Caltech in the News for the week of October 18, 2009
Caltech In the News is our weekly review of Caltech faculty, staff and students who have appeared in the news media this past week. This is but a sampling of our coverage. Please note that some links may expire after some time.
An Oct. 22 Science Daily story featured work by applied physicist Sandra Troian and postdoctoral scholar Mathias Dietzel explaining the formation of nanopillars.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/10/091022182414.htm
http://www.labspaces.net/100325/Scientists_solve_decade_long_mystery_of_nanopillar_formations
An Oct. 22 Chemistry World story on organometallic compounds covered work by Nobel chemist Robert Grubbs.
http://www.rsc.org/chemistryworld/News/2009/October/22100902.asp
An Oct. 21 CNET News story featured a Caltech-built robot that will help research into artificial retinas. Cited were developers Wolfgang Fink and Mark Tarbell. Stories also ran in EETimes, Gizmag, TMCNet, and R&D Magazine, among others.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-10378593-1.html
http://www.eetimes.com/news/latest/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=220900331
http://www.gizmag.com/cyclops-blind-robot/13170/
An Oct. 21 New Scientist story on the theory of general relativity quoted astrophysicist Sean Carroll.
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20427314.400-rethinking-relativity-is-time-out-of-joint.html
An Oct. 20 Wired magazine story featured research by postdoctoral scholar Moran Cerf, working in the lab of Christof Koch, that showed how individual neurons react to images of celebrities.
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/10/controlling-single-neurons/
http://www.physorg.com/news175417796.html
An Oct. 20 Science Now story looked at work on a hybrid photonic/phononic crystal by applied physicists Oskar Painter and Kerry Vahala, and graduate student Matt Eichenfield. The work was also covered by Nature.
http://sciencenow.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/2009/1020/1
http://www.nature.com/news/2009/091018/full/news.2009.1013.html
An Oct. 19 Technology Review story on thin-film solar cells looked at recent work by applied physicist Harry Atwater.
http://www.technologyreview.com/energy/23755/?a=f
On Oct. 19 Chemical and Engineering News ran a story on work by geobiologist Victoria Orphan and graduate student Anne Dekas on nitrogen fixing by deep-sea microbes.
http://pubs.acs.org/cen/news/87/i42/8742notw2.html
