Caltech faculty Hirosi Ooguri (left) and Chris Hirata have received new funding from the Simons Foundation for their work in theoretical physics. For nearly 20 years, the Simons Foundation has worked to advance mathematics and the physical sciences through gra... More »
Extent of surface melt over Greenland’s ice sheet on July 8, 2012 (left) and July 12, 2012 (right). Measurements from three satellites showed that on July 8, about 40 percent of the ice sheet had undergone thawing at or near the surface. In just a few days, th... More »
Sally Ride’s official astronaut portrait. She joined the astronaut corps in 1978. Image credit: NASA NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Director Charles Elachi released the following statement on Sally K. Ride, America’s first woman in space, who died on Monday, J... More »
In this image from last year’s award ceremony, President Barack Obama greets the 2010 PECASE recipients in the East Room of the White House, Oct. 14, 2011. Image credit: Official White House Photo by Pete Souza President Obama has named six NASA individuals, i... More »
Top left: A single jellyfish lappet, or appendage, was multiplied and rotated to form an eight-armed mosaic image suggesting the muscle geometry (shown in green.) Right: An illustration shows the different stages of analyzing a juvenile jellyfish in order to d... More »
The Caltech and UCLA have launched highly productive collaborations in cancer research and other areas of biomedicine in recent years, frequently through the Caltech lab of Nobel Laureate and President Emeritus David Baltimore. Now, an endowment established by... More »
Mike Ressler is the NASA project scientist for the MIRI instrument that will fly onboard NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech This summer welcomed the delivery of the James Webb Space Telescope’s first flight instrument, the Mid-In... More »
The powerful magnitude-8.6 earthquake that shook Sumatra on April 11, 2012, was a seismic standout for many reasons, not the least of which is that it was larger than scientists thought an earthquake of its type—an intraplate strike-slip quake—could ever be. N... More »
These false color mosaics from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft capture lightning striking within the huge storm that encircled Saturn’s northern hemisphere for much of 2011. PASADENA, Calif. – Saturn was playing the lightning storm blues. NASA’s Cassini spacecraft h... More »
Astronomers using NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope have detected what they believe is an alien world just two-thirds the size of Earth – one of the smallest on record. The exoplanet candidate, known as UCF-1.01, orbits a star called GJ 436, which is located a me... More »
Huntington Memorial Hospital has been ranked among the top hospitals in the nation by U.S. News & World Report. Â The hospital received the ranking in the orthopedics and urology specialties, and is considered the 18th best hospital in the nation for orthopedi... More »
The AAReST spacecraft as envisioned by the 2011 Ae105 class. [Credit: Ae105 class/Keith Patterson] Forget problem sets and exams. For their homework and final assignments, students in Caltech’s Aerospace Engineering course (Ae105) work on a proposed space miss... More »
