On October 5, three scientists—Peter Hegemann, Georg Nagel, and Karl Deisseroth—were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the development of optogenetics, a revolutionary tool that ...
On September 22, the Coronagraph Instrument on NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope opened its eyes to cosmic light for the first time. The ultimate purpose of the instrument—which is commanded ...
On Friday, September 25, Caltech formally welcomed its newest class of scholars, including 255 undergraduate students, 173 graduate students, and 40 postdoctoral scholars, at a Convocation ceremony in ...
Alireza Marandi, professor of electrical engineering and applied physics, has been named a 2026 Moore Experimental Physics Investigator. He is one of 21 new investigators named this year by the Gordon ...
Five Caltech faculty members have been selected to receive the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award starting this year. CAREER awards, the NSF's most ...
Isaac Newton is typically portrayed as a solitary scientist with intense focus who was obsessed with power and deeply egotistical. But a new book by Caltech historians Jed Buchwald and Mordechai ...
Caltech is a world-renowned science and engineering Institute that marshals some of the world's brightest minds and most innovative tools to address fundamental scientific questions and pressing ...
The menu pane works like a drawer that slides in from the left side of the page. To close or open the menu, click or tap on the arrows. To move the map view, click and hold your mouse, then drag the ...
Bacteria are remarkably good swimmers—a trait that can be detrimental to human health. One of the most common bacterial infections in a healthcare setting comes from bacteria entering the body through ...
Our cosmos is awash with radio waves, originating from fierce jets blasting out of distant black holes, blinking dead stars closer to home, and many other exotic objects. To observe radio waves—which ...
Since their discovery in 2007, fast radio bursts—extremely energetic pulses of radio-frequency light—have lit up the sky repeatedly, leading astronomers on a chase to uncover their origins. Currently, ...
In the future, delivering therapeutic drugs exactly where they are needed within the body could be the task of miniature robots. Not little metal humanoid or even bio-mimicking robots; think instead ...
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