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Caltech and Cedars-Sinai Health Sciences University announced a formal partnership this month that will create joint research grants, shared faculty and student appointments, and co-hosted scientific symposia between the Pasadena university and the Los Angeles... More »
Some of Pasadena’s most prominent research institutions — Carnegie Observatories, Caltech, and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory — will set up exhibitions for K-12 students and their families at the annual PUSD Science Fest on Saturday, March 7, at John Muir Hi... More »
The lithium-ion battery is everywhere — in the phone in your pocket, the laptop on your desk, the electric car in your neighbor’s driveway. But the chemistry that makes it work depends on minerals that are expensive, difficult to extract, and finite. Kimberly... More »
The planets in our solar system grew out of a disk of material that swirled around our Sun. Inner rocky planets formed as tiny grains stuck together, becoming pebbles, then boulders, and, ultimately, full-grown planets. The outer gas and ice giant planets also... More »
Right now, molecules in the air are moving around you in chaotic and unpredictable ways. To make sense of such systems, physicists use a law known as the Boltzmann distribution, which, rather than describe exactly where each particle is, describes the chance o... More »
Caltech scientists have developed a way to guide light on silicon wafers with low signal loss approaching that of optical fiber at visible wavelengths. This accomplishment paves the way for a new generation of ultra-coherent and efficient photonic integrated c... More »
A technology pioneered at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena is showing promise as a tool for tracking plastic pollution in the world’s oceans, though scientists caution that significant challenges remain before space-based sensors can reliably detec... More »
The power of artificial intelligence (AI) and advanced computing has made it possible to design genetic sequences encoding for diverse biological applications, such as proteins that form the building blocks of materials stronger than steel, or personalized can... More »
Rev. Dr. David Wilkinson spent his early career studying how stars form in distant galaxies. Then he became a Methodist minister. Now he holds doctorates in both theoretical astrophysics and systematic theology—credentials that put him in rare company to addre... More »
For the thousands of local residents employed by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a new federal budget passed by Congress on Thursday afternoon brings a fragile sense of stability, for now ending a period of profound uncertainty marked by mass layoffs and the lo... More »
Kevin Noertker spent his undergraduate years at Caltech studying mechanical engineering. Now he runs an aviation company trying to electrify the skies, and on January 24 he returns to campus to explain what that means for the people who live beneath the flight... More »
The international science project headquartered in Pasadena that is building one of the world’s largest telescopes has named a new leader as it enters a key phase of construction and funding. The GMTO Corporation announced Monday that astronomer Daniel T. Jaff... More »
