Engineers at Pasadena’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory have achieved a remarkable feat, successfully switching NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft to a different set of thrusters, ensuring continued communication with the 47-year-old probe. The team of local experts execut... More »
The universe is vast and filled with countless worlds, but a new exhibit at the Brand Library & Art Center in Glendale, California, aims to shrink time and space. For “Blended Worlds: Experiments in Interplanetary Imagination,” artists collaborated with scient... More »
Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena is spearheading a new partnership with California State University, Los Angeles to diversify the STEM workforce. The collaboration, funded by a $300,000 NASA grant, will focus on supporting students from underprivileged co... More »
Pasadena’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory is managing a groundbreaking National Aeronautics and Space Administration mission that has started gathering data on heat emitted from Earth’s polar regions. The Polar Radiant Energy in the Far-Infrared Experiment (PREFIRE... More »
The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein provides a rare opportunity for readers to move through Einstein’s life at a leisurely pace, perusing all his writings, from his informal correspondence to his most carefully argued scientific theories. Volume 17, which ... More »
Paul Sternberg, Bren Professor of Biology, has been selected as the new chair of Caltech’s Division of Biology and Biological Engineering (BBE). On September 1, he will begin a five-year term, taking over the William K. Bowes Jr. Leadership Chair from current ... More »
On a remote patch of the windy, frozen Beaufort Sea north of Alaska, engineers from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California huddled together, peering down a narrow hole in a thick layer of sea ice. Below them, a cylindrical robot gathered test ... More »
Personalized wearable devices that monitor people’s health are on the rise. From watches to patches and other types of sensors, these smart devices can monitor heart activity, inflammation levels, and more to help patients better manage their health from their... More »
For humans throughout history, the sky has evoked thoughts of a vast emptiness, of a great vacant dome punctuated during the day by the sun, and at night by numerous tiny spots of light (and, periodically, by the moon). As we have ventured into space, both phy... More »
Jet Propulsion Laboratory has led a groundbreaking study quantifying the massive carbon emissions from Canada’s devastating 2023 wildfires. The research, published Monday in Nature, reveals that the fires released approximately 640 million metric tons of carbo... More »
In a groundbreaking study, Caltech researchers, in collaboration with scientists from Rockefeller University and the University of Washington, have demonstrated that a new vaccine candidate could offer protection against a wide range of coronaviruses, includin... More »
In 2022, Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience Dean Mobbs began to investigate the relationship between social media use and mental health and well-being. As his research program ramps up to test brain activity and physiological markers of stress during social m... More »
