Kavli Affiliate: David Weitz | First 5 Authors: David Issadore, Katherine J. Humphry, Keith A. Brown, Lori Sandberg, David Weitz | Summary: We present a technique to locally and rapidly heat water drops in microfluidic devices with microwave dielectric heating. Water absorbs microwave power more efficiently than polymers, glass, and oils due to its permanent […]
Kavli Affiliate: David Charbonneau | First 5 Authors: David Charbonneau, , , , | Summary: In late August 2005, 80 researchers from more than 15 countries convened for a 4-day conference entitled “The Tenth Anniversary of 51 Peg b: Status and Prospects for Hot Jupiter Studies”. The meeting was held at l’Observatoire de Haute-Provence, the […]
Kavli Affiliate: George M. Whitesides | First 5 Authors: Eric Lauga, Willow R. DiLuzio, George M. Whitesides, Howard A. Stone, | Summary: Near a solid boundary, E. coli swims in clockwise circular motion. We provide a hydrodynamic model for this behavior. We show that circular trajectories are natural consequences of force-free and torque-free swimming, and […]
Kavli Affiliate: David Charbonneau | First 5 Authors: David Charbonneau, , , , | Summary: The Hubble Space Telescope is uniquely able to study planets that are observed to transit their parent stars. The extremely stable platform afforded by an orbiting spacecraft, free from the contaminating effects of the Earth’s atmosphere, enables HST to conduct […]
Kavli Affiliate: David Charbonneau | First 5 Authors: David Charbonneau, , , , | Summary: I present a review of observational efforts to study known extrasolar planets by methods that are complementary to the radial velocity technique. I describe the current state of attempts to detect and characterize such planets by astrometry, by reflected light, […]
Kavli Affiliate: Robert Wood | First 5 Authors: Gad Getz, Hilah Gal, Itai Kela, Eytan Domany, Dan A. Notterman | Summary: We present and review Coupled Two Way Clustering, a method designed to mine gene expression data. The method identifies submatrices of the total expression matrix, whose clustering analysis reveals partitions of samples (and genes) […]