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On a June morning this past summer, a small group of Techers who had recently completed their first year at the Institute huddled over a tarp, running sensor tests and filling their balloon with helium at a site near El Mirage in the Mojave Desert. The student... More »
In September 2000, Caltech’s Institute for Quantum Information and Matter (IQIM) was born (albeit with a different name, the Institute for Quantum Information, or IQI). At the time, it was one of the world’s first centers dedicated to the study of quantum info... More »
On Monday, November 3, Microsoft founder and philanthropist Bill Gates addressed more than 1,000 Caltech students, postdoctoral scholars, faculty, and staff at Beckman Auditorium speaking on his vision of climate resiliency that prioritizes human welfare. “Ton... More »
Two Caltech historians associated with the Einstein Papers Project have gathered together what they consider to be the most important of Einstein’s writings, scientific and otherwise, in a two-volume set titled The Essential Einstein, published by Princeton Un... More »
New analysis of chemical signatures measured by NASA’s Curiosity Rover gives a peek at Mars’ past to a time, some 3.7 billion years ago, when it was warmer and wetter. Through measurements of isotopic ratios of oxygen, a team of collaborators, including resear... More »
Two new studies quantify key features of human and animal presence on Earth. The first study finds that the movement of human biomass today is 40 times greater than that of all wild land mammals, birds, and arthropods combined. Another study reveals that the c... More »
The same stellar forces that paint Earth’s auroras may determine whether distant worlds can support life. Prof. Evgenya Shkolnik of Arizona State University will examine this possibility on Tuesday, Nov. 11, at Carnegie Observatories in Pasadena. Her talk expl... More »
Former California Gov. Gray Davis and other dignitaries are expected to attend the public screening of Bright Harvest: Powering Earth From Space at 7:30 p.m. Monday at Caltech’s Beckman Auditorium, 332 S. Michigan Ave. The documentary chronicles a decade-long ... More »
Very early on in our universe, when it was a seething hot cauldron of energy, particles made of matter and antimatter bubbled into existence in equal proportions. For example, negatively charged electrons were created in the same numbers as their antimatter si... More »
“Welcome to Mars.” This is how David Ibbett, composer of Mars Symphony, introduces his piece to the audience. And when he tells them that all the sounds they are about to experience were recorded from the surface of the Red Planet, he feels a chill run down hi... More »
When machine learning is used to suggest new potential scientific insights or directions, algorithms sometimes offer solutions that are not physically sound. Take for example AlphaFold, the AI system that predicts the complex ways in which amino acid chains wi... More »
It started, as many great student projects do, with a determination to outdo a rival. Undergraduate Donny Lu and other members of the Caltech Robotics Club had heard about a project in which engineering students at Stanford had affixed two electric skateboards... More »
