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That's why space watchers are always looking for clever ways to take high-resolution images from the ground without the atmospheric blurring that made the Hubble such a good idea. And it's why a recent announcement by Cambridge University and Caltech made scientists take notice. By wedding an innovative electronic light detector to the Hale Telescope at Mount Palomar in California--until 1990, the world's largest--astronomers were able to snap at least one space photo that was literally twice as sharp as a comparable Hubble image and, they bragged, 50,000 times cheaper...
...list of beneficiaries is small--climbing to 15 this month--but it includes some of the most prestigious schools on the planet: Harvard, Caltech, MIT, Cambridge. And the number of research fields the institutes address is even smaller. Universities can get the $7.5 million gifts only if the funding goes to one of three areas: astrophysics, nanoscience or neuroscience. Why this particular trio? Because that's what Kavli happens to be interested in. "The way he sometimes puts it," says David Gross, a Nobel prizewinner in physics and director of the first Kavli Institute, at the University of California...
...half expected us to use blowtorches to grill burgers or a Rube Goldberg device to flip pancakes—this was Caltech, after all. But instead, my friend and I got up early to make breakfast the old-fashioned way. There was no fusion-powered dishwasher or chromium frying pan—just the two of us, some elbow grease, and some bacon grease...
...MAJOR EMBARRASSMENT IN U.S. rocket research occurred in October 1957 when Russia beat the U.S. in the cold war space race by launching the satellite Sputnik. Thanks to the frantic efforts of U.S. officials to match that feat, aerospace engineer and longtime Caltech professor Homer Stewart was hired to help develop a similarly impressive craft. With guidance from Stewart-- who later worked on early planning for the Apollo mission--the U.S. sent into orbit its first successful satellite, Explorer I, in January 1958. Stewart...
...ejections. The combination of statistical production and obvious grit earned Snyder an All-Northern Division First-Team nod. Co-captain and junior driver Vivian Laio was off to a prolific start to the season with 18 goals and 16 assists through 15 games when she broke her hand against Caltech. The season-ending injury cost Laio the last 12 games of the campaign. Even with Laio out the Crimson put together a solid second half to its season. Harvard demonstrated its depth with a balanced attack that had five Harvard players score over 20 goals: Bilder led the team with...