ArtCenter College of Design’s Alyce de Roulet Williamson Gallery is currently hosting other-wordly “Uncertainty,” the latest in a series of exhibitions exploring the confluence of science and art and curated by Gallery Director Stephen Nowlin. The indoor setup... More »
A new helper in the fight against cancer and other diseases of the gut may be genetically altered bacteria that release medicines to tumors or the gut. Now, a new study performed using mice demonstrates how doctors might one day better regulate those therapeut... More »
The City of Pasadena was ranked as a top digital city this year by a judging panel for the 2016 Digital Cities Survey, undertaken every summer by the Center for Digital Government, a national research and advisory institute on information technology policies a... More »
Dean Mobbs, a new assistant professor of cognitive neuroscience, studies what happens in our brains when we interact with others and when we are under threat. Mobbs, a native of Kettering, England, received his PhD from University College London and was an ass... More »
Rolf H. Sabersky, Caltech professor of mechanical engineering, emeritus, passed away on October 24, 2016, at the age of 96. Born on October 20, 1920, in Berlin, German, Sabersky earned his bachelor’s, master’s, and PhD degrees in mechanical engineering from Ca... More »
Caltech alumnus and Associate Howard Jessen (BS ’46) recently donated to Caltech to endow the Howard E. and Susan C. Jessen Postdoctoral Instructorship in the Humanities through a matching program established by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The gift will h... More »
Edward Stolper, Caltech’s William E. Leonhard Professor of Geology and provost, has been selected as the 2017 recipient of the Roebling Medal, the highest honor given by the Mineralogical Society of America. The medal recognizes “scientific eminence as represe... More »
NASA is set to launch its first Earth science small satellite constellation, which will help improve hurricane intensity, track and storm surge forecasts, on Dec. 12 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. The Cyclone Global Navigation Satellite Syst... More »
With new and recent free-standing sculptures by seven Los Angeles-based artists presented in the contemporary exhibition “Interstitial,” Pasadena Museum of California Art curator John David O’Brien addresses the question: What happens to ordinary entities of ... More »
The human body produces T cells to recognize and fight disease. Each T cell has a unique T cell receptor (or TCR) on its surface that surveils small fragments of proteins presented by other cells. Upon detecting evidence of cancer or infection, a subset of T c... More »
Caltech applied physicists have experimentally simulated the sun’s magnetic fields to create a realistic coronal loop in a lab. Coronal loops are arches of plasma that erupt from the surface of the sun following along magnetic field lines. Because plasma is an... More »
Biologists at Caltech have developed a new system for visualizing connections between individual cells in fly brains. The finding may ultimately lead to “wiring diagrams” of fly and other animal brains, which would help researchers understand how neurons are c... More »
