Sentences with phrase «at california»

In 1997, he and Kip Thorne, a gravitational theorist at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in Pasadena, entered a wager with John Preskill, also a Caltech theorist.

David Stevenson, a planetary scientist at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena and one of the theorists who originally proposed the mechanism of helium rain, said in an email that it's always good to get experimental confirmation of a theory.

The peculiar nature of the earthquake was one reason it killed fewer than 9000 people, and it could have been far worse, says Jean - Philippe Avouac, a seismologist at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena and leader of the studies, published today in Science and in Nature Geoscience.

The new fossil is more convincing because it finally shows an adult animal, says Eric Davidson, a developmental biologist at the California Institute of Technology and part of the team that reported the fossil last March.

«We are a minority; unless we are known, we are invisible,» explains Amy A. Ross, Ph.D., an associate biologist at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena.

Enlisting the help of Sandra Banack, an expert on Pacific bats at California State University, Fullerton, Cox tested three specimens of fruit bat collected on Guam in the 1950s, at the height of the epidemic.

BIOFAB is also receiving a push from a recently announced synthetic competition, spearheaded by Richard Murray, a biological engineer at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena.

«There's a lot of anecdotal evidence for how animals and even plants respond to totality,» when the moon completely blocks the sun, says Elise Ricard, spokesperson for an eclipse project called Life Responds at the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco...

Chuck Kopczak, curator of ecology at the California Science Center, began studying the lizards of Guantanamo Bay in 2009, including the Anolis smallwoodi, pictured above.

Robert Grubbs, a chemist now at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, and colleagues solved this problem by replacing molybdenum with ruthenium, a less electron - hungry transition metal.

The third group, led by Lulu Qian, a biochemist at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, came up with a new way to create flat DNA origami — based images.

Julian West, First - year chemistry postdoctoral fellow at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena

Researchers had intended to start their first data run with the new rigs on that day, but several systems — including the injection system — were not ready to go, says David Reitze, a physicist and executive director of LIGO at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena.

Donna Kline, a fish ecologist at California State University in Monterey Bay, thinks that far from destroying a habitat, the trawl may have created a new one by etching grooves into the flat bottom.

In the early 1950s, he was at the California Institute of Technology studying carbon in rivers.

In separate research Famiglietti looked at California's aquifers — which lay outside the Colorado River basin — and found that they had also been severely diminished, having dropped by about 7 trillion gallons since just 2011.

In such situations, people are forced to out themselves or walk away depending on people's points of view,» declares Rochelle Diamond, the chair of NOGLSTP and a professional staff member at the California Institute of Technology's Division of Biology, «You don't know where people stand until issues become public.»

At the California Lighting Teaching Center (CLTC) in Davis, California, researchers explore light from many angles.

On large screens mounted on Beckman Mall at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, in a sleepy predawn haze, the mission's extended web of researchers watched the signal fade out.

It really forces them to grapple with the question of what sleep is,» says Ravi Nath, the paper's first author and a molecular geneticist at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in Pasadena.

«We've made a prediction on the basis of our best theories, and it is wrong, wildly wrong,» says Sean Carroll, a theoretical physicist at the California Institute of Technology.

Thomas Landefeld, Associate Dean at California State University, Dominguez Hills, encourages administrators at four - year institutions to recruit more community college science students.

Heather Knutson, an astronomer at California Institute of Technology who pioneered Spitzer's thermal mapping of giant exoplanets, is similarly skeptical.

Anza - Borrego Desert State Park; Dr. Lawrence Vescera, volunteer paleontologist at the California State Parks Colorado Desert District Stout Research Center in Borrego Springs; and Richard Cerutti, former paleontological monitor at the San Diego Natural History Museum.

In the device created by Changhuei Yang and his team at the California Institute of Technology, light shines on a liquid sample flowing through a narrow channel, below which are one - micron - wide apertures spaced 10 microns apart.

In addition to the experiment proposed in that publication, another paper coauthored by Keith and collaborators at the California Institute of Technology (CalTech) collects and reviews a number of other experimental methods, to demonstrate the diversity of possible approaches.

This study brings us one step closer to pinpointing what we mean when we call something an emotion, says Ralph Adolphs at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena.

But there's much less information out there on what people actually think about the ocean and some of the protection measures,» says California Sea Grant Extension Specialist Jennifer O'Leary, a study coauthor who is based at California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo.

A faculty member at Cambridge recommended he hook up with Professor Philip Saffman, who is based at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech).

«It's too early for conclusions, but we expect the results to help us connect what we learned at Yellowknife Bay to what we'll learn at Mount Sharp,» said John Grotzinger, Curiosity project scientist at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena.

In the Earth Surface Dynamics Lab at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) the behavior of rivers is modeled through the use of artificial rivers — flumes — through which water can be pumped at varying rates over a variety of carefully graded sediments while drag force and acceleration are measured.

The machine, increasingly popular since it was introduced at a California medical center nearly 25 years ago, typically is as heavy as an airliner, surrounded by a shield of concrete and often housed in a building several stories tall.

Last year a team led by Kerry Valhala at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena used this principle to amplify the mechanical oscillations of a tiny resonator just as light is amplified in a laser (Physical Review Letters, vol 104, p 083901).

Now Preskill, a theoretical physicist at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, is scratching his head over the latest one to surface.

«I discovered competitive intelligence by accident,» recalls Natalya Nikitina, who obtained a Ph.D. in evolutionary development biology from the University of Cape Town in South Africa, then continued with a postdoc in the same field at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in Pasadena.

But Leemon McHenry, a medical ethicist at California State University in Northridge who has investigated the use of ghostwriters on articles about other drugs, thinks that the practice stretches beyond these high - profile cases.

That argument does not impress Mike Brown, an astronomer at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in Pasadena, who along with Caltech colleague Konstantin Batygin catapulted Planet Nine into the mainstream with their bold claim.

Students at California State University, Northridge, ponder the destruction wrought by a quake on an unrecognized fault.

Six years ago, she was working in private industry in California while her India - born husband, polymer and material chemist Amitav Sanyal, 39, worked as a lecturer at California State University.

At the California Science Center, the new exhibit RACE: Are We So Different?

«While the current study found that corals grow faster when exposed to low levels of SGD nutrient enrichment, coral cover remains extremely low on the Maunalua Bay reef flats,» said Nyssa Silbiger, study co-author and assistant professor at California State University, Northridge.

As a young professor at the California Institute of Technology, Pauling realized that he could explain the magnetism of certain molecules by the arrangements of their electrons and that this approach satisfied the predictions of quantum mechanics.

Brehm conducted the study with Nicole Fox, assistant professor of sociology at California State University, Sacramento.

Jahren «has transformed the sedentary, slow - growing lives of plants into a vibrant series of stories that are interwoven with tales of her own research career in the field of paleo - plant physiology,» wrote reviewer Meg Lowman, a field biologist at the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco who is also an author.

Neuroscientist Huda Zoghbi wins the March of Dimes» developmental biology prize, the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters selects Princeton mathematician Yakov Sinai for its Abel Prize in mathematics, and theoretical physicist William Goldstein takes the helm at California's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.

«This one's at the scene of the crime, but we still have the fingerprints of the other two,» says team member Benjamin Montet at the California Institute of Technology.

NOVEMBER 1 - 3 Bay Area Science Festival More than 60 ongoing events, including hikes along earthquake faults and a session at the California Academy of Sciences on the neuroscience of zombies.

Renno, who co-authored a paper suggesting such a dust - boosting feedback loop in 2008, says he is seeing similar phenomena in field studies at California's Owens Lake.

«I think most physicists would agree that Hawking's greatest contribution is the prediction that black holes emit radiation,» says Sean Carroll, a theoretical physicist at the California Institute of Technology.

After leaving the Army, she enrolled at California State University, Fullerton, but later transferred to CMU.