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4D images of molecules with world's first ultrafast electron microscope

Madan — Mon, 24 Dec 2007 05:46:38 +0000

Caltech chemist Ahmed H. Zewail, Nobel Prize winner in Chemistry, for his pioneering work in ultrafast reactions is now trying to make another breakthrough in this field at California Institute of Technology. The only modified...

Scientists introduce densest Memory Circuit ever made

Anupam — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 09:14:13 +0000

Scientists at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have unveiled the most dense memory circuit that is capable of storing 2,000 words in a unit the size of a white blood cell. Scientists have also commented that the circuit can hold a...

Caltech Researchers Develop Lab-on-a-Chip For NASA

Anupam — Thu, 21 Dec 2006 02:36:01 +0000

Undergoing a blood test in space has been a thing of the future. The reason being that the currently employed blood testing machines are so bulky that they cannot be taken to space. In a research funded by the Space Giant NASA, researchers...

Q#5: How does a Bee with Heavy Body and Short Wing Fly?

Irani — Mon, 05 Dec 2005 01:34:28 +0000

It is previously ‘proven’ that bees cannot fly. So, to learn the forces actually at work during honeybee flight, Michael Dickinson, an insect flight expert and colleagues at Caltech in Pasadena, California, US decided to investigate it....

Second Moon Espied Around Cigar-Shaped World

Irani — Fri, 02 Dec 2005 06:17:41 +0000

There is a world at the fringes of the solar system, a massive, cigar-shaped world. Astronomers have been exploring it for long. And their constant discoveries have been suggesting multiple moons that orbit many large, distant objects. But,...