NASA Administrator Bill Nelson and Deputy Administrator Pam Melroy affirmed the agency’s commitment to studying climate change during a visit to NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena Thursday. The visit was hosted by JPL Interim Director Larry James and... More »
François Tissot, assistant professor of geochemistry and Heritage Medical Research Institute Investigator, has been selected as one of the 2021 Packard Fellows for Science and Engineering. The fellowship is awarded by the David and Lucile Packard Foundation an... More »
A group of researchers at Caltech is hard at work coming up with body-wearable or handheld sensors that can help monitor a person’s health at home or anywhere else. One of the areas these devices work on is persperation analysis – examining the sweat that come... More »
Particles called neutrons are typically very content inside atoms. They stick around for billions of years and longer inside some of the atoms that make up matter in our universe. But when neutrons are free and floating alone outside of an atom, they start to ... More »
David Van Valen (PhD ’11), assistant professor of biology and biological engineering, has been named a 2021 Moore Inventor Fellow. He is one of five fellows named this year by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation. Each fellow will receive $825,000 to “further... More »
Building a map of the complex human brain and its approximately 100 billion individual neurons is no easy task. As a precursor to tackling that monumental challenge, researchers have started off with something smaller and easier—the mouse brain—in order to und... More »
As part of Conversations on Sustainability, a webinar series hosted by the Caltech Science Exchange, Harry Atwater, director of the Liquid Sunlight Alliance (LiSA), discussed the need for carbon-capture technology as well as research that aims to mitigate the ... More »
? In a project seeking to advance the field of robotic mobility, scientists at Caltech have unveiled a bipedal robot fitted with propellers with an unusual gate that lies between walking and flying. The Legs Onboard Drone, or LEONARDO, made its appearance in a... More »
Scientists at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena are celebrating the successful conclusion of a mission by Deep Space Atomic Clock, which was extended into a year of overtime following the completion of the primary mission last year, according to JPL... More »
Caltech has installed solar panels on the rooftops of eight more of its campus buildings to maximize energy production at times when electricity is the most expensive to purchase from the grid. Standard Solar, Inc., a Rockville, Maryland-based company, is fund... More »
Patapoutian shares the prize with David Julius for their “discoveries of receptors for temperature and touch.” Caltech alumnus Ardem Patapoutian (PhD ’96), Presidential Endowed Chair in Neurobiology and Professor at Scripps Research in La Jolla, California and... More »
Caltech announced today that Break Through: The Caltech Campaign, the largest campaign in the Institute’s history, raised $3.4 billion from more than 14,500 donors. The Institute is the smallest undergraduate institution in the country to raise more than $3 bi... More »
