For the first time, researchers have closely observed how the ocean’s tides can speed up or slow down the speed of glacial movement in Antarctica. The new data will help modelers better predict how glaciers will respond to rising sea levels. Caltech’s Brent Mi... More »
Lithium-ion batteries, widely used in devices ranging from electric cars to iPhones, are composed of a cathode made from a positively charged lithium compound and an anode composed of negatively charged carbon. Ideally, anodes would be made of lithium metal, w... More »
The critically acclaimed television series The Mechanical Universe… And Beyond, created at Caltech and broadcast on PBS from 1985-86, is now available in its entirety on YouTube thanks to the efforts of Caltech’s Institute’s Information Science and Technology ... More »
A student from Hamilton Elementary School in Pasadena has been selected as one of the winners of the annual Southern California Metropolitan Water District Student Art Contest and was recognized at a ceremony at MWD headquarters on December 8. Matthew Vargas, ... More »
As the saying goes, every cloud has a silver lining. Even when that cloud is 109,000 metric tons of methane. The Aliso Canyon leak, which began on October 23, 2015 at a SoCalGas natural gas storage facility and took nearly four months to plug, was one of the l... More »
Juno Captures Jupiter ‘Pearl’ This image, taken by the JunoCam imager on NASA’s Juno spacecraft, highlights the seventh of eight features forming a ‘string of pearls on Jupiter — massive counterclockwise rotating storms that appear as white ovals in the gas gi... More »
The Pasadena apartment building President Barack Obama lived in between 1980 and 1981 while an undergraduate at Occidental College will be the scene of a commemorative ceremony and honorary plaque unveiling Saturday. Obama spent two years studying at “Oxy,” fr... More »
Engineers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena are trying to fix a problem with the Mars Curiosity rover’s drill mechanism, as the vehicle remains stationary on the red planet. The rover team at JPL learned on December 1 that Curiosity did not compl... More »
The Merlin Bird Photo ID mobile app has been launched and, thanks to machine-learning technology, can identify hundreds of North American species it “sees” in photos. The app was developed by Caltech and Cornell Tech computer-vision researchers in partnership ... More »
France Córdova (PhD ’79), director of the National Science Foundation (NSF), recently visited Caltech to meet with students and researchers, and to give a talk about the role of the NSF in advancing basic science research — and in translating that knowledge in... More »
ArtCenter College of Design is the only organization in California to receive a National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) grant in the design category to inspire youth to explore design as a career. The grant will support ArtCenter’s new demonstration studio at th... More »
National Endowment for the Arts Chairman Jane Chu has approved more than $30 million in grants as part of the NEA’s first major funding announcement for fiscal year 2017. Included in this announcement is an Art Works grant of $40,000 to Pasadena Arts Council f... More »
