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Researchers at Caltech in Pasadena have reported that people making risky decisions with another person often move toward compromise, but those who claim more credit for successful outcomes and less blame for failures tend to compromise less with their partner... More »
Four in 10 patients walked into their primary care doctor’s office carrying a hidden marker of heart failure that no one had detected. A five-minute test, built on technology that began in a Caltech laboratory, caught what standard screening had not. Those are... More »
Each year, the National Science Foundation (NSF) selects students to receive Graduate Research Fellowships that fund three years of graduate study in master’s or doctoral programs including research in science or engineering. This year, 34 Caltech alumni and 1... More »
Five new study topics have been selected by the Keck Institute for Space Studies (KISS) at Caltech to develop collaborations, frameworks, and mission concepts to transform the future of space exploration. The projects were competitively selected as part of KIS... More »
With the recent growth of AI, particularly with widespread adoption of large language models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT, there has been a dramatic increase in the need for data centers—facilities that house the computers and data storage systems that make the tech... More »
Every June, the hallways at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory fill with new badges. The names change, but the pattern does not: hundreds of undergraduate and graduate students arrive to spend 10 weeks working alongside the engineers and scientists who build and... More »
Since the early 2000s, lithium-ion (Li-ion) batteries have become the predominant rechargeable power source for many mobile devices, electric vehicles, renewable-energy storage grids, and more. But the Li-ion batteries in commercial use carry both safety risks... More »
NASA is testing advanced mobility and autonomy capabilities on ERNEST, a compact rover prototype developed at the agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, as engineers examine how future vehicles might travel farther across rugged terrain on the Moon and Mars. The ... More »
Caltech’s newest building is built around an absence. The four-story laboratory building on California Boulevard hides its real work two floors below the sidewalk, in rooms sealed against vibration, electromagnetic interference and the slightest drift in tempe... More »
Artificial intelligence (AI) is based entirely on mathematics, using algorithms both to learn and make predictions. But can AI be improved to help solve difficult mathematical problems? That was one of the major questions posed at a recent event hosted by the ... More »
Caltech will dedicate the Allen and Charlotte Ginsburg Center for Quantum Precision Measurement on Wednesday morning, a four-story research building on California Boulevard whose central feature sits below ground: subterranean laboratories engineered to minimi... More »
Caltech researchers have identified a novel chemical reaction that could explain the formation of the building blocks of DNA and RNA, the molecules that encode all of life’s functions. The work is an important step toward understanding how life may have emerge... More »
