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Thousands of developers, students and tech professionals are expected to converge at the Pasadena Convention Center on Saturday for DevFest Los Angeles 2025, a full–day celebration of technology, creativity and collaboration hosted by Google Developer Groups a... More »
As nearly one in six couples experience fertility issues, in-vitro fertilization (IVF) is an increasingly common form of reproductive technology. However, there are still many unanswered scientific questions about the basic biology of embryos, including the fa... More »
Motiv Space Systems of Pasadena will provide a robotic arm for NASA’s Fly Foundational Robots mission, a technology demonstration in low Earth orbit scheduled to launch in late 2027, according to a NASA statement. The mission, managed by NASA’s Goddard Space F... More »
Nearly 10 million people around the world living with type 1 diabetes must perform a daily series of finger pricks, injections, and insulin pump applications in order to manage their condition. As a bioengineering graduate student at Caltech, Alborz Mahdavi (P... More »
L’Oréal USA has awarded one of five 2025 For Women in Science grants to Caltech’s Georgia Squyres, a postdoctoral scholar in the laboratory of Dianne Newman, Gordon M. Binder/Amgen Professor of Biology and Geobiology and Merkin Institute Professor. Squyres inv... More »
A detailed new image from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has unveiled the most precise portrait yet of a rare cosmic system: a pair of massive dying stars, known as Wolf–Rayet stars, orbiting tightly around each other. The rare system, named Apep aft... More »
A new ocean-monitoring satellite carrying three advanced instruments built by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena is scheduled to launch Sunday night from Vandenberg Space Force Base, continuing a global effort to track rising sea levels and improve w... More »
Georgia Gkioxari, assistant professor of computing and mathematical sciences and electrical engineering at Caltech, has been selected to be one of 20 Packard Fellows for 2025. The Packard Fellowships for Science and Engineering are prizes of $875,000 in unrest... More »
As Earth’s climate warms and changes, sustainable agricultural practices are critical for feeding a rapidly growing population. Can we genetically engineer crops to adapt to drought and other effects of a warming climate? A roadmap for how new techniques and a... More »
Large language models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT have quickly shown how artificial intelligence (AI) can impact workflow, content creation, and even our daily lives. By ingesting as much of the written word as possible and learning patterns and relationships from ... More »
On a June morning this past summer, a small group of Techers who had recently completed their first year at the Institute huddled over a tarp, running sensor tests and filling their balloon with helium at a site near El Mirage in the Mojave Desert. The student... More »
In September 2000, Caltech’s Institute for Quantum Information and Matter (IQIM) was born (albeit with a different name, the Institute for Quantum Information, or IQI). At the time, it was one of the world’s first centers dedicated to the study of quantum info... More »
