, Science / Technology, Wind Power, Renewable Energy (Green Energy), Energy

Sun Nov 29, 2009

RedOrbit

Scientists Explain Puzzling Lake Asymmetry On Titan

Researchers at the California Institute of Technology suggest that the eccentricity of Saturn's 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 planet's largest moon, Titan.

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Related Topix: Weather

Sat Nov 28, 2009

Mars Today

Mars Odyssey THEMIS Images: November 16-20, 2009

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory manages the 2001 Mars Odyssey mission for NASA's Office of Space Science, Washington, D.C. The Thermal Emission Imaging System was developed by Arizona State University, Tempe, in co.oration with Raytheon Santa Barbara Remote Sensing.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Space, Pasadena, CA

Fri Nov 27, 2009

Medical News Today

Startled Flies May Provide Insight Into ADHD

Main Category: ADHD Also Included In: Biology / Biochemistry ; Sleep / Sleep Disorders / Insomnia ; Neurology / Neuroscience Article Date: 27 Nov 2009 - 1:00 PST printer friendly view / write opinions rate article It seems obvious that naturally waking up from sleep and being startled by something in the environment are two very different emotional ...

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Related Topix: Medicine, ADHD, Health, Biology, Science, Anderson, CA, Horror Movies, Taken, Drama Movies, Thriller, Pasadena, CA

Thu Nov 26, 2009

Newkerala.com

Study on fruit flies may provide new insight into ADHD

Washington, Nov 26 : Scientists in the U.S. have found primitive emotion-like behaviour in fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster.

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Related Topix: Medicine, ADHD, Health

Wed Nov 25, 2009

EurekAlert!

Startled flies may provide insight into ADHD

It seems obvious that naturally waking up from sleep and being startled by something in the environment are two very different emotional states.

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Related Topix: Medicine, ADHD, Health, Anderson, CA

The Scientist

Scientist to watch: Sheng Ding

When Sheng Ding was applying for graduate school, there was only one person he considered working with: chemical biologist Peter Schultz.

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Related Topix: Biology, Science, Chemistry, Technical Services, World News, China, Norway

Tue Nov 24, 2009

PhysOrg Weblog

Cassini Captures Ghostly Dance of Saturn's Northern Lights

In the first video showing the auroras above the northern latitudes of Saturn, Cassini has spotted the tallest known "northern lights" in the solar system, flickering in shape and brightness high above the ringed planet.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, NASA, Space, Pasadena, CA

Sun Nov 22, 2009

RedOrbit

Aquatic Creatures Mix Ocean Water

Estimates of the extent of swimming on to be presented at Fluid Dynamics Conference in Minneapolis, Nov.

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Related Topix: Science, Oceanography

Chronicle.com

Conference Humilation: They're Tweeting Behind Your Back

Conference speakers beware: Twecklers are watching. They're out for blood. And you may be their next victim.

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Related Topix: Twitter, Marketing, Pittsburg State University, Purdue University

Fri Nov 20, 2009

State Press

3,600 turn out for yearlong Darwinfest

ASUa s yearlong Darwinfest ended Friday after hosting a variety of speakers and discussions that took a deeper look into the life and theories of Charles Darwin.

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Related Topix: Harvard University, Penn State University Park, Pennsylvania State University

Wed Nov 18, 2009

Ventura County Star

New studies put potential megaquake closer to Seattle

Pacific Northwesterners have learned to live with the knowledge that a monster earthquake will wallop the region one day.

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Related Topix: Earthquake, Natural Disasters, Central Washington University, University of Washington

Mon Nov 16, 2009

Electronic Engineering Times Asia

Dow, Caltech tie up on photovoltaic R&D

The Dow Chemical Co. and the California Institute of Technology are embarking on multiyear solar energy research collaboration.

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Related Topix: Rubber-Plastics, Manufacturing, Dow Chemical, Chemicals, Solar Energy, Science / Technology, Renewable Energy (Green Energy), Energy, Alternative Energy, Chemistry, Science

KCBS-TV Los Angeles

Caltech Grad Gets Prison For SUV Firebombings

Required fields are marked with an asterisk The information you provide will be used only to send the requested e-mail and will not be used to send any other e-mail communications.

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Related Topix: Federal Prisons, Prison

Press-Enterprise

Cal Poly Pomona confirms 5-year privacy breach

The California Institute of Technology in Pomona says personal information for hundreds of student applicants was made available on the Internet for five years.

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Related Topix: Cal State Poly Pomona, Computers

Sat Nov 14, 2009

Nanotechnology latest papers

Terahertz response in single-walled carbon nanotube transistor: a...

We use time-dependent quantum wavepacket methods to simulate ballistic electron transport in a single-walled carbon nanotube field-effect transistor at terahertz frequencies .

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Related Topix: World News, China, Asia, Physics, Science, Chemistry, Pasadena, CA

Thu Nov 12, 2009

Design And Reuse

Embedded OTP Leader Sidense Hires NVM Veteran Humes for Product Engineering VP Position

November 12th, 2009 - Sidense, a leading developer of Logic Non-Volatile Memory IP cores, today announced the appointment of Todd Humes as the company's new Vice President of Product Engineering.

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Related Topix: CPU, Science / Technology, Semiconductors, Electronics, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, San Luis Obispo Metro, San Luis Obispo, CA

Wed Nov 11, 2009

Asian Week

Chinese American Hero: Dr. Qian Xue-sen

This week we would like to talk about a very unusual person who was once a Chinese immigrant to America.A He wanted to be an American, and had his citizenship application been accepted, could have been a great Chinese American hero.

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Related Topix: Asian-American, Chinese-American, Non-Profit, Mathematics, Science, US Military, US Army, Science / Technology, Space

Tue Nov 10, 2009

FOX 4 Now - WFTX Home

Best values in private colleges

A year ago, private colleges were struggling to navigate rough economic waters. Then they headed into the hurricane.

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Related Topix: Family, Kids, Pomona College, University of Richmond

Science Daily

DNA Origami Nanoscale Breadboards Developed For Carbon Nanotube Circuits

A paper about the work appeared November 8 in the early online edition of Nature Nanotechnology .

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Related Topix: Biotech, Science / Technology, Physics, Science, UC Riverside, Chemistry

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