Thursday, August 23, 2012 | 5:35 pm
This full-resolution image shows part of the deck of NASA’s Curiosity rover taken from one of the rover’s Navigation cameras looking toward the back left of the rover. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech NASA will hold a televised news conference at 11:30 a.m. PDT ... More »
Thursday, August 23, 2012 | 5:35 pm
Artist’s concept of the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech PADADENA, Calif. — NASA will host a news teleconference at 10 a.m. PDT (1 p.m. EDT), Wednesday, Aug. 29, to announce new discoveries from its Wide-field Infrared Survey... More »
Thursday, August 23, 2012 | 11:00 am
Behaving something like ravenous monsters, tumors need plentiful supplies of cellular building blocks such as amino acids and nucleotides in order to keep growing at a rapid pace and survive under harsh conditions. How such tumors meet these burgeoning demands... More »
Wednesday, August 22, 2012 | 12:00 am
On a hot Pasadena summer afternoon, a group of middle school students looked up with excitement, waiting for their teammates and mentors to drop their engineering projects over a railing four floors up. In the minutes that followed, some of the projects crashe... More »
Tuesday, August 21, 2012 | 9:00 am
MRI scans of a human brain show the regions significantly associated with decision-making in blue, and the regions significantly associated with behavioral control in red. On the left is an intact brain seen from the front — the colored regions are both in the... More »
Monday, August 20, 2012 | 12:00 am
Plasma loops created in the lab were recorded using high-speed cameras. [Credit: Eve Stenson / Caltech] In orbit around Earth is a wide range of satellites that we rely on for everything from television and radio feeds to GPS navigation. Although these spacecr... More »
Friday, August 17, 2012 | 2:00 pm
NASA has signed a new $8.5 billion contract with Caltech, extending the Institute’s management of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) for an additional five years. JPL is NASA’s only federally funded research and development center. It’s history is inextri... More »
Thursday, August 16, 2012 | 11:00 am
Barry Simon, left, receives Henri Poincaré Prize at the International Congress of Mathematical Physics Aug. 6. [Credit: (ICMP photo)] More »
Wednesday, August 15, 2012 | 10:00 am
Caltech’s solar-powered toilet has won the Reinventing the Toilet Challenge issued by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Caltech engineer Michael Hoffmann and his colleagues were awarded $100,000 for their design, which they demonstrated at the Reinvent th... More »
Tuesday, August 14, 2012 | 2:05 am
Rover’s Self Portrait This Picasso-like self portrait of NASA’s Curiosity rover was taken by its Navigation cameras, located on the now-upright mast. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech | › Latest images Remarkable image sets from NASA’s Curiosity rover and Mars ... More »
Tuesday, August 14, 2012 | 2:05 am
Gale Crater Vista, in Glorious Color This is the first 360-degree panorama in color of the Gale Crater landing site taken by NASA’s Curiosity rover. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS The first images from Curiosity’s color Mast Camera, or Mastcam, have been ... More »
Tuesday, August 14, 2012 | 2:05 am
Curiosity’s EDL team releases a timeline for mission milestones (as depicted in this artist’s concept) surrounding the landing of the Mars rover. The following data were compiled by Curiosity’s Entry, Descent and Landing team at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laborator... More »