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Science begins for LIGO in questto detect gravitational waves
04/07/2003

Science begins for LIGO in questto detect gravitational waves

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Quick action by astronomers worldwide leadsto new insights on mysterious gamma-ray bursts
03/19/2003

Quick action by astronomers worldwide leadsto new insights on mysterious gamma-ray bursts

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Caltech applied physicists invent waveguideto bypass diffraction limits for new optical devices
03/19/2003

Caltech applied physicists invent waveguideto bypass diffraction limits for new optical devices

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Caltech computer scientists develop FAST protocol to speed up Internet
03/18/2003

Caltech computer scientists develop FAST protocol to speed up Internet

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Caltech applied physicists create ultrahigh-Q microcavity on a silicon chip
03/03/2003

Caltech applied physicists create ultrahigh-Q microcavity on a silicon chip

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Catching the Waves with LIGO
02/26/2003

Catching the Waves with LIGO

Marcus Woo
Watson Lecture by Barry Barish on LIGO.
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Nanodevice breaks 1-GHz barrier
01/29/2003

Nanodevice breaks 1-GHz barrier

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Clouds discovered on Saturn's moon Titan
12/18/2002

Clouds discovered on Saturn's moon Titan

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New Theory Accounts for Existence of Binaries in Kuiper Belt
12/13/2002

New Theory Accounts for Existence of Binaries in Kuiper Belt

Robert Tindol
In the last few years, researchers have discovered more than 500 objects in the Kuiper belt, a gigantic outer ring in the outskirts of the solar system, beyond the orbit of Neptune. Of these, seven so far have turned out to be binaries--two objects that orbit each other. The surprise is that these binaries all seem to be pairs of widely separated objects of similar size. This is surprising because more familiar pairings, such as the Earth/moon system, tend to be unequal in size and/or rather close together.
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Earthbound experiment confirms theory accounting for sun's scarcity of neutrinos
12/06/2002

Earthbound experiment confirms theory accounting for sun's scarcity of neutrinos

Jill Perry
In the subatomic particle family, the neutrino is a bit like a wayward red-haired stepson. Neutrinos were long ago detected-and even longer ago predicted to exist-but everything physicists know about nuclear processes says there should be a certain number of neutrinos streaming from the sun, yet there are nowhere near enough.
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