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Geophysicists Develop Model to Describe Huge Gravity Anomaly of Hudson Bay Region
12/04/1997

Geophysicists Develop Model to Describe Huge Gravity Anomaly of Hudson Bay Region

Robert Tindol

Using a new approach to analyzing planetary gravity fields, two geophysicists, Mark Simons at the California Institute of Technology and Bradford Hager at M.I.T., have shown that incomplete glacial rebound can account for a substantial portion of the Hudson Bay gravity anomaly. Geophysicists Develop Model to Describe Huge Gravity Anomaly of Hudson Bay Region December 1997 97

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Caltech Scientists Devise First Neurochip
10/26/1997

Caltech Scientists Devise First Neurochip

Robert Tindol
Caltech researchers have invented a "neurochip" that connects a network of living brain cells wired together to electrodes incorporated into a silicon chip. Caltech Scientists Devise First Neurochip October 1997 97
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Astronomers Detect Relativistically Expanding Clouds Around the May 8 Gamma-Ray Burst
09/17/1997

Astronomers Detect Relativistically Expanding Clouds Around the May 8 Gamma-Ray Burst

Robert Tindol
Astrophysicists still don't know what caused the gamma-ray burst of May 8, but they now have a size and rate of expansion for its remnant "fireball" to add to the location and distance.
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Possible Planet-Forming Disk imaged by Caltech Radio Astronomers
08/06/1997

Possible Planet-Forming Disk imaged by Caltech Radio Astronomers

A giant disk of gas and dust over 10 times the size of our own solar system has been detected rotating around a young star in the constellation of Auriga. Possible Planet-Forming Disk imaged by Caltech Radio Astronomers August 1997 97
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Caltech Astronomers Crack the Puzzle of Cosmic Gamma-Ray Bursts
05/14/1997

Caltech Astronomers Crack the Puzzle of Cosmic Gamma-Ray Bursts

Robert Tindol
A team of Caltech astronomers has pinpointed a gamma-ray burst several billion light-years away from the Milky Way. The team was following up on a discovery made by the Italian/Dutch satellite BeppoSAX.
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Caltech Astronomer Obtains Data That Could Resolve the "Age Problem"
04/14/1997

Caltech Astronomer Obtains Data That Could Resolve the "Age Problem"

Robert Tindol
Dr. Neill Reid, using information collected by the European Space Agency's Hipparcos satellite, has determined that a key distance measure used to compute the age of certain Milky Way stars is off by 10 to 15 percent. The new data leads to the conclusion that the oldest stars are actually 11 to 13 billion years old, rather than 16 to 18 billion years old, as had been thought.
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Stephen Hawking Makes Good On a Bet
02/06/1997

Stephen Hawking Makes Good On a Bet

Robert Tindol
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Caltech Astronomers Obtain the Most Detailed Infared Image of the Environment of an Active Black Hole
01/13/1997

Caltech Astronomers Obtain the Most Detailed Infared Image of the Environment of an Active Black Hole

Robert Tindol
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