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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 »
Hundreds of astronomers, students, educators and science professionals gather in Pasadena this week as the 248th meeting of the American Astronomical Society opened at the Pasadena Convention Center, with one of Monday’s major topics focused on a future NASA s... More »
A free Caltech public-astronomy series will hold its 150th talk and 10th-anniversary edition tonight at the Dog Haus Biergarten patio in Old Pasadena, with researchers speaking on star formation at the center of the Milky Way and the preservation of dark skies... More »
“Our cosmos is awash with radio waves, originating from fierce jets blasting out of distant black holes, blinking dead stars closer to home, and many other exotic objects”. To observe radio waves—which possess wavelengths hundreds of thousands of times longer ... More »
A mineral discovery in California’s Mojave Desert is helping scientists investigate whether a porphyry copper deposit may lie beneath a volcanic outcrop, with technology developed at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena playing a key role in identifyin... More »
A Caltech research team created a candidate vaccine for hantavirus in only two days, using a new genetic-editing technology applied to mRNA vaccine design, according to the Caltech Source Alert. The work began in April, after reports that hantavirus had spread... More »
In a new Perspective paper appearing in the journal Nature Biotechnology, Bren Professor of Biology and Biological Engineering Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz and collaborator Qi Chen of the University of Utah ask one of biology’s oldest questions in a new way. Self-... More »
The laboratory that flew a helicopter on Mars is now building four drones to hop across the Moon. NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena is designing and constructing the propulsive drones at the center of MoonFall, a mission to survey the lunar South Po... More »
NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory is set to launch four propulsive drones, known as MoonFall, to the lunar South Pole in a mission designed to lay the groundwork for a future Moon Base and a sustained U.S. presence on the Moon. “MoonFall mission will blaze a pa... More »
The first image of a black hole was not really a photograph. It was a computational puzzle, assembled from fragments of radio data collected by telescopes scattered across the globe. Katie Bouman helped solve it. On Friday night, the Caltech professor who play... More »
