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One of NASA’s key cameras orbiting Mars has reached a major milestone, capturing its 100,000th image of the planet’s surface—an achievement that reflects nearly two decades of continuous observation by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, a mission managed by NASA... More »
When the most massive stars reach the ends of their lives, they blow up in spectacular supernova explosions, which seed the universe with heavy elements such as carbon and iron. Another type of explosion—the kilonova—occurs when a pair of dense dead stars, cal... More »
Andrew Sinclair came to Caltech as a visiting assistant professor in 2022. Finding Caltech to be an ideal place to carry out his research on Chinese finance, he has stayed on. Sinclair continues to pursue his research and teach Caltech students about finance t... More »
The growth of bacterial colonies, the piling up of snow during a storm, and the spread of a wildfire are random, seemingly unrelated events, yet they all follow universal mathematical laws. Caltech’s new assistant professor of mathematics Lingfu Zhang wants to... More »
Hundreds of different types of neurons make up the neural circuits in our brains. Over the years, scientists have discovered many details about those different cell types, including their electrical properties and the early genetic indicators that dictate what... More »
Mansi Kasliwal (PhD ’11), a Caltech professor of astronomy, has been named the new director of Caltech’s Palomar Observatory, while Dimitri Mawet, the David Morrisroe Professor of Astronomy at Caltech, has been named the new director of instrumentation of the ... More »
When a gas is highly energized, its electrons get torn from the parent atoms, resulting in a plasma—the oft-forgotten fourth state of matter (along with solid, liquid, and gas). When we think of plasmas, we normally think of extremely hot phenomena such as the... More »
Scientists who helped revolutionize humanity’s understanding of Jupiter and its mysterious moons will gather in Pasadena next week to celebrate three decades since NASA’s Galileo spacecraft entered orbit around the solar system’s largest planet. The public pan... More »
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 »
