Topic: California Institute Of Technology

Microsoft software peeps into universe

Global software major Microsoft has designed a computer programme that allows you to scan the universe and zoom into outer space through its...
THE GRAND DESIGN . . Leonard Mlodinow . . Bantam. 198 pp. $28 . . . . . . In "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy," Douglas Adams famously had his...
Researchers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have devised a new technique — using a sheet of carbon just one atom thick — to...
Fruit flies make lots of flight decisions while circling a rotten banana, including how fast to hover and how high to fly. . . Now, a new study...
Researchers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have devised a new technique -- using a sheet of carbon just one atom thick -- to...
To force opponents to crack at the poker table, try to look trustworthy.. . In a recent study by researchers at Harvard, Cal Tech and M.I.T...
aarondubrow writes "Three years ago, researchers from Caltech and The University of Texas at Austin came together to create a computational tool...
Using a diamond-anvil cell to recreate the high pressures deep within the earth, researchers at the California Institute of Technology have found...

Solar Power: Taking Advantage of Desertification?

Many emerging market countries have notable deserts that historically have been more of a curse than a blessing. In past posts about solar power...
Canada will help build an instrument that NASA will fly to Mars in 2016. Good news -- or is it? We will be helpers -- footnotes -- on a Caltech...