Most of us are familiar with the process of making budgetary decisions by committee. A group of people, each with their own preferences and goals and representing different interests, must decide among themselves how to allocate resources. Such committees are ... More »
In a discovery that could change how doctors treat digestive disorders, Caltech scientists have uncovered new details about how our nervous system controls our gut and other internal organs. The research team has shown that the body’s stress response system is... More »
Caltech researchers have developed a new method to study the earth’s structure deep beneath the surface, at the boundary between Earth’s brittle crust and the underlying mantle, a region called the Mohorovi?i? discontinuity—Moho for short. Like taking an ultra... More »
Scientists and engineers on campus and Lab wished NASA’s Europa Clipper mission a bon voyage on October 14 as it launched from Earth toward Jupiter’s frozen moon, Europa. Hidden beneath Europa’s icy crust is an ocean containing twice the amount of water as on ... More »
Caltech researchers from campus and JPL have collaborated to devise a method for coating lithium-ion battery cathodes with graphene, extending the life and performance of these widely used rechargeable batteries. These efforts have led to a promising discovery... More »
Huntington Medical Research Institutes (HMRI), a pioneer in scientific research with a track record of groundbreaking discoveries, announced promising breakthroughs in the treatment of stroke at the American Heart Association (AHA) Scientific Sessions in Chica... More »
It was Thanksgiving Day 2015, and geochemist John Eiler was sitting alone in an airport in Bremen, Germany, eating goose—the closest thing he could find to the turkey he would have been having back home with his family in Sierra Madre. He had ventured to Breme... More »
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 »
