The nucleus of each of your cells contains all the genetic information (the genome) necessary to build every type of cell and protein in your entire body. Like a complex library in a tiny space 50 times smaller than the width of a human hair, genes are organiz... More »
In a significant breakthrough, researchers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, including Renyu Hu from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, as the lead author, and Aaron Bello-Arufe, also from JPL, as a co-author, have potentially detected atmospher... More »
Two Caltech professors, Thomas Y. Hou and Jonas C. Peters, have been elected amongst the newest members of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) this year. Membership in the academy is considered one of the highest honors a scientist can receive. Thomas Hou i... More »
While growing up, alumnus Tyler Colenbrander (BS ’23) knew that he liked making things, but it was not until his high school STEM program that he found his true calling as an engineer: “My first year in high school, we had an alternative energy car project in ... More »
Carver Mead (BS ’56, PhD ’60), Caltech’s Gordon and Betty Moore Professor of Engineering and Applied Science, Emeritus, has been honored with a lifetime contribution award by the jury that confers the Misha Mahowald Prizes for Neuromorphic Engineering. Mead wa... More »
John Dabiri (PhD ’05), Caltech’s Centennial Professor of Aeronautics and Mechanical Engineering, has studied jellyfish through a variety of lenses over the years. He has sought to understand their energy-saving locomotion strategies so that ocean vessels might... More »
NASA’s Innovative Advanced Concepts program (NIAC) has selected six visionary concept studies for additional funding and development, including a lunar railway system being developed at the agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena. The Flexible Levitatio... More »
Every year, more than 795,000 people experience having a stroke, often resulting in brain damage that impairs their ability to speak, walk, or perform tasks. Fortunately, in many cases, these abilities can be regained through physical therapy. With practice, o... More »
Precise brightness measurements over a broad spectrum of mid-infrared light, combined with 3D climate models and previous observations from other telescopes, suggest the presence of thick, high clouds covering the nightside, clear skies on the dayside, and equ... More »
Eduardo Martinez, a master’s student in civil engineering at California State University, Los Angeles, initially saw no connection between wastewater management and the search for life on Mars. However, after his professor, Arezoo Khodayari, pointed him toward... More »
NASA’s Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC) technology demonstration, led by the agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, has achieved significant milestones in its mission to revolutionize space communications. Riding aboard the Psyche spacecraft, ... More »
No crystal ball is needed to envision a future that engineers have in mind, one in which air taxis and other flying vehicles ferry passengers between urban locations, avoiding the growing gridlock on the ground below. Companies are already prototyping and test... More »
