Alexander Varshavsky, Caltech’s Howard and Gwen Laurie Smits Professor of Cell Biology, has been awarded the Otto Warburg Medal of the German Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (GBM). The medal is considered to be the highest German award for bio... More »
The Sagan Fellowship program, named after the late Carl Sagan, supports talented young scientists in their mission to explore the unknown. Following the path laid out by Sagan, these bright fellows will continue to tread the path, make their own discoveries an... More »
Today Caltech welcomes Brian K. Lee as its new vice president for development and institute relations. In his new position, Lee will be the senior executive leading Caltech’s institutional advancement efforts, creating and implementing strategies to elevate th... More »
Anyone anywhere can watch one of Caltech’s most popular courses on machine learning, complete with live lectures, beginning April 3. Every Tuesday and Thursday throughout the spring term, Yaser Abu-Mostafa, professor of electrical engineering and computer scie... More »
NASA’s SOFIA telescope and the FORCAST instrument captured this color-composite image of the planetary nebula Minkowski 2-9 (M2-9) showing a dying sun-like star. (NASA/DLR/USRA/DSI/FORCAST team) Researchers using NASA’s Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared ... More »
Enceladus Plume This raw image from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft was taken on March 27, 2012. The camera was pointing toward Saturn’s moon Enceladus at approximately 144,281 miles (232,197 kilometers) away. Image Credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute These raw... More »
[Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech ] If all goes as planned, NASA’s next Mars rover will touch down on the Red Planet in August near the foot of a towering mountain of tremendous geologic interest. Unnamed until now, the three-mile-high layered mountain has been dubbed... More »
Curiosity, the big rover of NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory mission, will land in August 2012 near the foot of a mountain inside Gale Crater. Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ESA/DLR/FU Berlin/MSSS One particular mountain on Mars, bigger than Colorado’s grandest,... More »
An artist’s depiction of the GRAIL twins (Ebb and Flow) in lunar orbit. During GRAIL’s prime mission science phase, the two spacecraft will orbit the moon as high as 31 miles (51 kilometers) and as low as 10 miles (16 kilometers). Image credit: NASA/Caltech-JP... More »
[Credit: Caltech] When jurors sentencing convicted criminals are instructed to weigh not only facts but also tricky emotional factors, they rely on parts of the brain associated with sympathy and making moral judgments, according to a new paper by a team of ne... More »
This is an artist’s concept of NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory spacecraft during its cruise phase between launch and final approach to Mars. The spacecraft includes a disc-shaped cruise stage (on the left) attached to the aeroshell. The spacecraft’s rover (Curi... More »
Artist’s concept of the Mar. 27, 2012, flyby of Saturn’s moon Enceladus by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech NASA’s Cassini spacecraft is preparing to make its lowest pass yet over the south polar region of Saturn’s moon Enceladus, wh... More »
