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The University of Tokyo will webcast from Japan a press conference announcing the establishment of an endowment for the Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (IPMU) by The Kavli Foundation - the first time a National University in Japan hosts a named research institute with endowment donated from a foreign foundation. It will also announce the Institute's establishment as the first Kavli Institute in Japan.

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Three researchers - Maja Matarić, Ayse Saygin and Andrea Thomaz - discuss how understanding the human mind is the key to social robotics, and what we can expect from this field in the future.

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Three prominent researchers – Alan Leshner, Martha Farah and Jay Giedd – discuss how neuroscience is, and should be, influencing criminal courts, from the determination of criminal responsibility to the issuing of sentences.

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In 2008, the Italian satellite PAMELA detected a curious excess of antimatter positrons – a startling discovery that could have been a sign of the existence of dark matter. With assistance from the Earth's magnetic field, the Fermi Gamma-ray Telescope confirms a cosmic excess of antimatter positrons, but not the spike expected if evidence of dark matter.

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Using a new tool, Cornell University researchers deliberately created atomic-level disorder in order to probe the workings of heavy fermion compounds. They found that, rather than hindering superconductivity, magnetism was an essential ingredient -- and if controlled, may be a key for future advances in the field.

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Using skin cells from patients with mental disorders, scientists are creating brain cells that are now providing extraordinary insights into afflictions like schizophrenia and Parkinson’s disease.

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Three prominent researchers discuss how recent findings from the Kepler mission are deepening our knowledge of planets beyond our solar system, as well as redefining the boundaries where life could exist.

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Researchers are beginning to decipher what exactly happens in our brains when we are making decisions. Three experts in in the field describe the genesis of this cutting-edge field and potential practical applications of this research.

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A recent Kavli Futures Symposium focused on the progress, and promise, of evolving biological functions in the lab. Now, three Symposium participants discuss this remarkable research, and how it's drawing together diverse scientific fields.

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Will dark matter turn out to be Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs)? This week, an experiment deep in a mine added new and intriguing information about this theory. The scientist leading the research team -- Juan Collar, the Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics, University of Chicago -- discusses the latest findings and their implications.

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At the White House today, President Barack Obama met in the Oval Office with the seven U.S. recipients of the 2010 Kavli Prizes to recognize and honor their seminal contributions to the three fields for which the Prizes are awarded -- astrophysics, nanoscience and neuroscience.

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Four prominent scientists -- David Awschalom (UCSB), Angela Belcher (MIT), Donald Eigler (IBM Almaden Research Center) and Michael Roukes (Caltech) -- join in a dialogue about the future of nanoscience in the next fifty years.

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Addressing the Kavli Prize Science Forum: 2010, Norway's foreign minister highlights the impact of global climate change on the Arctic region, and the need for scientific guidance as nations respond to receding Arctic sea ice. Along with the prepared remarks, the address is now available as a slide show and audio presentation at: http://www.kavlifoundation.org/2010-kavli-prize-science-forum-jonas-store-opening-address

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At the 2010 Kavli Prize Science Forum, John Holdren, Science Advisor to U.S. President Barack Obama, detailed the need and efforts to mitigate "global climate disruption." The complete presentation, as well as a transcript of the address, is available at www.kavlifoundation.org.

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The 2010 Kavli Prize laureates were presented their awards Tuesday by His Majesty King Harald of Norway during a ceremony at the Oslo Concert Hall.

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A look at the NRC Decadal Survey for Astronomy and Astrophysics with Survey Committee Chair Roger Blandford and Committee Member Michael Turner.

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In September, leading scientists across several disciplines will gather for the next Kavli Futures Symposium to discuss what science needs from computing. In advance of this meeting, four of the participants discuss those needs, how current computing advances are impacting research, and how the future of computing is looking extreme and green -- moving closer to how the brain computes.

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Science has a long history of crossing borders, bridging cultures and balancing the public good with private gain. That tradition, the focus of the upcoming Kavli Prize Science Forum, may face a more challenging future.

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On September 6, global leaders critical to shaping science policy in the US, Europe and Asia will gather in Oslo for the 2010 Kavli Prize Science Forum. Keynote speakers are John P. Holdren, Science Advisor to President Barack Obama and Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy, Executive Office of the President, and Ernst-Ludwig Winnacker, Secretary General of the Human Frontier Science Program and the first Secretary General of the European Research Council. The Forum will focus on "The Role of International Cooperation in Science."

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Neural circuitry is constantly changing to meet the challenges of its environment. Neuroscientist Tobias Bonhoeffer tells how new techniques enable researchers to watch this process of adaptation as never before.

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Eight scientists whose discoveries have dramatically expanded human understanding in the fields of astrophysics, nanoscience and neuroscience have been recognized with the award of the million-dollar Kavli Prizes.

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On June 3, 8:30-10am EDT, the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters will announce the 2010 Kavli Prize laureates. A LIVE WEBCAST will include the announcements from Oslo and a special prize program from the World Science Festival in New York, featuring a keynote address from New York by Harold Varmus, Co-Chair of President Obama's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology. Media may preregister for both events.

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Directors of the Kavli Institute at Cornell for Nanoscale Science discuss their new “high-risk, high-payoff” mission to push the technology of observation, measurement and control to ever-smaller dimensions.

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If approved, a new array for detecting ultra-high energy cosmic rays will crisscross farms and ranches in Colorado. To succeed, researchers are not only applying scientific ingenuity; they are also recruiting communities as partners in exploring the sky.

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In a far-reaching dialogue, three pioneering researchers -- Nicholas Spitzer, Kwabena Boahen and Hongkun Park -- discuss the synergy between nanoscience and neuroscience, what it means for the future, and how it is driving current research.

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US President Science Advisor John P. Holdren and Ernst-Ludwig Winnacker, the first Secretary General of the European Research Council, will be keynote note speakers at inaugural forum, joining leaders of international science societies and academies in Oslo, Norway to discuss international cooperation in science.

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The 2010 Kavli Prizes in astrophysics, nanoscience and neuroscience have opened the call for nominations. Open through December 15, nominations must be submitted to the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. (www.kavliprize.no)