Caltech: The Signals that Make Cells Self-Destruct
“The migrating cell has to constantly be making decisions ... do this.” The paper appears online in the journal Developmental Cell on June 15. Frank Macabenta, senior postdoctoral scholar research ...
The role of risk aversion in non-conscious decision making
Sixteen students (six females) from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech ... decisions relying on gut feelings, we instructed subjects to respond within 1.5 s after the deck presentation.
How Successful People Overcome Uncertainty
In a recent study, a Caltech neuroeconomist ... per year than their low-EQ counterparts do. To boost your EQ, you have to get good at making sound decisions in the face of uncertainty, even ...
Caltech: Caltech Energy 10 (CE10) Aims to Develop the Roadmap Toward a 50 Percent Reduction in U.S. Global Warming Gas Emissions by 2030
How do we cut U.S. global warming gas emissions by 50 ... which will assemble key decision makers from the energy ecosystem on Caltech’s campus. The workshop aims to generate a new strategic roadmap ...
Championing Science: Communicating Your Ideas to Decision Makers
Championing Scienceshows scientists how to persuasively communicate complex scientific ideas to decision makers in government ... Vannevar Bush, scientists at Caltech and MIT, and others.
Software Glitch Pushes Back NASA’s Psyche Mission Launch by at Least a Year
NASA announced late last week that the long-awaited mission to Psyche, a nearby metal-rich asteroid, will not launch this year. The next possible launch windows for the spacecraft are in 2023 and 2024 ...
What a PhD candidate does in a workday
There, I was introduced to Earth science for the first time ... since I started at Caltech in 2017. The team has been a great source of support, and has even pushed me to do crazy things, like ...
Pasadena’s Caltech breaks ground on Resnick Center, aims to ‘open new portals to sustainability’
The mayor commended the college for studying galaxies while the nearby Jet Propulsion Lab, which is managed by Caltech for NASA, explores them. “Every time I turn around, Caltech isn’t hitting ...
Neural Activity Reveals Preferences Without Choices
We investigate the feasibility of inferring the choices people would make (if given the opportunity) based on their neural responses to the pertinent prospects when they are not engaged in actual ...
NASA's metal asteroid mission Psyche won't launch before mid-2023 (and could face cancellation)
But no final decision has been made at this time, Glaze emphasized ... With a looming decision about what to do next, which could have implications for other Discovery-class missions in the ...
