Soon, a new cone-shaped spacecraft will launch into space on a mission to chart the skies like never before. Called SPHEREx (for Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer), the NASA mission will provide a uniqu... More »
NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena will mark another milestone in space exploration the SPHEREx space telescope heads into space after its scheduled launch on February 27. The mission, managed by JPL, will investigate the origins of the universe and ... More »
Scientists at Caltech have developed a groundbreaking method to program and control living cellular materials, marking a major advance in bioengineering and nanotechnology. The research team, building on their 2019 discoveries, has created the first programmin... More »
In the American West, water is a sacred and scarce resource plagued by pollution, shortages, and contentious fights over legal rights, often between Indigenous peoples and business groups. At Caltech, Laura Taylor, a postdoctoral instructor in the Division of ... More »
Marianne Bronner, Edward B. Lewis Professor of Biology and director of the Beckman Institute, has been named as the recipient of the 2025 Vilcek Prize in Biomedical Science. Awarded by the Vilcek Foundation, the prize is given in recognition of immigrant scien... More »
With 2024 receding into the distance, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory is already deep into a busy 2025. Early in the new year, the Eaton Fire came close to JPL, destroying the homes of more than 200 employees, but work has continued apace to maintain mission ... More »
The idea of traveling through interstellar space using spacecraft propelled by ultrathin sails may sound like the stuff of sci-fi novels. But in fact, a program started in 2016 by Stephen Hawking and Yuri Milner known as the Breakthrough Starshot Initiative ha... More »
Huntington Medical Research Institutes (HMRI), a pioneer in scientific research with a track record of groundbreaking discoveries, provides crucial insights into predicting the long-term risk for cardiovascular damage from e-cigarettes (ECs), particularly thos... More »
On January 9, approximately a full day after the Eaton fire devastated the foothill area of Altadena, north of the Caltech campus in Pasadena, California, several specialized scientific instruments in a shipping container in Pico Rivera, about 11 miles to the ... More »
In response to the Eaton Fire and other blazes that have burned throughout the Greater Los Angeles region in recent weeks, Caltech Professor of Geology Michael Lamb pivoted from his earlier Earnest C. Watson Lecture topic to different and timely subject: debri... More »
President Biden has named 19 researchers who contribute to NASA’s mission as recipients of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE). These recipients are among nearly 400 federally funded researchers receiving the honor. Establ... More »
A Pasadena scientist is leading a mission that will observe Earth like no mission before, as the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory prepares to launch its collaborative NISAR satellite with the Indian Space Research Organ... More »
