An imaging instrument developed and managed at Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, initially designed to study how desert dust affects global climate, has been granted a three-year mission extension, building on its success with new applications ranging fro... More »
When NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft flew by Uranus in 1986, it provided scientists’ first — and, so far, only — close glimpse of this strange, sideways-rotating outer planet. Alongside the discovery of new moons and rings, baffling new mysteries confronted scient... More »
A Harvard Center for Astrophysics Ph.D. candidate has developed a pioneering method to trace the universe’s vast gravitational tidal forces by examining small groups of galaxies called “multiplets.” Claire Lamman, will present at a lunch talk on Friday, Nov. 1... More »
Since their discovery in 2007, fast radio bursts—extremely energetic pulses of radio-frequency light—have lit up the sky repeatedly, leading astronomers on a chase to uncover their origins. Currently, confirmed fast radio bursts, or FRBs, number in the hundred... More »
Jonathan N. Katz, Caltech’s Kay Sugahara Professor of Social Sciences and Statistics, has won the Society for Political Methodology’s Career Achievement Award for his research into modeling election dynamics. The Society for Political Methodology, founded in 1... More »
In a groundbreaking initiative managed by Pasadena’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, NASA’s newest space telescope will create the most detailed color map of the universe ever attempted, detecting over 100 colors from hundreds of millions of stars and galaxies to r... More »
Cause and effect. We understand this concept from an early age. Tug on a pull toy’s string, and the toy follows. Naturally, things get much more complicated as a system grows, as the number of variables increases, and as noise enters the picture. Eventually, i... More »
We’ve seen an evolution of procedures and technologies, mostly aimed and expanding the franchise—providing more and better opportunities for people to register to vote and express their opinions on Election Day. But as we continue to see an evolution of techno... More »
Jet Propulsion Laboratory and California Institute of Technology, two powerhouse Pasadena institutions, are jointly spearheading a mission that could revolutionize our understanding of water on the Moon. When the mission, NASA’s Lunar Trailblazer, begins orbit... More »
A series of three papers from neuroscientist David J. Anderson’s laboratory, two in the journal Nature and one in the journal Cell, reveal new insights into the neural signals underlying internal emotional states including aggression and sexual arousal. The st... More »
Astrophysicists from Caltech and MIT report that they have observed for the first time a “black hole triple”—a system of three stars, one of which is a black hole. Prior to the discovery, this black hole was thought to have just one partner star not two. In th... More »
As artificial intelligence transforms industries at an unprecedented pace, federal regulators and technology leaders are preparing to confront pressing questions about AI oversight at a high-profile panel in Pasadena. The discussion, “Regulating Innovation: Po... More »
