New vaccine may protect against future variants of coronaviruses, such as COVID-19 and SARS | Continue reading
A new study shows how a particular molecule, produced by gut bacteria, affects brain function and promotes anxiety-like behaviors in mice. | Continue reading
A study of archival images from Zwicky Transient Facility shows an increase in satellite streaks. | Continue reading
The first genetically modified laboratory jellyfish opens up new ways to answer neuroscience questions | Continue reading
A new robot developed at Caltech pioneers a hybrid form of locomotion. | Continue reading
Caltech's Jose Andrade and Joe Parker look at how ants dig tunnels, and come up with some surprising results. | Continue reading
Nobel Laureate David Baltimore discusses theories about the origins of the SARS-CoV-2 virus. | Continue reading
Lihong Wang, working with researchers from USC, has shown that his laser–sonic scanning technology can monitor activity within the human brain. | Continue reading
Konstantinos Giapis delves into the science of the iconic accident for a PBS special. | Continue reading
Newman will conclude the 2020–2021 Watson Lecture season with “From the Soil to the Clinic: How Infection-Causing Microbes Thrive Without Oxygen.” | Continue reading
Modeling coupled with fieldwork explains the mechanism by which strike-slip faults can generate large tsunamis. | Continue reading
David Conlon and his colleague have dramatically shrunk the uncertainty for a math problem related to the "friends and strangers" theorem. | Continue reading
A new brain imaging application developed at Caltech uses ultrasound to predict intended movements before they happen | Continue reading
Analyzing Mars's atmosphere and rock record, scientists from Caltech and JPL find that an ocean's worth of water was sequestered in the crust of Mars billions of years ago. | Continue reading
The decision will lead to the renaming of three campus buildings, including Millikan Library, and a student residence. | Continue reading
Lihong Wang demonstrates how his ultrafast camera technology might aid in the study of unpredictable systems. | Continue reading
Collaboration achieves sustained high-fidelity quantum teleportation over a distance of 44 kilometers. | Continue reading
On Friday, October 30, Caltech conferred degrees on 51 graduate students by a vote of the Board of Trustees as part of a special allowance made for students impacted by coronavirus-related campus closures. | Continue reading
Robots in a swarm learn on the fly how to move through spaces without bumping into one another | Continue reading
Astronomers have seen what might amount to the first light ever detected from a black hole merger. | Continue reading
Astronomers detect light from a disk around a black hole being pulled back by the black hole's monstrous gravity. | Continue reading
The scientist who helped successfully combat the HIV/AIDS epidemic explains the science behind the novel coronavirus and looks toward the future of the world affected by COVID-19. | Continue reading
A tiny prosthetic allows jellyfish to swim much faster and more efficiently | Continue reading
Commitment will bring together experts across campus, and provide shared facilities with unparalleled instrumentation, to advance bold new solutions to energy and sustainability challenges | Continue reading
A Q&A with a Caltech seismologist in the aftermath of the 2019 Ridgecrest Earthquake Sequence. | Continue reading
ZTF has spotted a rare bird of an asteroid that orbits entirely within Earth's orbit. | Continue reading
Caltech researchers discover a process that turns carbon dioxide into molecular oxygen | Continue reading
Nobel Laureate Murray Gell-Mann, who predicted quarks, has passed away. | Continue reading
Alumnus and engineering faculty member Robert J. McEliece has passed away. | Continue reading
Specially designed materials enable objects of different sizes to be levitated and manipulated with light, thanks to new research from Caltech scientists. | Continue reading
Caltech researchers have designed self-assembling DNA molecules with unprecedented reprogrammability. | Continue reading
New results from the Spitzer Space Telescope put limits on the size of the asteroid 'Oumuamua. | Continue reading
Newly developed device fits on the tip of your finger and could find its way into drones and spacecraft in the future. | Continue reading
Spiros Michalakis and Matthew Hastings solve a lingering mathematical physics problem with implications for quantum physics as a whole. | Continue reading
A new algorithm allows drones to autonomously herd flocks of birds safely away from airport airspace. | Continue reading
Caltech scientists have developed an artificial neural network out of DNA that can recognize highly complex and noisy molecular information. | Continue reading