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Caltech scientists are enduring the bone-chilling cold of Antarctica to get an unprecedented view of what is happening at the edges of its ice sheets. The team behind the GLASS mission (Grounding zone Long-term Acoustic Sensing of Structure) reached the frozen... More »
More than 20 years ago, while out taking photos in chilly northern Ontario, Canada, Ken Libbrecht (BS ’80), a Caltech professor of physics, noticed enormous snowflakes drifting down all around him. Although that wintry wonderland moment occurred decades ago, o... More »
Caltech is a place unlike any other, an Institute that is truly “small but mighty.” Its small size and the expertise of its community enable interdisciplinary connections and collaborative projects at all scales, sometimes in rapid response to devastating need... More »
They might be tiny “antweight bots,” but they are amped up and out to destroy their competitors. They are under-1-pound, 3D-printed, and remotely controlled robots designed and created by the newly formed Caltech Combat Robotics club, and they have started tak... More »
One of NASA’s key cameras orbiting Mars has reached a major milestone, capturing its 100,000th image of the planet’s surface—an achievement that reflects nearly two decades of continuous observation by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, a mission managed by NASA... More »
When the most massive stars reach the ends of their lives, they blow up in spectacular supernova explosions, which seed the universe with heavy elements such as carbon and iron. Another type of explosion—the kilonova—occurs when a pair of dense dead stars, cal... More »
Andrew Sinclair came to Caltech as a visiting assistant professor in 2022. Finding Caltech to be an ideal place to carry out his research on Chinese finance, he has stayed on. Sinclair continues to pursue his research and teach Caltech students about finance t... More »
The growth of bacterial colonies, the piling up of snow during a storm, and the spread of a wildfire are random, seemingly unrelated events, yet they all follow universal mathematical laws. Caltech’s new assistant professor of mathematics Lingfu Zhang wants to... More »
Hundreds of different types of neurons make up the neural circuits in our brains. Over the years, scientists have discovered many details about those different cell types, including their electrical properties and the early genetic indicators that dictate what... More »
Mansi Kasliwal (PhD ’11), a Caltech professor of astronomy, has been named the new director of Caltech’s Palomar Observatory, while Dimitri Mawet, the David Morrisroe Professor of Astronomy at Caltech, has been named the new director of instrumentation of the ... More »
When a gas is highly energized, its electrons get torn from the parent atoms, resulting in a plasma—the oft-forgotten fourth state of matter (along with solid, liquid, and gas). When we think of plasmas, we normally think of extremely hot phenomena such as the... More »
Scientists who helped revolutionize humanity’s understanding of Jupiter and its mysterious moons will gather in Pasadena next week to celebrate three decades since NASA’s Galileo spacecraft entered orbit around the solar system’s largest planet. The public pan... More »
