Carnegie Science, which is expanding its presence in Pasadena, is developing six cutting-edge telescope instruments whose functions range from exoplanet detection to dark matter exploration, underscoring the institution’s commitment to advancing our understand... More »
Using data from an instrument designed by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California, the nonprofit Carbon Mapper has released the first methane and carbon dioxide detections from the Tanager-1 satellite. The detections highlight methane plumes in... More »
Physicists like to measure things, and they like those measurements to be as precise as possible. That means working at unfathomably small scales, where distances are much smaller than even the diameters of subatomic particles. Researchers also want to measure... More »
Neural networks have a remarkable ability to learn specific tasks, such as identifying handwritten digits. However, these models often experience “catastrophic forgetting” when taught additional tasks: They can successfully learn the new assignments, but “forg... More »
Caltech’s Entrepreneurs Forum is set to launch its 2024/25 series with an event focused on the future of clean energy. The forum will connect startup founders, investors, and academics to discuss emerging trends and opportunities in renewable energy technologi... More »
What if we could use viruses to fight drug-resistant bacteria? On October 23, 2024, at 7:30 p.m. PT in Caltech’s Beckman Auditorium, structural biologist Bil Clemons, the Arthur and Marian Hanisch Memorial Professor of Biochemistry, will explore his lab’s work... More »
Caltech professor emeritus John Hopfield has been awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics along with Geoffrey Hinton of the University of Toronto “for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks,” according t... More »
Joan Sullivan, a 31-year member of the professional staff at Caltech, has been appointed as the Division Operations Officer (DOO) for the Division of Biology and Biological Engineering (BBE). DOOs are responsible for overseeing operations, logistics, finance, ... More »
Caltech’s newest condensed matter physicist Linda Ye, who grew up in Sichuan, China, specializes in inventing and characterizing new quantum materials that have applications in quantum computer science, materials science, and the development of robust electron... More »
On Tuesday, Oct. 1 engineers at Pasadena’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory announced they had made a difficult but necessary decision to turn off a key science instrument aboard NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft. This move aims to conserve power and extend the mission’s l... More »
The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation has selected Joe Parker, assistant professor of biology and biological engineering, Chen Scholar, and director of Caltech’s Center for Evolutionary Science, as a 2024 MacArthur Fellow. The MacArthur Fellowship ... More »
When physicians want to know more about a patient’s risk of cardiovascular disease, they can order a cardiac stress test. But when it comes to risk of stroke, there is no equivalent scalable and cost-effective test of the brain’s function to help physicians co... More »
