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The growth of bacterial colonies, the piling up of snow during a storm, and the spread of a wildfire are random, seemingly unrelated events, yet they all follow universal mathematical laws. Caltech’s new assistant professor of mathematics Lingfu Zhang wants to... More »
Hundreds of different types of neurons make up the neural circuits in our brains. Over the years, scientists have discovered many details about those different cell types, including their electrical properties and the early genetic indicators that dictate what... More »
Mansi Kasliwal (PhD ’11), a Caltech professor of astronomy, has been named the new director of Caltech’s Palomar Observatory, while Dimitri Mawet, the David Morrisroe Professor of Astronomy at Caltech, has been named the new director of instrumentation of the ... More »
When a gas is highly energized, its electrons get torn from the parent atoms, resulting in a plasma—the oft-forgotten fourth state of matter (along with solid, liquid, and gas). When we think of plasmas, we normally think of extremely hot phenomena such as the... More »
Scientists who helped revolutionize humanity’s understanding of Jupiter and its mysterious moons will gather in Pasadena next week to celebrate three decades since NASA’s Galileo spacecraft entered orbit around the solar system’s largest planet. The public pan... More »
Thousands of developers, students and tech professionals are expected to converge at the Pasadena Convention Center on Saturday for DevFest Los Angeles 2025, a full–day celebration of technology, creativity and collaboration hosted by Google Developer Groups a... More »
As nearly one in six couples experience fertility issues, in-vitro fertilization (IVF) is an increasingly common form of reproductive technology. However, there are still many unanswered scientific questions about the basic biology of embryos, including the fa... More »
Motiv Space Systems of Pasadena will provide a robotic arm for NASA’s Fly Foundational Robots mission, a technology demonstration in low Earth orbit scheduled to launch in late 2027, according to a NASA statement. The mission, managed by NASA’s Goddard Space F... More »
Nearly 10 million people around the world living with type 1 diabetes must perform a daily series of finger pricks, injections, and insulin pump applications in order to manage their condition. As a bioengineering graduate student at Caltech, Alborz Mahdavi (P... More »
L’Oréal USA has awarded one of five 2025 For Women in Science grants to Caltech’s Georgia Squyres, a postdoctoral scholar in the laboratory of Dianne Newman, Gordon M. Binder/Amgen Professor of Biology and Geobiology and Merkin Institute Professor. Squyres inv... More »
A detailed new image from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has unveiled the most precise portrait yet of a rare cosmic system: a pair of massive dying stars, known as Wolf–Rayet stars, orbiting tightly around each other. The rare system, named Apep aft... More »
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 »
