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• Solar panel oversupply is a good thing, says Resnick Sustainability Institute director

  The current oversupply of solar modules which is putting tremendous pressure on the industry and its financial backers has led to a generally negative view of the solar industry. However, according to Dr. Harry A. Atwater, Director of the Resnick Sustainability Institute at Caltech, while the curren more

• Point of light
  

  As technology advances, it tends to shrink. From cell phones to laptops - powered by increasingly faster and tinier processors - everything is getting thinner and sleeker. And now light beams are getting smaller, too. Engineers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have created a devic more

• Showing the way to improved water-splitting catalysts
  

  Scientists and engineers around the world are working to find a way to power the planet using solar-powered fuel cells. Such green systems would split water during daylight hours, generating hydrogen (H2) that could then be stored and used later to produce water and electricity. But robust catalysts more

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• [News of the Week] Newsmakers

  This week's Newsmakers are Stephen Quake of Stanford University, who has won the Lemelson-MIT Prize; David Jewitt of UCLA, Jane Luu of MIT, Franz-Ulrich Hartl of the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Arthur Horwich of Yale University, and Maxim Kontsevich of the Institute for Advanced Scientific more

• Roy J. Britten, 1919-2012: Our early years at Caltech [Retrospectives]

  Roy Britten died in Costa Mesa, California on January 21, 2012, of pancreatic cancer at age 92. His work in the 1960s, in which he used renaturation kinetics to provide a quantitative image of the single-copy and repetitive sequence content of animal genomes, was of gigantic intellectual import, and more

• Click Chemistry Facilitates Formation of Reporter Ions and Simplified Synthesis of Amine-Reactive Multiplexed Isobaric Tags for Protein Quantification

  We report the development of novel reagents for cell-level protein quantification, referred to as Caltech isobaric tags (CITs), which offer several advantages in comparison with other isobaric tags (e.g., iTRAQ and TMT). Click chemistry, copper(I)-catalyzed azide–alkyne cycloaddition (CuAAC), is app more

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