What is the molecular geometry of sulfur tetrafluoride? Which layer of the Sun is thickest? What is the average of the first 10 prime numbers? If you answered “see-saw,” “radiation zone,” and “12.9,” respectively, then you know a tiny fraction of what high sch... More »
The January wildfires in California devastated local habitats and communities. In an effort to better understand wildfire behavior, NASA scientists and engineers tried to learn from the events by testing new technology. The new instrument, the Compact Fire Inf... More »
NASA’s Lunar Trailblazer mission is led by Caltech’s Bethany Ehlmann, professor of planetary science and the Allen V. C. Davis and Lenabelle Davis Leadership Chair and director of the Keck Institute for Space Studies, and the mission is operated by IPAC at Cal... More »
Pasadena’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory is preparing to send its latest lunar explorer skyward, hitching a ride on a commercial mission that exemplifies the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s new approach to Moon exploration. The JPL-managed Lunar Tr... More »
Soon, a new cone-shaped spacecraft will launch into space on a mission to chart the skies like never before. Called SPHEREx (for Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer), the NASA mission will provide a uniqu... More »
NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena will mark another milestone in space exploration the SPHEREx space telescope heads into space after its scheduled launch on February 27. The mission, managed by JPL, will investigate the origins of the universe and ... More »
Scientists at Caltech have developed a groundbreaking method to program and control living cellular materials, marking a major advance in bioengineering and nanotechnology. The research team, building on their 2019 discoveries, has created the first programmin... More »
In the American West, water is a sacred and scarce resource plagued by pollution, shortages, and contentious fights over legal rights, often between Indigenous peoples and business groups. At Caltech, Laura Taylor, a postdoctoral instructor in the Division of ... More »
Marianne Bronner, Edward B. Lewis Professor of Biology and director of the Beckman Institute, has been named as the recipient of the 2025 Vilcek Prize in Biomedical Science. Awarded by the Vilcek Foundation, the prize is given in recognition of immigrant scien... More »
With 2024 receding into the distance, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory is already deep into a busy 2025. Early in the new year, the Eaton Fire came close to JPL, destroying the homes of more than 200 employees, but work has continued apace to maintain mission ... More »
The idea of traveling through interstellar space using spacecraft propelled by ultrathin sails may sound like the stuff of sci-fi novels. But in fact, a program started in 2016 by Stephen Hawking and Yuri Milner known as the Breakthrough Starshot Initiative ha... More »
Huntington Medical Research Institutes (HMRI), a pioneer in scientific research with a track record of groundbreaking discoveries, provides crucial insights into predicting the long-term risk for cardiovascular damage from e-cigarettes (ECs), particularly thos... More »
