In response to the Eaton Fire and other blazes that have burned throughout the Greater Los Angeles region in recent weeks, Caltech Professor of Geology Michael Lamb pivoted from his earlier Earnest C. Watson Lecture topic to different and timely subject: debri... More »
President Biden has named 19 researchers who contribute to NASA’s mission as recipients of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE). These recipients are among nearly 400 federally funded researchers receiving the honor. Establ... More »
A Pasadena scientist is leading a mission that will observe Earth like no mission before, as the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory prepares to launch its collaborative NISAR satellite with the Indian Space Research Organ... More »
Over the last year, California technology grew so pervasive and important that its impact finally became a central preoccupation of California government. Some of that impact was positive, like a surge of unexpected tax revenue that likely came from one or mor... More »
In November, Caltech and the City of Pasadena unveiled a new citywide fiber optic earthquake detector capable of mapping how temblors are shaking the city at millimeter-scale resolution. A month and a half later, while millions of spectators watched floats and... More »
Scientists at the NASA’s JPL in Pasadena have uncovered how surface channels formed on the giant asteroid Vesta, solving a puzzle about how liquid water could briefly flow on airless worlds. The breakthrough research, published in Planetary Science Journal, ch... More »
? While New Year’s Eve is around the corner here on Earth, Mars scientists are ahead of the game: The Red Planet completed a trip around the Sun on Nov. 12, 2024, prompting a few researchers to raise a toast. But the Martian year, which is 687 Earth days, ends... More »
Bioengineers at Caltech have developed a new imaging technology that could offer surgeons a fast and cost-effective way to image tissue samples in the operating room to determine whether the entirety of a tumor has been removed or if additional cuts are needed... More »
Caltech’s John O’Doherty is on a quest to understand how human brains make decisions: how they gather evidence about their environments and their own impacts on these environments and then apply this information to their decision-making. Researchers in his lab... More »
Scientists with NASA’s Juno mission to Jupiter have discovered that the volcanoes on Jupiter’s moon Io are each likely powered by their own chamber of roiling hot magma rather than an ocean of magma. The finding solves a 44-year-old mystery about the subsurfac... More »
NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) caught a glimpse of the agency’s retired InSight lander recently, documenting the accumulation of dust on the spacecraft’s solar panels. In the new image taken Oct. 23 by MRO’s High-Resolution Imaging Science Experiment... More »
In a purposeful convergence of science and art that bridges disciplines, three renowned innovators will gather to challenge conventional wisdom about failure’s role in breakthrough achievements. Today’s panel discussion “Scientists and Artists on Failure” at C... More »
