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...Sleuth,” Charbonneau’s telescope, was constructed with four-inch lenses. The discovery shows that “great science can still be performed using inexpensive equipment,” according to Francis T. O’Donovan, a fifth-year graduate student at Caltech who led the effort that found TrES-2. O’Donovan corresponded via e-mail from Palomar, Calif., where he is repairing “Sleuth.” “The equipment is simple, but not the science,” O’Donovan wrote. Found...
Your report was well intended, butby making the Ivy League schools your focus, you perpetuated the idea of these schools as the nation's lite, most desirable campuses. Harvard, Yale and M.I.T. have their counterparts on the left coast in the University of California, Berkeley; Stanford; and Caltech. These campuses are certainly not inferior to the Ivy League campuses, and one of them is a public institution. D. BLAIR GIBSON UCLA, B.A. '78, PH.D. '90 EL CAMINO COLLEGE Torrance, Calif...
Richard Ellis paces impatiently back and forth across a small room lined with computer terminals, trying to contain his mounting frustration. The British-born astronomer, now at Caltech, has been granted a single precious night to use one of the twin Keck telescopes, among the most powerful in the world. Last night he and his observing partner, a graduate student named Dan Stark, flew 3,000 miles, from Southern California to Hawaii, where the Kecks are located. And during most of the afternoon and early evening today, they've made their final plans for the "run," as astronomers call...
...death of the mega-stars triggered the formation of normal stars, creating the first recognizable dwarf galaxies. Their radiation in turn burned through the remaining shrouds of hydrogen, bringing the dark ages to a close TIME Graphic by Joe Lertola Sources: Professor Avi Loeb, Harvard University; Professor Richard Ellis, Caltech...
...answer, argued theorists John Schwartz of Caltech and Michael Green of Cambridge University, was to think of the basic units of matter and energy not as particles but as minuscule, vibrating loops and snippets of stuff resembling string, which turn out to exist not just in our familiar four dimensions of space and time but in 10 or more dimensions. Bizarre as it seemed, this scheme appeared on first blush to explain why particles have the characteristics they do. As a side benefit, it also included a quantum version of gravity and thus of relativity. Just as important, nobody...