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

A Sept. 18 story on KTLA-TV Channel 5 featured the Palomar Observatory and included an interview with the facility's Scott Kardel.

A Sept. 17 US News & World Report story about new images from the Hubble Space Telescope quoted astronomer Richard Ellis, who was also quoted in a Wired magazine story.

http://www.usnews.com/articles/science/2009/09/17/revamped-hubble-identifies-furthest-galaxies.html

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/09/hubbledeepfield/

A Sept. 16 US News & World Report story on monkeys achieving color vision quoted neuroscientist Melissa Saenz. Saenz was also quoted in a Science News story.

 http://www.usnews.com/articles/science/2009/09/16/monkeys-obtain-full-color-vision-with-gene-therapy.html

http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/47396/title/Monkeys_get_full_color_vision

A Sept. 16 New York Times story on biotech businesses cited Caltech's recent involvement with one company.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/17/business/smallbusiness/17edge.html?hpw

The Sept. 15 issue of Science included an interview with Nobel Prize-winning theoretical physicist Murray Gell-Mann.

http://www.sciencenews.org/view/feature/id/47280/title/Interview_Murray_Gell-Mann

A Sept. 15 National Geographic story on lightning on Saturn quoted planetary scientist Andrew Ingersoll.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/09/090915-saturn-lightning-storms.html

A Sept. 15 Scientific American story quoted geobiologist Woodward Fischer on the history of oceans.

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=oxygen-photosynthesis-nitrogen

The awarding of the International von Kármán Wings Award Sept. 15 led to news coverage in Physorg.com, First Science, Media Newswire, as well as a mention in the India Journal.

http://www.physorg.com/wire-news/14496727/2-international-leaders-receive-caltech-aerospace-award.html

http://media-newswire.com/release_1098870.html

http://www.firstscience.com/home/news/space-and-planetary-science/2-international-leaders-receive-caltech-aerospace-award_70583.html

A Sept. 14 podcast on EarthSky looked at work by chemist Harry Gray.

http://www.earthsky.org/interviewpost/energy/harry-grays-solar-fuel-cells-will-create-fuel-from-sunlight

A Sept. 14 US News & World Report story featured work led by neuroeconomist Antonio Rangel and graduate student Ian Krajbich showing how the use of brain scans may help solve a classic economic problem. Medgadget.com also covered the story, as did a radio program by the Institute for Ethics & Emerging Technologies.

http://www.usnews.com/articles/science/2009/09/14/caltech-scientists-develop-novel-use-of-neurotechnology-to-solve-classic-social-problem.html

http://www.medgadget.com/archives/2009/09/neuroeconomics_a_new_scientific_field_with_strange_social_implications.html

http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/csr20090912/

A Sept. 13 story in the Toronto Star looked at the future of the Thirty Meter Telescope.

http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/article/694951

The recent issue of Discover magazine includes a story on Stephen Hawking and quotes theoretical physicists Kip Thorne and John Preskill.

http://discovermagazine.com/2009/jul-aug/11-stephen-hawking-is-making-his-comeback/article_view?b_start:int=0&-C=