Heart failure is one of the leading causes of hospitalization among older adults in the United States, with over half a million new cases being recorded each year. Half of these individuals will die within five years of developing the disease. Heart failure ca... More »
Gravity data collected by NASA’s Juno mission indicates Jupiter’s atmospheric winds penetrate the planet in a cylindrical manner, parallel to its spin axis. A paper on the findings was recently published in the journal Nature Astronomy. The violent nature of J... More »
Four thousand Martian days after setting its wheels in Gale Crater on Aug. 5, 2012, NASA’s Curiosity rover remains busy conducting exciting science. The rover recently drilled its 39th sample then dropped the pulverized rock into its belly for detailed analysi... More »
“I never would have gone into the scientific field if not for people exposing me to it, inspiring me in it, and carrying me all the way through it.” -David Cagan David Cagan, a chemistry graduate student at Caltech and alumnus of Pasadena City College (PCC), s... More »
In the 1980s, geophysicists made a startling discovery: two continent-sized blobs of unusual material were found deep near the center of the Earth, one beneath the African continent and one beneath the Pacific Ocean. Each blob is twice the size of the Moon and... More »
When mechanical engineers accustomed to building one-of-a-kind spacecraft turn that focus to pumpkins, the results can be hauntingly good. The annual Halloween pumpkin-carving contest at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California may be all in goo... More »
Reza Sadri, the director of the new AI Bootcamp in the Division of Engineering and Applied Science (EAS), comes to Caltech with a mission: to empower scientists and engineers with a deeper understanding of artificial intelligence (AI) and its applications with... More »
Researchers have known for some time that decision makers are more likely to select items that they look at more during the choice process—and, of course, packaging and placement can encourage this. This is called “attentional choice bias,” and it means that y... More »
NISAR will help researchers explore how changes in Earth’s forest and wetland ecosystems are affecting the global carbon cycle and influencing climate change. Once it launches in early 2024, the NISAR radar satellite mission will offer detailed insights into t... More »
Barry Barish, Caltech’s Ronald and Maxine Linde Professor of Physics, Emeritus, and Subra Suresh, a Moore Scholar and former visiting professor, have been honored with the National Medal of Science. Awarded by the president of the United States, the medal is g... More »
On October 14, as most Californians were treated to a partial solar eclipse (see bottom right “visible” image showing the sun’s crescent peeking out from behind the moon), researchers at the Owens Valley Radio Observatory (OVRO) took in a different view. Using... More »
The efforts should help extend the lifetimes of the agency’s interstellar explorers. Engineers for NASA’s Voyager mission are taking steps to help make sure both spacecraft, launched in 1977, continue to explore interstellar space for years to come. One effort... More »
