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A new ocean-monitoring satellite carrying three advanced instruments built by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena is scheduled to launch Sunday night from Vandenberg Space Force Base, continuing a global effort to track rising sea levels and improve w... More »
Georgia Gkioxari, assistant professor of computing and mathematical sciences and electrical engineering at Caltech, has been selected to be one of 20 Packard Fellows for 2025. The Packard Fellowships for Science and Engineering are prizes of $875,000 in unrest... More »
As Earth’s climate warms and changes, sustainable agricultural practices are critical for feeding a rapidly growing population. Can we genetically engineer crops to adapt to drought and other effects of a warming climate? A roadmap for how new techniques and a... More »
Large language models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT have quickly shown how artificial intelligence (AI) can impact workflow, content creation, and even our daily lives. By ingesting as much of the written word as possible and learning patterns and relationships from ... More »
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 »
