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The chemical industry has long been shadowed by unwelcome images of billowing smokestacks and pipes discharging toxic effluent. Modern manufacturing practices have done much to mitigate the industry's environmental impact, but there…

When our Sun was a young star, 4.56 billion years ago, what is now our solar system was just a disk of rocky dust and gas. Over tens of millions of years, tiny pebbles of dust coalesced, like a snowball rolling larger and larger, to become…

Phil Hopkins, the Ira S. Bowen Professor of Theoretical Physics, has been named a 2023 Simons Investigator. Simons Investigators are "outstanding theoretical scientists who receive a stable base of research support from the foundation,…

Methane is a powerful greenhouse gas, 80 times more potent at warming the atmosphere than carbon dioxide. In 2014, a California law required statewide methane emissions to be cut by 40 percent by 2030 from 2013 levels. Currently, the…

Victoria Orphan's office is a feast for the eyes. Photos, sketches, and crowded bookshelves line the walls; rocks, fossils, and students' crafts adorn every other surface. Her latest addition to the collection is a plaque naming her…

Every morning and afternoon, like clockwork, the surface of the Moon trembles with tiny "moonquakes." Now, new analysis of seismic activity on the Moon has characterized these events and discovered that some of them are not what they seem.…

In 2018, researchers in the Caltech laboratory of Yuki Oka, professor of biology and Heritage Medical Research Institute Investigator, made a major discovery: they identified a type of neuron, or brain cell, that mediates thirst…

For seven new graduate students at Caltech, it won't be their first time conducting research at the Institute: they all had a head start in summer 2022, as members of the WAVE Fellows program.Launched in 2015, the WAVE Fellows program is…

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded Caltech's hub for cutting-edge quantum research, the Institute for Quantum Information and Matter, or IQIM, $13.8 million to support six more years of operations. IQIM is one of several…

The Caltech Board of Trustees welcomes two new members.Prineha Narang (PhD '15), U.S. science envoy for the State Department and professor in physical sciences at UCLA, and Amy Schulman, a managing partner at venture capital firm Polaris…