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JPL’s Curiosity Rover Sharpens Paradox of Ancient Mars

Monday, February 6, 2017 | 12:28 pm

Mars scientists are wrestling with a problem. Ample evidence says ancient Mars was sometimes wet, with water flowing and pooling on the planet’s surface. Yet, the ancient sun was about one-third less warm and climate modelers struggle to produce scenarios that... More »

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Caltech Engineers Build Robot Drone that Mimics Bat Flight

Sunday, February 5, 2017 | 1:29 am

Bats have long captured the imaginations of scientists and engineers with their unrivaled agility, but their complex wing motions pose significant technological challenges for those seeking to recreate their flight in a robot. The key flight mechanisms of bats... More »

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Frances Arnold Wins National Academy of Sciences’ Sackler Prize

Tuesday, January 31, 2017 | 10:56 am

The National Academy of Sciences has awarded Caltech’s Frances Arnold the 2017 Raymond and Beverly Sackler Prize in Convergence Research for her work on directed evolution, a method used to “breed” biological enzymes useful to scientists and industry. Directed... More »

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New Planet Imager Delivers First Science

Monday, January 30, 2017 | 12:14 pm

A new device on the W.M. Keck Observatory in Hawaii has delivered its first images, showing a ring of planet-forming dust around a star, and separately, a cool, star-like body, called a brown dwarf, lying near its companion star. The device, called a vortex co... More »

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Keck Observatory’s New Planet Imager Delivers First Science

Monday, January 30, 2017 | 12:09 pm

A new instrument on the W. M. Keck Observatory in Hawaii has delivered its first images, showing a ring of planet-forming dust around a star and, separately, a cool star-like body, called a brown dwarf, lying near to its companion star. The device, called the ... More »

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JPL Researchers Design a New Test for Life on Other Planets

Friday, January 27, 2017 | 6:21 pm

A simple chemistry method could vastly enhance how scientists search for signs of life on other planets, according to a new study by JPL researchers working in Pasadena. The test uses a liquid-based technique known as capillary electrophoresis to separate a mi... More »

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Taking Flight: An Interview with Soon-Jo Chung

Friday, January 27, 2017 | 3:43 pm

New Caltech faculty member Soon-Jo Chung splits his time between Caltech’s campus, where he is a Bren Scholar and an associate professor of aerospace in the Graduate Aerospace Laboratories of the California Institute of Technology (GALCIT), and NASA’s Jet Prop... More »

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