Robots designed and built by Caltech undergraduate students will battle in head-to-head competition on Thursday, March 8, in what has been dubbed “The Conquest of Millikan Islands,” this year’s ME 72 Engineering Design Contest. Setup for the contest, which has... More »
Nobel Laureate Renato Dulbecco, who spent nearly 15 years as a biology researcher at Caltech, passed away on February 19. He was 97. Dulbecco, who studied virology, won the 1975 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for “discoveries concerning the interaction ... More »
An Orbital Sciences technician completes final checks of NASA’s Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, or NuSTAR, inside the Orbital Sciences processing facility at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California before the Pegasus payload fairing is secured around it... More »
Students who participated in NASA’s National Community College and Aerospace Scholars program in 2011 planned simulated Mars rover missions. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Community college students will have the chance to design robotic rovers in cooperation... More »
This view highlights tectonic faults and craters on Dione, an icy world that has undoubtedly experienced geologic activity since its formation. Image credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute JPL’s Cassini spacecraft has “sniffed” molecular oxygen ions around... More »
Paul D. Asimow, professor of geology and geochemistry at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), has been awarded the Richard P. Feynman Prize for Excellence in Teaching—Caltech’s most prestigious teaching honor. Asimow was selected for his “exce... More »
New and Notable Renowned political and economic theorist Leeat Yariv presents her research on adoption in the latest installment of the Earnest C. Watson Lectures. The Keck Institute for Space Studies hosts Dartmouth professor Eric Fossum in a guest lecture o... More »
Bromine explosion on March 13, 2008 across the western Northwest Territories in Canada looking toward the Mackenzie Mountains at the horizon, which prevented the bromine from crossing over into Alaska. [Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Bremen] Dras... More »
Global map of forest height produced from NASA’s ICESAT/GLAS, MODIS and TRMM sensors. The map will advance our understanding of Earth’s forest habitats and their role in Earth’s carbon cycle. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech A NASA-led science team has created an accu... More »
This series of false-color images obtained by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft shows the dissolving cloud cover over the north pole of Saturn’s moon Titan. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona/CNRS/LPGNantes A set of recent papers, many of which draw ... More »
This new view of the Orion nebula highlights fledgling stars hidden in the gas and clouds. Image credit: NASA/ESA/JPL-Caltech/IRAM Astronomers have spotted young stars in the Orion nebula changing right before their eyes, thanks to the European Space Agency’... More »
Researchers at Caltech used locusts to explore connections in the brain that change to form new and specific memories of smells. [Credit: Stijn Cassenaer/Caltech] A key feature of human and animal brains is that they are adaptive; they are able to change their... More »
